Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

Practice Test

Mathematics

Grade 10

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School Name
District Name

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This is a practice test. Your responses to practice test questions must be recorded on your Practice Test Answer Document.

Mark only one answer for each multiple-choice question. If you are not sure of the answer, choose the answer you think is best.

HOW TO ANSWER
OPEN-RESPONSE QUESTIONS

*  Read all parts of each question carefully.
*  Make each response as clear, complete, 
and accurate as you can.
*  Check your answers.

MATHEMATICS

DIRECTIONS
This practice test contains one multiple-choice question, one short-answer question, and one open-response question. Mark your answers to these questions in the spaces provided on pages 4 and 5 of your Practice Test Answer Document.

1 What is the value of the expression 
below?

6+4(8-3)^2

A. 71
B. 106
C. 250
D. 406

Question 2 is a short-answer question. Write your answer to this question in the box provided on page 4 of your Practice Test Answer Document. Do not write your answer on any other page. You may do your figuring on any other page.

2 Brian set up a birdhouse, a birdbath, and a bird feeder in his backyard. The vertices of the triangle shown below represent the locations of these three objects in his backyard.

[Birdhouse from Birdbath is 60 ft. and Birdbath from Bird feeder is 80 ft.]

Based on the distances shown, what is the distance, in feet, between the birdhouse and the bird feeder?

Question 3 is an open-response question.
*  BE SURE TO ANSWER AND LABEL ALL PARTS OF THE QUESTION.
*  Show all your work (diagrams, tables, or computations) in your Practice Test Answer Document.
*  If you do the work in your head, explain in writing how you did the work.
Write your answer to question 3 in the space provided on page 5 of your Practice Test Answer Document.

3 Sarah earns money by typing papers on her computer. She charges the same amount of money for each page she types. The chart below shows that the amount of money she charges depends on the number of pages she types.

Money Charged for Typing Papers
Number of Pages	Amount Charged
1			$1.20
2			$2.40



3			$3.60
4			$4.80
5			$6.00

a. What amount of money will Sarah charge for typing 6 pages? Show or explain how you got your answer.
b. What amount of money will Sarah charge for typing 20 pages? Show or explain how you got your answer.
c. Write an equation that could be used to determine m, the amount of money Sarah will charge for typing x pages. 
d. Use the equation you wrote in part (c) to determine the number of pages Sarah typed if she charged $38.40 for her work. Show or explain how you got your answer.

MASSACHUSETTS COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
Grade 10 Mathematics
Practice Test Answer Document

School Name:
District Name:
Last Name of Student:
First Name of Student:

Marking Instructions
*  Use a No. 2 pencil only.
*  Do not use ink, ballpoint, or felt tip pens.
*  Make solid marks that fill the circles completely.
*  Erase cleanly any marks you wish to change.
*  Make no stray marks on this form.
*  Do not fold, tear, or mutilate this form.

MATHEMATICS
1. A B C D
2.

DO NOT WRITE 
IN SHADED AREA 

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