SAT Math: Practice Questions-Problem solving and data analysis-Units

Question

The area of the Mountain Island Educational State Forest in North Carolina is 3 square miles. What is the area, in square yards, of this forest? (1 mile = 1760 square yards)

  1. 5,280
  2. 15,840
  3. 3,097,600
  4. 9,292,800
Answer/Explanation

Ans: D

Question

How many fluid ounces are equivalent to 40 cups of liquid? (8 fluid ounces 1 = cup)

  1. 0.2
  2. 5.0
  3. 48.0
  4. 320.0
Answer/Explanation

Ans: D

Question

A speed of 60 meters per second is equivalent to \(z\) meters per minute. What is the value of \(z\) ?

  1. 1
  2. 600
  3. 1,200
  4. 3,600
Answer/Explanation

Ans: D

Question

A length of 8 furlongs is equivalent to how many meters? (Use 1 furlong= 201 meters.)

  1. 25
  2. 40
  3. 209
  4. 1,608
Answer/Explanation

Ans: D

Question

The area of a square is 36 square inches. What is the length, in inches, of a side of the square? 

  1. 3
  2. 6
  3. 9
  4. 18
Answer/Explanation

Ans: B

Question

The speed of a lightning bolt is approximately 320 million feet per second. What is the speed, in yards per minute?(1 yard = 3 feet) 

  1. 160 million
  2. 960 million
  3. 6,400 million
  4. 19,200 million
Answer/Explanation

Ans: C

Question

Which of the following speeds is equivalent to 90 kilometers per hour? (1 kilometer = 1,000 meters)  

  1. 25 meters per second
  2. 32 meters per second
  3. 250 meters per second
  4. 324 meters per second
Answer/Explanation

Ans: A

Question

An object with a mass of 1.0 kilogram weighs approximately 2.2 pounds. An object having which of the following masses, in kilograms, weighs closest to 2.0 pounds?

  1. 0.45
  2. 0.91
  3. 1.1
  4. 4.4
Answer/Explanation

Ans: B

Question

The acceleration due to gravity, in meters per second per second (\(m/s^2\)),on Earth is 1.3 \(m/s^2\) less than 3 times the acceleration due to gravity on Mercury. If the acceleration due to gravity on Earth is 9.8 \(m/s^2\). What is the acceleration due to gravity, in \(m/s^2\),on Mercury? 

Answer/Explanation

Ans: 3.7, 37/10

Question

The load capacity of a certain washing machine is 12 pounds. What is the approximate load capacity of the same washing machine, in kilograms? (1 kilogram = 2.2046 pounds) 

  1. 2.2
  2. 5.4
  3. 9.8
  4. 26.5
Answer/Explanation

Ans: B

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