ACT Aspire Practice Test

A store is having a sale on 3 different items. Each sign below shows the original price of an item and how to calculate the discount for that item.

Order the three signs to place them in an order from least amount of discount to greatest amount of discount.

1. Original Price: $24.00 - Take 10% off, and then take 10% off that amount.
2. Original Price: $25.00 - Take 10% off, and then take $1.00 off that amount.
3. Original Price: $30.00 - Take $1.50 off, and then take 10% off that amount.

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door(1); hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting(2) on the kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is(3) a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative(4). Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of(5) the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door(1); hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting(2) on the kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is(3) a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative(4). Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of(5) the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

I grew up with buckets, shovels, and nets waiting by the back door(1); hip-waders hanging in the closet; tide table charts covering the refrigerator door; and a microscope was sitting(2) on the kitchen table. Having studied, my mother is(3) a marine biologist. Our household might have been described as uncooperative(4). Our meals weren’t always served in the expected order of breakfast, lunch, and supper. Everything was subservient to the disposal of(5) the tides. When the tide was low, Mom could be found down on the mudflats. When the tide was high, she would be standing on the inlet bridge with her plankton net.

What is the most likely purpose of the highlighted description of Jared playing with a football?