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Draw a typical rectangular box using the principles of perspective. Pick a principal vanishing point and use it correctly.  Imagine the box is located a few feet in front of you, and you are looking down at the box. Draw on your own paper, which you will be submitting at the end of this test.  LEAVE THE ANSWER BOX  (below) BLANK (or enter “Done” to avoid the red flag “UNANSWERED”).       

Suppose you are financing $300,000 to buy a house. The amount of your monthly payment will be more with a 15-year mortgage compared with a 30-year mortgage. 

Find the probability that you will get at least one Tails when you toss 3 coins.

An ice cream shop has 7 flavors to choose from. If you can pick 2 different flavors (assume the order is not important), in how many ways can you choose your 2 flavors?

In simple interest, the dollar amount of interest grows year after year. 

Yet another college is also facing the same options, and their preference schedule is below. This time, use the Condorcet Method to determine the winner if there is one. If there is no Condorcet winner, explain why. # of votes 15 13 19 3 1st choice R H F H 2nd choice H R H F 3rd choice F F R R Write ONLY your answer in the response box. Show your work which justifies your answer ON YOUR PAPER. No credit is given unless you justify your answer.

For a certain 2-week period, the number of people testing positive for a new virus doubled every 3 days. This is exponential growth.

Suppose that the number of people infected with COVID-19 in a certain country has been doubling every week, and there are 6,400 infected people today. When were there only 100 infected people in that country?

An airline reservation code consists of two alphabet letters followed by 3 digits. For example, “TL307” is a valid code, and so is “LL222.” Clearly, repetition is allowed. Assume that all 26 letters of the English alphabet are available, how many valid codes are possible?  Write ONLY your answer in the response box. Show your work which justifies your answer ON YOUR PAPER.  

In compound interest, the dollar amount of interest stays the same year after year.