SECTION 4 TIME – 40 MINUTES 12 QUESTIONS – 12 POINTS

Problem Solving

Directions: For each of the following questions, select the best of the answer choices.

Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers.

1. The enrollment at College X and College Y 4. In the figure drawn, what is the perimeter of
both grew by 8 percent from 1980 to 1985. If triangle QRS?
the enrollment at college X grew by 800 and
the enrollment at College Y grew by 840, the S
Q 600
enrollment at college Y was how much 60 0
greater than the enrollment at College X in
1985? 2
600
45 0
A. 400 P R
B. 460
C. 500
A. 12
D. 540
E. 580 B. 6 2
C. 6
D. 3 2
2. 2000$ is deposited into a savings account E. 2 2
that earns interest at the rate of 10 percent
per year, compounded semiannually. How
much money will there be in the account at
the end of one year? 1
5. The ratio of x to y is . If the ratio of x+2 to
2
A. 2105$ 2
B. 2200$ y+1 is , then what is the value of x?
3
C. 2205$
D. 2400$ A. 6
E. 2600$ B. 4
C. 3
D. 2
3. A car dealer who gives a customer a 20 E. 1
percent discount on the list price of a car still
realizes a net profit of 25 percent of cost. If
the dealer’s cost is 4800$, what is the usual 6. A certain manufacturer has three machines
list price of the car? producing the same item. If machine X
1
A. 6000$ produces as many of the item as Machine
B. 6180$ 4
C. 7200$ Y produces in the same time, and Machine Y
D. 7500$ produces twice as many of the item as
E. 8001$ Machine Z in the same time, then during a
fixed period Machine Z produces what
fraction of the total number of items
produced?

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A. A. 6.250$
14
B. 12.500$
2 C. 15.000$
B.
7 D. 25.000$
1 E. 48.000$
C.
3
1 x(y - z)
D. 11. If x = 5, y = 3, and z = 2, then =
2 y(x + y + z
4
E. 1
7 A.
7. If the profit of an item is 4$ ad the sum of the 30
cost and the profit is 20$, what is the cost of 1
B.
the item. 6
C. 5
A. 24$ D. 10
B. 20$ E. 12
C. 16$
D. 12$
E. 15$ 12. In a certain school library, 60% of the books
are clothbound books. If 30% of those books
are works of fiction, then what percentage of
8. A laborer is paid 8$ per hour for an 8 hour all books in the library are clothbound books
1 of fiction?
day and 1 times that rate for each hour in
2
excess of 8 hours in a single day. If the A. 90%
laborer received 80$ for a single day’s work, B. 30%
how long did he work on that day? C. 20%
D. 18%
A. 6 hr. 40 min. E. 2%
B. 9 hr. 20 min.
C. 9 hr. 30 min.
D. 9 hr. 40 min. 13. During a sale, a certain item is sold at a price
E. 10hr. 40% below its usual selling price. If the
dollar savings on the item is 12$, then what
is its sale price?
9. Mr. Johnson grosses 2000$ per month from
his mail-order business. If 40 percent of that A. 30$
amount goes for business expenses and 10 B. 24$
percent of the remainder is reinvested I the C. 18$
business, how much of the gross receipts is D. 15$
reinvested in the business? E. 6$

A. 80$ 10
14. What is 40% of ?
B. 100$ 7
C. 110$ 2
D. 120$ A.
E. 200$ 7
4
B.
7
10. If the total sales for a business in a certain 10
year were 150,000$, what were sales in C.
Junes if June sales were half the monthly 28
average?

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D. C.
28 2
28 1
E. D.
10 10
1
15. If w, x, y and z are real numbers, each of the E.
3
following equals w(x + y +z) EXEPT

A. wx + wy + wz 20. A motion was passed by a vote of 5 : 3. what

B. (x + y +z)w part of the votes cast were in favor of the
C. wx + w(y+z) motion?
D. 3w + x + y + z
E. w(x + y) + wz
5
A.
16. What is the side of a square if its area is 8
36x 2? 5
B.
3
A. 9 3
B. 9x C.
C. 6x 2 5
D. 6 2
D.
E. 6x 5
3
E.
8
17. If a square MNOP has an area of 16, then its
perimeter is

A. 4 21. In a certain class the ratio of men to women

B. 8 is 3 : 5. If the class has 24 people in it, how
C. 16 many are women?
D. 32
E. 64 A. 9
B. 12
C. 15
18. 10% of 360 is how much more than 5% of D. 18
360? E. 21

A. 5
B. 9 22. If the ratio of men to women in a class is 3 :
C. 18 5 and the class contains 24 people, how
D. 36 many additional men should have to enroll to
E. 48 make the ratio of men to woman 1 : 1?

A. 3
B. 6
19. One half of the employees of Acme Co. earn C. 9
salaries above 18,000$ annually. One third of
the remainder earn salaries between 15,000$ D. 12
and 18,000$. What part of the staff earns E. 15
below 15,000$?

1 23. What was the original price of a radio that

A. sold for 70$ during a 20%-off sale?
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2 A. 84$
B. B. 56$
3

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 C. 87.50$ A. 10
D. 92$ B. 11
E. 90$ C. 12
D. 13
E. 14
24. A certain radio costs a merchant 72$. At
what price must the merchant sell this radio
in order to make a profit of 20% of the 29. For what values of n is n + 5 equal to n – 5?
selling price?
A. No value
A. 86.40$ B. 0
B. 92$ C. All negative values
C. 90$ D. All positive values
D. 144$ E. All values
E. 148$
30. If 35rt + 8 = 42rt, then rt =
25. If prices are reduced 25% and sales increase
20%, what is the net effect on gross receipts? 8
A.
7
A. They increase by 5%
B. They decrease by 5% 8
B.
C. They remain the same 87
D. They increase by 10% 7
E. They decrease by 10% C.
8
87
D.
26. If the enrollment at State U. was 3,000 in 8
1965 and 12,000 in 1990, what was the 8
E. −
percent in increase in enrollment? 7
A. 125%
B. 25% 31. David has d dollars. After a shopping trip, he
C. 300% returned with c cents. How many cents did
D. 400% he spend?
E. 3%
A. d–c
k k B. c–d
27. Solve for k: + =1
3 4 C. 100d – c
D. 100c – d
11 E. d – 100c
A.
4
8 32. Joe spent k cents of his allowance and has r
B.
11 cents left. What was his allowance in
7 dollars?
C.
12 A. k + r
12 B. k – r
D.
7 C. 100(k + r)
1 (k + r)
E. D.
7 100
E. 100kr

28. If 7x = 3x + 12, then 2x + 5 =

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33. If x – y = 8, which of the following must be 37. The people eating in a cafeteria are either
true? faculty members or students, and the number
of Faculty members is 15 percent of the total
I. Both x and y are positive. number of people in the cafeteria. After some
II. If x is positive, y must be positive. of the students leave, the total number of
III. If x is negative, y must be negative. persons remaining in the cafeteria is 50
percent of the original total. The number of
A. I only students who left is what fractional part of
B. II only the original number of students?
C. III only
D. I and II only 17
E. II and III only A.
20
10
B.
17
1
34. A cube of white chalk is painted red, and C.
2
then cut parallel to the sides to form two 1
rectangular solids of equal volume. What D.
percent of the surface area of each of the new 4
solids is not painted red? 7
E.
20
A. 15%
2
B. 16 and %
3 38. A deck of cards is 1.5 centimeters thick. If
C. 20% each of the cards is 0.03 centimeters thick,
D. 25% how many cards are in the deck?
1
E. 33 and % A. 45
3 B. 50
C. 450
35. The number 45 is what percentage of 9000? D. 500
E. 1500
A. 0.005%
B. 0.405%
C. 0.5% 39. If (x – 6)(2x + 1) = 0, and x > 0, then x =
D. 4.05%
E. 5% A. 6
B. 3
C. 2
36. In the calculation below, the number X must 1
be D.
2
729 1
E.
5X3 6
+ 9X1
2,2X3 40. On Monday, a depositor withdraws funds
from his savings account equal to 10% of the
A. 0 amount on deposit, and on Friday he deposits
B. 2 140$. If there were no other transactions, and
C. 3 if the amount in the account following
D. 7 Friday’s transactions was 125% of the
E. 9 original amount, how much money was
originally in the account?

A. 125$

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 B. 175$ 45. The price of a left-handed widget increased
C. 400$ 20 percent in 1981 and 10 percent in 1982.
D. 500$ By approximately what percent would the
E. 540$ price at the end of 1982 have to be decreased
to restore the price of the widget to its pre-
14981 price?
1 1 1 x
41. If =6 and = , then = A. 40%
x y 3 y
B. 35%
1 C. 30%
A.
18 D. 26%
1 E. 24%
B.
2
C. 1 46. Mr. Williams invested a total of 12,000$ for
D. 2 a one-year period. Part of the money was
E. 18 invested at 5% simple interest, and the rest
was invested at 12% simple interest. If he
earned 880$ in interest for one year, how
42. If the average of x, y, and 30 is 10, then the much of the money was invested at 12%?
average of x and y is
A. 1,920$
A. 0
B. 5 B. 4,000$
C. 4,800$
1
C. 7 D. 7,200$
2 E. 8,000$
D. 10
E. 30
47. A salesclerk is paid a minimum weekly
salary of 210$ plus a commission equal to
43. A magazine costs 1.00$ to produce. If 10% of the value of sales she makes in
20.000$ was taken in for advertising in the excess of 3,000$ for the week. If the
magazine, how many copies at 75 cents per salesclerk wishes to earn at least 370$ for a
copy must be sold to make a profit of exactly week, what is the minimum value of sales
10,000$? she must make for that week?

A. 10,000 A. 1,600$
B. 20,000 B. 3,700$
C. 25,000 C. 4,600$
D. 35,000 D. 6,700$
E. 40,000 E. 6,910$

44. A pen and pencil set costs 12$, the same as 48. If x is an even number, which of the
when the items are bought separately. If the following must be odd?
pen costs 11$ more than the pencil, what is
the cost of the pencil? I. 3x + 1
II. (5x)2
A. 0.50$ III. (x + 1) 2
B. 1.00$
C. 1.50$ A. I only
D. 6.00$ B. III only
E. 11.00$ C. I and II only
D. I and III only
E. I, II, and III

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49. In a list of numbers, each number after the ( x − y) 2 x+ y
1 52. If = 9 then =
first is exactly the number immediately x −y
2 2
x− y
3
preceding it. If the fifth number in the list is A. 1/9
3, what is the second number in the B. 1/3
sequence? C. 1
D. 3
1 E. 9
A.
9
1
B. 53. In a certain community, property is assessed
3
at 60% of its appraised value and taxed at the
C. 1
rate of $4 per $100 of assessed value. If a
D. 27
E. 81 tax-payer is assessed $240 per quarter in
property taxes, what is the appraised value of
the property?
50. A merchant sells a certain item for a price
A. $6.000
that is w whole numbers of dollars. If the cost B. $22.500
of the item to her is $50, then which of the C. $24.000
following could be her profit as a percentage D. $40.000
of her cost? E. $60.000
A. 15%
54. If the width of e rectangular is increased by
B. 25% 25% while the length remains constant, the
1 resulting area is what percent of the original
C. 33 %
3 area?
D. 40%
E. 75% A. 25%
B. 75%
C. 125%
51. At a text printing company, each of n D. 225%
printing presses can produce on the average t E. 250%
books every m minutes. If all presses work
without interruption, how many hours will be
required to produce a run of 10,000 books? 1 7
55. A snapshot measures 2 inches by 1
10 ,000 (60 )mn 2 8
A. inches. It is to be enlarged so that the longer
t dimension will be 4 inches. The length of the
10,000 (60)tm enlarged shorter dimension will be
B.
n 1
A. 2 inches
10,000 mn 2
C.
60t B. 3 inches
3
10,000 m C. 3 inches
D. 8
60nt 5
D. 2 inches
10,000 8
E.
60mnt E. none of these

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