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How are caloric intake and weight D. directly
related?
A. inversely
B. partially
C. reciprocally
D. directly
How is weight related to a A. inversely
sonographer's time spent
exercising?
A. inversely
B. conversely.
C. directly
D. unrelated
What is the reciprocal of 1,000? C. 0.001
A. one-hundredth
B. 1.000 A pair of reciprocal numbers,
C 0.001 when multiplied together, have a
D. one-millionth value of + In this case, 1,000 x
0.001 = 1
What is the reciprocal of 5? C. 1/5
multiplied together, have a value of 1 In this case, 5 x 1/5 = 1
A. one-hundredth
B. 5
C. 1/5
D. one-millionth
What is the reciprocal of 1/10? B. 10
A. one-hundredth
B. 10
C. 1/10
D. one-millionth
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A sack contains 6 pounds of flour. D. 30 pounds
The contents of the bag are
increased by a
factor of 5. How much flour is in the
bag?
A. 6 pounds
B. 11 pounds
C. 60 pounds
D. 30 pounds
A bouquet has 30 flowers. The size C. 10
of the bouquet is decreased by a
factor of 3. The term "decrease by a factor" means
How many flowers remain? to divide.
A. 27 = 10.
B. 0
C. 10
D. 15
Which of the following is not a measure C. cubic meters
of area?
A. square cm
B. meters squared
C. cubic meters
D. feet x feet
A sonographer measures the C. 15mm
perimeter of an anatomical
structure. Which of the "Perimeter" means the length of the
following choices is a reasonable outer following choices is a
value for boundary of a structure. reasonable value for boundary of a
For example, a the measurement? structure. For example, a the
measurement?
A. 6 cm? square with an edge that is 5 inches long
B. 5 cc
C. 15 mm
D. 18 dB
What are the units associated with A. mm
the circumference of a circle?
The circumference of a circle is the
A. mm length of the circle's outer
B. mm? boundary and is
C. cm3 measured in units of length.
D. mA
The volume of a cystic structure is D. 6 cm3
estimated from sonographic data.
Which of the following is an The units of volume are length cubed,
acceptable such as ft° or cubic centimeters.
measurement of this volume? Volume may
A. 6 also be expressed as length to the
B. 6 cm third power.
C. 6 cm2 A has no units, whereas B and C
D. 6 cm3 have units of length and area.
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The speed of red blood cells traveling C. how many seconds per hour and the number of miles in a centimeter
through a blood vessel is 750 cm/sec.
You are asked to measure this speed To convert one unit to another requires a factor that relates the two terms. For
in miles per hour. What information example, to change a measurement of length from feet into inches, we
would be must know how many inches are in a foot. In this case, we are asked to
sufficient for you to complete your convert cm per sec
task? into miles per hour. Therefore, we require two pieces of information: the
relationship between seconds and hours (relating one unit of time to
A. how many seconds in a minute another) and the relationship between miles and centimeters (relating
and how many blood cells in the one unit of distance to
vessel
another). When units are changed, the actual amount does not change. For
B.the number of miles in a meter
example, ten dimes provide the same purchasing power as four quarters.
C. how many seconds per hour
The units may be different, but the "total picture" remains the same.
and the number of miles in a
centimeter
D.the direction of red blood cell
motion and the Doppler shift
frequency
How much bigger is one billion B. 1,000,000 times
than one thousand?
A. 1,000 times B. A billion is one million times larger
B. 1.000.000 times than a thousand. A million is 1,000,000
C. 10 times
D. 10,000 times
Select the sequence that C. centi, deci, deca, hecto
appears in increasing order.
A. mega, kilo, hecto, milli, giga
B.nano, milli, micro, deci, deca, mega
C. centi, deci, deca, hecto
D.milli, hecto, centi, deci, nano, giga
How many nanoseconds are in B. 7,000,000,000
7 seconds?
A. 7,000,000
B. 7,000,000,000
C. 7 million
D. 0.00000007
The letters below represent the D. M, k, da, d, c
abbreviations for the prefixes of
the metric system. Select the
sequence that appears in
decreasing order.
A. m, k, M, g, da
B. g, m, k, d,
C. g, k, di, m, u, n
D. M, k, da, d, c
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