Sat Past Questions And Answers
The average for a set of 5 numbers is 24. After another number is added to the set, the average changes to 26. What number was added to the set?
- A. 38
- B. The answer cannot be determined with the information given.
- C. 28
- D. 36
The following stem and leaf plot illustrates the number of baseball cards owned by a group of friends. What is the average number of baseball cards that each individual owns? 1

- A. 31
- B. 33
- C. 32
- D. 35
R-strategists are known for all of the following except __________.
- A. small body size
- B. low parental investment
- C. high mortality of young
- D. long gestation
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes: • Most, but not all, of the Moon’s oxygen comes from the Sun, via solar wind. • Cosmochemist Kentaro Terada from Osaka University wondered if some of the unaccounted-for oxygen could be coming from Earth. • In 2008, he analyzed data from the Japanese satellite Kaguya. • Kaguya gathered data about gases and particles it encountered while orbiting the Moon. • Based on the Kaguya data, Terada confirmed his suspicion that Earth is sending oxygen to the Moon. The student wants to emphasize the aim of the research study. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
- A) As it orbited the Moon, the Kaguya satellite collected data that was later analyzed by cosmochemist Kentaro Terada.
- B) Before 2008, Kentaro Terada wondered if the Moon was receiving some of its oxygen from Earth.
- C) Cosmochemist Kentaro Terada set out to determine whether some of the Moon
- D) Kentaro Terada
Which of the following would be considered a primary consumer?
- A. Snake
- B. Hawk
- C. Fungus
- D. Rabbit
Which of the following biomes is dominated by grasses and herbaceous plants, with some trees and shrubs, and characterized by seasonal rains, a pronounced dry season, and often large migratory mammals?
- A. Tundra
- B. Tropical rainforest
- C. Desert
- D. Savanna
Due to their often strange images, highly experimental syntax, and opaque subject matter, many of John Ashbery’s poems can be quite difficult to ______ and thus are the object of heated debate among scholars. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A) delegate
- B) compose
- C) interpret
- D) renounce
In terms of d, what is the mean of d,d?9,d+3,d+2
- A. 4d+4
- B. 3d?1
- C. 2d+4
- D. d?1
Lipase and trypsin are secreted by what digestive organ?
- A. Pancreas
- B. Salivary glands
- C. Stomach
- D. Large intestine
If we want the median to be 15, what number can be put into the set to make this true? 1,3,8,25,30
- A. 15
- B. 25
- C. 8
- D. 22