1. You have a jar filled with red, yellow and blue balls.

What is the minimum number of balls you

must pick out to guarantee 3 balls of the same color?
a. 7
2. I have 19 bills totaling $215. The value of each bill is either $5 or $20. I have 9 bills in my pocket.
What is range of money in my pocket?
a. we know that 5x + (19-x)*20 = 215 (This gives us 11 $5 bills & 8 $20 bills)
b. $45 – $165 (9 $5 bills or 8 $20 bills + 1 $5 bill)
3. Whats the area of the shaded region if the length of a side of a square is l.
a. Area of square – area of circle (pi r2)
b. 1-0.785 = 0.21
4. I shuffle a deck of cards and randomly pick one card and keep it aside. It is an Ace of Hearts. What
is the probability that the next card I pick up is a heart or an ace?
a. 12/51 + 3/51 = 0.29 x 100 = 29%
5. An athlete has 75% of winning the race if he is not injured. If he is injured, his probability of
winning the race is only 15%. If he total chances of winning is 51%, what is the probability that he
gets injured?
a. x=prob. injured (1-x)=prob. not injured
prob of winning=51%= 75%*(1-x)+15%*x —> x=40%
6. A bakery sold 10 more cakes this month than it did the last month. It also sold 3 times as many
cakes than the month before that. If that total number of cakes it sold in the last 3 months is 116,
how many cakes did it sell this month?
a. 0,3333 X + X – 10 + X = 116
b. X = 54
7. What is the area of the shaded region given AB = 2 cm and CAB form a right angle?
a. Insufficient data
8. I have a lawn that measures 9m by 5m. I dig a 1m flowerbed around it. What is the new area of
my lawn?
a. 77m2
9. I have a stock that is expected to grow 330% in the next 8 years. What is its average annual
growth rate?
a. If the stock price increases by 330%, its actual value will be 430% (i.e. 4.3 times) of the initial value
at the start of the 8 year period
b. (x)^8 = 4.3
x = 1.20 Therefore 20%
10. You have an equilateral triangle of length l that is divided into 9 smaller equilateral triangles.
What is the total perimeter of the 9 triangles?
a. 6L
11. Currently, Country A’s energy demand is fulfilled by the following: Oil – 40%, Coal – 45% and
Windmills – 450 total. The energy demand is expected to grow by 20% by next year. However, oil
reserves are expected to go down by 10% and coal by 8%. How many more windmills will need to be
built by next year to support the country growing energy demands?
a. 828 more windmills
12. If x is odd and y is even, which of the following will be even?
a. xy – y
13. What is the mean of the 25 numbers (a*b), for a and b being all combinations of the numbers 1-
5?
a. 9
14. A pen normally costs $0.60, but the promotion promises a deal whereby a customer can buy
twelve pens for the price of ten. What saving does this represent, per pen?
a. 0.10
15. x divides by 2, but does not divide by 3. Which of these statements is definitely false?
a. B, A true when x = 2, B false x must be 1, C true when x = 4, D true when x = 2, E true when x = 14
16. In January, Website A received 30,000 hits, and Website B received 20,000. In February, A
received 31,000 and B 24,000. Every month A’s hits go up by 1,000 more than they increased the
previous month, while B’s hits grow at a constant percentage rate. When will B overtake A?
a. May
17. In the game Connect 4 players place their counters into a 7×6 board, and a winning position
consists of four counters in a row, either horizontally, vertically or diagonally. How many winning
positions are there?
a. 69
18. The average customer call to Phoneinc takes eight minutes, and operators work one of three
eight-hour shifts. From 9pm-5am, 10% of calls are received, and from 5am-1pm 100 operators are
on shift. If half of all callers ring from 1pm-9pm, how many people call Phoneinc in one day?
a. 15,000
19. Viola has a 30% chance of winning the 100m, a 1 in 4 chance of winning the 200m and an 0.8
chance of winning the long jump. What is the probability she wins all three events?
a. 0.060
20. A regular dodecahedron has twelve pentagonal faces, and at each corner three faces touch. How
many corners does it have?
a. 20
21. ABC is a right-angled triangle, with AB=4cm and BC=5cm. What is its area?
a. Not enough info
22. The basketball player succeeds with 30% of his free throws. If he has a set of free attempts, what
is the probability he succeeds at least once?
a. 1-(prob fails all throws)
b. 1- 0.343 = 0.657
23. What is the probability that, in a randomly selected group of seven people, one person will have
been born on each day of the week?
a. (1*2*3*4*5*6)/(7^6)
24. The dimensions of the package 2.5m by 3m by 4m. What is its surface area?
a. 59m
25. Sales have just finished their eighth year of steady growth, and are now twice what they were 8
years ago. What is the annual percentage increase?
a. 2^(1/8) = 1.09, so 9%
26. There were five people in group A, with a mean IQ of 100, and five in group B, with a mean IQ of
74. When Jack left group A for group B, both means increased and the total of the two means was
180. What is Jack’s IQ?
a. 80
27. To convert a temperature from Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by 9, divide by 5, and add 32.
What temperature is the same on both scales?
a. -40
28. A roulette wheel has 37 sections, 18 of which are red. If you bet on red and win, you double your
money. Fyodor plays 111 games, staking $50 on red each time. How much money, on average,
would he expect to win for his $5,500?
a. 5400
29. Every year the sales of LossCo fall to 80% of their value a year before. If its sales were $50,000 in
2003, what were they in 2006?
a. 25,600
30. The president of the USA serves terms of four years, with a maximum of two terms. If a century
sees 16 presidents, how many of them served a second term?
a. 9
31. Xavier’s office is diametrically opposite to his house, on the outside of a circular park. Normally,
he cycles straight across the park, which takes ten minutes. However, this morning, he has to cycle
around it. How much longer is his journey?
a. 5.7mins
32. Dave has a set of 27 weights, all identical except that one is fractionally lighter than the rest. He
has a set of scales which allow him to place the same number of weights on each side. How many
times must he use the scales to be certain of identifying the lighter weight?
a. 3
33. My lawn was 5m by 9m, but now I’ve dug a 1m-wide flowerbed into it, around the edge. What
percentage of the area of the old lawn is the area of the new lawn?
a. 46.7%
34. Nigel has $6.20 to spend, and wants to fill his bag with vegetables. Aubergines cost $0.50,
courgettes cost $0.20, he has room for 22 pieces and wants to spend as much as possible. How many
courgettes should he buy?
a. 16
35. Anne thinks of a whole number from 1 to 10, before rolling a six sided dice and adding the
numbers together. What is the probability that the result is divisible by 3?
a. 1/3
36. ChocoCo want to improve sales of its chocolate bars. The bars are currently 3×8 squares and cost
$0.12 in raw materials, and it wants to increase this to 4×10 squares. If an extra 750,000 bars are
sold, how much will costs have increased?
a. 60,000
37. It takes Nora two hours to paint a wall 5m by 8m, and Zack three hours to paint a wall 4m by 9m.
Together, how long will it take them to paint a wall 10m by 12m?
a. 4 hours
38. If a > b > c > 0, which of the following is certainly true?
a. ab>ac
39. The company has annual sales of $600,000, of which 5% is profit. The CEO wants to increase the
profit margin to 10%, but costs are set to rise 15%. By how much must sales increase?
a. 128,333
40. Of the 500 employees, 30% went to University A, of whom 16% come from Town B, of whom
25% went to College C, of whom 50% went to School D. How many employees went to School D?
a. 3
41. A regular octahedron has eight faces, each of which is an equilateral triangle. How many edges
does it have?
a. 12
42. In 2003, Company A’s sales were $300,000, and it is growing 16% annually. Every year, Company
B’s sales are $100,000 more than Company A’s. What was the average annual growth for Company B
between 2003 and 2005?
a. 26%
43. A snowman is made of spheres of two spheres of snow. The base has diameter 1m, the head
0.5m. What proportion of the snowman’s weight comes from its base?
a. 8/9
44. I have four cards, with the numbers 1 to 4 written on them. If I shuffle them, what is the
probability that they are in order from top to bottom, 1-2-3-4?
a. 1/24
45. What’s the area of this triangle with coordinates (-3.5,2) (0.5,2) and ( 0.5,-1)?
a. 6
46. n is the number of apples sold ( I think) with the formula n= (3000/(p+A)), where p is the price in
pounds and A is a constant. If for 1.1 pounds we sold 2000 then how much would we sell if priced for
1.2 pounds?
a. 1875
47. There were 15 players. 1/3 were Australian and 1/5 Welsh. The Italians were twice as much as
African American and African American were twice as much as English. How many (or what’s the
percentage) of European?
a. 46.7%
48. Dice was thrown twice and the results are multiplied together. What’s the probability of getting
a 6?
a. 1/9
49. Fair coin flipped 10 times we got heads 3 times and tail 7 times. what’s the probability of getting
a head?
a. 15/128
50. Daphne and Samuel played 63 games. Daphne won twice as much as Samuel for the last 18
games. and 4 times as much in the rest of the games. how many games did Samuel win?
a. 15
51. For 1.8$ we sold 200,000. Then he decides to decreases the prices by 0.2$ so how much do we
need to sell to maintain same revenue?
a. 250,000
52. P (Amy winning archery ) is a and probability of Bryan winning boxing is b. 0 < a < 1, 0 < b < 1.
Probability of both winning is a-4b. 0 < a – 4b < 1 what’s the value of a?
a.
53. Jerome and Luis are planting trees along a 1200m road, beginning from some point in the middle
of the road and working in opposite directions. If Jerome works three times as quickly as Luis, how
far into the road could they start so that they finish at the same time?
a. 300m
54. A cube with side length 3 is enlarged to cube of side length 4. what’s the percentage increase?
a. 137%
55. Company A’s share is £3.45 and it increased by 11%. That of company B decreased by 18% but
now is the same value as that of A. How much was the value of company B’s before?
a. 4.66
56. The question up of my grandpa was 16 years old young, 1/8 soldier, 1/3 planter, 1/4 writer and
he retired 5 years before he died. What was his age?
a. 72
57. We have x red balls and x blue balls in a bag. The probability of getting 2 red balls in succession is
2/9. What’s x?
a. 5
58. X sold 116 apples. Y sold 25% more than X. And Z sold 60% more than Y. What’s the percentage
of Z from X?
a. 200%
59. The raffle tickets are numbered 100-999, and placed into five bags. Bag A contains tickets ending
in 1 and 2; bag B, 3 and 4; bag C, 5 and 6; bag D, 7 and 8; and bag E, 9 and 0. If we want to be certain
the ticket number is not prime, which bag should I draw from?
a. C (5 and 6)
60. Countries A, B and C all became democracies in 2000. Country A holds elections every three
years, country B every four years, and country C every five years. In what years will they next all hold
elections?
a. 2060
61. Ana baked four times as many cookies as Fernanda, but after eating three and giving nine to
Fernanda, they have the same number. How many cookies are left in total?
a. 32
62. A circle of diameter 6cm has a segment cut out of it of area 0.5picm2. What is the angle of the
segment?
a. 20
63. The new company logo is a regular hexagon, made up of six equilateral triangles, and placed
inside a circle so that each corner of the hexagon touches the circle. What proportion of the circle’s
area does the hexagon contain?
a.
64. The company's sales are £10 million a year, of which 20% is profit. 25% of costs currently come
from payment of staff. The CEO reckons that giving all staff a 20% pay rise (including herself) will
improve sales by 10%. What will the new profit margin be?
a. 12.7%
65. A local coffee shop is open for 16 hours during each day, with employees working 8 hour shifts. It
offers two different drinks – plain coffee, which takes 2 minutes per customer and lattes, which take
5 minutes per customer. If only 30% of customers order plain
coffee and the shop anticipates 700 customers per day, how many employees do they need?
a. 6
66. The perimeter of a park has recently been doubled, with the park remaining a square. How many
times has its area increased in size?
a. More info needed
67. A circle of radius 1m has a segment cut out of its of perimeter (2+0.25p)m. What is the angle of
the segment?
a.
68. Harry buys five chocolate bars and three lollipops for £2.41. Fiona buys one chocolate bar and
four lollipops for £0.89. How much would three chocolate bars and two lollipops cost?
a.
69. Danielle buys three apples and five bananas. If a banana costs £0.10 more than an apple, and she
spends £2.34 in total, how much does a banana cost?
a. 0.33