Answers: PreTestGormley.pdf

Multiple Choice

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Short Answer

1. time X speed

2. 20 mi/hr

3. 1/12 ft; 1/50 M; 1.5 in; 3 cM

4. figs= rads/quarks

5. light clothes because it is very hot out

6. H2O

7. 50

8. 2000.0

9. 3 X 108

10. right; 3 places left

11 1.59

12 $10,000

13. liquids

14 (a) 1/3; (b0 2/3; (c) 4/5; (d) 1/4; (e) 3/4

15 a

16 b

17 16.7 %

18 Yoko=28; Xavier=58

19 x=yz-4

20 single pure substance

21 144

22 16

23. No easy answer. All contain some pesticides, either natural ones or artificial

24. Depends on how much was there. All food contains some radioactive atoms.

25. linear with a slope of 60

26. linear with a slope of zero


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Revised on: 08/13/2005 at 06:24:49