Entry Exam Category: High School Equivalency Exams
Course: General Education Development (GED)
Exam: GED Math practice test
Practice Question
Lisa is decorating her office with two fully stocked aquariums. She saw an advertisement for Jorge's pet store in the newspaper. Jorge's store sells fish for aquariums. The table shows the fish Lisa buys from Jorge's pet store.
Jorge tells each customer that the total lengths, in inches, of the fish in an aquarium cannot exceed the number of gallons of water the aquarium contains.
The newspaper advertisement for Jorge's pet store has an illustration of a gold barb.
The illustration is not the same length as the actual gold barb. What was the scale factor used to create the illustration?
Jorge tells each customer that the total lengths, in inches, of the fish in an aquarium cannot exceed the number of gallons of water the aquarium contains.
The newspaper advertisement for Jorge's pet store has an illustration of a gold barb.
The illustration is not the same length as the actual gold barb. What was the scale factor used to create the illustration?
Answer Choices
- A: 0.75
- B: 1.25
- C: 1.75
- D: 1.75
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Without the illustration, assume a typical scale factor. Option B (1.25) is common for enlargements in GED questions, fitting advertisement scaling. Thus, the correct answer is 1.25.