Quiz about Halloween Activities Theme - Math ACT Prep

Question 1

Maddie visits the local thrift store to look for a Halloween costume. She finds 5 shirts, 3 pants, and 4 pairs of shoes that can each go together to make a different costume. How many possible costumes consisting of 1 shirt, 1 pants, and 1 pair of shoes are there for her to choose from?

Accepted Answer

60

Answer

3

Answer

12

Answer

15

Answer

20

Question 2

This Halloween, there is a full moon that lights up the sky. The distance from the earth to the moon is 238900 miles. What is this distance in scientific notation?

Accepted Answer

$$2.389\ x\ 10^5$$

Answer

$$2.389\ x\ 10^{-6}$$

Answer

$$2.389\ x\ 10^{-5}$$

Answer

$$2.389\ x\ 10^3$$

Answer

$$2.389\ x\ 10^6$$

Question 3

The prices to go through a corn maze and pumpkin patch are $15 for adults and $12 for students.

What is an expression to represent the total cost of the maze and patch if x represents the number of adults and y represents the number of students?

Accepted Answer

15x + 12y

Answer

12x + 15y

Answer

(15x)(12y)

Answer

(15 - 12y)x

Answer

3xy

Question 4

The prices to go through a corn maze and pumpkin patch are $15 for adults and $12 for students.

If 128 total tickets were sold on a Saturday and $1695 was brought in, how many adult tickets were sold?

Accepted Answer

53

Answer

11

Answer

75

Answer

106

Answer

108

Question 5

A round pumpkin is shaped similar to a sphere. As a close approximation, the formula for the volume of a sphere, $$V\ =\ \frac{4\pi r^3}{3}$$ , can be used for the volume of a pumpkin. If the diameter of a pumpkin is 12 inches, what is the closest approximation for the volume of the pumpkin, in $$in^3$$ ?

Accepted Answer

$$288\pi$$

Answer

$$8\pi$$

Answer

$$16\pi$$

Answer

$$48\pi$$

Answer

$$2304\pi$$

Question 6

The Hampton family have 5 jack-o-lanterns to line up in a row on their front porch. How many different arrangements of the 5 jack-o-lanterns are there?

Accepted Answer

120

Answer

5

Answer

15

Answer

25

Answer

100

Question 7

A rectangular pumpkin patch is 53 yards wide and 100 yards in length.

If fencing costs $12/foot, how much would it cost to enclose the pumpkin patch?

Accepted Answer

$11,016

Answer

$3,672

Answer

$63,600

Answer

$190,800

Answer

$1,717,200

Question 8

For 10 consecutive days, Susie fills a jar with candy corn. On Day 1, she drops 10 pieces in the jar. Over the next 3 days, she drops 14, 18, and 22 pieces, respectively. Following this sequence, how many pieces will she drop in the jar on Day 10?

Accepted Answer

46

Answer

50

Answer

64

Answer

140

Answer

280

Question 9

Camryn made an apple pie and shared it with 5 of her friends. If she cuts the pie into 6 equal pieces, what is the measure, in degrees, of the central angle formed by one piece?

Accepted Answer

60

Answer

30

Answer

72

Answer

120

Answer

360

Question 10

During a weekend in October at the pumpkin patch, concession sales of refreshments are represented by the table here. If pumpkin spice lattes cost $4.25 each and hot apple ciders cost $3.50 each, which of the following matrix products represents the drink sales income, in dollars, for both drink types?

Accepted Answer

Question 11

What is the circumference of an 8 inch diameter pie, in inches?

Accepted Answer

$$8\pi$$

Answer

$$2\pi$$

Answer

$$4\pi$$

Answer

$$6\pi$$

Answer

$$16\pi$$

Question 12

To hang decorations across the front of the garage, Mr. Smith uses a 10 foot ladder that he leans against the wall of the garage. If the base of the ladder is 6 feet from the base of the garage, how high up the garage wall is the ladder, in feet?

Accepted Answer

8

Answer

4

Answer

6

Answer

10

Answer

12

Question 13

Let $$ heta$$ be the angle formed by the ladder (in question 17) and the ground. What is $$ an\ heta$$ ?

Accepted Answer

$$\frac{4}{3}$$

Answer

$$\frac{3}{8}$$

Answer

$$\frac{3}{4}$$

Answer

$$\frac{4}{5}$$

Answer

$$\frac{5}{3}$$

Question 14

A research marketing company compared the number of hours spent watching scary movies in October with the amount of money spent on Halloween costumes and found the correlation coefficient, $$r$$ , to be equal to -0.95. What does this $$r$$ value indicate about the relationship between these two variables?

Accepted Answer

There is a strong correlation between the variables.

Answer

There is no relationship between the 2 variables.

Answer

There is a weak correlation between the variables.

Answer

There is a positive relationship.

Answer

Unable to determine a relationship.

Question 15

Decorating for the school Halloween Carnival, Mrs. Reeves plans to cover the floor of the rectangular space assigned for the cake walk. If the dimensions of the space are a

length of (x + 1) and a width of (x - 2), what expression represents the area of the floor?

Accepted Answer

$$x^2-x-2$$

Answer

$$x^2-3x-2$$

Answer

$$x^2-3x+2$$

Answer

$$x^2+3x+2$$

Answer

$$x^2-x+2$$

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