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ACT Aspire Math: Solving for x when It's in the Denominator

Given the following equation, what is x?

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Data Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Reading Plots
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How long has Billy spent reading Slaughterhouse-Five to date?

ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Length of a Quilt from Its Plotted Area
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Jane is making a quilt with fabric pieces of different shapes. If the final width of her quilt is

ACT Aspire Math: This Problem Is Easier Than It Looks
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What is the difference in inches between the two least common lengths?

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Measurement Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: How Many Pennies Are in Doug's Jar?
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A single penny has a volume of 0.36 cubic centimeters. Douglas has a cylindrical jar that is 20 centimeters high and has a radius of 4 centimeters....

ACT Aspire Math: Solving for a Trapezoid's Area Using Its Height
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If the area of the trapezoid is 21, what is its height h? Use the formula A = for the area of a trapezoid.

ACT Aspire Math: Using a Formula to Calculate Interior Angles
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What is the measure of one interior angle of a regular 10-sided polygon?

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Number & Quantity Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Multiplying Proportions to Map Jenna's Journey
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On a map, 2 inches represent 1000 miles. Jenna's plane travels at 550 miles per hour and lands after 7 hours.If she draws a straight line on the ma...

ACT Aspire Math: Working with Exponents to Solve for y
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What is the value of y in the equation above?)

ACT Aspire Math: Converting Units to Find Emma's Kumquat Budget
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Emma wants to buy fruit that costs $0.24 per ounce. She makes $10 per hour at her part-time job.How many hours does Emma need to work to buy 20 pou...

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Numbers & Operations in Base 10 Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Solving for x when It's in the Denominator
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Given the following equation, what is x?)

ACT Aspire Math: How Many Hundredths Are There in Four Tenths?
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How many hundredths are there in four tenths?

ACT Aspire Math: Budgeting for the Gift Shop with Multiplication and Division
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Clarence, visiting the former military prison Alcatraz as a tourist, has $25 to spend in the gift store. He wants to buy five greeting cards, each...

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Numbers & Operations-Fractions Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Calculating the Side Length of Squares on a Chessboard
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Wolfgang wants to paint an 8 × 8 pattern of equal squares on a square board to create his own chess board. One side of the board measures feet lo...

ACT Aspire Math: Calculating Sale Price in Dollars per Yard
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Gloria buys a piece of dinosaur-patterned fabric that measures yd by yd. She cuts the fabric into 6 smaller pieces and sells each piece for $5 to...

ACT Aspire Math: How Many Red Chopsticks Should Be Green?
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Leslie is going through her utensils for her upcoming Chinese food holiday party. She finds that she has 10 red chopsticks and 5 green chopsticks f...

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Operations & Algebraic Thinking Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Applying Order of Operations to an Expression
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is equivalent to which of the following?

ACT Aspire Math: Solving for Cookies Remaining (Can We Have Some?)
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Jackie goes to the grocery store to buy snacks for a Girl Scout Wanna-Be party. She purchases 12 boxes of cookies, each of which contains 10 cookie...

ACT Aspire Math: Appreciating a Number in Its Prime
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Which of the following is a prime number?

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Ratios & Proportional Relationships Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Comparing Ratios of Various Legal Fees
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Emery hired the law firm Erndough and Shmooz to create contracts for his small business. The firm charges him a flat rate of $180.43 for photocopyi...

ACT Aspire Math: Helping a Squirrel Express Its Nut-Burying Rate
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If a squirrel can bury 9 nuts in 2 hours, then how many nuts can the squirrel bury in x + 2 hours? Assume the squirrel works at a constant rate.

ACT Aspire Math: Converting Ratios to Percentages
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The honeybees at Shmoopyvale Farms pollinate approximately 0.6 acres of clover flowers per day.If there are 46 acres of clover flowers at the farm,...

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Statistics & Probability Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Multiplying a Sequence of Probabilities
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Lena's sock drawer contains 10 pairs of socks. There is a spider living in one of these pairs of socks.If Lena randomly takes two pairs of socks fr...

ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Lowest Cost Per Day of Cat Training Lessons
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Which program has the lowest cost per day?

ACT Aspire Math: Calculating the Average Cost of Those Cat Training Lessons
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What is the average cost of a program at Pawsitive Peggy's Cat Training Academy?

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The Number System Videos 5 videos

ACT Aspire Math: Finding the Prime Factorization of 120
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Which of the following is the prime factorization of 120?

ACT Aspire Math: Ordering Numbers from Least to Greatest
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Which of the following lists of numbers is ordered from least on the left to greatest on the right?

ACT Aspire Math: Knowing (and Using) the Rules of Divisibility
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Place one of the following numbers into the ones digit of the number 428, while moving the other digits so that the 4 is in the position of the tho...

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