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Multiple Choice

9a⁴ + 12a²b² + 4b⁴
Which of the following is equivalent to the expression above?

• (3a² + 2b²)²
• (3a + 2b)⁴
• (9a² + 4b²)²
• (9a + 4b)⁴

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If 5x + 6 = 10, what is the value of 10x + 3 ?

• 4
• 9
• 11
• 20

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Which of the following is an equivalent form of the equation of the graph shown in the xy-plane above, from which the coordinates of vertex A can be identified as constants in the equation?

• y = (x + 3)(x - 5)
• y = (x - 3)(x + 5)
• y = x(x - 2) - 15
• y = (x - 1)² - 16

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A food truck sells salads for $6.50 each and drinks for $2.00 each. The food truck's revenue from selling a total of 209 salads and drinks in one day was $836.50. How many salads were sold that day?

• 77
• 93
• 99
• 105

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If 16 + 4x is 10 more than 14, what is the value of 8x?

• 2
• 6
• 16
• 80

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For what value of n is |n - 1| + 1
equal to 0?

• 0
• 1
• 2
• There is no such value of n.

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After listening to the prisoner's passionate pleas, Judge Jim decided to grant the man _________.

• platitude

• vengeance

• vulnerability

• viscosity

• clemency

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Video games (A) have gotten more and more realistic (B) every year; when I (C) was a kid, for example, the most high-tech game (D) is Pac-Man. (E) No error.

• (A) have gotten

• (B) every year

• (C) was

• (D) is

• (E) No error.

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Bess (A) will mail the package to her cousin (B) in Atlanta fourteen long (C) days before the fragile package (D) arrived. (E) No error.

• (A) will mail

• (B) in Atlanta

• (C) days before

• (D) arrived

• (E) No error

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If I went to _____________school, I would be very happy. 

• there
• they're
• their
• thier

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Which word is an action verb in the sentence?

Amanda pulled dozens of weeds that were in the flower beds.

• were

• pulled

• dozens

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We went down to the beach ___________ looked for sea glass.

• ;
• , and
• and

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Everyone in the class has _____ 

• went
• came
• gone

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The dog wagged ______ tail.

• its
• it's
• its'

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What change, if any, should be made to this sentence:

Cameron was told to stay in the house.

• No Change

• Change 'was' to 'were'

• Add a comma after the word 'told'

• Capitalize the word 'house'

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What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence:

I was sitting their with my mom.

• Change 'their' to 'they're'

• No change

• Change 'sitting' to 'sit'

• Change 'their' to 'there'

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What change, if any, should be made to the following sentence:

Molly and Katy were eat donuts.

• No change

• Change 'eat' to 'eating'

• Add a comma between 'Katy' and 'were'

• Capitalize the word 'donuts'

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Using process of elimination

• provides an edge when you start ruling out bad choices

• has no value when testing

• slows you down

• is a highly overrated test strategy

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These questions ask you to consider how an author’s choice of words and phrases helps shape meaning, tone, and style. The author uses the phrase “wait for it” throughout the passage primarily to

• Contrast Aaron’s personal style with that of his rival

• Emphasize Aaron’s lazy, passive attitude

• Criticize Aaron’s failure to take action

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Authors back up their arguments with evidence.

• True

• False

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No points are deducted for wrong answers

• True

• False

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Define synthesize

• harmonize

• combine (a number of things) into a coherent whole

• integrate

• all of the above

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What is context?

• means “with” or “together”

• means “reading material

• the surrounding circumstances, ideas and words woven together to form the setting or background for an event, statement, or idea.

• A clear understanding fthe passage.

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The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and city regions. As it is used in the passage, the word “intense” most nearly means...

• forceful

• concentrated

• passionate

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The SAT is scored on a 400 to 1600 scale.

• True

• False

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The SAT Essay task is to analyze how an author builds an argument using which of the following.

• persuasive elements

• reasoning

• evidence

• All of the above

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Your “Words in Context” subscore measures your understanding of the meaning and use of words and phrases in the context of passages on the SAT Reading Test and the Writing and Language Test.

• True

• False

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x + y = -9
x + 2y = -25
According to the system of equations above, what is the value of x?

• 7
• -7
• 16
• -16

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If t > 0  and t² - 4 = 0, what is the value of t?

• 4
• 0
• 2
• -2

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3x + 4y = -23
    2y - x = -19

• (-5, -2)
• (3, -8)
• (4, -6)
• (9, -6)

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h = 3a + 28.6
A pediatrician uses the model above to estimate the height h of a boy, in inches, in terms of the boy's age a, in years, between the ages of 2 and 5. Based on the model, what is the estimated increase, in inches, of a boy's height each year?

• 3
• 5.7
• 9.5
• 14.3

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Kathy is a repair technician for a phone company. Each week, she receives a batch of phones that need repairs. The number of phones that she has left to fix at the end of each day can be estimated with the equation  P = 108 - 23d
where P is the number of phones left and  d  is the number of days she has worked that week. What is the meaning of value 108 in this equation?

• Kathy will complete the repairs within 108 days.
• Kathy starts each week with 108 phones to fix.
• Kathy repairs phones at a rate of 108 per hour.
• Kathy repairs phones at a rate of 108 per day.

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On Saturday afternoon, Armand sent m text messages each hour for 5 hours, Tyrone sent p text messages each hour for 4 hours. Which of the following represents the total number of messages sent by Armand and Tyrone on Saturday afternoon?

• 9mp
• 20mp
• 5m + 4p
• 4m + 5p

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9 People who pursue careers in transportation planning have a wide variety of educational backgrounds. A two-year degree in transportation technology may be sufficient for some entry-level jobs in the field. Choose the correct grammatical structure for the underlined portion.

• NO CHANGE

• People, who pursue careers in transportation planning,

• People who pursue careers, in transportation planning,

• People who pursue careers in transportation planning,

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Most jobs, however, require at least a bachelor’s degree; majors of transportation planners are 10 varied, including fields such as urban studies, civil engineering, geography, or transportation and logistics management. For many positions in the field, a master’s degree is required.

• NO CHANGE
• varied, and including
• varied, which include
• varied, and including

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Say, for example, a large factory is built on the outskirts of a small town. Traffic to and from that location would increase at the beginning and end of work shifts. The transportation 5 planner’s job, might involve conducting a traffic count to determine the daily number of vehicles traveling on the road to the new factory. Choose the correct grammatical structure for the underlined portion.

• No change

• planners' job

• planners job,

• planners job

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When any one of these changes 2 occur, it is likely the result of careful analysis conducted by transportation planners. Choose the correct grammatical structure for the underlined portion.

• NO CHANGE

• occur, they are

• occurs, they are

• occurs, it is

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He tweaked his magnetic tanks to simulate the fields in two positions with the same latitude at opposite ends of the Atlantic. If the field simulated the west Atlantic near Puerto Rico, the turtles swam northeast. If the field matched that on the east Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, the turtles swam southwest. In the wild, both headings would keep them within the safe, warm embrace of the North Atlantic gyre.Before now, we knew that several animal migrants, from loggerheads to reed warblers to sparrows, had some way of working out longitude, but no one knew how.By keeping the turtles in the same conditions, with only the magnetic fields around them changing, Putman clearly showed that they can use these fields to find their way. In the wild, they might well also use other landmarks like the position of the sea, sun and stars. Why was reed warblers to sparrows, added to the passage?

• contrast the loggerhead turtle’s migration patterns with those of other species.

• provide examples of species that share one of the loggerhead turtle’s abilities.

• suggest that most animal species possess some ability to navigate long distances.

• illustrate some ways in which the ability to navigate long distances can help a species.

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In 1996, a loggerhead turtle called Adelita swam across 9,000 miles from Mexico to Japan, crossing the entire Pacific on her way. Wallace J. Nichols tracked this epic journey with a satellite tag. But Adelita herself had no such technology at her disposal. How did she steer a route across two oceans to find her destination?Nathan Putman has the answer. By testing hatchling turtles in a special tank, he has found that they can use the Earth’s magnetic field as their own Global Positioning System (GPS). By sensing the field, they can work out both their latitude and longitude and head in the right direction.Putman works in the lab of Ken Lohmann, who has been studying the magnetic abilities of loggerheads for over 20 years. In his lab at the University of North Carolina, Lohmann places hatchlings in a large water tank surrounded by a large grid of electromagnetic coils. In 1991, he found that the babies started in the opposite direction if he used the coils to reverse the direction of the magnetic field aroundthem. They could use the field as a compass to get their bearing.Later, Lohmann showed that they can also use the magnetic field to work out their position. For them, this is literally a matter of life or death. Hatchlings born off the sea coast of Florida spend their early lives in the North Atlantic gyre, a warm current that circles between North America and Africa. If they’re swept towards the cold waters outside the gyre, they die. Their magnetic sense keeps them safe.Using his coil-surrounded tank, Lohmann could mimic the magnetic field at different parts of the Earth’s surface. If he simulated the field at the northern edge of the gyre, the hatchlings swam southwards. If he simulated the field at the gyre’s southern edge, the turtles swam west-northwest. These experiments showed that the turtles can use their magnetic sense to work out their latitude—their position on a north-south axis. Now, Putman has shown that they can also determine their longitude—their position on an east-west axis.He tweaked his magnetic tanks to simulate the fields in two positions with the same latitude at opposite ends of the Atlantic. If the field simulated the west Atlantic near Puerto Rico, the turtles swam northeast. If the field matched that on the east Atlantic near the Cape Verde Islands, the turtles swam southwest. In the wild, both headings would keep them within the safe, warm embrace of the North Atlantic gyre.Before now, we knew that several animal migrants, from loggerheads to reed warblers to sparrows, had some way of working out longitude, but no one knew how.By keeping the turtles in the same conditions, with only the magnetic fields around them changing, Putman clearly showed that they can use these fields to find their way. In the wild, they might well also use other landmarks like the position of the sea, sun and stars.Putman thinks that the turtles work out their position using two features of the Earth’s magnetic field that change over its surface. They can sense the field’s inclination, or the angle at which it dips towards the surface. At the poles, this angle is roughly 90 degrees and at the equator, it’s roughly zero degrees. They can also sense its intensity, which is strongest near the poles and weakest near the Equator. Different parts of the world have unique combinations of these two variables. Neither corresponds directly to either latitude or longitude, but together, they provide a “magnetic signature” that tells the turtle where it is.
The passage most strongly suggests that Adelita used which of the following to navigate her 9,000-mile journey?

• The current of the North Atlantic gyre
• Cues from electromagnetic coils designed by Putman and Lohmann
• The inclination and intensity of Earth’s magnetic field
• A simulated “magnetic signature” configured by Lohmann

Multiple Choice

In today’s idea-driven economy, the cost of time is what really matters. With the constant pressure to innovate, it makes little sense to waste countless collective hours commuting. So, the most efficient and productive regions are those in which people are thinking and working—not sitting in traffic.The auto-dependent transportation system has reached its limit in most major cities and megaregions. Commuting by car is among the least efficient of all our activities—not to mention among the least enjoyable, according to detailed research by the Nobel Prize–winning economist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues. Though one might think that the economic crisis beginning in 2007 would have reduced traffic (high unemployment means fewer workers traveling to and from work), the opposite has been true. Average commutes have lengthened, and congestion has gotten worse, if anything. The average commute rose in 2008 to 25.5 minutes, “erasing years of decreases to stand at the level of 2000, as people had to leave home earlier in the morning to pick up friends for their ride to work or to catch a bus or subway train,” according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which collects the figures. And those are average figures. Commutes are far longer in the big West Coast cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco and the East Coast cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. In many of these cities, gridlock has become the norm, not just at rush hour but all day, every day.The costs are astounding. In Los Angeles, congestion eats up more than 485 million working hours a year; that’s seventy hours, or nearly two weeks, of full-time work per commuter. In D.C., the time cost of congestion is sixty-two hours per worker per year. In New York it’s forty-four hours. Average it out, and the time cost across America’s thirteen biggest city-regions is fifty-one hours per worker per year. Acrossthe country, commuting wastes 4.2 billion hours of work time annually—nearly a full workweek for every commuter. The overall cost to the U.S. economy is nearly $90 billion when lost productivity and wasted fuel are taken into account. At the Martin Prosperity Institute, we calculate that every minute shaved off America’s commuting time is worth $19.5 billion in value added to the economy. The numbers add up fast: five minutes is worth $97.7 billion; ten minutes, $195 billion; fifteen minutes, $292 billion.It’s ironic that so many people still believe the main remedy for traffic congestion is to build more roads and highways, which of course only makes the problem worse. New roads generate higher levels of “induced traffic,” that is, new roads just invite drivers to drive more and lure people who take mass transit back to their cars. Eventually, we end up with more clogged roads rather than a long-term improvement in traffic flow.The coming decades will likely see more intense clustering of jobs, innovation, and productivity in a smaller number of bigger cities and city-regions. Some regions could end up bloated beyond the capacity of their infrastructure, while others struggle, their promise stymied by inadequate human or other resources.
The passage most strongly suggests that researchers at the Martin Prosperity Institute share which assumption?

• Employees who work from home are more valuable to their employers than employees who commute.
• Employees whose commutes are shortened will use the time saved to do additional productive work for their employers.
• Employees can conduct business activities, such as composing memos or joining conference calls, while commuting.
• Employees who have lengthy commutes tend to make more money than employees who have shorter commutes.

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acquiesce

• agree without protest

• agree upon force

• disagree through protest

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abstemious

• sparing in eating and drinking

• sparing in reducing and recycling

• avoiding eating certain types of foods

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abridge

• connects two roads so they can cross a river

• reduce (a text) in length

• increase (a text) in length

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abate

• grow in intensity

• grow less in density

• grow less in intensity and degree

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Answer the following:

• 11
• -8
• 14
• -5

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Answer the following:

• 12√3
• 12√6
• 18
• 36

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Answer the followi

• 3/4
• 5/3
• 6/5
• 5/4

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What did one campfire say to the other?

• Shall we light up

• Shall we go out tonight

• Campfires do not speak

• I do not know

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How many sides does a circle have?

• None

• 2 sides

• Inside

• Outside

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If a monkey, a squirrel and a bird are racing to the top of a coconut tree, who will get the banana first?

• None

• squirrel

• bird

• monkey

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Why did banker quit his job?

• Due to COVID-19

• He lost interest

• He was tired

• He did not like it

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If George's father has 4 children-Eenie, Meenie, Miney-What is the name of his fourth child?

• Mow

• George

• Linda

• Sonia

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What is it that stands up, but grows down?

• Lamp

• Candle

• Rain

• Tree

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What starts with IS, ends with AND and has LA in the middle?

• SILAND

• DISLAN

• ISLAND

• ANDLIS

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what season had this skin

• season 1

• season 2

• season 3

• season 4

• season 5

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Which room has no walls?

• Bath room

• Sauna room

• Mushroom

• storeroom

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Bonus Round: How much money is won for the multi answer "RED LIGHT" Challenge? And, BTW - you only have 30 seconds to answer this question just like the Cash Cab Show! Have fun and choose wisely.

• Double the amount that the contestant has already won.

• $100

• The contestant must pay Ben Bailey (the host) for each answer missed.

• $200

Poll

Are you ready for the "RED LIGHT" Challenge?

• Challenge accepted! I submitted my work to my teacher.

• Boooo! I did not accept the challenge.

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Remember the performer collects $120 when 8 people attend.

• A

• B

• C

• D

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How much money will the performer earn when 20 people attend a performance?

• $960

• $480

• $300

• $240

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Do we ever leave a question blank on any College entrance exam?

• Yes
• No

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The following is NOT covered on the math section on either tests.

• Algebra 2
• Geometry
• Trigonometry
• Calculus

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What is the test structure for ACT?

• English, Science, Reading, Math
• Math, Reading, English, Science
• English, Math, Reading, Science
• Science, Math, Reading, English

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Why take the ACT and or SAT?

• A) For College Admissions
• B) For Merit Based Scholarship
• Both A and B
• None of the above

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Sentence fragment: Which is correct?

• Whether or not the answer seems correct.

• The answer seems to be correct.

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Comparison of modifiers: Which is correct?

• Of the sixteen executives, Meg makes more money.

• Of the sixteen executives, Meg makes the most money.

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Adjective and adverb confusion: Which is correct?

• His friends agree that he drives reckless.

• His friends agree that he drives recklessly.

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Week passive verbs: Which is correct?

• When you bake a cake, the oven should be preheated.

• When you bake a cake, you should preheat the oven.

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Missing subject: Which is correct?

• If your car is parked here while not eating in the restaurant, it will be towed away.

• If you park here and do not eat in the restaurant, you will be towed away.

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Wordiness: Which is correct?

• There are many problems in the contemporary world in which we live.

• There are many problems in our contemporary world.

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Diction: Which is correct?

• He circumvented the globe on his trip.

• He circumnavigated the globe on his trip.

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Ambiguous and vague pronouns: Which is correct?

• In the newspaper they say that few people voted.

• The newspaper reported that few people voted.

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Coordination and subordination: Which is correct?

• Nancy has a rash, and she is probably allergic to something.

• Nancy has a rash; she is probably allergic to something.

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Subject-verb agreement: Which is correct?

• There is eight people on shore.

• There are eight people on shore.

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Noun-number agreement: Which is correct?

• Ann and Sarah want to be a pilot.

• Ann and Sarah want to be pilots.

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Parallelism: Which is correct?

• The master carpenter showed us how to countersink the nails, how to varnish the wood, and getting a smooth surface was also demonstrated.

• The master carpenter showed us how to countersink the nails, varnish the wood, and get a smooth surface.

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Shift of pronoun: Which is correct?

• If you are tense, one should try to relax.

• If you are tense, you should try to relax.

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Sequence of tenses... Which is correct?

• After he broke his arm, he is home for two weeks.

• After he broke his arm, he was home for two weeks.