If 3x + 12 = 39, what is the value of x + 4?
- A. 13
- B. 9
- C. 17
- D. 39
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A. 13
3x + 12 = 3(x + 4), so 3(x + 4) = 39 and x + 4 = 13.
PSAT/NMSQT Daily Question
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A student claims that in a speech, a city's founder expresses hope that future residents will value education.
Which quotation from the speech most effectively supports the claim?
- A. "We built these streets with our own hands, stone by stone."
- B. "May the children of this town find in its schools the keys to every door."
- C. "The river gave us water and the forest gave us wood."
- D. "Our first winter was the hardest any of us had known."
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B. "May the children of this town find in its schools the keys to every door."
This expresses a hope about future children and schooling.
A student claims that the poem's speaker finds comfort in small, everyday routines.
Which quotation from the poem most effectively illustrates the claim?
- A. "The mountains rose like giants at the edge of the world."
- B. "I long for roads I have never traveled."
- C. "The storm tore through the valley in the night."
- D. "Each morning the same kettle sings, and I am steadied by its song."
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D. "Each morning the same kettle sings, and I am steadied by its song."
A daily kettle routine that steadies the speaker shows comfort in routine.
A student claims that, in an essay about growing up on a farm, the author presents rural work as demanding but meaningful.
Which quotation from the essay would best support the student's claim?
- A. "Our farm sat at the end of a gravel road, three miles from the nearest neighbor."
- B. "My parents bought the farm the year before I was born, after years of saving."
- C. "The chores began before dawn and ended after dark, yet I never felt my days were wasted."
- D. "I left for the city at eighteen and did not return for ten years."
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C. "The chores began before dawn and ended after dark, yet I never felt my days were wasted."
This quotation shows both demanding work (dawn to dark) and meaning (days not wasted).
Farmers who rotated their crops saw their fields yield more wheat per acre than fields planted with wheat every year.
As used in the text, what does the word "yield" most nearly mean?
- A. Give way to traffic
- B. Surrender
- C. Bend under pressure
- D. Produce
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D. Produce
Fields that yield more wheat produce more of it.
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