EST I – Math

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Duration: 90 minutes
Test sections: I- Calculators are not required, II – Calculator are required
45 Multiple Choice Questions and 13 Short Constructive Response Questions

Instructions:
- Place your answer on the answer sheet. Mark only one answer for each of the multiple
choice questions.
- Write your final result only on the answer sheet for the constructive response
questions.
- Avoid guessing. Your answers should reflect your overall understanding of the
subject matter.
- Calculators are allowed. When a calculator is used, be aware of switching between
radian mode and median mode.
- A formula sheet is available at the end of the booklet for your reference.

 
 

Section I
Calculators are not
required
(30 minutes)

 
   

1. 4. If 𝑝 𝑥 𝑥 7𝑥 5 and
People who own a smartphone 𝑞 𝑥 3𝑥 7𝑥 2𝑥 5, which of
worldwide the following expressions is equal to the
difference 𝑝 𝑥 – 𝑞 𝑥 ?
Year Number of
People A. 4𝑥 9𝑥 10
(in billions) B. 3𝑥 6𝑥 5𝑥
2016 2.3 C. 3𝑥 8𝑥 9𝑥 10
2017 2.6 D. 3𝑥 8𝑥 9𝑥 10
2018 2.9
5.
2019 3.2
2020 3.5

The table above shows the number of

people who owned a smartphone from the
year 2016 to the year 2020. The number
of people 𝑁 (in billions) is a linear
function of the number of years 𝑦 from
the year 2016. Which of the following
expressions best describes 𝑁 in terms
of 𝑦?
A. 𝑁 0.3𝑦
B. 𝑁 0.3𝑦 2016
C. 𝑁 0.3𝑦 2.3 In a certain electric circuit, the generator
D. 𝑁 3.3𝑦 2.3 has an adjustable feature called the
2. 9𝑥 18𝑥 3 0 frequency. For different frequencies
between 60 and 80 Hertz, one obtains
What is the average (arithmetic mean) of different intensities of current flowing in
the two solutions of the equation given the circuit measured in Amperes. The
above? graph given above represents the
A. -1 variation of the effective value of the
B. current as a function of the frequency.
Which of the following values of the
√
C. current can be attained by only one value
D. √2 of the frequency?

3. In the complex number system, which of A. 0.04

the following is equal to 3𝑖 1 𝑖 B. 0.1
1 𝑖 ? C. 0.23
D. 0.35
(Note: 𝑖 √ 1 )
A. 3 𝑖
B. 3 5𝑖
C. 3 𝑖
D. 3 5𝑖

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6. 8. 3𝑦 12 3𝑦
𝑦 𝑎 𝑥 1
𝑦 𝑎 𝑥 1
In the system of equations above, a is a
constant and (x, y) is a solution, where
x = 3. What is the value of a ?
A. -4
B. 0
C. 2
D. 4
9. If 𝑎 is a solution of the equation
|2𝑥 4| 5, what is the distance
between 𝑎 and the point of coordinate 2
The graph shown above is that of a linear on the number line?
function 𝑓whose expression is given by A. 0.5
𝑓 𝑥 𝑐𝑥 𝑑, where 𝑐 and 𝑑 are B. 2.5
constants. Which of the following must C. 4.5
be true about c and d? D. 5
A. c=d 10. 𝑎𝑥 𝑦 𝑐
B. c>d
C. c<d 2𝑥 4𝑦 5
D. c=0 The system of equations above has
7. Ryan wants to calculate the amount of infinitely many solutions. If a and c are
time he spends on social media which, constants, what is the value of c?
for him, includes only Instagram and A.
Facebook. To do this he uses a formula
T = aI + bF, where I is the number of B.
hours he spends on Instagram every day, C.
F is the number of hours he spends on
Facebook every day, and T is the total D.
number of hours he spends on social
11.
media every week. If he spends the same
amount of time on Instagram every day 𝑥 -3 -1 0 2 4 5 8
and the same amount of time on 𝑓 𝑥 2 1 4 7 -3 9 -5
Facebook every day, which of the 𝑔 𝑥 -7 8 -3 20 0 10 5
following could be the value of a + b?
The table above shows some values of the
A. 7 two functions 𝑓 and 𝑔. For what value of
B. 14 𝑥 is 𝑔 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥?
C.
A. -3
D. B. 0
C. 4
D. 8

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12. Black holes are massive objects in the 14.

universe. The Schwarzschild Radius of a
black hole is the maximum distance at
which an object can escape the
gravitational pull of the black hole. It is
given by 𝑅 , R is the
Schwarzschild Radius, G is called the
gravitational constant, M is the mass of
the black hole, and c is the speed of light
in vacuum. What is c in terms of G, M,
and R?

A. 𝑐
B. 𝑐 √2𝐺𝑀𝑅
C. 𝑐

D. 𝑐

13. As a treat for the holidays, the principal

of a school got a bucket of 120 cookies The graph of the function f in the
for the teachers. Every hour, when the 𝑥𝑦-plane above is a parabola. Which of
principal checked the bucket, 4 of the the following expressions defines 𝑓 while
cookies seemed to be missing. Which of showing the 𝑥-intercepts as constants or
the following expressions models the coefficients?
number of cookies C eaten by the
teachers after T hours? A. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 2
B. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 1 𝑥 2
A. C = 120 – 4T C. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 𝑥 2
B. C = 120 + 4T D. 𝑓 𝑥 𝑥 2 1
C. C = – 4T
D. C = 4T

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15. SPR (Student Produced Responses)

16. 13𝑥 7𝑦 12
7𝑥 13𝑦 6
Based on the system of equations above,
what is the value of 4𝑥 4𝑦?
17. If √2 8, what is the value of √3 ?
18. What is the solution of the equation
𝑥 2 𝑥 1 3 𝑥 1
3 𝑥 1 𝑥 24 ?
19. If 𝑎𝑥 𝑏 2𝑥 1 𝑐𝑥 1 for all
values of 𝑥, what is the value of ?

In the given figure, A is the center of the 20. If x and y are positive measures of acute
circle. C, D, E, and F are points on the angles, and sin 𝑥 20 cos 𝑦
circle. If segments AE and EF have the 12 , what is a possible value of x + y?
same length, what is the measure of (Disregard the degree sign when gridding
in your answer).
angle 𝐶𝐴𝐷 ?
A. 15o
B. 25o
C. 30o
D. 60o

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Section II
Calculators are required
(60 minutes)

 
   

1. If 4𝑡 10 11𝑎, and a = -2, what is the 4. In a certain board game, a player can
value of 10𝑡 10? make only horizontal and vertical moves
with his or her piece on condition that the
A. -40
total number of moves does not exceed 40
B. -8
moves out of which at least 10 are
C. -3
horizontal. Every horizontal move costs 5
D. 1
points and every vertical move costs 3
2. Vanessa’s company has a bonus policy. points, and a player Sarah has only 800
At the end of each month, based on his or points left. If h is the number of
her performance, every employee gets horizontal moves that Sarah can make,
effort points. At the end of each year, and v is the number of vertical moves
each employee gets paid a fixed bonus Sarah can make, which of the following
amount of 400$ and an additional bonus systems of inequalities best represents the
of 50$ for each effort point earned by the situation?
employee. At the end of the year 2019,
A. ℎ 𝑣 40
Vanessa got a bonus of 1000$. How
many effort points had she earned during ℎ 10
the year 2019? 5ℎ 3𝑣 800
A. 2
B. 2.375 B. ℎ 𝑣 40
C. 12 ℎ 10
D. 200 ℎ 𝑣
800
3. The straight line m has an equation 5 3
𝑦 3𝑥. The point A of coordinates (1,3)
C. ℎ 𝑣 40
is on m. The line p is perpendicular to
m at point A. Which of the following ℎ 10
points is on p? 5ℎ 3𝑣 800
A. (3, 9)
D. ℎ 𝑣 40
B. (5, ) ℎ 10
C. (3, 0)
D. (0, 0) ℎ 𝑣
800
5 3

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5. A company decides to let its employees 8. The graph d of a linear function f has a
work from home. The employer gathers negative slope. Which of the following
the workers and wants to distribute the may be true about the graph n of a linear
work documents among the workers so function g of slope 12?
they can take them home. When he gives I. n is perpendicular to d.
2 documents to each employee, 20 are left II. n is parallel to d.
over. Instead, he decides to take one III. n passes through the origin (0, 0)
himself and give 3 to each employee.
This time 9 are left over. What is the A. Only I
number of documents? B. Only II
C. I and III
A. 44 D. II and III
B. 11
C. 10 9.
D. 40
6. If 2𝑧 7 𝑧 1 1 and 𝑧 is an integer,
what is the least possible value of 𝑧?
A. -2
B. 0
C. 2
D. 4
7. Due to the large demand on hand
sanitizers, a small shop owner decided to
increase the price of hand sanitizer by a
fixed amount every day. If the price P (in
dollars) of the hand sanitizer can be
modeled by the equation: P = 3.5 D + 6,
where D is the number of days after the
shop owner took the decision, which of
the following is the best interpretation of
The given graph show the speeds v in
the number 6 in the expression?
meters per second (m/s) of Sam and
A. The increase in the price of the Daniel, as they do their morning jogs, as
sanitizer per day. a function of time t in seconds (s). The
B. The change in the price of sanitizer difference in the speeds of the two boys is
every day. how much less at t = 0.2s than it was
C. The price of the sanitizer after the initially?
shop owner stops increasing the
A. 0 seconds
price.
B. 0.3 seconds
D. The price of the sanitizer before the
C. 0.4 seconds
large demand.
D. 0.6 seconds

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10. If the average (arithmetic mean) of three 14. The graph of the function h in the
numbers a, b, and c is 10, what is the xy-plane contains the point 2, 5 and has
average of a and b in terms of c? a y-intercept of -7 . The function g is
A. 5 0.5𝑐 defined by 𝑔 𝑥 3 2ℎ 𝑥 . Which of
the following points lie on the graph of g?
B. 15 𝑐
C. 30 0.5𝑐 A. (0, -7
D. 15 0.5𝑐 B. 2, 17
11. The solution set of the equation C. 0, 17
D. -7, 3
√2𝑥 1 𝑥 1 is:
A. 0, 1, 4
B. 1, 4
C. 4
D. 0
12. In a certain village, the number of people
doubles every three months. If there were
120 people in the village in March, which
of the following equations should be
solved to find when the population
reaches 1500 assuming no deaths occur?
(m represents the number of months)

A. 120 2 1500
B. 120 2 1500
C. 2 120 1500
D. 1500 2 120
13. John owns a drone that has a radio range
of 55 meters, that is the owner can control
it only if the drone is within 55 meters
from him. As John launches the drone,
the drone flies off a distance D, measured
in meters, given by the expression
𝐷 4𝑡 20t, where t is the time in
seconds after the drone is launched.
Assuming John stays where he is, at least
how many seconds after being launched,
does the drone get out of range?
A. 0 seconds
B. 1 second
C. 2 seconds
D. 3 seconds

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Questions 15 to 17 refer to the 17. If 15% of the tests performed in each age
following information. group to identify the people who were
infected gave wrong results, which of the
Number of Covid-19 cases according
following gives the closest estimate to the
to age
number cases in the age range 20 to 30
The histogram shown summarizes the who are actually healthy (rounded to the
number of people who got infected by the nearest whole number)?
Covid-19 virus according to their age in A. 431
Lebanon. The survey was done over A. 1680
11,200 people. B. 2440
C. 9520
18.
46 55 60 65 71 71 76 80 86
88 89 90 92 95 98 100 100 100
The table above shows the scores of 18
students on an online history exam. Due
to technical issues, the score of the
15. Based on the information shown in the 19th student was not added to the list. The
graph, which of the following is the most professor adds the score and finds out that
likely median age of those infected by the doing so increases the median score.
virus? Which of the following is the most likely
score of the 19th student?
A. 23
B. 31 A. 74
C. 56 B. 86
D. 68 C. 87
D. 88
16. Which of the following is closest to the
ratio of the number of infected people
19. In a certain chip manufacturing company,
below the age of 10 to those above the age
there are three operating machines A, B,
of 80?
and C. Every day, Machine A produces
A. 30% more chips than machine B, and
machine B produces twice as many chips
B. as machine C. If on any particular day
C. machine A produces x chips, what is the
total number of chips produced by
D. machines A, B, and C combined on that
day in terms of x?
A. 𝑥 1.3𝑥 2.6𝑥
B. 𝑥 0.3𝑥 0.6𝑥
C. 𝑥
. .
D. 𝑥
. .

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Questions 20 to 22 refer to the following 23.

information

The graph above represents the volume of

oil in a certain container over the course
of about 37.5 minutes. The container has
a small hole through which oil leaks
The scatterplot above shows the Bee occasionally, and so a certain amount is
population in a certain farm for every year occasionally added by the owner. Which
since 2012. A line of best fit and its equation of the following statements about the
are also shown. situation can be true?
20. Which of the following is the best A. Oil is not leaking from the container
interpretation of the value -56.429 in the after 30minutes.
equation of the line of best fit? B. Oil is being added to the container at
A. The average increase in the number of the same rate at which it is leaking
bees each year. between 12.5 and 22.5 minutes.
B. The average decrease in the number C. Oil is leaking from the container
of bees every 525.71 years. without any amount being added
C. The average decrease in the number between 27.5 and 32.5 minutes
of bees each year. D. The rate at which oil is added is the
D. The number of bees present in the same at which oil is leaking between
beginning. 2.5 and 12.5 minutes.
21. Which of the following is closest to the
difference in the actual population
number of bees and the number predicted
by the line of best fit in 2017?
A. 13
B. 56
C. 100
D. 525
22. According to the line of best fit, in which
year is the population of bees most likely
predicted to drop to zero?
A. 2013
B. 2019
C. 2021
D. 2023

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24. 26. 15, 5,10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 40, 31, x
If the range of the list above is 29, which
of the following can be the value of x?
(34,2)
I. 2
II. 34
A. Only I
B. Only II
C. Both I and II
The graph above shows the number of D. Neither I nor II
action movies made each year from 2011
to 2020. The greatest increase in the 27.
number of action movies took place
between which two of the following
years?
A. 2011 and 2012
B. 2012 and 2013
C. 2017 and 2018
D. 2019 and 2020
25. A certain pharmaceutical company wants
to test the efficiency of a vaccine that it
recently developed against a certain
virus. For this purpose, they administer
the vaccine to 10 people from each
neighborhood where the virus had been The graph above shows the sales in
detected. They do this for 40 dollars of the local mall at different
neighborhoods where the virus was temperatures in degrees Celsius on a
detected, and discover that among the certain day. Which of the following is
400 subjects, only 15 got sick when closest to the equation of the line of best
exposed to the virus after receiving the fit?
vaccine. Which of the following
statements can be true? A. 𝑦 1.1𝑥 14
B. 𝑦 1.1𝑥
A. If the entire country is vaccinated, C. 𝑦 1.1𝑥 12
only 3.75% are expected to get sick. D. 𝑦 1.8𝑥 14
B. The vaccine is effective against the
virus.
C. The sample was not chosen randomly
and so it calls into question the results
obtained.
D. The sample size was too large.

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28. An athlete runs every morning for 2 hours 30.

straight. On each day, as he progresses,
he gets tired and starts slowing down little
by little. Which of the following graphs
best depicts the distance d covered by the
athlete starting from home during the
2 hours he runs every morning as a
function of time t?
A.

In the given figure, F is the center of the

circle, and J,H, and I are points on the
B.
circle, and FI = 4 If JHI = JIH = 45o,
what is the area of the shaded region?
A. 16π – 32
B. 8π – 16
C. 4π – 8
D. 2π – 4
C.
SPR (Student Produced Responses)
31. In a chemistry lab, an apparatus is
adjusted to measure the mass of gas
released during a chemical reaction. The
mass 𝑀 (in grams) of gas produced by the
D. chemical reaction at time t (in seconds)
after the reaction starts is given by
𝑀 1.61𝑡 3.95. For every 10
seconds, what is the increase in the mass
of gas released?
32. At a certain carnival booth, a trivia game
29. In the 𝑥𝑦 plane, A is the point of can be played according to the following
coordinates (3,6) and B is the point of rule: the player wins 10 gold coins just for
coordinates (3,10). If C is the circle of participating in the game; he then wins 3
diameter AB, which of the following is gold coins for each correct answer and
the equation of C? loses 1 gold coin for each wrong answer.
A. 𝑥 3 𝑦 8 16 At the end of the game when the time is
B. 𝑥 3 𝑦 8 4 up, the player gains money according to
C. 𝑥 3 𝑦 8 16 the equivalence: 1 gold coin = $3. If Jad
D. 𝑥 3 𝑦 8 4 makes 4 mistakes and gains $153 at the
end of the game, how many correct
answers does he have?

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33. If 𝑓 𝑥 2 𝑥 𝑥 4 and 37.  

𝑔 𝑥 𝑓 𝑥 10 are functions whose
graphs are parabolas in an xy-plane, what
is the y-coordinate of the vertex of the
parabola represented by 𝑔?
34. 𝑥 2
 
What is the positive solution of the
In the given figure, ABC is a triangle
equation given above?
right at B, segment ED is parallel to AB,
35. Distance covered by data as it is BC = 24, and AC = 26. If ED = 8, what is
transferred between different parts of a the length of 𝐸𝐶 ?
large computer is measured in light-
nanoseconds (lns). 1 light-nanosecond is 38. In the year 1990, 12000 tourists visited
equivalent to 29.9cm. If a certain data is country X. Due to bad weather
transferred at the rate of 19 centimeters conditions, the number of tourists visiting
every second, what disance, in lns, does country X started decreasing by 10% per
the data cover in 3 seconds? (Round your year. How many more tourists visited
answer to the nearest tenths). country X in the year 1993 than the year
2000? (Give the answer to the nearest
36. whole number).
Smart Laptops Tablets Total
phones
Elementary 150 230 120 500
Intermediate 250 100 80 430
Secondary 300 220 100 620
Total 700 550 300 1550
A school asks each of its 1550 students
whether they use a smartphone, a laptop,
or a tablet during online learning. The
table above summarizes the results. If a
student is selected at random, what is the
probability that he or she doesn’t use a
tablet knowing that he or she is not in the
secondary section? (Round your answer
to the nearest tenth).

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