I’m in full-on writing mode for the next edition of the Math Guide, which will of course be aimed at the new SAT that debuts March 2016 (and the new PSAT, which debuts in October of this year). The new test is pretty different, so it’ll be a major overhaul—some chapters in the current guide will go away, other chapters will be brand new. Obviously, that means lots of new questions to write.

To that end, I’ll be posting practice questions on the blog with some regularity over the next few months. This will hopefully benefit those of you who are already prepping for the new exam. Your feedback will also help me fine-tune the questions for clarity and difficulty. It’s a win-win!

Anyway—here’s a question pair for you to play with. You don’t need to be a site member to take this little quiz, but I’d encourage it. Site membership is free, and if you’re logged in all the quizzes you take will be stored. If you take enough of them, that adds up to useful data for you to see where your strengths and weaknesses are.

The next two questions refer to the following information.
average global temperature 2
The graph above shows the average global temperatures measured in degrees Celsius during the month of May over two 15 year periods, and their respective trend lines. (You can click the graph to see a bigger version in a new window.)

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Data source: GISTEMP Team, 2015: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis (GISTEMP). NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Dataset accessed 2015-06-15 at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/.

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