Academic Excellence Flashcards

A bag contains 4 red, 3 blue, and 5 green marbles. What is the probability of randomly drawing a blue marble?

Answer: 1/4

Total marbles = 4+3+5 = 12; probability of blue = 3/12 = 1/4.

What is the main function of the mitochondria in a cell?

Answer: Produce energy (ATP)

Mitochondria are called the powerhouse of the cell because they generate ATP through cellular respiration.

Which rhetorical strategy does an author use when they appeal to the reader's emotions rather than logic?

Answer: Pathos

Pathos is the appeal to emotion, designed to persuade an audience by evoking feelings like sympathy or fear.

A map uses a scale of 1 inch = 50 miles. Two cities are 3.5 inches apart on the map. What is the actual distance?

Answer: 175 miles

Actual distance = 3.5 × 50 = 175 miles.

In grammar, which sentence correctly uses a semicolon?

Answer: The rain fell hard; the game was cancelled.

A semicolon correctly joins two independent clauses without a coordinating conjunction.

The American Revolution began largely in response to which general principle?

Answer: Taxation without representation

Colonists objected to British taxes imposed without their input in Parliament, summed up as 'no taxation without representation.'

What is the value of the expression 4² + √49 − 3?

Answer: 20

4² = 16, √49 = 7, so 16 + 7 − 3 = 20.