GMAT 数学 PROBLEM SOLVING

SECTION 1 (B) $0.45

30 Minutes (20 Questions) (C) $0.60
(D) $0.75
1. The 180 students in a group are to be (E) $0.90
seated in rows so that there is an equal
number of students in each row. Each of
the following could be the number of
rows EXCEPT
(A) 4
(B) 20
(C) 30 6. If ∠XYZ in the figure above is a right
(D) 40 angle, what is the value of x?
(E) 90
(A) 155
2. A parking garage rents parking spaces for (B) 145
$10 per week or $30 per month. How (C) 135
much does a person save in a year by (D) 125
renting by the month rather than by the (E) 110
week? a
 
(A) $140 b
(B) $160 c
(C) $220
(D) $240 7. In the expression above, a, b, and c are
(E) $260 different numbers and each is one of the
numbers 2, 3, or 5. What is the least
3. If y = 5 x 2 − 2 x and x = 3, then y = possible value of the expression?
(A) 24 1
(B) 27 (A)
30
(C) 39 2
(D) 51 (B)
(E) 219 15
1
(C)
6
4. Of the following, which is the best 3
(D)
approximation to 0.0026 ? 10
(A) 0.05 5
(E)
(B) 0.06 6
(C) 0.16
(D) 0.5 8. A certain culture of bacteria quadruples
(E) 0.6 every hour. If a container with these
bacteria was half full at 10:00 a.m., at
5. At a certain diner, a hamburger and what time was it one-eighth full?
coleslaw cost $3.59, and a hamburger
(A) 9:00 a.m.
and french fries cost $4.40. If french fries
(B) 7:00 a.m.
cost twice as much as coleslaw, how
(C) 6:00 a.m.
much do french fries cost?
(D) 4:00 a.m.
(A) $0.30 (E) 2:00 a.m.

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9. Al, Lew, and Karen pooled their funds to (D) 3.1
buy a gift for a friend. Al contributed $2 (E) 1.6
1
less than of the cost of the gift and Lew 13. A certain basketball team that has
3
1 2
contributed $2 more than of the cost. If played of its games has a record of
4 3
Karen contributed the remaining $15, 17 wins and 3 losses. What is the
what was the cost of the gift? greatest number of the remaining games
that the team can lose and still win at
(A) $24 3
(B) $33 least of all of its games?
4
(C) $36
(D) $43 (A) 7
(E) $45 (B) 6
(C) 5
10. What is the total number of integers (D) 4
between 100 and 200 that are divisible (E) 3
by 3?
14. Dan and Karen, who live 10 miles apart
(A) 33
meet at a cafe that is directly north of
(B) 32
Dan’s house and directly east of Karen’s
(C) 31
house. If the cafe is 2 miles closer to
(D) 30
Dan’s house than to Karen’s house, how
(E) 29
many miles is the cafe from Karen’s
house?
11. Which of the following inequalities is
equivalent to 10 – 2x > 18? (A) 6
(B) 7
(A) x > -14
(C) 8
(B) x > -4
(D) 9
(C) x > 4
(E) 10
(D) x < 4
(E) x < -4
15. If n is an integer and
2 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 5 ⋅ 7 ⋅ 11 ⋅ 13
1 n= then which of the
12. In 1979 approximately of the 37.3 77 k
3
following could be the value of k?
million airline passengers traveling to or
from the United States used Kennedy (A) 22
Airport. If the number of such (B) 26
passengers that used Miami Airport was (C) 35
1 (D) 54
the number that used Kennedy (E) 60
2
Airport and 4 times the number that
used Logan Airport, approximately how 16. There were 36.000 hardback copies of a
many millions of these passengers used certain novel sold before the paperback
Logan Airport that year? version was issued. From the time the
first paperback copy was sold until the
(A) 18.6 last copy of the novel was sold. 9 times
(B) 9.3 as many paperback copies as hardback
(C) 6.2 copies were sold. If a total of 441.000

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copies of the novel were sold in all, how May, and twice as many were sold in
many paperback copies were sold? June as in April, what was the average
price per dozen of the eggs sold over the
(A) 45.000
three-month period?
(B) 360.000
(C) 364.500 (A) $1.08
(D) 392.000 (B) $1.10
(E) 396.900 (C) $1.14
(D) $1.16
p (E) $1.18
17. In the formula w = , integers p
t
v
3x
and t are positive constants. If w =2 20. If y ≠ 3 and is a prime integer
1 y
when v = 1 and if w = when v = 64, greater than 2, which of the following
2
then t = must be true?
Ⅰ. x = y
(A) 1 Ⅱ. y = 1
(B) 2
Ⅲ. x and y are prime integers.
(C) 3
(D) 4 (A) None
(E) 16 (B) Ⅰ only
(C) Ⅱonly
18. Last year Mrs. Long received $160 in (D) Ⅲonly
dividends on her shares of Company X
(E) Ⅰand Ⅲ
stock, all of which she had held for the
entire year. If she had had 12 more
shares of the stock last year, she would
have received $15 more in total annual
dividends. How many shares of the
stock did she have last year?
(A) 128
(B) 140
(C) 172
(D) 175
(E) 200

Month Average Price

per Dozen

April $1.26
May $1.20
June $1.08

19. The table above shows the average

(arithmetic mean) price per dozen of the
large grade A eggs sold in a certain store
2
during three successive months. If
3
as many dozen were sold in April as in

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SECTION 2 5. If Jack walked 5 miles in 1 hour and 15
30 Minutes (20 Questions) minutes, what was his rate of walking in
miles per hour?
1. The market value of a certain machine
(A) 4
decreased by 30 percent of its purchase
(B) 4.5
price each year. If the machine was
(C) 6
purchased in 1982 for its market value of
(D) 6.25
$8,000, what was its market value two
(E) 15
years later?
(A) $8,000 6. Of a certain high school graduating class,
(B) $5,600 75 percent of the students continued their
(C) $3,200 formal education, and 80 percent of those
(D) $2,400 who continued their formal education
(E) $800 went to four-year colleges. If 300
students in the class went to four-year
2. What percent of 50 is 15? colleges, how many students were in the
graduating class?
(A) 30%
(B) 35% (A) 500
(C) 70% (B) 375
(D) 300% (C) 240
1 (D) 225
(E) 333 % (E) 180
3

3. In a certain diving competition, 5 judges 7. What is the least integer greater than
score each dive on a scale from 1 to 10. –2+0.5?
The point value of the dive is obtained by (A) –2
dropping the highest score and the lowest (B) –1
score and multiplying the sum of the (C) 0
remaining scores by the degree of (D) 1
difficulty. If a dive with a degree of (E) 2
difficulty of 3.2 received scores of 7.5,
8.0, 9.0, 6.0, and 8.5, what was the point 8. Which of the following is equivalent to
value of the dive? 2x + 4
2
for all values of x for
(A) 68.8 2x + 8x + 8
(B) 73.6 which both expressions are defined?
(C) 75.2
(D) 76.8 1
(A) 2
(E) 81.6 2x + 6
1
4. If 2x = 3y = 10, then 12xy = (B)
9x + 2
(A) 1,200 2
(B) 200 (C)
x+6
(C) 120
1
(D) 40 (D)
(E) 20 x+4
1
(E)
x+2

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9. A certain business printer can print 40 for the trip had been greater by 5 miles
characters per second, which is 4 times per hour. What was the average speed S,
as fast as an average printer. If an in miles per hour, for the trip?
average printer can print 5 times as fast
(A) 10
as an electric typewriter, how many
(B) 40
characters per minute can an electric
(C) 45
typewriter print?
(D) 50
(A) 2 (E) 55
(B) 32
(C) 50 13. 103 is how many times (0.01)3?
(D) 120
(A) 106
(E) 600
(B) 108
(C) 109
10. When ticket sales began, Pat was the
(D) 1012
nth customer in line for a ticket, and
(E) 1018
customers purchased their tickets at the
rate of x customers per minute. Of the
14. Which of the following groups of
following, which best approximates the
numbers could be the lengths of the
time, in minutes, that Pat had to wait in
sides of a right triangle?
line from the moment ticket sales
began? Ⅰ. 1, 4, 17
(A) (n - 1) x Ⅱ. 4, 7, 11
(B) n + x –1 Ⅲ. 4, 9, 6
n −1 (A) Ⅰonly
(C)
x (B) Ⅰand Ⅱ only
x (C) Ⅰand Ⅲ only
(D)
n −1 (D) Ⅱand Ⅲ only
n (E) Ⅰ,Ⅱ, and Ⅲ
(E)
x −1
15. When the stock market opened
yesterday, the price of a share of stock X
11. If 6 gallons of gasoline are added to a 1
was 10 . When the market closed, the
3 2
tank that is already filled to of its
4 1
price was 11 . Of the following,
9 4
capacity, the tank is then filled to
10 which is closest to the percent increase
of its capacity. How many gallons does in the price of stock X?
the tank hold? (A) 0.5%
(A) 20 (B) 1.0%
(B) 24 (C) 6.7%
(C) 36 (D) 7.1%
(D) 40 (E) 7.5%
(E) 60
16. If x and y are integers and xy2 is a
12. A bus trip of 450 miles would have positive odd integer, which of the
taken 1 hour less if the average speed S following must be true?

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Ⅰ. xy is positive. (C) 34
Ⅱ. xy is odd. (D) 28
Ⅲ. x + y is even. (E) 10

(A) Ⅰ only 20. The R students in a class agree to

(B) Ⅱ only contribute equally to buy their teacher a
(C) Ⅲ only birthday present that costs y dollars. If x
(D) Ⅰ and Ⅱ of the students later fail to contribute
their share, which of the following
(E) Ⅱ and Ⅲ
represents the additional number of
dollars that each of the remaining
students must contribute in order to pay
for the present?
y
(A)
17. The figure above shows the dimensions R
of a rectangular box that is to be y
completely wrapped with paper. If a (B)
R−x
single sheet of paper is to be used
without patching, then the dimensions xy
(C)
of the paper could be R−x
xy
(A) 17 in by 25 in (D)
(B) 21 in by 24 in R( R − x)
(C) 24 in by 12 in y
(D) 24 in by 14 in (E)
R( R − x)
(E) 26 in by 14 in

x− y =3
18.
2x = 2 y + 6
The system of equations above has how
many
solutions?
(A) None
(B) Exactly one
(C) Exactly two
(D) Exactly three
(E) Infinitely many

19. If M and N are positive integers that

have remainders of 1 and 3, respectively,
when divided by 6, which of the
following could NOT be a possible
value of M+N?
(A) 86
(B) 52

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SECTION 3 (E) $116,000
30 Minutes (20 Questions)
5. If x is a number such that x2 – 3x + 2 =0
1. 6.09 – 4.693 = and x2 –x –2= 0, what is the value of x？
(A) 1.397 (A) –2
(B) 1.403 (B) –1
(C) 1.407 (C) 0
(D) 1.497 (D) 1
(E) 2.603 (E) 2

6. In traveling from a dormitory to a certain

1
city, a student went of the way by
5
2
foot, of the way by bus, and the
3
remaining 8 kilometers by car. What is
2. What is the area of the region enclosed the distance, in kilometers, from the
by the figure above? dormitory to the city?
(A) 116 (A) 30
(B) 144 (B) 45
(C) 176 (C) 60
(D) 179 (D) 90
(E) 284 (E) 120
3. If p = 0.2 and n = 100, then 7. A certain elevator has a safe weight limit
p (1 − p ) of 2,000 pounds. What is the greatest
= possible number of people who can
n safely ride on the elevator at one time
(A) − 0.002 with the average (arithmetic mean)
weight of half the riders being 180
(B) 0.02 − 0.02 pounds and the average weight of the
(C) 0 others being 215 pounds?
(D) 0.04
(A) 7
(E) 0.4
(B) 8
(C) 9
4. If each of 4 subsidiaries of Corporation R (D) 10
has been granted a line of credit of (E) 11
$700,000 and each of the other 3
8. After paying a 10 percent tax on all
subsidiaries of Corporation R has been
granted a line of credit of $112,000, what income over $3,000, a person had a net
income of $12,000. What was the income
is the average (arithmetic mean) line of
credit granted to a subsidiary of before taxes?
Corporation R? (A) $13,300
(B) $13,000
(A) $1,568,000
(C) $12,900
(B) $448,000
(D) $10,000
(C) $406,000
(E) $9,000
(D) $313,600

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9. 1 − [2 − (3 − [4 − 5] + 6) + 7] = 14. A rectangular floor is covered by a rug
except for a strip p meters wide along
(A) –2 each of the four edges. If the floor is m
(B) 0 meters by n meters, what is the area of
(C) 1 the rug, in square meters?
(D) 2
(E) 16 (A) mn – p (m + n)
(B) mn – 2p(m +n)
10. The price of a model M camera is $209 (C) mn – p2
and the price of a special lens is $69. (D) (m - p)(n - p)
When the camera and lens are (E) (m –2p)(n – 2p)
purchased together, the price is $239.
The amount saved by purchasing the 15. Working alone, R can complete a certain
camera and lens together is kind of job in 9 hours. R and S, working
approximately what percent of the total together at their respective rates, can
price of the camera and lens when complete one of these jobs in 6 hours. In
purchased separately? how many hours can S, working alone,
complete one of these jobs?
(A) 14%
(B) 16% (A) 18 (B) 12 (C) 9
(C) 29% (D) 6 (E) 3
(D) 33%
(E) 86% 16. A family made a down payment of $75
and borrowed the balance on a set of
11. If 0.497 mark has the value of one dollar, encyclopedias that cost $400. The
what is the value to the nearest dollar of balance with interest was paid in 23
350 marks? monthly payments of $16 each and a
final payment of $9. The amount of
(A) $174 (B) $176 (C) $524 interest paid was what percent of the
(D) $696 (E) $704 amount borrowed?
12. A right cylindrical container with radius (A) 6%
2 meters and height 1 meter is filled to (B) 12%
capacity with oil. How many empty (C) 14%
right cylindrical cans, each with radius (D) 16%
1 (E) 20%
meter and height 4 meters, can be
2
filled to capacity with the oil in this 17. If x≠0 and x = 4 xy − 4 y 2 , then, in
container? terms of y, x =
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (A) 2y
(B) y
(D) 8 (E) 16 y
(C)
13. If a sequence of 8 consecutive odd 2
integers with increasing values has 9 as − 4y2
(D)
its 7th term, what is the sum of the 1− 2y
terms of the sequence?
(E) –2y
(A) 22 (B) 32 (C) 36
(D) 40 (E) 44

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18. Solution Y is 30 percent liquid X and 70 SECTION 4
percent water. If 2 kilograms of water 30 Minutes (20 Questions)
evaporate from 8 kilograms of solution
Y and 2 kilograms of solution Y are 1. Which of the following is equal to 85
added to the remaining 6 kilograms of percent of 160?
liquid, what percent of this new solution
(A) 1.88
is liquid X?
(B) 13.6
(A) 30% (C) 136
1 (D) 188
(B) 33 % (E) 13,600
3
1 2. The regular hourly wage for an employee
(C) 37 %
2 of a certain factory is $5.60. If the
(D) 40% employee worked 8 hours overtime and
(E) 50% 1
earned 1 times this regular hourly
2
1
19.
1 1
= wage for overtime, how much overtime
+ money was earned?
0.03 0.37
(A) $67.20
(A) 0.004 (B) $55.40
(B) 0.02775 (C) $50.00
(C) 2.775 (D) $44.80
(D) 3.6036 (E) $12.00
(E) 36.036

3. Square RSTU shown above is rotated in a

20. If each side of ΔACD above has length plane about its center in a clockwise
3 and if AB has length 1, what is the direction the minimum number of
area of region BCDE? degrees necessary for T to be in the
position where S is now shown. The
9 number of degrees through which RSTU
(A)
4 is rotated is
7
(B) 3 (A) 135o
4 (B) 180o
9 (C) 225o
(C) 3
4 (D) 270o
7 (E) 315o
(D) 3
2
(E) 6+ 3

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Questions 4-5 refer to the following graphs.

4. Of the following, which is closest to the 7. If x≠0, 2x =5y, and 3z =7x, what is the
increase from 1975 to 1980 in the ratio of z to y?
amount received by the processor in
producing 6 ounces of frozen orange (A) 2 to 21
juice? (B) 3 to 5
(C) 14 to 15
(A) $0.03 (D) 6 to 5
(B) $0.05 (E) 35 to 6
(C) $0.06
(D) $0.08 8. A grocer purchased a quantity of
(E) $0.13 bananas at 3 pounds for $0.50 and sold
the entire quantity at 4 pounds for
5. In 1980, approximately what fraction of $1.00. How many pounds did the
the cost to the consumer for the grocer purchase if the profit from
production of 6 ounces of frozen selling the bananas was $10.00?
orange juice went to the farmer?
(A) 40
3 1 (B) 60
(A) (B) (C) (C) 90
11 3
4 (D) 120
(E) 240
9
5 3 9. There are between 100 and 110 cards in
(D) (E)
9 5 a collection of cards. If they are
counted out 3 at a time, there are 2 left
6. 4
496 is between over, but if they are counted out 4 at a
time, there is 1 left over. How many
(A) 3 and 4 cards are in the collection?
(B) 4 and 5
(A) 101
(C) 5 and 6
(B) 103
(D) 6 and 7
(C) 106
(E) 7 and 8
(D) 107
(E) 109

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13. Which of the following integers does
NOT have a divisor greater than 1 that
is the square of an integer?
(A) 75
(B) 42
(C) 32
(D) 25
(E) 12

10. If A is the center of the circle shown

above and AB=BC=CD, what is the
value of x?
(A) 15
(B) 30
(C) 45 14. There are cogs around the
(D) 60 circumference of a wheel and each
(E) 75 π
cog is centimeter wide with a
16
11. Out of a total of 1,000 employees at a π
certain corporation, 52 percent are space of centimeter between
female and 40 percent of these 16
females work in research. If 60 consecutive cogs, as shown above.
percent of the total number of How many cogs of this size, with the
employees work in research, how same space between any two
many male employees do NOT work consecutive cogs, fit on a wheel with
in research? diameter 6 centimeters?

(A) 520 (A) 96

(B) 480 (B) 64
(C) 392 (C) 48
(D) 208 (D) 32
(E) 88 (E) 24

12. An instructor scored a student’s test of 15. If r☉s = rs + r + s, then for what
50 questions by subtracting 2 times value of s is r ☉s equal to r for all
the number of incorrect answers from values of r?
the number of correct answers. If the (A) –1 (B) 0 (C) 1
student answered all of the questions
1
and received a score of 38, how many (D) (E) r
questions did that student answer r +1
correctly?
16. In each production lot for a certain toy,
(A) 19 25 percent of the toys are red and 75
(B) 38 percent of the toys are blue. Half the
(C) 41 toys are size A and half are size B. If
(D) 44 10 out of a lot of 100 toys are red and
(E) 46 size A, how many of the toys are blue
and size B?

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(A) 15 (B) 25 (C) 30 SECTION 5
(D) 35 (E) 40 30 Minutes (20 Questions)

17. If 2x + 5y =8 and 3x = 2y, what is the 1. What is the average (arithmetic mean)
value of 2x + y? of the numbers 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, and
19?
(A) 4
70 (A) 14.2
(B) (B) 16.5
19
(C) 17
64
(C) (D) 17.5
19 (E) 18
56
(D)
19 2. Kathy bought 4 times as many shares in
40 Company X as Carl, and Carl bought 3
(E) times as many shares in the same
19 company as Tom. Which of the
following is the ratio of the number of
18. A ladder 25 feet long is leaning shares bought by Kathy to the number
against a wall that is perpendicular to of shares bought by Tom?
level ground. The bottom of the ladder
is 7 feet from the base of the wall. If 3
the top of the ladder slips down 4 feet, (A)
4
how many feet will the bottom of the 4
ladder slip? (B)
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 8 3
(D) 9 (E) 15 3
(C)
1
19. What is the least possible product of 4 4
different integers, each of which has a (D)
1
value between –5 and 10, inclusive?
12
(A) –5040 (B) –3600 (E)
1
(C) –720 (D) –600
(E) –120 3. Of the following, which if closest to
0.15 × 495
20. If a motorist had driven 1 hour longer ?
on a certain day and at an average rate 9.97
of 5 miles per hour faster, he would (A) 7.5
have covered 70 more miles than he (B) 15
actually did. How many more miles (C) 75
would he have covered than he (D) 150
actually did if he had driven 2 hours (E) 750
longer and at an average rate of 10
miles per hour faster on that day? 4. A manager has $6,000 budgeted for
(A) 100 (B) 120 (C) raises for 4 full-time and 2 part-time
140 employees. Each of the full-time
(D) 150 (E) 160 employees receives the same raise,
which is twice the raise that each of the
part-time employees receives. What is

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the amount of the raise that each the greatest number of complete games
full-time employee receives? that person can bowl in one day?
(A) $750 (A) 7
(B) $1,000 (B) 8
(C) $1,200 (C) 9
(D) $1,500 (D) 10
(E) $3,000 (E) 11

x x x-y
5. x 2 − ( ) 2 = 9. If = 2, then =
2 y x
(A) x2 - x (A) –1
x2 1
(B) (B) −
4 2
x2 1
(C) (C)
2 2
3x 2 (D) 1
(D) (E) 2
4
3x 2 10. If each photocopy of a manuscript
(E)
2 costs 4 cents per page, what is the cost,
in cents, to reproduce x copies of an
6. A hospital pharmacy charges $0.40 per x-page manuscript?
fluidram of a certain medicine but (A) 4x
allows a discount of 15 percent to (B) 16x
Medicare patients. How much should (C) x2
the pharmacy charge a Medicare (D) 4x2
patient for 3 fluidounces of the (E) 16x2
medicine?(128 fluidrams = 16
fluidounces) 11. Ken left a job paying $75,000 per year
(A) $9.60 to accept a sales job paying $45,000
(B) $8.16 per year plus 15 percent commission.
(C) $3.20 If each of his sales is for $750, what is
(D) $2.72 the least number of sales he must
(E) $1.02 make per year if he is not to lose
money because of the change?
7. (-1)2 - (-1)3= (A) 40
(A) –2 (B) 200
(B) –1 (C) 266
(C) 0 (D) 267
(D) 1 (E) 600
(E) 2

8. At a certain bowling alley, it costs

$0.50 to rent bowling shoes for the day
and $1.25 to bowl 1 game. If a person
has $12.80 and must rent shoes, what is

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MONTHLY KILOWATT-HOURS 1 1
500 1,000 1,500 2,000 (D) (E)
Present $24.0 $41.00 $57.00 $73.00 27 81
0
Propos $26.0 $45.00 $62.00 $79.00 15
ed 0 0.025 × × 48
16. 2 =
12. The table above shows present rates 3
5 × 0.0024 ×
and proposed rates for electricity for 4
residential customers. For which of (A) 0.1
the monthly kilowatt-hours shown (B) 0.2
would the proposed rate be the (C) 100
greatest percent increase over the (D) 200
present rate? (E) 1,000
(A) 500
17. A student responded to all of the 22
(B) 1,000
questions on a test and received a
(C) 1,500
score of 63.5. If the scores were
(D) 2,000
derived by adding 3.5 points for each
(E) Each of the percent increases is the
correct answer and deducting 1 point
same.
for each incorrect answer, how many
questions did the student answer
13. If a, b, and c are three consecutive odd
incorrectly?
integers such that 10<a<b<c<20 and
if b and c are prime numbers, what is (A) 3
the value of a + b? (B) 4
(C) 15
(A) 24 (B) 28 (C) 30
(D) 18
(D) 32 (E) 36
(E) 20
14. Of a group of people surveyed in a
political poll, 60 percent said that they
would vote for candidate R. Of those
who said they would vote for R. 90
percent actually voted for R. and of
those who did not say that they would
vote for R. 5 percent actually voted
for R. What percent of the group voted 18. The figure above represents a
for R? rectangular parking lot that is 30
meters by 40 meters and an attached
(A) 56% (B) 59% (C) semicircular driveway that has an
62% outer radius of 20 meters and an inner
(D) 65% (E) 74% radius of 10 meters. If the shaded
region is not included, what is the area,
1 1 1 in square meters, of the lot and
15. If r = 1 + + + and
3 9 27 driveway?
1 (A) 1,350π
s =1+ r , then s exceeds r by
3 (B) 1,200 + 400π
1 1 1 (C) 1,200 + 300π
(A) (B) (C) (D) 1,200 + 200π
3 6 9
(E) 1,200 + 150π

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19. One-fifth of the light switches SECTION 6
produced by a certain factory are 30 Minutes (20 Questions)
defective. Four-fifths of the defective
1 1. If x is an even integer, which of the
switches are rejected and of the following is an odd integer?
20
nondefective switches are rejected by (A) 3x + 2
mistake. If all the switches not (B) 7x
rejected are sold, what percent of the (C) 8x +5
switches sold by the factory are (D) x2
defective? (E) x3
(A) 4%
(B) 5% 2. On a purchase of $120, a store offered a
(C) 6.25% payment plan consisting of a $20 down
(D) 11% payment and 12 monthly payments of
(E) 16% $10 each. What percent of the purchase
price, to the nearest tenth of a percent,
did the customer pay in interest by
using this plan?
(A) 16.7%
(B) 30%
(C) 75.8%
(D) 106.7%
(E) 107.5%

5 3
3. (42 ÷ ) =
20. In ΔPQS above, if PQ =3 and PS = 4, 4 16
then PR = (A) 6.3
(B) 9.8
9 (C) 179.2
(A)
4 (D) 224
12 (E) 280
(B)
5
16 4. When magnified 1,000 times by an
(C) electron microscope, the image of a
5 certain circular piece of tissue has a
15 diameter of 0.5 centimeter. The actual
(D)
4 diameter of the tissue, in centimeters, is
20 (A) 0.005
(E)
3 (B) 0.002
(C) 0.001
(D) 0.0005
(E) 0.0002

5. In 1970 there were 8,902 women

stockbrokers in the United States. By
1978 the number had increased to
19,947. Approximately what was the
percent increase?

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(A) 45% x
(B) 125% (A)
(C) 145%
12n
(D) 150% x
(B)
(E) 225% 24n
xn
(C)
24
(D) 12xn
(E) 24xn

10. For a positive integer n, the number n!

is defined to be n(n - 1)(n - 2)…(1).
For example, 4!=4(3)(2)(1). What is
6. In the figure above, two rectangles with the value of 5!-3!?
the same dimensions overlap to form (A) 120 (B) 114 (C) 20
the shaded region. If each rectangle has (D) 15 (E) 2
perimeter 12 and the shaded region has
perimeter 3, what is the total length of 11. A man who died left an estate valued
the heavy line segments? at $111,000. His will stipulated that
(A) 15 (B) 18 (C) 21 his estate was to be distributed so that
(D) 22 (E) 23 each of his three children received
from the estate and his previous gifts,
7. If one root of the equation 2x2 + 3x – k combined, the same total amount. If
= 0 is 6, what is the value of k? he had previously given his oldest
child $15,000, his middle child
(A) 90 $10,000, and his youngest $2,000,
(B) 42 how much did the youngest child
(C) 18 receive from the estate?
(D) 10
(E) –10 (A) $50,000
(B) $48,000
8. Bottle R contains 250 capsules and (C) $46,000
costs $6.25. Bottle T contains 130 (D) $44,000
capsules and costs $2.99. What is the (E) $39,000
difference between the cost per capsule
for bottle R and the cost per capsule for 12. If y > 0, which of the following is
bottle T? equal to 48y 3
(A) $0.25
(B) $0.12 (A) 4 y 3 y
(C) $0.05
(B) 3 y 4 y
(D) $0.03
(E) $0.002 (C) 2 12 y

9. Trucking transportation rates are x (D) 3 8 y

dollars per metric ton per kilometer. (E) 16 y 3 y
How much does it cost, in dollars, to
transport one dozen cars, which weigh
two metric tons each, n kilometers by
truck?

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13. The volume of a box with a square 17. If an organization were to sell n
base is 54 cubic centimeters. If the tickets for a theater production, the
height of the box is twice the width of total revenue from ticket sales would
the base, what is the height, in be 20 percent greater than the total
centimeters? costs of the production. If the
organization actually sold all but 5
(A) 2
percent of the n tickets, the total
(B) 3
revenue from ticket sales was what
(C) 4
percent greater than the total costs of
(D) 6
the production?
(E) 9
(A) 4% (B) 10% (C)
q=3 3 14%
r =1+ 2 3 (D) 15% (E) 18%

s =3+ 3 18. When the integer n is divided by 6,

14. If q, r and s are the numbers shown the remainder is 3, Which of the
above, which of the following shows following is NOT a multiple of 6?
their order from greatest to least?
(A) n – 3
(A) q, r, s (B) n + 3
(B) q, s, r (C) 2n
(C) r, q, s (D) 3n
(D) s, q, r (E) 4n
(E) s, r, q
19. How many liters of pure alcohol must
15. The sum of the interior angles of any be added to a 100-liter solution that is
polygon with n sides is 180(n – 2) 20 percent alcohol in order to produce
degrees. If the sum of the interior a solution that is 25 percent alcohol?
angles of polygon P is three times the
sum of the interior angles of 7
(A)
quadrilateral Q, how many sides does 2
P have? (B) 5
20
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (C)
(D) 12 (E) 14 3
(D) 8
16. In Company X, 30 percent of the 39
(E)
employees live over ten miles from 4
work and 60 percent of the employees
who live over ten miles from work are 20. If 10 persons meet at a reunion and
in car pools. If 40 percent of the each person shakes hands exactly
employees of Company X are in car once with each of the others, what is
pools, what percent of the employees the total number of handshakes?
of Company X live ten miles or less
from work and are in car pools? (A) 10·9·8·7·6·5·4·3·2·1
(B) 10·10
(A) 12%
(C) 10·9
(B) 20%
(C) 22% (D) 45
(D) 28% (E) 36
(E) 32%

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SECTION 7 (D) 0.0141
30 Minutes (20 Questions) (E) 0.0410

1. At the rate of $7.50 per hour, how 6. Mr. Jones drove from Town A to Town
many hours must a person work to earn B in x hours. On the return trip over the
$232.50? same route, his average speed was
twice as fast. Which of the following
(A) 25
expresses the total number of driving
(B) 27
hours for the round trip?
(C) 29
(D) 30 2
(E) 31 (A) x
3
3
2. Each month for 6 months the amount of (B) x
money in a benefit fund is doubled. At 2
the end of the 6 months there is a total 5
(C) x
of $640 in the fund. How much money 3
was in the fund at the end of 3 months? (D) 2x
(A) $80 (E) 3x
(B) $100
(C) $120 7. If 3 is the greatest common divisor of
(D) $160 positive integers r and s, what is the
(E) $320 greatest common divisor of 2r and 2s?
(A) 2
3. 6[-2(6-9)+11-23]= (B) 3
(A) –224 (C) 4
(B) –108 (D) 6
(C) –36 (E) 12
(D) 24
(E) 79 1 1
8. If x +y = 5 and xy=6, then + =
x y
2 3 5 8 2
4. If × × × = , then n = 1
3 5 8 n 10 (A)
6
1 1
(A) (B)
10 5
1 5
(B) (C)
5 6
(C) 5
6
(D) 10 (D)
(E) 100 5
(E) 5
5. If d= 3.0641 and d is the number
9. After 5 games, a rugby team had an
obtained by rounding d to the nearest
average of 28 points per game. In order
hundredth, then d − d = to increase the average by n points,
(A) 0.0001 how many points must be scored in a
(B) 0.0041 6th game?
(C) 0.0059

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(A) n 14. A corporation with 5,000,000 shares
(B) 6n of publicly listed stock reported total
(C) 28n earnings of $7.20 per share for the
(D) 28 + n first 9 months of operation. During the
(E) 28 + 6n final quarter the number of publicly
listed shares was increased to
10. On July 1, 1982, Ms. Fox deposited 10,000,000 shares, and fourth quarter
$10,000 in a new account at the earnings were reported as $1.25 per
annual interest rate of 12 percent share. What are the average annual
compounded monthly. If no additional earnings per share based on the
deposits or withdrawals were made number of shares at the end of the
and if interest was credited on the last year?
day of each month, what was the
(A) $1.83
amount of money in the account on
(B) $2.43
September 1, 1982?
(C) $4.85
(A) $10,200 (D) $8.45
(B) $10,201 (E) $9.70
(C) $11,100
(D) $12,100 15. In 1980 the government spent $12
(E) $12,544 billion for direct cash payments to
single parents with dependent children.
11. How many prime numbers are less If this was 2,000 percent of the
than 25 and greater than 10? amount spent in 1956, what was the
amount spent in 1956? (1 billion =
(A) Three
1,000,000,000)
(B) Four
(C) Five (A) $6 million
(D) Six (B) $24 million
(E) Seven (C) $60 million
(D) $240 million
12. Erica has $460 in 5-and 10-dollar bills (E) $600 million
only. If she has fewer 10-than 5-dollar
bills, what is the least possible number
of 5-dollar bills she could have?
(A) 32
(B) 30
(C) 29
(D) 28
(E) 27 16. The triangles in the figure above are
equilateral and the ratio of the length
13. Which of the following is equivalent of a side of the larger triangle to the
to the statement that 0.5 is between length of a side of the smaller triangle
2 3 2
and ？ is . If the area of the larger
n n 1
(A) 1<n<6 triangular region is K, what is the area
(B) 2<n<3 of the shaded region in terms of K?
(C) 2<n<5
3
(D) 4<n<6 (A) K
(E) n>10 4

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2 (D) 4π + 3 3
(B) K
3 (E) 4π + 6 3
1
(C) K
2 19. The sum of the first 100 positive
1 integers is 5,050. What is the sum of
(D) K the first 200 positive integers?
3
1 (A) 10,100
(E) K (B) 10,200
4
(C) 15,050
17. Four cups of milk are to be poured (D) 20,050
into a 2-cup bottle and a 4-cup bottle. (E) 20,100
If each bottle is to be filled to the
same fraction of its capacity, how 20. A merchant purchased a jacket for $60
many cups of milk should be poured and then determined a selling price
into the 4-cup bottle? that equalled the purchase price of the
jacket plus a markup that was 25
2 percent of the selling price. During a
(A)
3 sale, the merchant discounted the
7 selling price by 20 percent and sold
(B) the jacket. What was the merchant’s
3 gross profit on this sale?
5
(C) (A) $0
2
(B) $3
8 (C) $4
(D)
3 (D) $12
(E) 3 (E) $15

18. The outline of a sign for an ice-cream

3
store is made by placing of the
4
circumference of a circle with radius 2
feet on top of an isosceles triangle
with height 5 feet, as shown above.
What is the perimeter, in feet, of the
sign?

(A) 3π + 3 3
(B) 3π + 6 3
(C) 3π + 2 33

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SECTION 8 5. Which of the following has a value
30 Minutes (20 Questions) greater than 1?

1. A certain club has 237 local branches, 2

(A)
one national office, and one social 3
service office. If each local branch has
2
2 officers, and each of the two other (B)
offices has 4 officers, how many 2
3
officers does the club have altogether? (C) ( ) 2
(A) 482 (B) 476 (C) 4
7
474 (D) ( ) 3
(D) 239 (E) 235 8
3
2. An employee is paid a salary of $300 (E) 2( )
7
per month and earns a 6 percent
commission on all her sales. What must
her annual sales be in order for her to m2 + m − 3
6. If = 1 ， then m could
have a gross annual salary of exactly 3
$21,600? equal
(A) –1
(A) $22,896
(B) 0
(B) $26,712
(C) 1
(C) $300,000
(D) 2
(D) $330,000
(E) 3
(E) $360,000

3. Of the 1,000 students who entered

College X as freshmen in September
1979,112 did not graduate in May 1983.
If 962 students graduated in May 1983,
how many of the graduates did not
enter College X as freshmen in
September 1979?
(A) 38 (B) 74 (C)
112
(D) 150 (E) 188

7. The figure above represents a

rectangular desk blotter in a holder
4. On the number line above, what is the with dimensions shown. If x = 8
length of segment AB? centimeters, what is the area, in square
centimeters, of the shaded portion of
(A) 13 the blotter?
(B) 1.4
(C) 1.3 (A) 4,200
(D) 0.13 (B) 4,184
(E) 0.013 (C) 4,124
(D) 4,072
(E) 3,944

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8. The number 25 is 2.5 percent of which 39
of the following? (B)
62
(A) 10 19
(B) 62.5 (C)
31
(C) 100 117
(D) 625 (D)
(E) 1,000 196
107
(E)
9. Cottages at a resort are rented for half 186
the summer price in each of the 3
spring months and one-third the 12. On a certain airline, the price of a
summer price in each of the 6 fall and ticket is directly proportional to the
winter months. If each cottage brings in number of miles to be traveled. If the
a total of $3,861 when rented for each ticket for a 900-mile trip on this
of the 12 months of the year, what is airline costs $120, which of the
the monthly rent for each of the 3 following gives the number of dollars
summer months? charged for a k-mile trip on this
(A) $297 airline?
(B) $594 2k
(C) $702 (A)
15
(D) $858
(E) $1,782 2
(B)
15k
15
(C)
2k
15k
(D)
2
10. In 1980 John’s salary was $15,000 a 40k
(E)
year and Don’s salary was $20,000 a 3
year. If every year thereafter. John
receives a raise of $2,450 and Don n m
receives a raise of $2,000, the first 13. If is 1 more than , then n =
year in which John’s salary will be 41 41
more than Don’s salary is (A) m – 41
(B) m + 1
(A) 1987
(C) m + 41
(B) 1988
(D) m + 42
(C) 1991
(E) 41m
(D) 1992
(E) 2000
14. A discount of 20 percent on an order
of goods followed by a discount of 10
11. Which of the following is equal to
percent amounts to
351
? (A) less than one 15 percent discount
558
(B) the same as one 15 percent
7 discount
(A)
11 (C) the same as one 30 percent
discount

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(D) less than a discount of 10 percent
followed by a discount of 20
percent
(E) the same as a discount of 10
percent followed by a discount of
20 percent

15. If k is an even integer and p and r are

odd integers, which of the following
CANNOT be an integer?
r
(A)
k
k 18. In the figure above, three squares and
(B)
p a triangle have areas of A, B, C, and X
p as shown. If A = 144, B=81, and
(C) C=225, then X =
r
kp (A) 150
(D) (B) 144
r (C) 80
kr (D) 54
(E)
p (E) 36

16. Today Al is 3 times as old as Pat, In 19. Three types of pencils, J,K, and L,
13 years, Al will be one year less than cost $0.05, $0.10, and $0.25 each,
twice as old as Pat will be then. How respectively. If a box of 32 of these
many years old is Al today? pencils costs a total of $3.40 and if
there are twice as many K pencils as L
(A) 12 pencils in the box, how many J
(B) 33 pencils are in the box?
(C) 36
(D) 42 (A) 6
(E) 49 (B) 12
(C) 14
17. When the integer n is divided by 17, (D) 18
the quotient is x and the remainder is 5. (E) 20
When n is divided by 23, the quotient
is y and the remainder is 14. Which of 20. Forty percent of the rats included in
the following is true? an experiment were male rats. If some
of the rats died during the experiment
(A) 23x + 17y =19 and 30 percent of the rats that died
(B) 17x –23y = 9 were male rats, what was the ratio of
(C) 17x +23y =19 the death rate among the male rats to
(D) 14x + 5y = 6 the death rate among the female rats?
(E) 5x – 14y = -6
9 3 9
(A) (B) (C)
14 4 11
6 7
(D) (E)
7 8

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Section 21 payroll for the 12 production workers is
30 Minutes 20 Questions $18,000 and the total monthly payroll
for the 36 office workers is $63,000.
1. In Township K each property is taxed at 8 By how much does the average
percent of its assessed value. If the (arithmetic mean) monthly salary of an
assessed value of a property in Township office worker exceed that of a
K is increased from $20,000 to $24,000, production worker in this company?
by how much will the property tax
(A) $62.50
increase?
(B) $187.50
(A) $32 (C) $250.00
(B) $50 (D) $375.00
(C) $320 (E) $500.00
(D) $400
(E) $500

2. One night 18 percent of the female

officers on a police force were on duty. If
180 officers were on duty that night and
half of these were female officers, how
many female officers were on the police
force?
6. In the figure above, if the area of the
(A) 90 rectangular region PQRS is 40, and if PT
(B) 180 = TS, what is the area of the pentagonal
(C) 270 region PQRST?
(D) 500
(E) 1,000 (A) 15
(B) 20
3. If an integer n is divisible by both 6 and 8, (C) 25
then it must also be divisible by which of (D) 30
the following? (E) It cannot be determined from the
information given.
(A) 10
(B) 12
1 2
(C) 14 −
(D) 16 7. 100 1,000 =
(E) 18 1 2
−
1,000 10,000
4. On the number line, if x is halfway
between -5 and 3, and if y is halfway (A) 1
10
between -2 and 6, what number is halfway
between x and y ? (B) 1
8
(A) -1 (C) 1
(B) − 1 (D) 8
2 (E) 10
(C) 0
8. Which of the following is the prime
(D) 1 factorization of 2,520?
2
(E) 1 (A) 2 2 × 3 2 × 5 2
(B) 2 2 × 3 × 5 2 × 7
5. In a certain company, the total monthly
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(C) 2 × 3 × 5 × 7
3 2 increase by the same number from 1990
(D) 2 3 × 3 2 × 5 × 7 to 2000. Approximately what is the
(E) 2 3 × 3 2 × 5 2 × 7 projected percent increase in population
from 1990 to 2000 ?

9. If 2 x = x − 1, then x = (A) 7.1%

3 6 (B) 7.7%
(C) 8.3%
(A) 1 (D) 14.3%
2 (E) 15.3%
(B) 1
3 13. A jar contains only x black balls and y
white balls. One ball is drawn randomly
(C) 1
4 from the jar and is not replaced. A second
ball is then drawn randomly from the jar.
(D) 1 What is the probability that the first ball
10
drawn is black and the second ball drawn
(E) 1 is white?
18
(A)  x  y 
10. Out of their annual net income, a couple  x + y  x + y 
  
spent 25 percent for food, 13.5 percent
for entertainment, 20 percent for housing, (B)  x  x − 1 
8 percent for car expenses, 15 percent for  x + y  x + y − 1 
  
clothing, and saved the rest. What was
the ratio of the amount saved to the (C) xy
x+ y
amount spent for entertainment?
(D)  x − 1  y − 1 
(A) 19  x + y  x + y 
  
27
6 (E)  x  y 
(B)  x + y  x + y − 1 
5   
(C) 37
27 14. If y + | y | = 0, which of the
19 following must be true?
(D)
9 (A) y > 0
(E) 7 (B) y≥0
3 (C) y < 0
(D) y≤0
11. If z + 3 + z + 1 = 2 , then z = (E) y = 0
z −1 z − 3
15. Of the z students at a certain college, x
(A) 2
are studying French and y are studying
(B) 1
German. If w are studying both French
(C) -1
and German, which of the following
(D) -2
expresses the number of students at the
(E) -3
college not studying either French or
German ?
12.The population of city X increased from
325,000 in 1980 to 350,000 in 1990, and (A) z + w – x – y
it is projected that the population will (B) z – w – x – y

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(C) z – w – x + y demonstrators and sold each of the others
(D) w + x + y – z for $5 more than the average (arithmetic
(E) w – x – y – z mean) cost of the x calculators. If the
total revenue from the sale of the
16. Of the science books in a certain supply calculators was $120 more than the cost
room, 50 are on botany, 65 are on of the shipment, how many calculators
zoology, 90 are on physics. 50 are on were in the shipment?
geology, and 110 are on chemistry. If
(A) 24
science books are removed randomly
(B) 25
from the supply room, how many must
(C) 26
be removed to ensure that 80 of the
(D) 28
books removed are on the same science?
(E) 30
(A) 81
(B) 159 20. 512 + 513 =
(C) 166
(D) 285 (A) 5 25
(E) 324 (B) 10 25
(C) 6(512 )
17. What is the greatest possible straight-line (D) 1012 + 5
distance, in centimeters, between two
(E) 2(512 ) + 5
vertices of the rectangular box shown
above?
(A) 10 2
(B) 10 5
(C) 10 6
(D) 30
(E) 40

18. A certain shade of gray paint is obtained

by mixing 3 parts of white paint with 5
parts of black paint. If 2 gallons of the
mixture is needed and the individual
colors can be purchased only in
one-gallon or half- gallon cans, what is
the least amount of paint, in gallons, that
must be purchased in order to measure
out the portions needed for the mixture?
(A) 2
(B) 2 1
2
(C) 3
(D) 3 1
2
(E) 4

19. A merchant paid $300 for a shipment of x

identical calculators. The merchant
used 2 of the calculators as
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Section 22 (E) 2.0%
30 Minutes 20 Questions
6. x ( x + 1 ) ( x + 2 ) + x ( x + 3 ) =
1. Tamara saves $35 each week. If she now
has $100 saved, in how many weeks can (A) x 3 + 4x 2 + 5x
she first have enough saved to buy a lawn (B) x 3 + 3x 2 + 2 x
mower that costs $250 ? (C) x 3 + 6 x 2 + 3x
(D) 2 x 3 + 3x 2 + 5 x
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
(E) 2x 2 + 6x + 2
2. –2 (– 4 – (– 3 + 5)) =
(A) – 16
(B) – 10
(C) 6
(D) 12
(E) 16

3. On a certain test, 3 students each had a

score of 90, 9 students each had a score of
80, 4 students each had a score of 70, and 7. What is the area of the shaded region in
4 students each had a score of 60. What the figure above ?
was the average (arithmetic mean) score
for the 20 students ? (A) 72
(B) 57
(A) 70.5 (C) 55
(B) 75.0
(C) 75.5 (D) 54 1
2
(D) 80.0 1
(E) 80.5 (E) 49
2
4. If a hiker walks at a constant speed of
8. Which of the following equals the ratio of
1 miles per hour, how many miles can
2 1 1
2 3 to 1 ?
the hiker walk in 4 hours and 12 minutes ? 3 3

(A)10.0 (A)1 : 3
(B)10.3 (B)2 : 5
(C)10.4 (C)5 : 2
(D)10.5 (D)3 : 1
(E)40 : 9
(E)10.8
Company X Company Y
5. In the manufacture of a certain product, 5 Prince $75 $530
percent of the units produced are defective Surcharge as a
4% 3%
and 4 percent of the defective units are Percent of Price
shipped for sale. What percent of the units Installation
$82.50 $93.00
Charge
produced are defective units that are
shipped for sale?
9. The table above shows the various charges
(A) 0.125% made by two companies for the same air
(B) 0.2% conditioner. What is the total amount that
(C) 0.8% can be saved on the purchase and
(D) 1.25% installation of the air conditioner by
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dealing with the company that offers the 14. For a group of n people, k of whom are
lower total charge?
of the same sex, the expression n − k
(A) $41.60 n
(B) $45.00 yields an index for a certain phenomenon
(C) $50.75 in group dynamics for members of that
(D) $55.75 sex. For a group that consists of 20
(E) $61.25 people, 4 of whom are females, by how
much does the index for the females
10. The numbers in which of the following exceed the index for the males in the
pairs do NOT have a pair of distinct group?
prime divisors in common ? (A) 0.05
(A) 10 and 20 (B) 0.0625
(B) 12 and 18 (C) 0.2
(C) 24 and 32 (D) 0.25
(D) 21 and 63 (E) 0.6
(E) 22 and 88

11. If the sum of two integers is 6, then it 15. A certain used-book dealer sells
must be true that paperback books at 3 times dealer's cost
and hardback books at 4 times dealer's
(A) both integers are even cost. Last week the dealer sold a total of
(B) both integers are odd 120 books, each of which had cost the
(C) both integers are positive dealer $1. If the gross profit (sales
(D) if one integer is negative, the other is revenue minus dealer's cost) on the sale
positive of all of these books was $300, how
(E) if one integer is positive, the other is many of the books sold were paperbacks?
negative
(A) 40
12. A square picture frame has an outer (B) 60
perimeter of 36 inches and is 1 inch wide (C) 75
on all sides. What is the inner perimeter (D) 90
of the frame, in inches? (E) 100

(A) 27 3v 2 2d
d= and t = , where
(B) 27 1 20 v
2 d is the distance traveled, in meters,
(C) 28 after the brakes are applied
v is the velocity, in meters per second,
(D) 31 1 before the brakes are applied
2
(E) 32 t is the time, in seconds, it takes to stop
after the brakes are applied

13. If 2 − x( 1 + 2) = 19 − 4 x , then x = 16. The formulas above are used to compute

x the distance a car travels after the brakes
(A) -3 are applied. If the driver of a car applied
(B) 3 the brakes just as a traffic light turned
(C) 4 yellow and stopped exactly 6 seconds
(D) 5
later, what is the value of v ？
(E) 9
(A) 20

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(B) 80 Section 23
3 30 Minutes 20 Questions
(C) 30
(D) 40 1.The value of which of the following
(E) 60 expressions is equal to 2 ?
2
I. 2 + 2
17. A certain fraction is equivalent to 2 . If 2
5 2
the numerator of the fraction is increased II. 2 + 22
by 4 and the denominator is doubled, the 2
4
2 + 24
new fraction is equivalent to 1 . What is III.
3 24
the sum of the numerator and (A) I only
denominator of the original fraction? (B) II only
(A) 49 (B) 35 (C) 28 (C) III only
(D) 26 (E) 21 (D) I and II only
(E) I, II, and III
18. If all of the telephone extensions in a
certain company must be even numbers, 2. If a survey shows that 28 citizens out of a
and if each of the extensions uses all four sample of 200 support a particular Senate
of the digits 1, 2, 3, and 6, what is the bill, what percent of the sample does not
greatest number of four-digit extensions support the bill?
that the company can have? (A) 56%
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 12 (B) 64%
(D) 16 (E) 24 (C) 72%
(D) 82%
19. The product of the first twelve positive (E) 86%
integers is divisible by all of the
following EXCEPT
3. Joe went on a diet 6 months ago when he
(A) 210 weighed 222 pounds. If he now weighs
(B) 88 198 pounds and continues to lose at the
(C) 75 same average monthly rate, in
(D) 60 approximately how many months will he
(E) 34 weigh 180 pounds?
20. A car traveled 462 miles per tankful of (A) 3
gasoline on the highway and 336 miles (B) 3.5
per tankful of gasoline in the city. If the (C) 4
car traveled 6 fewer miles per gallon in (D) 4.5
the city than on the highway, how many (E) 5
miles per gallon did the car travel in the
city? 1
3

 
(A) 14 4.  2  =
(B) 16 1
4

(C) 21  
(D) 22 2
(E) 27 (A) 2

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(B) 4 (A) x + 2,000 = 1 ( x − 3,000)

3 3
(C) 1 1
(B) ( x − 3,000) = x
(D) 3 3
4 (C) x + 3,000 = 1 x
(E) 1 3
2 (D) x − 7,000 = 1 x
3
5. 3 x 2 + 2 x − 8 = 1
(E) x − 3,000 = x
(A) (3x + 4)(x - 2) 3
(B) (3x - 4)(x + 2)
(C) (3x + 2)(x - 4)
(D) (3x - 2)(x + 4)
(E) none of the above

6. NOT SCORED

7. If the sum of 7 consecutive integers is 434,

then the greatest of the 7 integers is
(A) 71 10. In the figure above, CE = 5, BD = 8, and
(B) 69 the area of quadrilateral ABCD is 36.
(C) 67 What is the area of △ABD ?
(D) 65
(E) 62 (A) 4
(B) 9
8. At a certain college, 50 percent of the total (C) 16
number of students are freshmen. If 20 (D) 20
percent of the fresh-men are enrolled in (E) 56
the school of liberal arts and, of these, 30
percent are psychology majors, what 11. If the remainder is 7 when positive
percent of the students at the college are integer n is divided by 18, what is the
freshmen psychology majors enrolled in remainder when n is divided by 6 ?
the school of liberal arts?
(A) 0
(A) 3% (B) 1
(B) 6% (C) 2
(C) 12% (D) 3
(D) 15% (E) 4
(E) 20%

9. A plane was originally flying at an altitude 12. There are how many hours between x
of x feet when it ascended 2,000 feet and minutes past 12 noon and 8:10 p.m. of
then descended 5,000 feet. If the plane's the same day, where x < 60?
altitude after these two changes was 1
3 (A) 490 − x
its original altitude, then the solution of 60
which of the following equations gives the (B) 480 −x
plane's original altitude, in feet ? 60

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(C) 470 − x 16. Beth received 3 of the votes cast in a

60 10
(D) 60 (60 – x + 7) certain election. What fraction of the
(E) 60 (60 – x + 17) other votes cast would she have needed
in order to have received 1 of the votes
13. If x = 4 and y = 16, then x + y is 2
xy cast?
closest to which of the following ?
(A) 1
5
(A) 1 2
3 (B)
1 7
(B)
2 (C) 3
3 10
(C)
4 (D) 7
20
(D) 7 1
8 (E)
(E) 1 2

14. A total of $20,000 was invested in two 17. Kim bought a total of $2.65 worth of
certificates of deposit at simple annual postage stamps in four denominations. If
interest rates of 6 percent and 8 percent, she bought an equal number of 5-cent
respectively. If the total interest on the and 25-cent stamps and twice as many
two certificates was $1,440 at the end 10-cent stamps as 5-cent stamps, what is
of one year, what fractional part of the the least number of 1-cent stamps she
$20.000 was invested at the higher rate? could have bought ?
(A) 5
(A) 3 (B) 10
8
(C) 15
(B) 2 (D) 20
5 (E) 25
(C) 1
2 18. If x is an even integer and y is an odd
(D) 3 integer, which of the following
5 CANNOT be true?
(E) 3 (A) x y is an even integer.
4 (B) y x is an odd integer.
(C) x is a multiple of y.
15. If the tens digit x and the units digit y of a
(D) y is a multiple of x.
positive integer n are reversed, the
(E) xy is an even integer.
resulting integer is 9 more than n. What
is y in terms of x ?
(A) 10 - x
(B) 9 - x
(C) x + 9
(D) x - 1
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Section 24
30 Minutes 20 Questions

1. Of the 10 employees at a certain company,

5 had annual salaries of $20,000, 4 had
annual salaries of $25,000, and 1 had an
annual salary of $30,000. If a bonus equal
to 10 percent of annual salary was given
19. In the diagram above, points A, B, C, D, to each employee, what was the total
and E represent the five teams in a amount of he bonuses?
certain league in which each team must
play each of the other teams exactly once. (A) $230,000
The segments connecting pairs of points (B) $75,000
indicate that the two corresponding teams (C) $30,000
have already played their game. The (D) $23,000
arrows on the segments point to the (E) $7,500
teams that lost; the lack of an arrow on a
segment indicates that the game ended in
a tie. After all games have been played,
which of the following could NOT be the
percent of games played that ended in a
tie?
(A) 10%
(B) 20%
(C) 30%
2. In the figure above, if PQRS is a square
(D) 40%
and QT = TR, which of the following
(E) 50%
statements is NOT true?
(A) PT = TS
(B) x = y
(C) u = v
(D) r = y
(E) The area of ΔPQT is equal to the
area of ΔSRT.
20. The figure above shows the shape of a
tunnel entrance. If the curved portion is 3. If ab ≠ 0, which of the following is
3 of a circle and the base of the equal to 1 ?
4 a
entrance is 12 feet across, what is the b
perimeter, in feet, of the curved portion
of the entrance'? (A) a
b
(A) 9π (B) 1
(C) a
(B) 12π
(D) b
(C) 9π 2
(D) 18π (E) b
a
(E) 9π
2 4. What is the greatest integer k such that
2 k ≤ 100 ?
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(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 49 (E) 50

5. A certain electric-company plan offers

customers reduced rates for electricity
used between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. weekdays
and 24 hours a day Saturdays and Sundays.
Under this plan, the reduced rates apply to
what fraction of a week?
(A) 1
2 9. In City R, streets run either east-west or
5 north-south, as shown on the map above.
(B)
8 Blocks along east-west streets are 400 feet
long and blocks along north-south streets
(C) 9 are 200 feet long. If the width of the
14
streets is ignored, what is the straight-line
(D) 16 distance, in feet, from X to Y ?
21
(E) 9 (A) 200 5
10 (B) 1,000
(C) 1,200
6. A certain mixture of nuts consists of 5 (D) 400 10
parts almonds to 2 parts walnuts, by (E) 1,600
weight. What is the number of pounds of
almonds in 140 pounds of the mixture ?
10. If x(1 − 1 ) = 1 − y , then y =
x
(A) 100
(B) 84 (A) 1
(C) 40 x
(D) 28 (B) x
(E) 20 (C) x – 2
(D) 1 − 1
7. (0.01) 2 (0.014) + (0.01)(0.0026) = x2
(A) 0.0000166 (E) 2 – x
(B) 0.0000274
(C) 0.00004
(D) 0.000166 11. A side of beef lost 35 percent of its
(E) 0.0004 weight in processing. If the side of beef
weighed 546 pounds after processing,
how many pounds did it weigh before
8. The pages of a report are numbered processing?
consecutively from 1 to 10. If the sum of
the page numbers up to and including (A) 191
page number x of the report is equal to one (B) 355
more than the sum of the page numbers (C) 737
following page number x, then x = (D) 840
(E) 1,560
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
12. The total price of n (n > 1) equally priced
copies of a certain book is $50. In terms

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of n, which of the following gives the total which of the following could be the price
price of n - 1 of these copies? of a balcony seat if the revenue from the
sale of balcony seats is $1,360 ?
(A) 50 (n – 1)
(A) $12
(B) 50 (B) $14
n −1 (C) $16
(C) 50 (n − 1) (D) $17
n (E) $18
(D) 50 n
n −1 16. If n = (2 2 )(3 4 )(5 6 ) , the value of which
(E) 50 of the following products is greater than
n(n − 1) n ?
I. (2)(3 3 )(5 2 )
13. Of the following sums, which is
greatest ? II. (2)(3)(5 4 )
III. (2 2 )(3 2 )(5 3 )
(A) 1 1 1 1
+ + + (A) None
2 3 4 5
(B) I only
(B) 1 1 1 1 (C) II only
+ + +
2 2 32 4 2 52 (D) III only
(C) 1 1 1 1 (E) II and III
2
+ 3+ 4 + 5
2 2 2 2
(D) 1 1 1
1− + − 17. If b and c are positive numbers and
2 3 4
1 1 1 1 1 b c , then b + c =
(E) + + + = =
2 3 4 5 b c 8
(A) 4
14. One millisecond is 0.001 of a second. (B) 6
The costs for a single run of a computer (C) 7
program are $1.07 for operating-system (D) 8
overhead, $0.023 per millisecond of (E) 9
computer time, and $4.35 for the
mounting of a data tape. What is the total 18. In a certain performance of a 3-act play,
of these three costs for 1 run of a program the first act was 18 minutes shorter than
that requires 1.5 seconds of computer the third act and half as long as the
time ? second act. If the average (arithmetic
mean) length of the 3 acts was 46
(A) $7.15 minutes, how many minutes long was the
(B) $8.87 third act?
(C) $28.96
(D) $35.57 (A) 30
(E) $39.92 (B) 39
(C) 46
15. A certain theater has 100 balcony seats. (D) 48
For every $2 increase in the price of a (E) 66
balcony seat above $10, 5 fewer seats
will be sold. If all the balcony seats are 19. In an office, 40 percent of the workers
sold when the price of each seat is $10, have at least 5 years of service, and a
total of 16 workers have at least 10 years
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of service. If 90 percent of the workers Section 25
have fewer than 10 years of service, how 30 Minutes 20 Questions
many of the workers have at least 5 but
fewer than 10 years of service? 1. For each color copy, Print Shop X charges
$1.25 and Print Shop Y charges $2.75.
(A) 48 How much greater is the charge for 84
(B) 64 color copies at Print Shop Y than at Print
(C) 50 Shop X ?
(D) 144
(A) $84.00
(E) 160
(B) $105.00
(C) $126.00
20. If n and p are different positive prime
(D) $231.00
numbers, which of the integers n 4 , p 3 , (E) $336.00
and np has (have) exactly 4 positive
divisors?
(A) n4 only 2. The sum of 25 percent of 36 and 75
(B) p3 only percent of 56 equals
(C) np only (A) 23
(D) n4 and np (B) 37
(E) p3 and np (C) 41
(D) 51
(E) 69

3. If x2 < x. then x must be

(A) less than 0
(B) equal to 0
(C) between 0 and 1
(D) equal to 1
(E) greater than 1

4. If 15 people contributed a total of $20.00

toward a gift and each of them contributed
at least $1.00, then the maximum possible
amount any one person could have
contributed is
(A) $1.00
(B) $1.25
(C) $5.00
(D) $6.00
(E) $20.00

5. If the cost of a yearly membership in a

certain club increased from $199 to $299,
what was the approximate percent
increase in cost?

(A) 33 1 %
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(B) 50% (E) 16 2 %
(C) 66 2 % 3
3
(D) 100% 10. If x and y are two-digit integers such that
(E) 150% x > 40 and y<70, which of the following
is closest to the maximum possible value
6. On the number line, the number p is twice of xy ?
as many units from -2 as -2 is from 6. If p
(A) 700
is less than –2, what is the value of p ?
(B) 2,800
(C) 4,000
(A) –18
(D) 7,000
(B) –10
(E) 28,000
(C) –6
(D) 10
11. What is the diameter of a circular region
(E) 14
that has area 10π ?
7. A telephone call costs $1.25 for the first (A) 5
minute and $0.32 for each additional (B) 10
minute. What is the cost, in dollars, of a (C) 20
telephone call that lasts for x minutes, (D) 10
where x is an integer?
(E) 2 10
(A) 0.32+ 1.25x
(B) 1.25+ 0.32x 12. If 3x + 2y = 7 and 2x – y = 7, what is the
(C) 0.32+ 1.25(x - 1) value of x ?
(D) 1.25+ 0.32(x + 1)
(E) 1.25 + 0.32(x - 1) (A) 0
(B) 1
8. If x and y are integers, then 1 (C) 7
x+ y 5
CANNOT be equal to (D) 21
11
(A) –1 (E) 3
(B) − 1
2 13. Worldwide production of motor vehicles
(C) 0 was 3.9 million vehicles in 1946 and 45.7
million in 1987. Of the following, which
(D) 1
2 is closest to the average (arithmetic mean)
(E) 1 annual increase, in millions, in
worldwide production of motor vehicles
9. The markup on a television set is 20 during this period?
percent of the cost. The markup is what (A) 0.08
percent of the selling price? (B) 1.0
(markup = selling price - cost) (C) 1.1
(D) 10.5
(A) 8% (E) 41.8
(B) 10%
(C) 12 1 % 14. Raymond took several days to mow a
2
certain lawn. He mowed 1 of the lawn
(D) 15% 3

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the first day, 1 of the remaining (E) y

2 y−x
unmowed portion the second day, and 3
4 17. Due to construction, the speed limit
of the remaining unmowed portion the along an 8-mile section of highway is
third day. What fraction of the lawn reduced from 55 miles per hour to 35
remained unmowed at the end of the miles per hour. Approximately how many
third day? minutes more will it take to travel along
this section of highway at the new speed
(A) 1 limit than it would have taken at the old
6 speed limit ?
(B) 1
(A) 5
8
(B) 8
(C) 1 (C) 10
12 (D) 15
(D) 1 (E) 24
16
(E) 1
24

15. Of the votes cast on a certain proposal,

80 more were in favor of the proposal
than were against it. If the number of
votes against the proposal was 40 percent
of the total vote, what was the total 18. The figure above shows the dimensions
number of votes cast? of a rectangular board that is to be cut
(Each vote cast was either in favor of the into four identical pieces by making cuts
at points A, B, and C, as indicated. If x =
proposal or against it.) 45, what is the length AB ?
(A) 480 (1 foot = 12 inches)
(B) 400
(C) 300 (A) 5 ft 6 in
(D) 240 (B) 5 ft 3 2 in
(E) 160 (C) 5 ft 3 in
(D) 5 ft
(E) 4 ft 9 in
16. If xy ≠ 0 and 1 − 1 = cx . Which of the
x y
19. If x < y < z and y - x > 5, where x is an
following is equal to c ?
even integer and y and z are odd integers,
(A) x what is the least possible value of z – x ?
y (1 − x 2 ) (A) 6
(B) 1 (B) 7
− x2 y (C) 8
(D) 9
(C) y − x (E) 10
x2 y
(D) y − x
y

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Section 26
20. On the day of the performance of a 30 Minutes 20 Questions
certain play, each ticket that regularly
sells for less than $10.00 is sold for half 1. A car with a 12-gallon gas tank used 1
price plus $0.50, and each ticket that 2
regularly sells for $10.00 or more is sold of a full tank of gas to make a 150-mile
for half price plus $1.00. On the day of trip. How many miles per gallon did the
the performance, a person purchases a car average on the trip?
total of y tickets, of which x regularly sell
for $9.00 each and the rest regularly sell (A) 30
for $12.00 each. What is the amount paid, (B) 25
in dollars, for the y tickets ? (C) 12 1
2
(A) 7y - 2x (D) 8 1
(B) 12x - 7y 3
(C) 9 x + 12 y (E) 6
2
(D) 7y + 4x 2. If 5n + 4 =11, what is the value of l0n –
(E) 7y + 5x 2?
(A) 68
(B) 14
(C) 12
(D) 7
(E) -1

3. At the beginning of each year, the price of

item X is 10 percent higher than its price
at the beginning of the previous year.
During three consecutive years, if the
price of item X is $8 at the beginning of
the first year, what is its price at the
beginning of the third year?

(A) $8.80
(B) $9.60
(C) $9.68
(D) $10.00
(E) $16.00

 1  1 
  
4.  2  3  =
1 1
÷
2 3

(A) 1
9
(B) 1
4
(C) 1
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interest, in dollars, earned after n months ?
(D) 3
2 (A) 0.05P + n
(E) 6
(B) 0.05P + n
12
(C) 0.05P × n
(D) 0.05P × 1
12n
(E) 0.05P × n
5. An association of mathematics teachers 12
has 1,260 members. Only 525 of these
members cast votes in the election for 9. If a person purchases 15 of the 3,000
president of the association. What percent tickets sold in a raffle that awards one
of the total membership voted for the prize, what is the probability that this
winning candidate if the winning person will not win?
candidate received 60 percent of the votes
(A) 0
cast?
(B) 1
(A) 75% 200
(B) 58%
(C) 42% (C) 1
2
(D) 34%
(E) 25% (D) 199
200
6. In the figure above, what is the value of (E) 1
x?
10. Virginia, Adrienne, and Dennis have
(A) 50 taught history for a combined total of 96
(B) 70 years. If Virginia has taught for 9 more
(C) 80 years than Adrienne and for 9 fewer
(D) 90 years than Dennis, for how many years
(E) 100 has Dennis taught?

7. Which of the following fractions, if (A) 23

written as a decimal, would have a 2 in the (B) 32
thousandths place ? (C) 35
(D) 41
(A) 3 (E) 44
11
11. Approximately 90 percent of the volume
(B) 7
9 of a certain cube that is floating in a tank
1 of water is beneath the surface. If 6.4
(C) cubic centimeters of the cube is above
8 the surface of the water, what is the
(D) 4 approximate length, in centimeters, of an
7 edge of the cube?
(E) 1
(A) 10
6
(B) 8
(C) 6
8. If P dollars is invested at an annual
(D) 4
interest rate of 5 percent, which of the
(E) 2
following gives the amount of simple
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12. If x = 2u, then the average (arithmetic
(E) 6
mean) of x and u, in terms of u, is 5
(A) u 16. A certain Social Security recipient will
3
receive an annual benefit of $12,000
(B) u
provided he has annual earnings of
2 $9,360 or less, but the benefit will be
(C) 2u reduced by $1 for every $3 of annual
3 earnings over $9,360. What amount of
(D) 3u total annual earnings would result in a 50
4 percent reduction in the recipient's annual
3u Social Security benefit? (Assume Social
(E) Security benefits are not counted as part
2
of annual earnings.)
13. If the sum of a set of ten different
positive prime numbers is an even (A) $15,360
number, which of the following prime (B) $17,360
numbers CANNOT be in the set ? (C) $18,000
(D) $21,360
(A) 2 (E) $27,360
(B) 3
(C) 5 1 1 1 1
(D) 7 17. + 11 + 12 + 12 =
10
2 2 2 2
(E) 11
(A) 1
14. A book dealer buys used books for prices 27
ranging from $0.75 to $1.50 and then
(B) 1
sells them for prices ranging from $3.00 28
to $5.50. If the dealer were to sell 20 of
these books, the minimum gross profit (C) 1
29
from this sale would be
(D) 1
(A) $15 213
(B) $30
(C) $45 (E) 1
2 45
(D) $50
(E) $80 18. If it would take one machine 10 minutes
to fill a large production order and
15. If x (a + b) = y, where y ≠ 0 and 2a = another machine 12 minutes to fill the
3b = 1, then y = same order, how many minutes would it
x take both machines working together, at
their respective rates, to fill the order?
(A) 1
6 (A) 4 1
(B) 1 60
3 (B) 5
(C) 2 (C) 5 5
3 11
(D) 5 (D) 5 1
6 2
(E) 11
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19. If m is an integer, then each of the Section 27

7 25 mintues 16 Questions
following must be an integer EXCEPT
1. A project scheduled to be carried out over
a single fiscal year has a budget of
(A) m − 28 $12,600, divided into 12 equal monthly
7
allocations. At the end of the 4th month of
(B) m + 21
that fiscal year, the total amount actually
7 spent on the project was $4,580. By how
(C) 14m much was the project over its budget ?
98
2 (A) $380
(D) m − 49
(B) $540
49 (C) $1,050
(E) m + 14 (D) $1,380
14 (E) $1,430

20. Not Scored 2. For which of the following values of n is

100 + n NOT an integer ?
n
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 4
(E) 5

3. Rectangular floors X and Y have equal

area. If floor X is 12 feet by 18 feet and
floor Y is 9 feet wide, what is the length of
floor Y, in feet ?

(A) 13 1
2
(B) 18
(C) 18 3
4
(D) 21
(E) 24

4. A case contains c cartons. Each carton

contains b boxes and each box contains
100 paper clips. How many paper clips are
contained in 2 cases ?
(A) 100bc
(B) 100b
c
(C) 200bc
(D) 200b
c

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(E) 200 (C) 2005

bc (D) 2006
(E) 2007
5. In a certain city, 60 percent of the
registered voters are Democrats and the 9. 1 +  2 × 3  ÷ 4 − 9 =
rest are Republicans. In a mayoral race, if 2  3 8   16
75 percent of the registered voters who are
Democrats and 20 percent of the (A) 29
registered voters who are Republicans are 16
expected to vote for Candidate A, what 19
(B)
percent of the registered voters are 16
expected to vote for Candidate A ?
(C) 15
(A) 50% 16
(B) 53%
(D) 9
(C) 54% 13
(D) 55% (E) 0
(E) 57%
10. The sum of the prime numbers that are
6. if  3 x − 5  y = y and y ≠ 0, then x = greater than 60 and less than 70 is
 2  (A) 67
(B) 128
(A) 2 (C) 191
3
(D) 197
(B) 5
(E) 260
3
(C) 7 11. Water consists of hydrogen and oxygen,
3 and the approximate ratio, by mass, of
(D) 1 hydrogen to oxygen is 2 : 16.
(E) 4 Approximately how many grams of
oxygen are there in 144 grams of water ?
7. If x + 5 > 2 and, x – 3 < 7, the value of x
must be between which of he following (A) 16
pairs of numbers ? (B) 72
(C) 112
(A) -3 and 10 (D) 128
(B) -3 and 4 (E) 142
(C) 2 and 7
(D) 3 and 4
(E) 3 and 10 12. If x (2x + 1) = 0 and ( x + 1 )(2 x − 3) = 0 ,
2
then x =
8. A certain company retirement plan has a
“rule of 70” provision that allows an (A) –3
employee to retire when the employee’s (B) − 1
age plus years of employment with the 2
company total at least 70. In what year (C) 0
could a female employee hired in 1986 on
(D) 1
her 32nd birthday first be eligible to retire 2
under this provision ? 3
(E)
(A) 2003 2
(B) 2004
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13. A rainstorm increased the amount of Section 28
water stored in State J reservoirs from 25 Minutes 16 Questions
124 billion gallons to 138 billion gallons.
If the storm increased the amount of
water in the reservoirs to 82 percent of
total capacity, approximately how many
billion gallons of water were the
reservoirs short of total capacity prior to
the storm?
(A) 9 (B) 14 (C) 25
(D) 30 (E) 44

14. If s 1 , s 2 , s 3 , ...... is the sequence such that

n for all positive integers n,
sn =
n +1
then the product of the first 10 terms of
this sequence is
1. According to the graph above, what
(A) 1 (B) 1 percent of the funds for highway
(10)(11) 11 maintenance came from the tax on tires?
(C) 1 (D) 9 (A) 3 %
10 10 (B) 6 %
(E) 10 (C) 8 %
11 (D) 10%
(E) 16%
15. On a scale that measures the intensity of
a certain phenomenon, a reading of n + 1
corresponds to an intensity that is 10
times the intensity corresponding to a
reading of n. On that scale, the intensity
corresponding to a reading of 8 is how
many times as great as the intensity
corresponding to a reading of 3 ?
(A) 5 (B) 50 (C) 10 5
(D) 5 10
(E) 810 − 310

16. John and Mary were each paid x dollars 2. According to the graph above, when x = 3,
in advance to do a certain job together, y most nearly ?
John worked on the job for 10 hours and (A) –1
Mary worked 2 hours less than John. If
Mary gave John y dollars of her payment (B) − 1
so that they would have received the 2
same hourly wage, what was the dollar (C) 0
amount, in terms of y, that John was paid (D) 1
in advance ? 2
(E) 1
(A) 4y (B) 5y (C) 6y
(D) 8y (E) 9y 3. A gym class can be divided into 8 teams
with an equal number of players on each
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team or into 12 teams with an equal
(A) 4
number of players on each team. What is 7
the least possible number of students in 4
the class? (B)
3
(A) 20 (C) 11
(B) 24 8
(C) 36 11
(D) 48 (D)
7
(E) 96 7
(E)
4
4. At least 2 of the 40 members of a
3
committee must vote in favor of a 8. If T = 5 (k − 32) , and if T = 290, then K =
resolution for it to pass. What is the 9
greatest number of members who could (A) 1, 738
vote against the resolution and still have it 9
pass ? (B) 322
(C) 490
(A) 19 (D) 554
(B) 17
(C) 16 (E) 2,898
5
(D) 14
(E) 13
9. The water from one outlet, flowing at a
constant rate, can fill a swimming pool in
5. When 1 percent of 5,000 is subtracted 9 hours. The water from a second outlet,
10 flowing at a constant rate, can fill the
from 1 of 5,000 the difference is same pool in 5 hours. If both outlets are
10 used at the same time, approximately what
(A) 0 is the number of hours required to fill the
(B) 50 pool ?
(C) 450 (A) 0.22
(D) 495 (B) 0.31
(E) 500 (C) 2.50
(D) 3.21
6. A poll reveals that the average (arithmetic (E) 4.56
mean) income of 10 households is
$25,000. If 6 of the households have 10. Diana bought a stereo for $530, which
incomes of $30,000 each, what is the was the retail price plus a 6 percent sales
average income of the other 4 households? tax. How much money could she have
(A) $21,500 saved if she had bought the stereo at the
(B) $20,000 same retail price in a neighboring state
(C) $17,500 where she would have paid a sales tax of
(D) $7,500 5 percent?
(E) $7,000 (A) $1.00
(B) $2.65
7. 1 (C) $4.30
1+ =
1 (D) $5.00
1+ (E) $5.30
1
1+
3
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11. If a square mirror has a 20-inch diagonal,
(B) 2
what is the approximate perimeter of the 7
mirror, in inches? 33
(C)
(A) 40 83
(B) 60 (D) 99
(C) 80 250
(D) 100 100
(E) l20 (E)
249
12. Which of the following is the value of 16. If x and y are different prime numbers,
3
0.000064 ? each greater
than 2, which of the following must be
(A) 0.004 true ?
(B) 0.008 I. x + y ≠91
(C) 0.02 II. x – y is an even integer.
(D) 0.04
(E) 0.2 III. x is not an integer.
y
(A) II only
13. The present ratio of students to teachers (B) I and II only
at a certain school is 30 to 1. If the (C) I and III only
student enrollment were to increase by 50 (D) II and III only
students and the number of teachers were (E) I, II, and III
to increase by 5, the ratio of students to
teachers would then be 25 to 1. What is
the present number of teachers ?
(A) 5
(B) 8
(C) 10
(D) 12
(E) 15

14. What is the smallest integer n for which

25 n > 512 ?
(A) 6
(B) 7
(C) 8
(D) 9
(E) 10

15. Raffle tickets numbered consecutively

from 101 through 350 are placed in a box.
What is the probability that a ticket
selected at random will have a number
with a hundreds digit of 2?

(A) 2
5

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Section 29 4. Machine A produces 100 parts twice as
25 Minutes 16 Questions fast as machine B does. Machine B
produces 100 parts in 40 minutes. If each
1. As a salesperson, Phyllis can choose one machine produces parts at a constant rate,
of two methods of annual payment: either how many parts does machine A produce
an annual salary of $35,000 with no in 6 minutes ?
commission or an annual salary of
(A) 30
$10,000 plus a 20 percent commission on
(B) 25
her total annual sales. What must her total
(C) 20
annual sales be to give her the same
(D) 15
annual pay with either method ?
(E) 7.5
(A) $100,000
(B) $120,000 5. If 18 is 15 percent of 30 percent of a
(C) $125,000 certain number, what is the number ?
(D) $130,000
(A) 9
(E) $132,000
(B) 36
(C) 40
2. A restaurant buys fruit in cans containing
(D) 81
1
3 cups of fruit each. If the restaurant (E) 400
2
uses 1 cup of the fruit in each serving of 6. A necklace is made by stringing N
2 individual beads together in the repeating
its fruit compote, what is the least number pattern red bead, green bead, white bead,
of cans needed to prepare 60 servings of blue bead, and yellow bead. If the
the compote ? necklace design begins with a red bead
(A) 7 and ends with a white bead, then N could
(B) 8 equal.
(C) 9 (A) 16
(D) 10 (B) 32
(E) 12 (C) 41
(D) 54
3. If x > 3,000, then the value of x is (E) 68
2x + 1
closest to 7. If x = (0.08) 2 , y = 1 , and
(0.08) 2
(A) 1
6 z = (1 − 0.08) 2 − 1 , which of the
1 following is true ?
(B)
3 (A) x = y = z
(C) 10 (B) y < z < x
21 (C) z < x < y
(D) y < x and x = z
(D) 1
2 (E) x < y and x = z
(E) 3
2

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11.If 1 of the air in a tank is removed with

2
each stroke of a vacuum pump, what
fraction of the original amount of air has
been removed after 4 strokes ?

(A) 15
16
8. In △ABC above, what is x in terms of z ?
(B) 7
(A) z + 73 8
(B) z – 73 (C) 1
(C) 70 – z 4
(D) z – 70 (D) 1
(E) 73 – z 8

9. In 1990 a total of x earthquakes occurred (E) 1

16
worldwide, some but not all of which
occurred in Asia. If m of these earthquakes 12. Last year Department Store X had a sales
occurred in Asia, which of the following total for December that was 4 times the
represents the ratio of the umber of earth average (arithmetic mean) of the monthly
quakes that occurred in Asia to the number sales totals for January through
that did not occur in Asia ? November. The sales total for December
was what fraction of the sales total for
(A) x the year ?
m
(B) m (A) 1
x 4

(C) m (B) 4
x−m 15

(D) x (C) 1
x−m 3

(E) 1 − m (D) 4
x 11
(E) 4
5
10. If x + y = 1 , then y =
xy
13. How many integers n are there such that
(A) x 1 < 5n + 5 < 25 ?
x −1
(A) Five
(B) x (B) Four
x +1
(C) Three
x
(C) − 1 (D) Two
x (E) One
x
(D) + 1
x 14. If the two-digit integers M and N are
(E) x positive and have the same digits, but in
reverse order, which of the following
CANNOT be the sum of M and N ?
(A) 181
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(B) 163 Section 30
(C) 121 25 Minutes 16 Questions
(D) 99
(E) 44 1. (3)(0.072) =
0.54
15. Working alone, printers X, Y, and Z can
do a certain printing job, consisting of a (A) 0.04
large number of pages, in 12, 15, and 18 (B) 0.3
hours, respectively. What is the ratio of (C) 0.4
the time it takes printer X to do the job, (D) 0.8
working alone at its rate, to the time it (E) 4.0
takes printers Y and Z to do the job,
working together at their individual 2. A car dealer sold x used cars and y new
rates ? cars during May. If the number of used
cars sold was 10 greater than the number
(A) 4 of new cars sold. Which of the following
11 expresses this relationship ?
(B) 1 (A) x > 10y
2 (B) x > y + 10
(C) 15 (C) x > y – 10
22 (D) x = y + 10
(D) 22 (E) x = y – 10
15
(E) 11 3. What is the maximum number of 1 1 -foot
4 4
pieces of wire that can be cut from a wire
16. In 1985 a company sold a brand of shoes that is 24 feet long?
to retailers for a fixed price per pair. In (A) 11
1986 the number of pairs of the shoes (B) 18
that the company sold to retailers (C) 19
decreased by 20 percent, while the price (D) 20
per pair increased by 20 percent. If the (E) 30
company’s revenue from the sale of the
shoes in 1986 was $3.0 million, what was 4. If each of the two lines  1 and  2 is
the approximate revenue from the sale of
the shoes in 1985 ? parallel to line  3 , which of the following
must be true?
(A) $2.4 million
(B) $2.9 million (A) Lines  1 ,  2 , and  3 lie in the
(C) $3.0 million same plane.
(D) $3.1 million (B) Lines  1 ,  2 , and  3 lie in different
(E) $3.6 million
planes.
(C) Line  1 is parallel to line  2 .
(D) Line  1 is the same line as line  2 .
(E) Line  1 is the same line as line  3 .

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61.24 × (0.998) 2 9. Kim purchased n items from a catalog for
5. The expression
$8 each. Postage and handling charges
403
consisted of $3 for the first item and $1
above is approximately equal to for each additional item. Which of the
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 4 following gives the total dollar amount of
(D) 5 (E) 6 Kim’s purchase, including postage and
handling, in terms of n ?
6. Car X and car Y traveled the same 80-mile (A) 8n + 2
route. If car X took 2 hours and car Y (B) 8n + 4
traveled at an average speed that was 50 (C) 9n + 2
percent faster than the averages speed of (D) 9n + 3
car X, how many hours did it take car Y to (E) 9n + 4
travel the route ?

(A) 2 10. ( 7+ 7 )
2
=
3
(B) 1 (A) 98
(B) 49
(C) 1 1 (C) 28
3
(D) 21
(D) 1 3 (E) 14
5
(E) 3 11. If the average (arithmetic mean) of the
four numbers K, 2K + 3, 3K – 5, and 5K
7. If the numbers 17 , 1 , 3 , 3 , and 9 + 1 is 63, what is the value of K ?
24 2 8 4 16
were ordered from greatest to least, the (A) 11
middle number of the resulting sequence (B) 15 3
would be 4
(C) 22
(A) 17 (D) 23
24
(E) 25 3
(B) 1 10
2
(C) 3 12. A rabbit on a controlled diet is fed daily
8 300 grams of a mixture of two foods,
food X and food Y. Food X contains 10
(D) 3
4 percent protein and food Y contains 15
percent protein. If the rabbit’s diet
(E) 9 provides exactly 38 grams of protein daily,
16
how many grams of food X are in the
mixture?
8. If a 10 percent deposit that has been paid
toward the purchase of a certain product is (A) 100
$110, how much more remains to he paid? (B) 140
(C) 150
(A) $880
(D) 160
(B) $900
(E) 200
(C) $1,000
(D) $1,100
(E) $1,210

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13. A company that ships boxes to a total of
(12) distribution centers uses color
coding to identify each center. If either
a single color or a pair of two different
colors is chosen to represent each center
and if each center is uniquely represented
by that choice of one or two colors, what
is the minimum number of colors needed
for the coding ? (Assume that the order
of the colors in a pair does not matter.)
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 12 (E) 24

14. If x + y = a and x – y = b, then 2xy =

2 2
(A) a − b
2
2 2
(B) b − a
2
(C) a − b
2
(D) ab
2
2
(E) a + b2
2

15. A rectangular circuit board is designed to

have width w inches, perimeter p inches,
and area k square inches. Which of the
following equations must be true?
(A) w 2 + pw + k = 0
(B) w 2 − pw + 2k = 0
(C) 2w 2 + pw + 2k = 0
(D) 2w 2 − pw − 2k = 0
(E) 2w 2 − pw + 2k = 0

16. On a certain road, 10 percent of the

motorists exceed the posted speed limit
and receive speeding tickets, but 20
percent of the motorists who exceed the
posted speed limit do not receive
speeding tickets. What percent of the
motorists on that road exceed the posted
speed limit ?

(A) 10 1 % (B) 12 1 %
2 2
(C) 15% (D) 22%
(E) 30%
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Section 31 (A) 188
25 Minutes 16 Questions (B) 258
(C) 376
1. If x is 11 percent greater than 80, then x = (D) 470
(E) 517
(A) 70.9
(B) 71.2
(C) 88.0 5. If 2 x 2 + 4 x − 5 = x 2 + 2 x + x 2 + 5 , then
(D) 88.8 x2 =
(E) 91.0 (A) 0
(B) 4
2. A certain car uses 12 gallons of gasoline in (C) 10
traveling 240 miles. In order for the car to (D) 25
travel the same distance using 10 gallons (E) 100
of gasoline, by how many miles per gallon
must the car's gas mileage be increased?
6. 80 + 125 =
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10 (A) 9 5
(B) 20 5
(C) 41 5
(D) 205
(E) 100

7. A circle graph shows how the budget of a

certain company was spent: 63 percent for
salaries, 12 percent for research and
development, 6 percent for utilities, 5
percent for equipment, 4 percent for
supplies, and the remainder for
transportation. If the area of each sector of
the graph is proportional to the percent of
the budget it represents, how many
degrees of the circle are used to represent
3. The figure above represents a window, transportation?
with the shaded regions representing the
openings for the glass. If all line segments (A) 10°
in the figure are either horizontal or (B) 18°
vertical and the openings are all the same (C) 36°
size, what are the dimensions, in inches, (D) 90°
of each opening (1 foot = 12 inches)? (E) 324°
(A) 12.0 by 18.0
(B) 10.5 by 16.5 8. What is the area of a square with perimeter
(C) 9.0 by 15.0 P?
(D) 8.0 by 10.0
(A) 16P 2
(E) 7.5 by 13.5
(B) 4P
2
4. A farmer used 1,034 acres of land for (C) P
beans, wheat, and corn in the ratio of 5 : 2 : 4
4, respectively. How many acres were
used for corn?
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(D) P 12. A certain company has records stored

16 with a record-storage firm in 15-inch by
2 12-inch by 10-inch boxes. The boxes
(E) P occupy 1.08 million cubic inches of
16 space. If the company pays $0.25 per box
per month for record storage, what is the
9. A certain ball was dropped from a window total amount that the company pays each
8 meters above a sidewalk. On each month for record storage?
bounce it rose straight up exactly one-half
the distance of the previous fall. After the (A) $150
third bounce the ball was caught when it (B) $300
reached a height of exactly 1 meter above (C) $600
the sidewalk. How many meters did the (D) $1,200
ball travel in all? (E) $2,400
(A) 21 13. If a 3-digit integer is selected at random
(B) 19 from the integers 100 through 199,
(C) 17 inclusive, what is the probability that the
(D) 15 first digit and the last digit of the integer
(E) 13 are each equal to one more than the
middle digit?
10. A certain store sells all maps at one price
and all books at another price. On (A) 2
Monday the store sold 12 maps and 10 225
books for a total of $38.00, and on 1
Tuesday the store sold 20 maps and 15 (B)
111
books for a total of $60.00. At this store, 1
how much less does a map sell for than a (C)
book? 110
(D) 1
(A) $0.25 100
(B) $0.50 1
(C) $0.75 (E)
50
(D) $1.00
(E) $l.25
14. Mr. Kramer, the losing candidate in a
two-candidate election, received 942,568
11. Which of the following procedures is
votes, which was exactly 40 percent of
always equivalent to adding 5 given
all the votes cast. Approximately what
numbers and then dividing the sum by
percent of the remaining votes would he
5?
need to have received in order to have
I. Multiplying the 5 numbers and then won at least 50 percent of all the votes
finding the 5th root of the product. cast?
II. Adding the 5 numbers, doubling the
(A) 10%
sum, and then moving the decimal
(B) 12%
point one place to the left.
(C) 15%
III. Ordering the 5 numbers numerically
(D) 17%
and then selecting the middle number.
(E) 20%
(A) None
(B) I only
15. Which of the following inequalities is
(C) II only
equivalent to –2 < x < 4 ?
(D) III only
(E) I and III (A) | x – 2 | < 4
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(B) | x – 1 | < 3 Section 32
(C) | x + 1 | < 3 25 Minutes 16 Questions
(D) | x + 2 | < 4
(E) None of the above 1. A certain taxi fare consists of an initial
charge of $1.25 and an additional charge
16. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 5 of $0.25 for each 1 mile traveled. What
positive temperatures is x degrees 5
Fahrenheit, then the sum of the 3 greatest is the total fare for a trip of 2.4 miles?
of these temperatures, in degrees
Fahrenheit, could be (A) $4.25
(B) $3.00
(A) 6x (C) $2.25
(B) 4x (D) $1.85
(C) 5x (E) $1.75
3
(D) 3x a b
2. If = ad − bc for all numbers a, b, c,
2 c d
(E) 3x 3 5
5 and d, then =
−2 4
(A) –22
(B) –2
(C) 2
(D) 7
(E) 22

3. If the area of a square region having sides

of length 6 centimeters is equal to the area
of a rectangular region having width 2.5
centimeters, then the length of the
rectangle, in centimeters, is
(A) 8.5
(B) 9.5
(C) 9.6
(D) 10.5
(E) 14.4

4. The total cost for Company X to produce a

batch of tools is $10,000 plus $3 per tool.
Each tool sells for $8. The gross profit
earned from producing and selling these
tools is the total income from sales minus
the total production cost. If a batch of
20,000 tools is produced and sold, then
Company X's gross profit per tool is
(A) $3.00
(B) $3.75
(C) $4.50
(D) $5.00
(E) $5.50
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5. Of the following, which is most nearly product C?
equal to 10 ? (A) 12.5%
(A) 3.1 (B) 17.5%
(B) 3.2 (C) 30%
(C) 3.3 (D) 40%
(D) 3.4 (E) 60%
(E) 3.5
9. If x = a + b + c , where a, b, and c are
2 23 24
6. Exactly 1 of the children in a certain
3 each equal to 0 or 1, then x could be each
class are girls. If there are 18 boys in the of the following EXCEPT
class, how many girls are in the class?
(A) 1
(A) 6 16
(B) 9 (B) 3
(C) 12 16
(D) 24
(E) 27 (C) 5
16
(D) 10
16
(E) 11
16

10. The equation M + 6 = p − 7 relates two

36 21
temperature scales, where M is the
number of degrees on one scale and P is
the number of degrees on the other scale.
Questions 7-8: refer to the following Which of the following equations can be
information used to convert temperatures from the P
In a marketing survey for products A, B, scale to the M scale?
and C, 1,000 people were asked which of the
products, if any, they use. The three circular (A) M = 7 P + 13
regions in the diagram above represent the 12
numbers of people who use products A, B,
(B) M = 7 P + 21
and C, according to the survey results. Of the 12
people surveyed, a total of 400 use A, a total
of 400 use B, and a total of 450 use C. (C) M = 7 P − 12
12
7. How many of the people surveyed use (D) M = 7 P − 13
exactly one of the products? 12

(A) 75 (E) M = 7 P − 18
12
(B) 100
(C) 150
(D) 250 11. If x is a positive number and 1 the
(E) 325 2
square root of x is equal to 2x, then x =
8. What percent of the people surveyed use
(A) 1
product A or product B or both, but not 16
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(B) 1 (A) 25
4 6
(C) 1 (B) 36
2 25
(D) 2
(C) 6
(E) 8 5
(D) 5
6
(E) 25
36

12. The incomplete table above shows a

distribution of scores for a class of 20
students. If the average (arithmetic mean) 15. The figure above shows a cord around
score for the class is 78, what score is two circular disks. If the radii of the two
missing from the table ? disks are 80 centimeters and 60
centimeters, respectively, what is the total
(A) 73 length, in centimeters, of the cord?
(B) 75
(C) 77 (A) 210π
(D) 79 (B) 210π+ 280
(E) 81 (C) 280π
(D) 280π + 80
13. Carl drove from his home to the beach at (E) 280π+ 280
an average speed of 80 kilometers per
hour and returned home by the same
16. If x, y, and z are positive integers and 3x
route at an average speed of 70
= 4y = 7z, then the least possible value of
kilometers per hour. If the trip home took
x + y + z is
1 hour longer than the trip to the beach,
2 (A) 33
how many kilometers did Carl drive each (B) 40
way? (C) 49
(D) 61
(A) 350 (E) 84
(B) 345
(C) 320
(D) 280
(E) 240

14. If 5x = 6y and xy ≠ 0, what is the ratio

of
1 to 1 ?
x y
5 6

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Section 33 (B) 5
25 Minutes 16 Questions 6
(C) 11
1. If p is an even integer and q is an odd
12
integer, which of the following must be an
odd integer? (D) 7
6
(A) p (E) 11
q 6
(B) pq
(C) 2p + q 5. In a certain population, there are 3 times
(D) 2 (p + q) as many people aged twenty-one or under
as there are people over twenty-one. The
(E) 3 p ratio of those twenty-one or under to the
q
total population is
2. A certain college has a student-to-teacher (A) 1 to 2
ratio of 11 to 1. The average (arithmetic (B) 1 to 3
mean) annual salary for teachers is (C) 1 to 4
$26,000. If the college pays a total of (D) 2 to 3
$3,380,000 in annual salaries to its (E) 3 to 4
teachers, how many students does the
college have ? 6. 2 + 2 6 =
(A) 130 2
(B) 169 (A) 6
(C) 1,300
(D) 1,430 (B) 2 6
(E) 1,560 (C) 1+ 6
(D) 1+ 2 6
3. Last year if 97 percent of the revenues of a
(E) 2+ 6
company came from domestic sources and
the remaining revenues. totaling $450,000,
came from foreign sources, what was the 7. A certain telescope increases the visual
total of the company's revenues ? range at a particular location from 90
kilometers to 150 kilometers. By what
(A) $ 1,350,000 percent is the visual range increased by
(B) $ 1,500,000 using the telescope ?
(C) $ 4,500,000
(D) $ 15,000,000 (A) 30%
(E) $ 150,000,000 (B) 33 1 %
2
(C) 40%
4. Drum X is 1 full of oil and drum Y,
2 (D) 60%
which has twice the capacity of drum X, is (E) 66 2 %
2 full of oil. If all of the oil in drum X is 3
J
poured into drum Y. then drum Y will be
filled to what fraction of its capacity ?

(A) 3
4
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12. A factory that employs 1,000
assembly-line workers pays each of these
workers $5 per hour for the first 40 hours
worked during a week and 1 1 time that
2
rate for hours in excess of 40. What was
Note: Figure not drawn to scale. the total payroll for the assembly-line
8. In the figure above, the value of y is workers for a week in which 30 percent
of them worked 20 hours, 50 percent
(A) 6 worked 40 hours, and the rest worked 50
(B) 12 hours?
(C) 24
(D) 36 (A) $180,000
(E) 42 (B) $185,000
(C) $190,000
9. A part-time employee whose hourly wage (D) $200,000
was increased by 25 percent decided to (E) $205,000
reduce the number of hours worked per
2
week so that the employee’s total weekly 13. If x≠2, then 3 x ( x − 2) − x + 2 =
income would remain unchanged. By x−2
what percent should the number of hours
worked be reduced? (A) 3x 2 − x + 2
(B) 3x 2 + 1
(A) 12.5%
(B) 20% (C) 3x 2
(C) 25% (D) 3x 2 − 1
(D) 50% (E) 3x 2 − 2
(E) 75%
14. In a certain school, 40 more than 1 of
10. if x > 0, x x is what percent of x ? 3
+
50 25 all the students are taking a science
(A) 6% course and 1 of those taking a science
(B) 25% 4

(C) 37 1 % course are taking physics. If 1 of all the

2 8
(D) 60% students in the school are taking physics,
(E) 75% how many students are in the school ?
(A) 240
11. If the operation ⊗ is defined for all a (B) 300
2
(C) 480
and b by the equation a ⊗ b = a b , then
3 (D) 720
2 ⊗ (3 ⊗ −1) = (E)960

(A) 4
15. If d > 0 and 0 < 1 − c < 1 , which of the
(B) 2 d
(C) − 4 following must be true ?
3
I. c > 0
(D) -2
(E) -4 II. c < 1
d

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III. c + d > 1
2 2
Section 34
25 Minutes 16 Questions
(A) I only
(B) II only 1
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only 1. 2 =
(E) I, II, and III 1 1
+
4 6
16. The inside dimensions of a rectangular
wooden box are 6 inches by 8 inches by (A) 6
5
10 inches. A cylindrical cannister is to be
(B) 5
placed inside the box so that it stands
upright when the closed box rests on one 6
of its six faces. Of all such cannisters that (C) 5
could be used, what is the radius, in 24
inches, of the one that has maximum (D) 1
volume? 5
(A) 3 (E) 1
(B) 4 12
(C) 5
(D) 6 2. Kelly and Chris packed several boxes with
(E) 8 books. If Chris packed 60 percent of the
total number of boxes, what was the ratio
of the number of boxes Kelly packed to
the number of boxes Chris packed?
(A) 1 to 6
(B) 1 to 4
(C) 2 to 5
(D) 3 to 5
(E) 2 to 3

3. A train travels from New York City to

Chicago, a distance of approximately 840
miles, at an average rate of 60 miles per
hour and arrives in Chicago at 6:00 in the
evening, Chicago time. At what hour in
the morning, New York City time, did the
train depart for Chicago ? (Note: Chicago
time is one hour earlier than New York
City time.)
(A) 4:00
(B) 5.00
(C) 6:00
(D) 7.00
(E) 8:00

4. Of the following, which is the closest

approximation of 50.2 × 0.49 ?
199.8

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(A) 1 8. If 25 percent of p is equal to 10 percent of

10 q, and pq ≠ 0, then p is what percent of
q?
(B) 1
8 (A) 2.5%
(C) 1 (B) 15%
4 (C) 20%
(D) 35%
(D) 5
4 (E) 40%
(E) 25
9. If the length of an edge of cube X is twice
2
the length of an edge of cube Y, what is
the ratio of the volume of cube Y to the
5. Last year Manfred received 26 paychecks.
volume of cube X ?
Each of his first 6 paychecks was $750;
each of his remaining paychecks was $30
(A) 1
more than each of his first 6 paychecks. 2
To the nearest dollar, what was the 1
average (arithmetic mean) amount of his (B)
4
paychecks for the year ?
(C) 1
(A) $752 6
(B) $755
(C) $765 (D) 1
8
(D) $773
(E) $775 (E) 1
11
6. A certain pair of used shoes can be
repaired for $12.50 and will last for 1 year. 10. ( 2 + 1)( 2 − 1)( 3 + 1)( 3 − 1) =
A pair of the same kind of shoes can be
(A) 2
purchased new for $28.00 and will last for
(B) 3
2 years. The average cost per year of the
new shoes is what percent greater than the (C) 2 6
cost of repairing the used shoes? (D) 5
(E) 6
(A) 3%
(B) 5% 11. In a certain calculus class, the ratio of the
(C) 12% number of mathematics majors to the
(D) 15% number of students who are not
(E) 24% mathematics majors is 2 to 5. If 2 more
mathematics majors were to enter the
7. In a certain brick wall, each row of bricks class, the ratio would be 1 to 2. How
above the bottom row contains one less many students are in the class?
brick than the row just below it. If there
are 5 rows in all and a total of 75 bricks in (A) 10
the wall, how many bricks does the (B) 12
bottom row contain ? (C) 21
(D) 28
(A) 14 (E) 35
(B) 15
(C) 16 12. Machines A and B always operate
(D) 17 independently and at their respective
(E) 18 constant rates. When working alone,
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machine A can fill a production lot in 5 width of the frame, what is the length of
hours, and machine B can fill the same the picture, in inches?
lot in x hours. When the two machines
operate simultaneously to fill the (A) 9 2
production lot, it takes them 2 hours to (B) 3
complete the job. What is the value of x? 2
(C) 9
(A) 3 1 2
3
(B) 3 (D) 151 − 1 
 
(C) 2 1  2
2 (E) 9
(D) 2 1 2
3
(E) 1 1
2

13. In the xy-coordinate system, if (a, b) and

(a + 3, b + k) are two points on the line
defined by the equation x = 3y – 7, then k
=
(A) 9
(B) 3
(C) 7
3
(D) 1 16. Pat will walk from intersection X to
intersection Y along a route that is
(E) 1
3 confined to the square grid of four streets
and three avenues shown in the map
14. What is the units digit of above. How many routes from X to Y can
(13) 4 (17) 2 (29) 3 Pat take that have the minimum possible
length?
(A) 9 (B) 7 (C) 5 (D) 3 (E) 1
(A) 6
(B) 8
(C) 10
(D) 14
(E) 16

15. The shaded region in the figure above

represents a rectangular frame with
length 18 inches and width 15 inches.
The frame encloses a rectangular picture
that has the same area as the frame itself.
If the length and width of the picture
have the same ratio as the length and
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Section 35 what is the cover price per issue?
25 Minutes 16 Questions
(A) $1.98
(B) $2.40
1. If 4
= 1 , which of the following must (C) $2.80
a (D) $2.86
5−
b (E) $3.00
be true ?
(A) a = 0 7. Each edge of a cubical block of wood
(B) b = 0 measures 2 inches. What is the surface
(C) a = 1 area of the block in square inches ?
(D) b = 1 (A) 4
(E) a = b (B) 8
(C) 12
2. y = kx + 3 (D)16
In the equation above, k is a constant. If (E)24
y = 17 when x = 2, what is the value of y
when x = 4 ? CREATE YOUR OWN SUNDAE
(A) 34 12 Ice Cream Flavors
(B) 31 10 Kinds of Candies
(C) 14 8 Liquid Toppings
(D) 11 5 Kinds of Nuts
(E) 7 With or Without Whipped Cream

3. In 1989 the price of a new model S car 8. If a customer makes exactly one selection
was x dollars. If the price of the model S from each of the five categories shown in
car increased each year by 10 percent of the table above, what is the greatest
the previous year's price, what was the possible number of different ice cream
price of the car, in dollars, in 1991 ? sundaes that a customer can create ?
(A) 1.10x (A) 9,600
(B) 1.20x (B) 4,800
(C) 1.21x (C) 2,400
(D) 1.25x (D) 800
(E) 1.33x (E) 400

4. If n is a prime number greater than 3, what 9. The average (arithmetic mean) of 4

is the remainder when n 2 is divided by positive integers is 50. If the average of 2
12? of these integers is 45, what is the greatest
possible value that one of the other 2
(A) 0 integers can have ?
(B) 1
(C) 2 (A) 55
(D) 3 (B) 65
(E) 5 (C) 100
(D) 109
5. NOT SCORED (E) 115

10. Machine A working alone can complete a

6. If a subscription for 10 issues of a
job in 3 1 hours. Machine B working
magazine costs $24.00 and represents a 2
saving of 20 percent of the cover prices,
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representative travels to must be E, what
alone can do the same job in 4 2 hours.
3 is the minimum possible cost for the
How long will it take both machines entire trip?
working together at their respective (A) $ 13
constant rates to complete the job? (B) $14
(A) 1 hr 10 min (C) $16
(B) 2 hr (D) $18
(C) 4 hr 5 min (E) $20
(D) 7 hr
(E) 8 hr 10 min 14. A retailer sold an appliance for 30
percent above cost, which represented a
11. What is the smallest positive integer n for gross profit of $21.00. For what price did
which 324 is a factor of 6 n ? the retailer sell the appliance?

(A) 2 (A) $27.30,

(B) 3 (B) $51.00
(C) 4 (C) $63.00
(D) 5 (D) $70.00
(E) 6 (E) $91.00

15. How many integers between 324,700 and

458,600 have tens digit 1 and units digit
3?
(A) 10,300
(B) 10,030
(C) 1,353
(D) 1,352
(E) 1,339
12. In the figure above, if AB // CE, CE =
DE, and y = 45, then x = 16. A breakfast that consists of 1 ounce of
(A) 45 corn puffs and 8 ounces of fruit X
(B) 60 provides 257 calories. When 8 ounces of
(C) 67.5 fruit Y is substituted for the 8 ounces of
(D) 112.5 fruit X, the total number of calories is
(E) 135 reduced to 185. If fruit X provides 1.8
times as many calories as fruit Y, how
many calories does 8 ounces of fruit Y
alone provide ?
(A) 11.25
(B) 72
(C) 90
(D) 95
(E) 129.6

13. The table above shows the cost, in dollars,

of traveling to and from cities A, B, C, D,
E, and F. A sales representative wants to
leave from A, travel to C, E, and F, and
return to A. If the first city that the sales
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Section 36 (E) 1
25 Minutes 16 Questions 3

1. Of the people who responded to a market 5. If x and y are negative integers, which of
survey, 120 preferred Brand X and the rest the following must be true?
preferred Brand Y. If the respondents
indicated a preference for Brand X over I. x - y < 0
Brand Y by a ratio of 3 to 1, how many II. x > y
people responded to the survey ? y
(A) 80 III. x 2 > y
(B) 160
(A) I only
(C) 240
(B) II only
(D) 360
(C) III only
(E) 480
(D) I and III
(E) II and III
2. ( x + 3 y ) 2 =
6. A certain hotel has 1,400 single rooms and
(A) x 2 + 3y 2
420 double rooms. Each room is cleaned
(B) x2 + 9y2 by one person. If one person can clean a
(C) x 2 + 3 xy + 3 y 2 single room every 15 minutes and a
(D) x 2 + 3xy + 9 y 2 double room every 20 minutes, how many
cleaning persons are needed to clean all
(E) x 2 + 6 xy + 9 y 2 the rooms if each person works for exactly
7 hours?
3. At Company K, 15 percent of the
employees are secretaries and 60 percent (A) 65
are salespeople. If there are 45 other (B) 70
employees of Company K, how many (C) 80
employees does Company K have? (D) 90
(E) 265
(A) 160
(B) 180
(C) 190
(D) 200
(E) 400

4. 1 1
− =
1 1
1+ 1+
3 2 7. In the figure above, the two square regions
have areas 16 and 25, respectively. What
(A) − 1 is the area of the shaded triangular region?
3
(A) 6
(B) − 1
(B) 8
6 (C) 9
(C) − 1 (D) 12
12 (E) 15
(D) 1
12 8. If the consumer price index for a sample
of goods and services purchased in Dallas
rose from 100 at the end of 1967 to x at
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the end of 1985, what was the average 11. A point on the edge of a fan blade that is
(arithmetic mean) annual increase in the rotating in a plane is 10 centimeters from
index over this period ? the center of the fan. What is the distance
traveled, in centimeters, by this point in
(A) x + 100 15 seconds when the fan runs at the rate
18 of 300 revolutions per minute ?
(B) x
18 (A) 750π
(B) 1,500π
(C) 100 − x
18 (C) 1,875π
x − 100 (D) 3,000π
(D)
18 (E) 7,500π
(E) 100x 12. A 2-year certificate of deposit is
18
purchased for k dollars. If the certificate
9. At a certain instant in time, the number of earns interest at an annual rate of 6
cars, N, traveling on a portion of a certain percent compounded quarterly, which of
highway can be estimated by the formula the following represents the value, in
dollars, of the certificate at the end of the
20 Ld , where L is the number of
N= 2 years ?
600 + s 2
lanes in the same direction, d is the length (A) (1.06)2k
of the portion of the highway, in feet, and (B) (1.06)8k
s is the average speed of the cars, in miles (C) (1.015)2k
per hour. Based on the formula, what is (D) (1.015)8k
the estimated number of cars traveling on (E) (1.03)4k
a 1 mile portion of the highway if the 13. If the sum of the first n positive integers
2
is S, what is the sum of the first n
highway has 2 lanes in the same direction
and the average speed of the cars is 40 positive even integers, in terms of S ?
miles per hour?
(A) S
(5,280 feet =1 mile) 2
(B) S
(A) 155 (C) 2S
(B) 96 (D) 2S + 2
(C) 80 (E) 4S
(D) 48
(E) 24 14. If x and y are positive numbers and z =
xy2, a 50 percent increase in x and a 20
10. In how many different ways can 3 people percent decrease in y would result in
be assigned to fill 3 different positions so which of the following changes in z?
that each person is assigned to exactly
one position? (A) A decrease of 4%
(B) A decrease of 14%
(A) Twelve (C) An increase of 4%
(B) Nine (D) An increase of 20%
(C) Six (E) An increase of 30%
(D) Three
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15. If it is 6:27 in the evening on a certain Section 37
day, what time in the morning was it 25 Minutes 16 Questions
exactly 2,880,717 minutes earlier?
(Assume standard time in one location.) 1. A bakery opened yesterday with its daily
supply of 40 dozen rolls. Half of the rolls
(A) 6:22
were sold by noon, and 80 percent of the
(B) 6:24
remaining rolls were sold between noon
(C) 6:27
and closing time. How many dozen rolls
(D) 6:30
had not been sold when the bakery closed
(E) 6:32
yesterday ?
16. If n is an integer, which of the following (A) 1
CANNOT be a factor of 3n + 4 ? (B) 2
(C) 3
(A) 4 (D) 4
(B) 5 (E) 5
(C) 6
(D) 7 2. What is the combined area, in square
(E) 8 inches, of the front and back of a
rectangular sheet of paper measuring 8 1
2
inches by 11 inches ?
(A) 38
(B) 44
(C) 88
(D) 176
(E) 187

3. 150 is what percent of 30 ?

(A) 5%
(B) 20%
(C) 50%
(D) 200%
(E) 500%

4. 7 + 5 =
1 1
5 7

(A) 35
74
(B) 74
35
(C) 35
(D) 70
(E) 74

5. From January 1, 1991, to January 1, 1993,

the number of people enrolled in health
maintenance organizations increased by
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15 percent. The enrollment on January 1,
(B) 1 1
1993, was 45 million. How many million 2
people, to the nearest million, were 5
enrolled in health maintenance (C) 1
7
organizations on January 1, 1991 ?
(D) 3 1
(A) 38 2
(B) 39 (E) 7
(C) 40
(D) 41 9. R is the set of positive odd integers less
(E) 42 than 50, and S is the set of the squares of
the integers in R. How many elements
p does the intersection of R and S contain ?
6. If < 1 , and p and q are positive integers,
q (A) None
which of the following must be greater (B) Two
than 1? (C) Four
(D) Five
(A) p
(E) Seven
q
(B) p 10. To mail a package, the rate is x cents for
q 2 the first pound and y cents for each
additional pound, where x > y. Two
(C) p packages weighing 3 pounds and 5
2q pounds, respactively, can be mailed
(D) q separately or combined as one package.
p2 Which method is cheaper, and how much
money is saved ?
(E) q
p (A) Combined, with a saving of x – y
cents
7. If a 2-digit positive integer has its digits (B) Combined, with a saving of y – x
reversed, the resulting integer differs from cents
the original by 27. By how much do the (C) Combined, with a saving of x cents
two digits differ? (D) Separately, with a saving of x – y
cents
(A) 3 (E) Separately, with a saving of y cents
(B) 4
(C) 5 11. If money is invested at r percent interest,
(D) 6 com-pounded annually, the amount of the
(E) 7 investment will double in approximately
70 years. If Pat’s parents invested
8. It would take one machine 4 hours to
r
complete a large production order and
$5,000 in a long-term bond that pays 8
another machine 3 hours to complete the
percent interest, compounded annually,
same order. How many hours would it
what will be the approximate total
take both machines, working
amount of the investment 18 years later,
simultaneously at their respective constant
when Pat is ready for college ?
rates, to complete the order ?
(A) $20,000
(A) 7 (B) $15,000
12 (C) $12,000
(D) $10,000
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(E) $9,000 (A) | x | ≤ 3
(B) | x | ≤ 5
(C) | x – 2 | ≤ 3
(D) | x – 1 | ≤ 4
(E) | x + 1 | ≤ 4

15. In an electric circuit, two resistors with

resistances x and y are connected in
parallel. In this case, if r is the combined
12. The circle with center C shown above is resistance of these two resistors, then the
tangent to both axes. If the distance from reciprocal of r is equal to the sum of the
O to C is equal to k, what is the radius of reciprocals of x and y. What is r in terms
the circle, in terms of k ? of x and y ?
(A) k (A) xy
(B) k (B) x + y
2 (C) 1
(C) k x+ y
3 (D) xy
(D) k x+ y
2
(E) x + y
(E) k xy
3
16. Xavier, Yvonne, and Zelda each try
13. On a recent trip, Cindy drove her car 290 independently to solve a problem. If their
miles, rounded to the nearest 10 miles, individual probabilities for success are
and used 12 gallons of gasoline, rounded 1 , 1 , and 5 , respectively, what is the
to the nearest gallon. The actual number
4 2 8
of miles per gallon that Cindy's car got
probability that Xavier and Yvonne, but
on this trip must have been between
not Zelda, will solve the problem ?
(A) 290 and 290
12.5 11.5 (A) 11
8
(B) 295 and 285
7
12 11.5 (B)
8
(C) 285 and 295
12 12 (C) 9
64
(D) 285 and 295
12.5 11.5 (D) 5
64
(E) 295 and 285
12.5 11.5 (E) 3
64

14. Which of the following inequalities is an

algebraic expression for the shaded part
of the number line above?
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Section 38 (A) 0
25 Minutes 16 Questions (B) –1
(C) –2
1. A retail appliance store priced a video (D)-3
recorder at 20 percent above the wholesale (E) -4
cost of $200. If a store employee applied
the 10 percent employee discount to the 6. In a small snack shop, the average
retail price to buy the recorder, how much (arithmetic mean) revenue was $400 per
did the employee pay for the recorder? day over a 10-day period. During this
period, if the average daily revenue was
(A) $198 $360 for the first 6 days, what was the
(B) $216 average daily revenue for the last 4 days?
(C) $220
(D) $230 (A) $420
(E) $240 (B) $440
(C) $450
(D) $460
2. The ratio 2 to 1 is equal to the ratio (E) $480
3
(A) 6 to 1 7. A certain country had a total annual
(B) 5 to 1 expenditure of $1.2 ×1012 last year. If the
(C) 3 to 2 population of the country was 240 million
(D) 2 to 3 last year, what was the per capita
(E) 1 to 6 expenditure ?

3. y = 248 - 398x (A) $500

(B) $1,000
Which of the following values of x gives (C) $2,000
the greatest value of y in the equation above? (D) $3,000
(A) 200 (E) $5,000
(B) 100
(C) 0.5 8. A certain rectangular window is twice as
(D) 0 long as it is wide. If its perimeter is 10 feet,
(E) -1 then its dimensions in feet are

4. A factory has 500 workers, 15 percent of (A) 3 by 7

2 2
whom are women. If 50 additional 5 10
workers are to be hired and all of the (B) by
present workers remain, how many of the 3 3
additional workers must be women in (C) 2 by 4
order to raise the percent of women (D) 3 by 6
employees to 20 percent? (E) 10 by 20
3 3
(A) 3
(B) 10
(C) 25
(D) 30
(E) 35

5. If 1 − 1 = 1 , then x could be 9. The diagram above shows the various

x x +1 x + 4 paths along which a mouse can travel
from point X, where it is released, to point
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Y. where it is rewarded with a food pellet. (E) 12
How many different paths from X to Y can
the mouse take if it goes directly from X to 13. At a loading dock, each worker on the
Y without retracing any point along a night crew loaded 3 as many boxes as
path? 4
(A) 6 each worker on the day crew. If the night
(B) 7 crew has 4 as many workers as the day
(C) 12 5
(D) 14 crew, what fraction of all the boxes
(E) 17 loaded by the two crews did the day crew
load?

(A) 1
2
(B) 2
5
(C) 3
10. The rectangular region above contains 5
two circles and a semicircle, each with a (D) 4
5
radius of 7. If 22 is used as an 5
7 (E)
approximation forπ, then the area of the 8
shaded region is approximately
−3 −2 −1

(A) 105 14.  1   1   1  =

(B) 210  2   4   16 
(C) 380 −18
(D) 385 (A)  1 
(E) 405 2
−11

11. If the operation ⊙ is defined by x⊙y (B)  1 

2
= xy for all positive numbers x and y, −6

then (5⊙45)⊙60= (C)  1 

2
(A) 30 −11

(B) 60 (D)  1 
(C) 90 8
−6
(D) 30 15 (E)  1 
(E) 60 15 8

12. A bar over a sequence of digits in a 15. In a certain game, a large container is
decimal indicates that the sequence filled with red, yellow, green, and blue
repeats indefinitely. What is the value of beads worth, respectively, 7, 5, 3, and 2
(10 4 − 10 2 )(0.0012) ? points each. A number of beads are then
removed from the container. If the product
(A) 0 of the point values of the removed beads
(B) 0.12 is 147,000, how many red beads were
(C) 1.2 removed?
(D) 10 (A) 5
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(B) 4 Section 39
(C) 3 25 Minutes 16 Questions
(D) 2
(E) 0 1. 784 =

16. Seed mixture X is 40 percent ryegrass (A) 28

and 60 percent bluegrass by weight; seed (B) 32
mixture Y is 25 percent ryegrass and 75 (C) 38
percent fescue. If a mixture of X and Y (D) 56
contains 30 percent ryegrass, what (E) 112
percent of the weight of this mixture is
X? 2. A total of x tourists were transported by
bus to a certain museum. If there were y
(A) 10% tourists on each bus, which of the
(B) 33 1 % following expresses the number of buses
3 used?
(C) 40%
(D) 50% (A) xy
(B) x
(E) 66 2 % y
3
(C) y
x
(D) x - y
(E) y x

3. If n is an integer, which of the following

must be even ?
(A) n + 1
(B) n + 2
(C) 2n
(D) 2n + 1
(E) n 2
4. 1
=
0.75 −1
(A) -4
(B) -0.25
(C) 0.25
(D) 0.75
(E) 4

5. Sixty percent of the members of a study

group are women, and 45 percent of those
women are lawyers. If one member of the
study group is to be selected at random,
what is the probability that the member
selected is a woman lawyer?
(A) 0.10
(B) 0.15
(C) 0.27
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(D) 0.33
(E) 0.45

6. The dimensions of a rectangular floor are

16 feet by 20 feet. When a rectangular rug
is placed on the floor, a strip of floor 3
feet wide is exposed on all sides. What are 10. The president of a country and 4 other
the dimensions of the rug, in feet? dignitaries are scheduled to sit in a row
(A) 10 by 14 on the 5 chairs represented above. If the
(B) 10 by 17 president must sit in the center chair, how
(C) 13 by 14 many different seating arrangements are
(D) 13 by 17 possible for the 5 people?
(E) 14 by 16 (A) 4
(B) 5
7. Harry started a 6-mile hike with a full (C) 20
10-cup canteen of water and finished the (D) 24
hike in 2 hours with 1 cup of water (E) 120
remaining in the canteen. If the canteen
leaked at the rate of 1 cup per hour and 11. If the sum of two positive integers is 24
Harry drank 3 cups of water during the and the difference of their squares is 48,
last mile, how many cups did he drink per what is the product of the two integers?
mile during the first 5 miles of the hike?
(A) 108
(A) 4 (B) 119
5 (C) 128
5 (D) 135
(B)
6 (E) 143
(C) 1
12. The volume of a sphere with radius r is
(D) 6 4 3 and the surface area is
5 πr 4πr 2 . If a
5 3
(E) spherical balloon has a volume of 972π
4
cubic centimeters, what is the surface
area of the balloon in square centimeters?
8. The original retail price of an appliance
was 60 percent more than its wholesale (A) 324
cost. If the appliance was actually sold for (B) 729
20 percent less than the original retail (C) 243π
price, then it was sold for what percent (D) 324π
more than its wholesale cost? (E) 729π
(A) 20%
(B) 28% 13. On a certain scale of intensity, each
(C) 36% increment of 10 in magnitude represents
(D) 40% a tenfold increase in intensity. On this
(E) 42% scale, an intensity corresponding to a
magnitude of 165 is how many times an
9. If y is an integer, then the least possible intensity corresponding to a magnitude of
value of |23 - 5y| is 125?
(A) 40
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5 (B) 100
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(C) 400 Section 40
(D) 1,000 25 Minutes 16 Questions
(E) 10,000
1. If x is negative, which of the following
14. If the perimeter of square region S and must be positive ?
the perimeter of circular region C are
equal, then the ratio of the area of S to I. x 2
the area of C is closest to II. (-1) x
III. 1
(A) 3 x
2 (A) I only
(B) 4 (B) I and II only
3 (C) I and III only
3 (D) II and III only
(C)
4 (E) I, II, and III
(D) 2 2. The employees of Smith Enterprises
3
received wage increases ranging from 30
(E) 1
2 cents to 87 1 cents per hour. What was
2
the maximum wage increase for a 40-hour
15. On a Saturday night, each of the rooms at
week?
a certain motel was rented for either $40
or $60. If 10 of the rooms that were (A) $12.00
rented for $60 had instead been rented (B) $23.00
for $40, then the total rent the motel (C) $34.80
charged for that night would have been (D) $35.00
reduced by 25 percent. What was the (E) $35.20
total rent the motel actually charged for
that night ?
(A) $600
(B) $800
(C) $1,000
(D) $1,600
(E) $2,400

16. If n and k are integers whose product is

400, which of the following statements 3. If O is the center of the circle above and
must be true? the length of arc RSP is twice the length of
arc PQR, then x equals
(A) n + k > 0
(A) 60
(B) n ≠ k
(B) 100
(C) Either n or k is a multiple of 10.
(C) 120
(D) If n is even, then k is odd.
(D) 150
(E) If n is odd , then k is even.
(E) 240

4. The sum of 3 hours 45 minutes and 2

hours 55 minutes is approximately what
percent of a day ?
(A) 14%
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(B) 16% country roads. One runner jogs due north
(C) 24% at a constant rate of 8 miles per hour while
(D) 28% the second runner jogs due east at a
(E) 72% constant rate that is 4 miles per hour faster
than the first runner's rate. How far apart,
5. A salesman makes a 20 percent to the nearest mile, will they be after
commission on the selling price of each 1 hour ?
set of encyclopedias he sells. If he sells 12 2
identical sets of encyclopedias and makes
$1,800 in commissions, what is the selling (A) 6
price of each set? (B) 7
(C) 8
(A) $300 (D) 12
(B) $600 (E) 14
(C) $750
(D) $900 10. A square playground has the same area as
(E) $1,080 a rectangular playground that is 30
meters longer but 20 meters narrower.
6. If x < 12, then it must be true that What is the length, in meters, of a side of
(A) - x < - 12 the square playground?
(B) - x - 2 < 14 (A) 10 5
(C) - x + 2 < -10
(D) x + 2 < 10 (B) 10 6
(E) x - 2 < 11 (C) 25
(D) 50
7. The 10 households on a certain street have (E) 60
household incomes that range from
$34,000 to $150,000 and an average 11. The price of a dress was first discounted
(arithmetic mean) household income of by a certain percent and later by 25
$60,000. If the household with the highest percent of the discounted price. If these
income and the one with the lowest two discounts are equivalent to a single
income are excluded, what is the average discount of 40 percent of the original
household income for the remaining 8 price, what was the first discount ?
households? (A) 10%
(A) $41,600 (B) 15%
(B) $47,000 (C) 20%
(C) $52,000 (D) 30%
(D) $61,000 (E) 65%
(E) $75,000
12. If it is assumed that each of the n
8. If x = y + 4 and x = 20 – y, then production workers in a factory
x2 − y2 = assembles one instrument every t minutes,
how many instruments does the factory
(A) 16 assemble in 7.5 hours of production?
(B) 80
(C) 144 (A) 450n
(D) 256 t
(E) 384 (B) 450 t
n
9. On level farmland, two runners leave at (C) 450nt
the same time from the intersection of two
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(D) 7.5tn (E) (20)(5,280)

60 (60)(0.5)
(E) 5n
7 .
60t 16. Working alone, a small pump takes twice
as long as a large pump takes to fill an
13. What is the difference between the sixth empty tank. Working together at their
and the fifth terms of the sequence 2, 4, respective constant rates, the pumps can
7, ...... whose nth term is n + 2 n −1 ? fill the tank in 6 hours. How many hours
would it take the small pump to fill the
(A) 2 tank working alone ?
(B) 3 (A) 8
(C) 6 (B) 9
(D) 16 (C) 12
(E) 17 (D) 15
(E) 18
14. Which of the following could be the sum
of the reciprocals of two different prime
numbers?

(A) 7
13
(B) 10
21
(C) 11
30
(D) 23
50
(E) 19
77

15. The rear wheels of a car crossed a certain

line 0.5 second after the front wheels
crossed the same line. If the centers of
the front and rear wheels are 20 feet apart
and the car traveled in a straight line at a
constant speed, which of the following
gives the speed of the car in miles per
hour? (5,280 feet = 1 mile)

(A)  20  60 
2

 
 5,280  0.5 
(B)  20  60 
 5,280  0.5 
(C)  20  0.5 
 5,280  60 
2

(D) (20)(5,280)
(60 2 )(0.5)

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Section 41 (D) $165
25 Minutes 16 Questions (E) $192

1. A study based on a random sample 5. If x + y = 1 and x – y = -1, what is the

revealed that, on average, 2 out of 5 adults value of xy?
have high blood pressure. If these results
(A) -2
hold true for the 580,000 adults in City A,
(B) -1
approximately how many adults in City A
(C) 0
have high blood pressure ?
(D) 1
(A) 116,000 (E) 2
(B) 145,000
(C) 232,000 6. NOT SCORED
(D) 250,000
(E) 290,000
7. If ( x 2 + 6 x + 9) + 6( x + 3) + 9 = 0 , then x =

2. The sum 7 + 1 is between (A) -6 (B) -3 (C) 0 (D) 3 (E) 6

8 9
8. In 1982 and 1983, Company B’s operating
(A) 1 and 3 expenses were $12.0 million and $14.0
2 4 million, respectively, and its revenues
(B) 3 and 1 were $15.6 million and $18.8 million,
4 respectively. What was the percent
(C) 1 and 1 1 increase in Company B’s profit (revenues
4 minus operating expenses) from 1982 to
1 1983 ?
(D) 1 and 1 1
4 2 (A) 3%
1
(E) 1 and 2 (B) 16 2 %
2 3
(C) 25%
3. A certain state legislature consists of 124
members, each of whom is either a (D) 33 1 %
3
Democrat or a Republican. If there are 18 (E) 60%
more Republicans than Democrats, how
many Republicans are in the legislature ?
9. If a and b are integers and b ≠ 0，which
(A) 44 of the following CANNOT equal 0 ?
(B) 53
(A) ab
(C) 71
(B) a - b
(D) 80
(C) a + b
(E) 106
(D) ab - b2
(E) a2 + b2
4. A certain psychologist charges $30 more
for the first hour of therapy than for each
additional hour. If the total charge to a
patient who receives 6 hours of therapy is
$300, what is the total charge to a patient
who receives only 3 hours of therapy ?
(A) $120
(B) $135
(C) $150
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(E) 2
x
3

10. What are the coordinates of point B in the

xy-plane above ?
(A) (6, 12) 13. According to the incomplete table above,
(B) (6, 28) if each of the 6 teams in the league
(C) (8, 20) played each of the other teams exactly
(D) (12, 20) twice and there were no ties, how many
(E) (14, 28) games did team X win? (Only 2 teams
play in a game.)
11. Last year 31 percent of Ace Book
Company's sales revenue came from the (A) 4
sale of novels. Of the remaining revenue, (B) 5
1 was from the sale of biographies. The (C) 6
(D) 8
3 (E) 10
company's revenue from the sale of
novels was approximately how many 14. When the integer k is divided by 12, the
times its revenue from the sale of remainder is 3. Which of the following,
biographies? when divided by 12, will have a
(A) 1.3 remainder of 6 ?
(B) 1.5 I. 2k
(C) 2.1 II. 6k
(D) 2.5 III. 4k + 6
(E) 3.1
(A) I only
12. Three musical tones have frequencies x, y, (B) II only
and z, respectively. If x, y, and z are (C) III only
(D) I and II only
positive, x = y , and 2x = z, what is y in
y z (E) I, II, and III
terms of x ?
(A) 2
(B) ( 2 ) x
(C) 1 x
2
(D) x1
2

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15. A rectangular tabletop consists of a piece Section 42
of laminated wood bordered by a thin metal 25 Minutes 16 Questions
strip along its four edges. The surface area of
the tabletop is x square feet, and the total 1. Which of the following fractions is equal
length of the strip before it was attached was to 0.16 ?
x feet. If the tabletop is 3 feet wide, what is
its approximate length, in feet ? (A) 1
4
(A) 12
(B) 10 (B) 4
25
(C) 9
(C) 5
(D) 8
(E) 6 8
(D) 8
16. For all real numbers v, the operation v* is 5
25
defined by the equation v* = v - v . If (E)
3 4
(v*)* = 8, then v =
2. There is a total of 120 marbles in a box,
(A) 15 each of which is red, green, blue, or white.
(B) 18 If one marble is drawn from the box at
(C) 21 random, the probability that it will be
(D) 24
(E) 27 white is 1 and the probability that it will
4
be green is 1 . What is the probability that
3
the marble will be either red or blue ?

(A) 1
6
(B) 1
4
(C) 2
7
(D) 1
3
(E) 5
12

3. If x is a positive number less than 10,

which of the following is least ?
(A) x – 20
(B) x
(C) 0
(D) –x
(E) 20 – x

4. A computer programmer needs to print

148 documents. The documents have an
average (arithmetic mean) length of 10
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pages and the printer takes 15 seconds to 7. Jaime earned enough money by selling
print each page. Approximately how many seashells at 25 cents each to buy several
hours will it take to print all the used paperback books at 55 cents each. If
documents if they are printed without he spent all of the money he earned selling
interruptions? seashells to buy the books, what is the
least number of seashells he could have
1
(A) hr sold ?
2
(B) 2 hr (A) 5
(B) 11
(C) 2 1 hr (C) 17
2 (D) 25
(D) 6 hr (E) 30
(E) 24 hr
8. In a certain sequence, the first term is 1,
and each successive term is 1 more than
the reciprocal of the term that immediately
precedes it. What is the fifth term of the
sequence?

(A) 3
5
(B) 5
5. The figure above represents a frame; the
shaded regions represent the openings in 8
the frame. If all line segments in the figure (C) 8
are either horizontal or vertical and the 5
openings are the same size, what are the (D) 5
dimensions of each opening ? 3
(E) 9
(A) 4.5 cm by 5 cm
(B) 4.5 cm by 6.5 cm 2
(C) 5 cm by 5.5 cm
(D) 5 cm by 9 cm 9. A wildlife preserve is being planned for
(E) 5 cm by 11 cm 3,000 rhinoceroses. The preserve is to
contain a total of 10,000 acres of watering
6. In the first hour of a two-hour trip, a car area, plus 100 acres of grazing area for
traveled d kilometers, and in the second each rhinoceros. If the number of
hour of the trip, the car traveled one-half rhinoceroses is expected to increase by 10
that distance. What is the average rate at percent, how many thousand acres should
which the car traveled during the trip, in the preserve have in order to provide for
kilometers per hour? the increased population?

(A) d (A) 340

(B) 330
(B) 1 d (C) 320
3
(D) 310
(C) 1 d (E) 300
2
(D) 3 d 10. For the positive numbers n, n + 1, n + 2,
4 n + 4 and n + 8, the mean is how much
(E) d3 greater than the median?
2 (A) 0
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(B) 1 (B) 8
(C) n + 1 (C) 10
(D) n + 2 (D) 11
(E) n + 3 (E) 20

14. What is the least number of digits

(including repetitions) needed to express
10100 in decimal notation?
(A) 4
(B) 100
(C) 101
(D) 1,000
11. The figure above shows the dimensions (E) 1,001
of an isosceles triangle in terms of x.
What is the area of the triangle? 15. A group of 12 people plan to rent a van
(A) 24 and agree to share equally the total cost
(B) 30 of the rental, which is E dollars. If n of
(C) 48 the people decide not to participate at the
(D) 60 last minute, by how many dollars will
(E) 96 each remaining person's share of the total
cost increase?
12. In a certain animal population, for each E
of the first 3 months of life, the (A)
probability that an animal will die during 12 − n
12 − n
that month is 1 . For a group of 200 (B)
E
10
newborn members of the population, (C) E
approximately how many would be 12(12 − n)
expected to survive the first 3 months of nE
(D)
life? 12(12 − n)
(A) 140 (E) (12 − n) E
(B) 146 12n
(C) 152
(D) 162 16. The concentration of a certain chemical
(E) 170 in a full water tank depends on the depth
of the water. At a depth that is x feet
below the top of the tank, the
concentration is 3 + 4 parts per
5− x
million, where 0 < x < 4. To the nearest
0.1 foot, at what depth is the
concentration equal to 6 parts per
million?
(A) 2.4 ft
13. In the figure above, how many of the (B) 2.5 ft
points on line segment PQ have (C) 2.8 ft
coordinates that are both integers? (D) 3.0 ft
(A) 5 (E) 3.2 ft

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