PSSA Math Sample Test

Which decimal number is equal to 79/100?

• 0.079

• 0.709

• 0.79

• 7.9

Greg buys 21 bags of nails. Each bag has 85 nails in it. Gred rounds both numbers to the nearest ten to find a estimate of the total number of nails. What is the difference between Greg's estimate of the total number and the actual total number of nails?

• 4

• 6

• 15

• 185

Amanda ate 5/8 of her chocolate bar. Cody ate more of his chocolate bar than Amanda ate of hers. Which fraction could represent the amount of Cody's chocolate bar that he ate?

• 2/3

• 3/5

• 5/10

• 7/12

In Ms. Lassiter's class, 1/8 of the students have blue eyes and 5/8 of the students have brown eyes. What fractions of the students in Ms. Lassiter's class have neither blue nor brown eyes?

• 2/8

• 4/8

• 5/8

• 6/8

A store sold 6 sandwiches. Each sandwich contained between 1/3 and 1/2 pound of meat. How much meat did the 6 sandwiches contain?

• between 2 and 3 pounds

• between 3 and 4 pounds

• between 5 and 6 pounds

• between 6 and 7 pounds

In Chang's garden, 7/10 of the plants are tomato plants and 12/100 of the plants are cucumber plants. What decimal is equal to the fractions of plants in Chang's garden that are either tomato plants or cucumber plants?

• 0.19

• 0.50

• 0.58

• 0.82

The bar graph shows the number of four types of fish available at the pet store. The owner wants to place an equal number of each type of fish into 4 tanks. For which type of fish will the store owner NOT be able to place an equal number of fish into the 4 tanks?

• goldfish

• guppy

• platy

• tetra

Claire packages 42 T-shirts for an order. She puts the same number of T-shirts in each package. How many T-shirts could be in each package?

• 6

• 8

• 9

• 12

Emmett makes a shape pattern. He starts with shape 1. He turns the shape 90 degrees clockwise to create the next shape in the pattern. The first five shapes of the pattern are shown.

The pattern continues. Which list shows ONLY the shape number numbers that will be in the same position as shape 2 in Emmett's pattern?

• 4, 6, 8, 10

• 4, 8, 12, 16

• 6, 8, 10, 12

• 6, 10, 14, 18

Oscar runs the same number of miles each week. The table shows the total number of miles he had run through the end of some of the weeks.

The pattern continues. Which number sentence could be used to find the total number of miles Oscar had run through the end of week 5?

• 52 + 5 = 57

• 5 x 13 = 65

• 91 - 5 = 86

• 5 x 26 = 130