Digital SAT quiz 3 ( GR 1 ( L1)) week 3

1. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Mary Golda Ross is renowned for her contributions to NASA’s Planetary Flight Handbook, which _______ detailed mathematical guidance for missions to Mars and Venus.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) provided

• B) having provided

• C) to provide

• D) providing

2. 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?

• A) value, but

• B) value

• C) value,

• D) value but

3. After the United Kingdom began rolling out taxes equivalent to a few cents on single-use plastic grocery  bags in 2011, plastic-bag consumption decreased by up to ninety _______ taxes are subject to what economists call the “rebound effect”: as the change became normalized, plastic-bag use started to creep back up.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) percent, such

• B) percent and such

• C) percent. Such

• D) percent such

4. As British scientist Peter Whibberley has observed, “the Earth is not a very good timekeeper.” Earth’s slightly irregular rotation rate means that measurements of time must be periodically adjusted. Specifically, an extra “leap second” (the 86,401^st second of the day) is _______ time based on the

planet’s rotation lags a full nine-tenths of a second behind time kept by precise atomic clocks.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) added, whenever

• B) added; whenever

• C) added. Whenever

• D) added whenever

5. Bengali author Toru Dutt’s A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876), a volume of English translations of French poems, _______ scholars’ understanding of the transnational and multilingual contexts in which Dutt lived and worked.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

• A) has enhanced

• B) are enhancing

• C) have enhanced

• D) enhance

6. What is the solution to  the given equation k+ 12 =336?

• A) 28

• B) 324

• C) 348

• D) 4,032

7. Sean rents a tent at a cost of $11 per day plus a onetime insurance fee of $10. Which equation represents the total cost c, in dollars, to rent the tent with insurance for d days?

• A) c = 11(d + 10)

• B) c = 10(d + 11)

• C) c = 11d + 10

• D) c = 10d + 11

8. John paid a total of $165 for a microscope by making a down payment of $37 plus p monthly payments of $16 each. Which of the following equations represents this situation?

• A) 16p − 37 = 165

• B) 37p − 16 = 165

• C) 16p + 37 = 165

• D) 37p + 16 = 165

9 . What is the equation of the line that passes through the point (0, 5) and is parallel to the graph of y = 7x + 4 in the xy-plane?

• A) y = 5x

• B) y = 7x + 5

• C) y = 7x

• D) y = 5x + 7

10 . The product of two positive integers is 546. If the first integer is 11 greater than twice the second integer, what is the smaller of the two integers?

• A) 7

• B) 14

• C) 39

• D) 78