Numbers and Operations Questions

1. A survey of Town X found an average

(arithmetic mean) of 3.2 persons per 4. At the beginning of 1999, the
household and a mean of 1.2 televisions population of Rockville was 204,000 and
per household. If 48,000 people live in the population of Springfield was
Town X, how many televisions are in 216,000. If the population of each city
Town X? increased by exactly 20% in 1999, how
(A) 15,000 many more people lived in Springfield
(B) 16,000 than in Rockville at the end of 1999?
(C) 18,000 (A) 2,400
(D) 40,000 (B) 10,000
(E) 57,600 (C) 12,000
(D) 14,400
2. A basketball team had a ratio of wins to (E) 43,200
losses of 3:1. After the team won six
games in a row, its ratio of wins to 5. If 2 = 122 , and is an odd integer,
losses became 5:1. How many games then could be divisible by all of the
had the team won before winning six following EXCEPT
games in a row? (A) 3
(A) 3 (B) 4
(B) 6 (C) 6
(C) 9 (D) 9
(D) 15 (E) 12
(E) 24
6. There are 250 students in 10th grade at
Northgate High School. All 10th graders
must take French or Spanish, but not
both. If the ratio of males to females in
10th grade is 2 to 3, and 80 of the 100
French students are male, how many
3. Fifteen percent of the coins in a piggy female students take Spanish?
bank are nickels and five percent are
dimes. If there are 220 coins in the 7. A researcher found that the amount of
bank, how many are not nickels or sleep that she allowed her mice to get
dimes? was inversely proportional to the
(A) 80 number of errors the mice made, on
(B) 176 average, in a maze test. If mice that got
(C) 180 2 hours of sleep made 3 errors in the
(D) 187 maze test, how many errors, on
(E) 200
 average, do mice with 5 hours of sleep (A) 11,000 %
make? (B) 1%
(C) 10%
8. For a given year, a mayor has $45,000 (D) 100%
allotted to spend on the sanitation (E) 1,000%
department, the police department,
1
and the fire department. If of his 12. If = 4 + 26, and is a positive
5
money goes to the sanitation integer, then could be divisible by all
2 of the following EXCEPT
department, and 3 of the remaining
money goes to the police department, (A) 2
how much does the mayor have left for (B) 4
(C) 5
the fire department?
(A) $36,000 (D) 6
(B) $24,000 (E) 7
(C) $21,000
(D) $12,000 13. A science class has a ratio of girls to
(E) $6,000 boys of 4 to 3. If the class has a total of
35 students, how many more girls are
9. S is the set of all positive numbers n there than boys?
(A) 20
such that < 100 and is an integer.
(B) 15
What is the median value of the
(C) 7
members of set S?
(D) 5
(A) 5
(E) 1
(B) 5.5
(C) 25
14. Which if the following is equivalent to
(D) 50
9 3 + 3 18?
(E) 99
(A) 4 5
(B) 4 6
10. On a map, 1 centimeter represents 6
(C) 3 5
Kilometers. A square on the map with a
(D) 3 5
perimeter of 16 centimeters represents
(E) 4 6
a region with what area?
(A) 64 square kilometres 15. If Alexandra pays $56.65 for a table, and
(B) 96 square kilometers this amount includes a tax of 3% on the
(C) 256 square kilometers price of the table, what is the amount,
(D) 576 square kilometers in dollars, that she pays in tax?
(E) 8,216 square kilometers
16. A researcher found that the number of
11. If 0.1% of m is equal to 10% of n, then bacteria in a certain sample doubles
m is what percent of 10n? every hour. If there were 6 bacteria in
 the sample at the start of the (C) 7.5
experiment, how many bacteria were (D) 10
there after 9 hours? (E) 12.5

(A) 54 18. If || 0, which of the following

(B) 512 statements must be true?
(C) 1536 (A) is positive
(D) 3072 (B) 2 is positive
(E) 6144 1
(C)
is positive
2
(D) is positive
17. A bakery uses a special flour mixture
(E) 3 is positive
that contains corn, wheat, and rye in
the ratio of 3:5:2. If a bag of the mixture
19. When is divided by 5, the remainder
contains 5 pounds of rye, how many
is 4. When is divided by 4, the
pounds of wheat does it contain?
remainder is 3. If 0 < < 100, what is
(A) 2
one possible value of ?
(B) 5
Numbers and Operations Solutions
1. C
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. D
6. 130
6 1
7. 1.2 or or 1
5 5
8. D
9. C
10. D
11. E
12. B
13. D
14. A
15. 1.65
16. D
17. E
18. D
19. 19