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- - - - -_essential_to - -_daily -_life_in_the - ~ The general store was rural United States during the 1800s because it provided the supplies that the people living in nearby communities needed. Also, the store was a _______ of information. People socializing at the general store would share news and help spread it throughout their communities. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

- - - - - -_being________was_an - - - ~ For painter Jacob Lawrence, important part of the artistic process. Because he paid close attention to all the details of his Harlem neighborhood, Lawrence’s artwork captured nuances in the beauty and vitality of the Black experience during the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen, she _______that humans will someday need to be able to live in other environments than those found on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in future research missions to the moon. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder achieves this _______with its host by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about to flower. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Barring major archaeological discoveries, we are unlikely to ever have _______account of ancient Egypt under the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, as much of the evidence of her reign was deliberately destroyed by her successors. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Jazz tap is a dance form that was first developed in African American communities. Jazz tap was heavily influenced by jazz music, which became widely popular in the United States in the 1920s. Tap dancers were inspired by jazz music’s quick rhythms and by the way jazz musicians would make up melodies as they played. As jazz music continued to develop in the 1930s and 1940s, jazz tap evolved with it. Because of jazz music’s influence, jazz tap quickly developed into a dance form that was very different from earlier kinds of tap dance. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

The north celestial pole (NCP)—the fixed point around which stars in the Northern Hemisphere (including the Sun) appear to rotate—is discernible only at night. Inspired by the navigational strategies of some insects and birds, researchers devised a method for locating the NCP in daytime using skylight polarization, which occurs as atmospheric particles scatter sunlight. A polarimetric camera captures images of polarization patterns, which rotate as the Sun’s position in the sky changes; temporal variances across images can then be used to determine an observer’s latitude and bearing relative to the NCP. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

The following text is adapted from Zora Neale Hurston’s 1921 short story “John Redding Goes to Sea.” John is a child who lives in a town in the woods. Perhaps ten-year-old John was puzzling to the folk there in the Florida woods for he was an imaginative child and fond of day-dreams. The St. John River flowed a scarce three hundred feet from his back door. On its banks at this point grow numerous palms, luxuriant magnolias and bay trees. On the bosom of the stream (float millions of delicately colored hyacinths.)/(water’s edge, and, casting in dry twigs, watch) [John Redding] loved to wander down to the the (them sail away down stream to Jacksonville,)/them. sea, the wide world and [he] wanted to follow Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?

Astronomers are confident that the star Betelgeuse will eventually consume all the helium in its core and explode in a supernova. They are much less (confident, however, about when this will happen,)/(Betelgeuse that are largely unknown. Astrophysicist) characteristics of (since that depends on internal)/(Sarafina El-Badry Nance and colleagues) recently investigated whether acoustic waves in the star could be used to determine internal stellar states but concluded that this method could not sufficiently reveal Betelgeuse’s internal characteristics to allow its evolutionary state to be firmly fixed. Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence in the overall structure of the text?

Text 1 Astronomer Mark Holland and colleagues examined four white dwarfs—small, dense remnants of past stars—in order to determine the composition of exoplanets that used to orbit those stars. Studying wavelengths of light in the white dwarf atmospheres, the team reported that traces of elements such as lithium and sodium support the presence of exoplanets with continental crusts similar to Earth’s. Text 2 Past studies of white dwarf atmospheres have concluded that certain exoplanets had continental crusts. Geologist Keith Putirka and astronomer Siyi Xu argue that those studies unduly emphasize atmospheric traces of lithium and other individual elements as signifiers of the types of rock found on Earth. The studies don’t adequately account for different minerals made up of various ratios of those elements, and the possibility of rock types not found on Earth that contain those minerals. Based on the texts, how would Putirka and Xu (Text 2) most likely characterize the conclusion presented in Text 1?

The following text is from David Barclay Moore’s 2022 novel Holler of the Fireflies. The narrator has just arrived at summer camp, which is far away from his home. This place was different than I thought it would be. I’d never been somewhere like this before. I did feel scared, but also excited. ©2022 by David Barclay Moore According to the text, how does the narrator feel about being at summer camp?

The following text is adapted from Oscar Wilde’s 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray is taking his first look at a portrait that Hallward has painted of him. Dorian passed listlessly in front of his picture and turned towards it. When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure. A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time. He stood there motionless and in wonder, dimly conscious that Hallward was speaking to him, but not catching the meaning of his words. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. According to the text, what is true about Dorian?

Choctaw/Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson turns punching bags used by boxers into art by decorating them with beadwork and elements of Native dressmaking. These elements include leather fringe and jingles, the metal cones that cover the dresses worn in the jingle dance, a women’s dance of the Ojibwe people. Thus, Gibson combines an object commonly associated with masculinity (a punching bag) with art forms traditionally practiced by women in most Native communities (beadwork and dressmaking). In this way, he rejects the division of male and female gender roles. Which choice best describes Gibson’s approach to art, as presented in the text?

O Pioneers!is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather. In the novel, Cather portrays Alexandra Bergson as having a deep emotional connection to her natural surroundings: _______ Which quotation from O Pioneers!most effectively illustrates the claim?

The novelist Toni Morrison was the first Black woman to work as an editor at the publishing company Random House, from 1967 to 1983. A scholar asserts that one of Morrison’s likely aims during her time as an editor was to strengthen the presence of Black writers on the list of Random House’s published authors. Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the scholar’s claim?

Archaeologist Petra Vaiglova, anthropologist Xinyi Liu, and their colleagues investigated the domestication of farm animals in China during the Bronze Age (approximately 2000 to 1000 BCE). By analyzing the chemical composition of the bones of sheep, goats, and cattle from this era, the team determined that wild plants made up the bulk of sheep’s and goats’ diets, while the cattle’s diet consisted largely of millet, a crop cultivated by humans. The team concluded that cattle were likely raised closer to human settlements, whereas sheep and goats were allowed to roam farther away. Which finding, if true, would most strongly support the team’s conclusion?

Euphorbia esula(leafy spurge) is a Eurasian plant that has become invasive in North America, where it displaces native vegetation and sickens cattle. E. esula can be controlled with chemical herbicides, but that approach can also kill harmless plants nearby. Recent research on introducing engineered DNA into plant species to inhibit their reproduction may offer a path toward exclusively targeting E. esula, consequently _______ Which choice most logically completes the text?

A team of biologists led by Jae-Hoon Jung, Antonio D. Barbosa, and Stephanie Hutin investigated the mechanism that allows Arabidopsis thaliana(thale cress) plants to accelerate flowering at high temperatures. They replaced the protein ELF3 in the plants with a similar protein found in another species (stiff brome) that, unlike A. thaliana, displays no acceleration in flowering with increased temperature. A comparison of unmodified A. thalianaplants with the altered plants showed no difference in flowering at 22° Celsius, but at 27° Celsius, the unmodified plants exhibited accelerated flowering while the altered ones did not, which suggests that _______ Which choice most logically completes the text?

The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicist Luis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez, maintained that the secondary effects of an asteroid impact caused many dinosaurs and other animals to die _______it left unexplored the question of whether unrelated volcanic activity might have also contributed to the mass extinctions. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Typically, underlines, scribbles, and notes left in the margins by a former owner lower a book’s _______when the former owner is a famous poet like Walt Whitman, such markings, known as marginalia, can be a gold mine to literary scholars. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In winter, the diets of Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are influenced more by food availability than by food preference. Although the monkeys prefer to eat vegetation and land-dwelling invertebrates, those food sources may become unavailable because of extensive snow and ice cover, _______the monkeys to hunt for marine animals in any streams that have not frozen over. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

While many video game creators strive to make their graphics ever more ______ others look to the past, developing titles with visuals inspired by the “8-bit” games of the 1980s and 1990s. (The term “8-bit” refers to a console whose processor could only handle eight bits of data at once.) Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Food and the sensation of taste are central to Monique Truong’s novels. In The Book of Salt, for example, the exiled character of Bình connects to his native Saigon through the food he prepares, while in Bitter in the Mouth, the character of Linda ______ a form of synesthesia whereby the words she hears evoke tastes. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Along with carbon dioxide concentration and temperature, light intensity affects the chemical reaction rate of _______as light intensity increases, so does the rate at which the reactants (water and carbon dioxide) are converted into their products (glucose and oxygen). Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In Marisol’s 1968 sculpture Mi Mama y Yo, gone are the types of pop culture references that made the Parisian-born Venezuelan American artist a star at the height of the pop art movement. In _______ place is a far more personal subject: a sculptural depiction of the artist as a young girl with her mother. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

The ghazal, a poetic form originating in seventh‑century Arabic poetry, has an intricate structure. The twentieth‑century Kashmiri American poet Agha Shahid Ali explains that each one of a ghazal’s couplets, while adhering to the patterns of rhyme (qafia) and refrain (radif) established in the poem’s opening lines (matla), _______thematically and logically autonomous, resulting in a poem with “a stringently formal disunity.” Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Organisms have evolved a number of^- surprising adaptations to ensure their survival in adverse conditions. Tadpole shrimp (Triops longicaudatus) embryos, ______ can pause development for over ten years during extended periods of drought. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

When Chinese director Chloé Zhao accepted the Oscar in 2021 for her film Nomadland, she made Academy Award history. _______only one other woman, Kathryn Bigelow of the United States, had been named best director at the Oscars, making Zhao the second woman and the first Asian woman to win the award. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

If the formation of Earth’s mantle had been purely a product of core differentiation—whereby heavier elements sink toward the core and lighter elements rise—the upper mantle would be depleted of heavy siderophile elements. Siderophiles are much more abundant in the mantle than predicted in that model, however. _______extraterrestrial material containing siderophiles, likely from asteroid or comet impacts, almost certainly accreted to Earth following core differentiation. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • In 2013, archaeologists studied cat bone fragments they had found in the ruins of Quanhucun, a Chinese farming village. • The fragments were estimated to be 5,300 years old. • A chemical analysis of the fragments revealed that the cats had consumed large amounts of grain. • The grain consumption is evidence that the Quanhucun cats may have been domesticated. The student wants to present the Quanhucun study and its conclusions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Gaspar Enriquez is an artist. • He specializes in portraits of Mexican Americans. • A portrait is an artistic representation of a person. • Enriquez completed a painting of the sculptor Luis Jimenez in 2003. • He completed a drawing of the writer Rudolfo Anaya in 2016. The student wants to emphasize a difference between the two portraits. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • The Gullah are a group of African Americans who have lived in parts of the southeastern United States since the 18th century. • Gullah culture is influenced by West African and Central African traditions. • Louise Miller Cohen is a Gullah historian, storyteller, and preservationist. • She founded the Gullah Museum of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, in 2003. • Vermelle Rodrigues is a Gullah historian, artist, and preservationist. • She founded the Gullah Museum of Georgetown, South Carolina, in 2003. The student wants to emphasize the duration and purpose of Cohen’s and Rodrigues’s work. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

- - - - -_Cherokee_scholar_Sequoyah - - - - ~ In the early 1800s, the created the first script, or writing system, for an Indigenous language in the United States. Because it represented the sounds of spoken Cherokee so accurately, his script was easy to learn and thus quickly achieved _______use: by 1830, over 90 percent of the Cherokee people could read and write it. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

- - - - - - - -_specific - ~ Researchers have struggled to pinpoint causes for hiccups, which happen when a person’s diaphragm contracts _______. However, neuroscientist Kimberley Whitehead has found that these uncontrollable contractions may play an important role in helping infants regulate their breathing. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The province of Xoconochco was situated on the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Because Xoconochco’s location within the empire was so _______, cacao and other trade goods produced there could reach the capital only after a long overland journey. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Proposals to raise the age at which retirees begin receiving government transfers of funds are generally discussed in terms of the effects on transfer recipients, but Andria Smythe has argued that delaying such transfers could _______ wealth creation among working adults by lengthening the period in which they are providing financial support to their nonworking parents. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Political blogs with conspicuous ideological alignments became an integral component of US media in the early 2000s. While some commentators lauded this development, asserting that such blogs had a welcome transparency missing from traditional news, less _______ observers countered that such blogs tended to ideological extremes that exacerbated political polarization to problematic levels. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

The following text is adapted from Pam Muñoz Ryan’s 2020 novel Mañanaland. In the village where Max lives, there is an old fortress called La Reina. Children in the village say that the fortress is haunted. For as long as he could remember, Max had begged Papá [his father] to take him to see La Reina and the ruins up close. He’d be a hero among his friends if he was the first boy to cross the haunted gates! Just because Papá didn’t believe in ghosts didn’t mean they weren’t there. Maybe this summer Papá would finally take him. He wasalmost twelve. ©2020 by Pam Muñoz Ryan Which choice best describes the overall purpose of the text?

The following text is adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play Pygmalion. Henry Higgins has just arrived at the house of his mother (Mrs. Higgins). She is expecting her friends to visit soon. MRS. HIGGINS: I’m serious, Henry. You offend all my friends: they stop coming whenever they meet you. HIGGINS: Nonsense! I know I have no small talk; but people don’t mind. MRS. HIGGINS: Oh! don’t they? Small talk indeed! What about your large talk? Really, dear, you mustn’t stay. Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

The following text is from Charlotte Forten Grimké’s 1888 poem “At Newport.” Oh, deep delight to watch the gladsome waves (Ever repulsed, yet ever rushing on—)/(To see the glorious hues of sky and sea.) (Exultant leap upon the rugged rocks;)/(Filled with a life that will not know) defeat; The distant snowy sails, glide spirit like, Into an unknown world, to feel the sweet Enchantment of the sea thrill all the soul, Clearing the clouded brain, making the heart Leap joyous as it own bright, singing waves! Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?

Believing that living in an impractical space can heighten awareness and even improve health, conceptual artists Madeline Gins and Shusaku Arakawa designed an apartment building in Japan to be more fanciful than functional. A kitchen counter is chest-high on one side and knee-high on the other; a ceiling has a door to nowhere. The effect is disorienting but invigorating: after four years there, filmmaker Nobu Yamaoka reported significant health benefits. Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

The following text is adapted from Lewis Carroll’s 1889 satirical novel Sylvie and Bruno. A crowd has gathered outside a room belonging to the Warden, an official who reports to the Lord Chancellor. One man, who was more excited than the rest, flung his hat high into the air, and shouted (as well as I could make out) “Who roar for the Sub-Warden?” Everybody roared, but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting “Bread!” and some “Taxes!”, but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted. All this I saw from the open window of the Warden’s breakfast-saloon, looking across the shoulder of the Lord Chancellor. “What can it all mean?” he kept repeating to himself. “I never heard such shouting before—and at this time of the morning, too! And with such unanimity!” Based on the text, how does the Lord Chancellor respond to the crowd?

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Number and Origin of Clamshell Tools Foun Levels Below the Surface in Neanderth Depth of tools found below Clamshells that Neanderthals surface in cave (meters) collected from the beach 3–4 99 6–7 1 4–5 2 2–3 7 5–6 18 Studying tools unearthed at a cave site on the western co archaeologist Paola Villa and colleagues have determine prehistoric Neanderthal groups fashioned them from sh that they harvested from the seafloor while wading or di washed up on the beach. Clamshells become thin and er wash up on the beach, while those on the seafloor are sm sturdy, so the research team suspects that Neanderthals made with seafloor shells. However, the team also conclu tools were likely more challenging to obtain, noting that Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to research team’s conclusion?

Employment by Sector in France and the United Stat (% of total employment) Agriculture Manufacturing Services Agriculture Year in France in France in France in US 1800 64 22 14 68 1900 43 29 28 41 1950 32 33 35 14 2012 3 21 76 2 Rows in table may not add up to 100 due to rounding. Over the past two hundred years, the percentage of the p employed in the agricultural sector has declined in both United States, while employment in the service sector (w jobs in retail, consulting, real estate, etc.) has risen. How transition happened at very different rates in the two cou can be seen most clearly by comparing the employment both countries in _______ Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to statement?

The linguistic niche hypothesis (LNH) posits that the exotericity of languages (how prevalent non-native speakers are) and grammatical complexity are inversely related, which the LNH ascribes to attrition of complex grammatical rules as more non-native speakers adopt the language but fail to acquire those rules. Focusing on two characteristics that are positive indices of grammatical complexity, fusion (when new phonemes arise from the merger of previously distinct ones) and informativity (languages’ capacity for meaningful variation), Olena Shcherbakova and colleagues conducted a quantitative analysis for more than 1,300 languages and claim the outcome is inconsistent with the LNH. Which finding, if true, would most directly support Shcherbakova and colleagues’ claim?

Archaeologist Christiana Kohler and her team excavated the Egyptian tomb of Queen Merneith, the wife of a First Dynasty pharaoh. Some scholars claim that she also ruled Egypt on her own and was actually the first female pharaoh. The team found a tablet in Merneith’s tomb with writing suggesting that she was in charge of the country’s treasury and other central offices. Whether Merneith was a pharaoh or not, this discovery supports the idea that Merneith likely _______ Which choice most logically completes the text?

In a study of the cognitive abilities of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus imitator), researchers neglected to control for the physical difficulty of the tasks they used to evaluate the monkeys. The cognitive abilities of monkeys given problems requiring little dexterity, such as sliding a panel to retrieve food, were judged by the same criteria as were those of monkeys given physically demanding problems, such as unscrewing a bottle and inserting a straw. The results of the study, therefore, ______ Which choice most logically completes the text?

Public-awareness campaigns about the need to reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in Australia, when these campaigns give consumers a choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether _______ wanted a bag. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Lucía Michel of the University of^-^-^- Chile observed that alkaline soils contain an insoluble form of iron that blueberry plants cannot absorb, thus inhibiting blueberry growth. If these plants were grown in alkaline soil alongside grasses that aid in iron solubilization, _______Michel was determined to find out. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Atoms in a synchrotron, a type of circular particle accelerator, travel faster and faster until they ______ a desired energy level, at which point they are diverted to collide with a target, smashing the atoms. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In his 1963 exhibition Exposition of Music— Electronic Television, Korean American artist Nam June Paik showed how television images could be manipulated to express an artist’s perspective. Today, Paik _______considered the first video artist. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt and Indian activist and educator Hansa Mehta were instrumental in drafting the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that ______ the basic freedoms to which all people are entitled. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

In February 1919, following the end of the First World War, women from ten countries around the world convened the Inter-Allied Women’s Conference in Paris. The conference’s goals were _______ ensure women’s participation in the proceedings of the Paris Peace Conference, to secure the right of women to serve in the League of Nations, and to advocate for human rights. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Mathematician Grigori Perelman, sometimes in conjunction with mathematicians Richard S. Hamilton and Shing-Tung Yau, _______ credited with proving the Poincaré conjecture. Having built on Hamilton’s previous work to solve the proof, Perelman has insisted that Hamilton receive credit. Yau later found and closed gaps in Perelman’s proof, persuading some mathematicians that he deserves credit as well. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth’s magnetic field when searching for _______in the Northern Hemisphere, the magnetic field points down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it points up, toward the surface and away from worms’ food sources. Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Most conifers (trees belonging to the^- phylum Coniferophyta) are evergreen. That is, they keep their green leaves or needles year-round. However, not all conifer species are evergreen. Larch trees, _______lose their needles every fall. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Neuroscientist Karen Konkoly wanted to determine whether individuals can understand and respond to questions during REM sleep. She first taught volunteers eye movements they would use to respond to basic math problems while asleep (a single left-right eye movement indicated the number one). _______ she attached electrodes to the volunteers’ faces to record their eye movements during sleep. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In his 1925 book The Morphology of Landscape, US geographer Carl Sauer challenged prevailing views about how natural landscapes influence human cultures. _______ Sauer argued that instead of being shaped entirely by their natural surroundings, cultures play an active role in their own development by virtue of their interactions with the environment. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

In her 2012 analysis of tree rings from Japan’s Yaku Island, cosmic ray physicist Fusa Miyake noted an anomalous carbon-14 spike dating to 774–775 CE, indicating that a massive burst of radiation reached Earth during that time. _______ this unprecedented radiocarbon surge was dubbed a “Miyake event” in honor of its discoverer. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

Researchers Helena Mihaljević-Brandt, Lucía Santamaría, and Marco Tullney report that while mathematicians may have traditionally worked alone, evidence points to a shift in the opposite direction. _______mathematicians are choosing to collaborate with their peers—a trend illustrated by a rise in the number of mathematics publications credited to multiple authors. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Shaun Tan is an Australian author. • In 2008, he published Tales from Outer Suburbia, a book of fifteen short stories. • The stories describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary suburban neighborhoods. • In 2018, he published Tales from the Inner City, a book of twenty-five short stories. • The stories describe surreal events occurring in otherwise ordinary urban settings. The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two books by Shaun Tan. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Started in 1925, the Scripps National Spelling Bee is a US-based spelling competition. • The words used in the competition have diverse linguistic origins. • In 2008, Sameer Mishra won by correctly spelling the word “guerdon.” • “Guerdon” derives from the Anglo-French word “guerdun.” • In 2009, Kavya Shivashankar won by correctly spelling the word “Laodicean.” • “Laodicean” derives from the ancient Greek word “Laodíkeia.” The student wants to emphasize a difference in the origins of the two words. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • In 1851, German American artist Emanuel Leutze painted Washington Crossing the Delaware. • His huge painting (149 × 255 inches) depicts the first US president crossing a river with soldiers in the Revolutionary War. • In 2019, Cree artist Kent Monkman painted mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People): Resurgence of the People. • Monkman’s huge painting (132 × 264 inches) was inspired by Leutze’s. • It portrays Indigenous people in a boat rescuing refugees. The student wants to emphasize a similarity between the two paintings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

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y ' 6 ~ ~ i \ 2 r,..... ' 1 I" \ u X 6-5-4-3,.._1 3 4 5 6 ~ ·1 1 ' \ r-.. ' 13 ' \ 14 ~ 15 ~!6 ~ ~ The graph of a system of linear equations is shown. (x,y) What is the solution to the system?

The total cost, in dollars, to rent a surfboard consists $25 $10 of a service fee and a per hour rental fee. A person rents a surfboard for t hours and intends to spend a maximum of $75 to rent the surfboard. Which inequality represents this situation?

s = 40 +3t The equation gives the speed s, in miles per hour, of a certain car t seconds after it began to accelerate. What is the speed, in miles per hour, of the car 5 seconds after it began to accelerate?

The function f is defined by f ( x) = x^2 +x+71. What is the value of f(2)?

An event planner is planning a party. It costs the event planner a onetime fee of $35 to rent the venue $10.25 and per attendee. The event planner has a budget of $300. What is the greatest number of attendees possible without exceeding the budget?

The table gives the distribution of votes for a new school mascot and grade level for 80 students. Grade level Mascot Sixth Seventh Eighth Total Badger 4 9 9 22 Lion 9 2 9 20 Longhorn 4 6 4 14 Tiger 6 9 9 24 Total 23 26 31 80 If one of these students is selected at random, what is the probability of selecting a student whose vote for new mascot was for a lion?

ABC DEF Triangles and are congruent, where A corresponds to D, and B and E are right angles. The 18° measure of angle A is. What is the measure of angle F? 18°

If 4x+2 = 12, what is the value of 16x+8?

4 Which expression is equivalent^- to ( m q^4 z^−1)( mq^5 z^3), where m, q, and z are positive? 4

An airplane descends from an altitude of 9,500 feet to 5,000 feet at a constant rate of 400 feet per minute. What type of function best models the relationship between the descending airplane’s altitude and time?

3x+6 = 4y 3x+4 = 2y The solution to the given system of equations is (x,y). What is the value of y?

= 6w^2 The function f ( w) gives the area of a rectangle, in square feet (ft^2), if its width is w ft and its length is 6 times its width. Which of the following is the best interpretation of f ( 14) = 1,176?

The number of bacteria in a liquid medium doubles every day. There are 44,000 bacteria in the liquid medium at the start of an observation. Which of the following represents the number of bacteria, y, in the liquid medium t days after the start of the observation?

x h(x) 0 1.23 2 1.54 4 1.94 The table shows the exponential relationship between the number of years, x, since Hana started training in pole vault, and the estimated height h(x), in meters, of her best pole vault for that year. Which of the following functions best represents this relationship, where x ≤ 4? () = 1.12 ( 0.23)^x

= 4x+28 The function h is defined by h(x). The = graph of y h(x) in the xy-plane has an x-intercept at (a,0) and a y-intercept at (0,b), where a and b are constants. What is the value of a+b?

y < 5x+6 For which of the following tables are all the values of xand their corresponding values of ysolutions to the given inequality?

y = 4x+1 4y = 15x−8 The solution to the given system of equations is (x,y). What is the value of x−y?

A right triangle has legs with lengths of 24 centimeters and 21 centimeters. If the length of this triangle’s hypotenuse, in centimeters, can be written in the form 3 d, where d is an integer, what is the value of d?

The floor of a ballroom has an area of 600 square meters. An architect creates a scale model of the floor of the ballroom, where the length of each side of the model is 1/10 times the length of the corresponding side of the actual floor of the ballroom. What is the area, in square meters, of the scale model?

Which of the following equations represents a circle in the xy-plane that intersects the y-axis at exactly one point? (x−8)^2 +(y−8)^2 = 16

- - - -_DEF_,_angles_B_and_E_each - - - - ABC In triangles and have measure 27° and angles C and F each have 41° measure. Which additional piece of information ABC is sufficient to determine whether triangle is DEF congruent to triangle?

1,800% The result of increasing^- the quantity x^- by is 684. What is the value of x?

A window repair specialist charges $220 for the first two hours of repair plus an hourly fee for each additional hour. The total cost for 5 hours of repair is $400. Which function f gives the total cost, in ≥ 2 dollars, for x hours of repair, where x? = 60x+100

x(x+1)−56 = 4x(x−7) What is the sum of the solutions to the given equation? OP

- - -_speed_is_64_yards_per_second._What_is_the - - - - - - ~ An object’s object’s speed, in feet per second? (1 yard = 3 feet)

The scatterplot shows the relationship between two variables, x and y. A line of best fit is also shown. y 20 18 16 ~ a/' ~ 14 I V 12.,,,;^('^/ 10./, 8./, 6,^/' 4 2 u X 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 Which of the following equations best represents the line of best fit shown?

y, 1p I 8 ~ I I 6, ' I 4 ~ I I, 2 J I, I ~ 8_.=6-.=4-.=2 4 _ _ 6_ _8_^X IU, 2 J I 4 ' I I I, "' The graph shows the linear relationship between x and y. Which table gives three values of xand their corresponding values of yfor this relationship?

What is the perimeter, in inches, of a rectangle with a length of 4 inches and a width of 9 inches?

7m = 2(n +p) The given equation relates the positive numbers m, n, and p. Which equation correctly gives m in terms of n and p? =

73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 82, 84, 85, 91 What is the median of the data shown?

f(x) = 4x The function f is defined by. For what value of x does f(x) = 8?

- - - - - -_size_large._What - ~ Of 300,000 paper clips, 234,000 are percentage of the paper clips are size large? 22%

= 8x+4 f(x) The function f gives the estimated height, in feet, of a willow tree x years after its height was first measured. Which statement is the best interpretation of 4 in this context?

= 76 y = −5 y x^2 The graphs of the given equations in the xy-plane (x,y) intersect at the point. What is a possible value of x? −

Each side of equilateral triangle S is multiplied by a scale factor of k to create equilateral triangle T. The length of each side of triangle T is greater than the length of each side of triangle S. Which of the following could be the value of k?

66x = 66x How many solutions does the given equation have?

- - Vivian^- bought^-^-^-^-^~ party hats and cupcakes for $71. Each package of party hats cost $3, and each cupcake cost $1. If Vivian bought 10 packages of party hats, how many cupcakes did she buy?

RST In right triangle, the sum of the measures of angle R and angle S is 90 degrees. The value of sin(R) cos(S) is 15/4. What is the value of?

- - y 50 40 \. i::Q g ~ 30 \ 0.. s \ o 20 u \ \ 10 I\ '~ u 10 20 30 40 50 6) 70 80 90 100^X Company A The graph shows the relationship between the number of shares of stock from Company A, x, and the number of shares of stock from Company B, y, that Simone can purchase. Which equation could represent this relationship?

Which expression is equivalent to (8x(x−7)−3(x−7))/(2x−14), where x > 7?

=^- −8 2^~ +22 The function f^-^-^- is defined by f ( x) ()()^x. = What is the y-intercept of the graph of y f(x) in the xy-plane? (0,14)

Keenan made 32 cups of vegetable broth. Keenan then filled x small jars and y large jars with all the vegetable broth he made. The equation 3x+5y = 32 represents this situation. Which is the best interpretation of 5y in this context?

- - - - -_a_diameter_with - - ~ xy A circle in the -plane has endpoints (2,4) and (2,14). An equation of this (x−2)^2 +(y−9)^2 = circle is r^2, where r is a positive constant. What is the value of r?

- - - -_3y_+12x_=_5_. - -_Line_n -_is ~ ℓ Line is defined by ℓ perpendicular to line in the xy-plane. What is the slope of line n?

–5x+13 = 73 What is the sum of the solutions to the given equation? −

f(1) For the exponential function f, the value of is k, where k is a constant. Which of the following equivalent forms of the function f shows the value of k as the coefficient or the base? f(x) = 50(1.6)^x^+1

−9x^2 +30x+c = 0 In the given equation, c is a constant. The equation has exactly one solution. What is the value of c? 3

Which of the following expressions has a factor of x+2b, where b is a positive integer constant? 3x^2 +7x+14b

- Data Set A Data Set B 12 12~----- 10-+----- 10 ~ ~ 8 8+------i g. g. 6 6+---l ~ 4 ~ 4-+-~--t µ. µ. 2 2 ~ 0_10_20 0-+--+---+---+---+---+ I 30 40 50 60 10 20 30 40 50 60 Integer Integer Two data sets of 23 integers each are summarized in the histograms shown. For each of the histograms, the first interval represents the frequency of integers greater than or equal to 10, but less than 20. The second interval represents the frequency of integers greater than or equal to 20, but less than 30, and so on. What is the smallest possible difference between the mean of data set A and the mean of data set B?

- - - -_an_equilateral_triangle_is - - - - - ~ The perimeter of 624 centimeters. The height of this triangle is k 3 centimeters, where k is a constant. What is the value of k? OP