The Official ACT Mathematics Guide
Published on 20. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-119-63437-9 (ISBN)
Description
Are you prepared to do your best on the ACT mathematics section test?
The Official ACT Mathematics Guide is the only test prep resource created by the makers of the ACT to prepare you for the mathematics ACT test. This step-by-step guide reviews the entire ACT mathematics test, allowing you to familiarize yourself with the types of questions you can expect to see on test day. You'll learn the math you need to know, as well as how to approach each question type. Read the solutions to each problem, along with detailed explanations, to improve your performance and gain the confidence you need to succeed!
Unlike other ACT prep guides, this book includes official information on the ACT, including section retesting, online testing, ACT superscores, and more. The official ACT subject guides offer the most current details on ACT testing, helping you gain that edge. With The Official ACT Mathematics Guide, work toward the score you're targeting and take one major step toward achieving your educational goals!
Review the entire ACT mathematics test, so you'll know what to expect on test day
Familiarize yourself with the types of math questions found on the ACT and strategies for solving them
Understand the math topics within the problems you'll solve while taking the mathematics test
Study detailed math solutions and read explanations for every official ACT math question in the book
With this concept-based guide straight from the offices of the ACT, you know you're preparing to do your absolute best on the ACT mathematics section test!
The Official ACT Mathematics Guide is the only test prep resource created by the makers of the ACT to prepare you for the mathematics ACT test. This step-by-step guide reviews the entire ACT mathematics test, allowing you to familiarize yourself with the types of questions you can expect to see on test day. You'll learn the math you need to know, as well as how to approach each question type. Read the solutions to each problem, along with detailed explanations, to improve your performance and gain the confidence you need to succeed!
Unlike other ACT prep guides, this book includes official information on the ACT, including section retesting, online testing, ACT superscores, and more. The official ACT subject guides offer the most current details on ACT testing, helping you gain that edge. With The Official ACT Mathematics Guide, work toward the score you're targeting and take one major step toward achieving your educational goals!
Review the entire ACT mathematics test, so you'll know what to expect on test day
Familiarize yourself with the types of math questions found on the ACT and strategies for solving them
Understand the math topics within the problems you'll solve while taking the mathematics test
Study detailed math solutions and read explanations for every official ACT math question in the book
With this concept-based guide straight from the offices of the ACT, you know you're preparing to do your absolute best on the ACT mathematics section test!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-63437-9 (9781119634379)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Person
ACT (Iowa City, IA) is a not-for-profit organization providing assessment, research, information, and program management services to support education and workforce development. Known most widely as the makers of the ACT exam--the college readiness and placement assessment taken by some 1.8 million high school students each year--ACT produces a number of assessments and services reaching more than 10 million people along the kindergarten through career continuum. ACT's rigorous research informs policy decisions and helps develop programs that boost lifelong learning potential in schools and workplaces around the world. To learn more, visit www.act.org.
Content
Introduction v
Chapter 1: The ACT Math Test 1
Reporting Categories: Score Reporting 2
Reporting Categories: Topic Overview 2
Chapter 2: Number and Quantity 5
Real and Complex Number Systems 5
Number Line and Absolute Value 6
Exponents 17
Imaginary and Complex Numbers 21
Vectors 25
Matrices 28
Chapter 2: Quiz Answers 33
Chapter 3: Algebra 37
Scientific Notation 37
Equations 39
Linear Equations 45
System of Equations 48
Roots 61
Logarithmic Equations 65
Chapter 3: Quiz Answers 66
Chapter 4: Functions 73
Series, Sequences, and Consecutive Numbers 73
Slope-Intercept Form of a Linear Equation 76
Chapter 4: Quiz Answers 84
Chapter 5: Geometry 87
Coordinate Geometry 87
Lines and Angles 88
Two-Dimensional Shapes 91
Three-Dimensional Shapes 116
Trigonometry 121
Chapter 5: Quiz Answers 131
Chapter 6: Statistics and Probability 139
Probability 139
Sets of Numbers 141
Charts 144
Chapter 6: Quiz Answers 146
Chapter 7: Practice Questions 149
Chapter 8: Answers and Explanations 195
Answer Key 196
Explanatory Answers 197
Chapter 1: The ACT Math Test 1
Reporting Categories: Score Reporting 2
Reporting Categories: Topic Overview 2
Chapter 2: Number and Quantity 5
Real and Complex Number Systems 5
Number Line and Absolute Value 6
Exponents 17
Imaginary and Complex Numbers 21
Vectors 25
Matrices 28
Chapter 2: Quiz Answers 33
Chapter 3: Algebra 37
Scientific Notation 37
Equations 39
Linear Equations 45
System of Equations 48
Roots 61
Logarithmic Equations 65
Chapter 3: Quiz Answers 66
Chapter 4: Functions 73
Series, Sequences, and Consecutive Numbers 73
Slope-Intercept Form of a Linear Equation 76
Chapter 4: Quiz Answers 84
Chapter 5: Geometry 87
Coordinate Geometry 87
Lines and Angles 88
Two-Dimensional Shapes 91
Three-Dimensional Shapes 116
Trigonometry 121
Chapter 5: Quiz Answers 131
Chapter 6: Statistics and Probability 139
Probability 139
Sets of Numbers 141
Charts 144
Chapter 6: Quiz Answers 146
Chapter 7: Practice Questions 149
Chapter 8: Answers and Explanations 195
Answer Key 196
Explanatory Answers 197