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DATA SUFFICIENCY
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SECTION 1
30 Minutes 25 Questions 7. Is x2 equal to xy?
(1) x2 – y2 = (x + 5)(y - 5)
1. If today the price of an item is $3,600,
(2) x = y
what was the price of the item exactly 2
years ago?
8. Was 70 the average (arithmetic mean)
(1) The price of the item increased by 10 grade on a class test?
per-cent per year during this 2-year
(1) On the test, half of the class had
period.
grades below 70 and half of the class
(2) Today the price of the item is 1.21
had grades above 70.
times its price exactly 2 years ago.
(2) The lowest grade on the test was 45
and the highest grade on the test was
2. By what percent has the price of an
95.
overcoat been reduced?
(1) The original price was $380. 9. What was John’s average driving speed in
(2) The original price was $50 more than miles per hour during a 15-minute
the reduced price. interval?
(1) He drove 10 miles during this interval.
3. If the Longfellow Playground is
(2) His maximum speed was 50 miles per
rectangular, what is its width?
hour and his minimum speed was 35
(1) The ratio of its length to its width is 7 miles per hour during this interval.
to 2.
(2) The perimeter of the playground is 10. Is ΔMNP isosceles?
396 meters.
(1) Exactly two of the angles, ∠M and
4. What is the value of x –1? ∠N, have the same measure
(2) ∠N and ∠P do not have the same
(1) x + 1 =3
measure.
(2) x – 1 < 3
11. Is n an integer greater than 4?
5. Is William taller than Jane?
(1) 3n is a positive integer.
(1) William is taller than Anna.
(2) Anna is not as tall as Jane. n
(2) is a positive integer.
3
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13. A coal company can choose to transport 17. At a certain university, if 50 percent of
coal to one of its customers by railroad the people who inquire about admission
or by truck. If the railroad charges by the policies actually submit applications for
mile and the trucking company charges admission, what percent of those who
by the ton, which means of transporting submit applications for admission enroll
the coal would cost less than the other? in classes at the university?
(1) The railroad charges $5,000 plus (1) Fifteen percent of those who submit
$0.01 per mile per railroad car used, applications for admission are
and the trucking company charges accepted at the university.
$3,000 plus $85 per ton. (2) Eighty percent of those who are
(2) The customer to whom the coal is to accepted send a deposit to the
be sent is 195 miles away from the university.
coal company.
x
18. If x and y are nonzero integers, is an
14. Is x – y > r – s? y
(1) x > r and y < s? integer?
(2) y = 2, s = 3, r = 5, and x = 6. (1) x is the product of 2 and some other
integer.
15. On a certain day it took Bill three times (2) There is only one pair of positive
as long to drive from home to work as it integers whose product equals y.
took Sue to drive from home to work.
How many kilometers did Bill drive 19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x?
from home to work?
(1) 1 1 1
(1) Sue drove 10 kilometers from home 5 x 1 2
to work, and the ratio of distance (2) ( x 3)( x 4) 0
driven from home to work time to
drive from home to work was the
same for Bill and Sue that day. 20. Is quadrilateral Q a square?
(2) The ratio of distance driven from (1) The sides of Q have the same length.
home to work time to drive from (2) The diagonals of Q have the same
home to work for Sue that day was length.
64 kilometers per hour.
21. If K is a positive integer less than 10 and
N = 4,321 + K, what is the value of K?
(1) N is divisible by 3.
(2) N is divisible by 7.
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7. If a rope is cut into three pieces of 12. If J, K, L, M, and N and positive integers
unequal length, what is the length of the in ascending order, what is the value of
shortest of these pieces of rope? L?
(1) The combined length of the longer (1) The value of K is 3.
two pieces of rope is 12 meters. (2) The value of M is 7.
(2) The combined length of the shorter
two pieces of rope is 11 meters. 13. If a, b, and c are integers, is the number
3(a b) c divisible by 3?
8. A certain company paid bonuses of $125
to each of its executive employees and (1) a + b is divisible by 3.
$75 to each of its nonexecutive (2) c is divisible by 3.
employees. If 100 of the employees were
nonexecutives, how many were 14. Each M-type memory unit will increase
executives? the base memory capacity of a certain
computer by 3 megabytes. What is the
(1) The company has a total of 120 base memory capacity, in megabytes of
employees. the computer?
(2) The total amount that the company
paid in bonuses to its employees was (1) 2 M-type memory units will increase
$10.000. the computers base memory capacity
by 300 percent
9. What fraction of his salary did Mr. (2) The memory capacity of the
Johnson put into savings last week? computer after 2 M-type memory
units are added to the base memory
(1) Last week Mr. Johnson put $17 into capacity is 1.6 times the memory
savings. capacity of the computer after 1
(2) Last week Mr. Johnson put 5% of his M-type memory unit is added to the
salary into savings. base memory capacity.
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(1) Candidate F received 11 of the votes.
(2) Candidate H received 14 of the votes.
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SECTION 3 integers in ascending order.
30 Minutes 25 Questions
7. In ΔHGM, what is the length of side
HM?
1. For a certain bottle and cork, what is the
price of the cork? (1) HG = 5
(2) GM = 8
(1) The combined price of the bottle and
the cork is 95 cents.
(2) The price of the bottle is 75 cents 8. Claire paid a total of $1.60 for stamps,
more than the price of the cork. some of which cost $0.20 each, and the
rest of which cost $0.15 each. How many
2. Last year an employee received a gross 20-cent stamps did Claire buy?
annual salary of $18,000, which was paid
in equal paychecks throughout the year. (1) Claire bought exactly 9 stamps.
What was the gross salary received in (2) The number of 20-cent stamps Claire
each of the paychecks? bought was 1 more than the number
of 15-cent stamps she bought.
(1) The employee received a total of 24
paychecks during the year. 9. If Ruth began a job and worked
(2) The employee received a paycheck continuously until she finished, at what
twice a month each month during the time of day did she finish the job?
year.
(1) She started the job at 8:15 a.m. and at
3. What was Bill’s average (arithmetic mean) noon of the same day she had worked
grade for all of his courses? exactly half of the time that it took her
to do the whole job.
(1) His grade in social studies was 75, and 1
his grade in science was 75. (2) She was finished exactly 7 hours
2
(2) His grade in mathematics was 95.
after she had started.
4. If x = 2y, what is the value of xy?
10. What is the value of x?
(1) x > y
(1) 3 + x + y = 14 and 2x + y = 15
(2) 3x – 2y = 14
(2) 3x + 2y = 12 + 2y
5. A rectangular garden that is 10 feet long
11. Is x an even integer?
and 5 feet wide is to be covered with a
layer of mulch 0.5 foot deep. At which (1) x is the square of an integer.
store, K or L, will the cost of the (2) x is the cube of an integer.
necessary amount of mulch be less?
12. If John is exactly 4 years older than Bill,
(1) Store K sells mulch only in bags, each
how old is John?
of which costs $7 and contains 6.25
cubic feet of mulch. (1) Exactly 9 years ago John was 5 times
(2) Store L sells mulch only in bags, each as old as bill was then.
of which costs $40 and contains 25 (2) Bill is more than 9 years old.
cubic feet of mulch.
5. What percent of 16 is m?
(1) m is 5 percent of 10.
(2) 400 percent of m is 2.
(1) Eight years ago Jim was half as old as (1) Casey’s score for the first nine holes
he is now. was 13 less than his score for the last
(2) Four years from now Jim will be nine holes.
twice as old as he was six years ago. (2) Twice Casey’s score for the last nine
holes was 58 more than his score for
11. What is the value of x? the first nine holes.
(1) When x is multiplied by 8, the result 16. What is the rate, in cubic feet per minute,
is between 50 and 60. at which water is flowing into a certain
(2) When x is doubled, the result is rectangular tank?
between 10 and 15.
(1) The height of the water in the tank is
increasing at the rate of 2 feet per
12. At a certain state university last term,
minute.
there were p students each of whom paid (2) The capacity of the tank is 216 cubic
either the full tuition of x dollars or half feet.
the full tuition. What percent of the
tuition paid by the p students last term 17. Is the positive integer n equal to the
was tuition from students who paid the square of an integer?
full tuition? (1) For every prime number p, if p is a
divisor of n, then so is p2.
(1) Of the p students, 20 percent paid the
full tuition. (2) n is an integer.
(2) The p students paid a total of $91.2
million for tuition last term.
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18. What is the volume of a certain cube? 24. If x and y are integers between 10 and 99,
(1) The sum of the areas of the faces of x y
inclusive, is an integer?
the cube is 54. 9
(2) The greatest possible distance (1) x and y have the same two digits, but
between two points on the cube is in reverse order.
3 3 (2) The tens’ digit of x is 2 more than the
units digit, and the tens digit of y is 2
19. What is the value of k2-k? less than the units digit.
1
(1) The value of k is 1. 25. Pam and Ed are in a line to purchase
k tickets. How many people are in the
(2) The value of 2k –1 is 5 line?
(1) There are 20 people behind Pam and
20. In the figure above, what is the product 20 people in front of Ed.
of the lengths of AD and BC? (2) There are 5 people between Pam and
Ed.
(1) The product of the lengths of AC and
BE is 60.
(2) The length of BC is 8.
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SECTIION 5 price of a certain house, what was the
30 minutes 25 questions selling price of the house?
(1) The selling price minus the real estate
1. At a certain picnic, each of the guests was
agent’s commission was $84,600.
served either a single scoop or a double
(2) The selling price was 250 percent of the
scoop of ice cream. How many of the
original purchase price of $36,000.
guests were served a double scoop of ice
cream?
7. What is the value of |x|?
(1) At the picnic, 60 percent of the guests
(1) x = -|x|
were served a double scoop of ice
(2) x2 = 4
cream.
(2) A total of 120 scoops of ice cream were
served to all the guests at the picnic.
14. If □and△each represent single digits in 20. How many miles long is the route from
the decimal above, what digit does □ Houghton to Callahan?
represent? (1) It will take 1 hour less time to travel
(1) When the decimal is rounded to the the entire route at an average rate of
nearest tenth, 3.2 is the result. 55 miles per hour than at an average
(2) When the decimal is rounded to the rate of 50 miles per hour.
nearest hundredth, 3.24 is the result. (2) It will take 11 hours to travel the first
half of the route at an average rate of
15. A certain company currently has how 25 miles per hour.
many employees?
(1) If 3 additional employees are hired by
the company and all of the present
employees remain, there will be at
least 20 employees in the company.
(2) If no additional employees are hired
by the company and 3 of the present 21. What is the circumference of the circle
employees resign, there will be fewer above?
than 15 employees in the company.
(1) The length of arc XYZ is 18.
16. If x is equal to one of the numbers (2) r = s
1 3 2
, , or what is the value of x? 22. If p,q,r, and s are nonzero numbers, is
4 8 5 (p – 1)(q - 2)2(r – 3)3(s – 4)4 ≧ 0?
(1) q > 2 and s > 4
(1) 1 x 1 (2) p > 1 and r > 3
4 2
1 x 3
(2)
3 5
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SECTION 6
23. If ☉ denotes a mathematical operation, 30 minutes 25 questions
does
x☉y=y☉x for all x and y? 1. If x and y are positive, what’s the value of
x?
(1) For all x and y, x☉y = 2(x2 + y2).
(1) x = 3.927y
(2) For all y, 0☉y = 2 y2
(2) y = 2.279
24. All trainees in a certain aviator training
2. John and David each received a salary
program must take both a written test
increase. Which one received the greater
and a flight test. If 70 percent of the
salary increase?
trainees passed the written test, and 80
percent of the trainees passed the flight (1) John’s salary increased 8 percent.
test, what percent of the trainees passed (2) David’s salary increased 5 percent.
both tests?
3. Carlotta can drive from her home to her
(1) 10 percent of the trainees did not pass
office by one of two possible routes. If she
either test.
must also return by one of these routes,
(2) 20 percent of the trainees passed only
what is the distance of the shorter route?
the flight test.
(1) When she drives from her home to her
n office by the shorter route and returns
25. If n is an integer, is an integer? by the longer route, she drives a total of
15
42 kilometers.
3n (2) when she drives both ways from her
(1) is an integer.
15 home to her office and back, by the
8n longer route, she drives a total of 46
(2) is an integer. kilometers.
15
4. If r and s are positive integers, r is what
percent of s?
3
(1) r = s
4
75
(2) r ÷ s =
100
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(2) The wheel made twenty 360-degree (2) The total weight of 1 of the
rotations per minute. photographs and 2 of the negatives is
1
7. What is the value of the sum of a list of n ounce.
3
odd integers?
(1) n = 8
(2) The square of the number of integers on
the list is 64.
8. If a certain animated cartoon consists of a 14. If l and w represent the length and width,
total of 17,280 frames on film, how many respectively, of the rectangle above,
minutes will it take to run the cartoon? what is the perimeter?
(1) The cartoon runs without interruption at (1) 2l + w = 40
the rate of 24 frames per second. (2) l + w = 25
(2) It takes 6 times as long to run the cartoon
as it takes to rewind the film, and it takes 15. What is the ratio of x to y?
a total of 14 minutes to do both. (1) x is 4 more than twice y.
(2) The ratio of 0.5x to 2y is 3 to 5.
9. What was the average number of miles
per gallon of gasoline for a car during a 16. If x, y, and z are three integers, are they
certain trip? consecutive integers?
(1) The total cost of the gasoline used by (1) z – x = 2
the car for the 180-mile trip was $12.00. (2) x < y < z
(2) The cost of the gasoline used by the car
for the trip was $1.20 per gallon. 17. What is the value of x?
x (1) – (x + y) = x - y
10. If x and y are positive, is greater than 1? (2) x + y = 2
y
(1) xy >1 18. A sum of $200,000 from a certain estate
(2) x – y > 0 was divided among a spouse and three
children. How much of the estate did the
11. In ΔPQR, if PQ = x, QR = x + 2, and youngest child receive?
PR = y, which of the three angles of Δ (1) The spouse received 1/2 of the sum
PQR has the greatest degree measure? from the estate, and the oldest child
received 1/4 of the remainder.
(1) y = x + 3
(2) Each of the two younger children
(2) x = 2
received $12,500 more than the oldest
child and $62,500 less than the
12. Is the prime number p equal to 37?
spouse.
(1) p = n2 +1, where n is an integer.
(2) p2 is greater than 200. 19. If the Lincoln Library’s total expenditure
for books, periodicals, and newspapers
13. The only contents of a parcel are 25 last year was $35,000, how much of the
photographs and 30 negatives. What is expenditure was for books?
the total weight, in ounces, of the
(1) The expenditure for newspapers was
parcel’s contents?
40 percent greater than the
(1) The weight of each photograph is 3 expenditure for periodicals.
times the weight of each negative.
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(2) The total of the expenditure for SECTION 7
periodicals and newspapers was 25 30 minutes 25 questions
percent less than the expenditure for
books. 1. The regular price for canned soup was
reduced during a sale. How much money
20. The symbol ▽ represents one of the could one have saved by purchasing a
following operations: addition, dozen 7-ounce cans of soup at the
subtraction, multiplication, or division. reduced price rather than at the regular
What is the value of 3 ▽ 2? price?
(1) 0▽1 = 1 (1) The regular price for the 7-ounce cans
(2) 1▽0 = 1 was 3 for a dollar.
(2) The reduced price for the 7-ounce cans
r was 4 for a dollar.
k z
21. Are the numbers , and in
4 3 2 2. If on a fishing trip Jim and Tom each
increasing order? caught some fish, which one caught more
(1) 3 < z < 4 fish?
(2) r < z < k 2
(1) Jim caught as many fish as Tom.
22. In a certain group of people, the average 3
(arithmetic mean) weight of the males is (2) After Tom stopped fishing, Jim
180 pounds and of the females, 120 continued fishing until he had caught 12
pounds. What is the average weight of fish.
the people in the group?
3. If 5x + 3y = 17 , what is the value of x?
(1) The group contains twice as many
females as males. (1) x is a positive integer.
(2) The group contains 10 more females (2) y = 4x
than males.
4. Yesterday Nan parked her car at a certain
23. If n = p + r, where n, p, and r are parking garage that charges more for the
positive integers and n is odd, does p first hour than for each additional hour. If
equal 2? Nan’s total parking charge at the garage
yesterday was $3.75, for how many hours
(1) p and r are prime numbers. of parking was she charged?
(2) r ≠ 2
(1) Parking charges at the garage are $0.75
for the first hour and $0.50 for each
24. If y = 2 , what is the value of y – x?
x+1
additional hour or fraction of an hour.
(1) 22x+2 = 64 (2) If the charge for the first hour had been
(2) y = 22x –1 $1.00, Nan’s total parking charge would
have been $4.00.
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(2) Of the children in the group, 40 are
boys.
(2) p
y
4
5
8
14. If x≠0, what is the value of ( x q )4 ?
x
8. Is x < 0? (1) p = q
(2) x = 3
(1) –2x > 0
(2) x3 < 0
15. From May 1,1960 to May 1,1975, the
closing price of a share of stock X
9. Of the 230 single-family homes built in
doubled. what was the closing price of a
City X last year, how many were occupied
share of stock X on May 1, 1960?
at the end of the year?
(1) From May 1,1975, to May 1,1984, the
(1) Of all single-family homes in City X, 90
closing price of a share of stock X
percent were occupied at the end of last
doubled.
year.
(2) From May 1,1975, to May 1,1984, the
(2) A total of 7,200 single-family homes in
closing price of a share of stock X
City X were occupied at the end of last
increased by $4.50.
year.
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18. If digit h is the hundredths’ digit in the
decimal d=0.2h6, what is the value of d,
rounded to the nearest tenth?
1
(1) d <
4
(2) h < 5
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SECTION 8 6. A certain expressway has exits J. K. L.
30 Minutes 25 Questions and M, in that order. What is the road
distance from exit K to exit L?
1. Committee member W wants to schedule
(1) the road distance from exit J to exit L
a one-hour meeting on Thursday for
is 21 kilometers.
himself and three other committee
(2) The road distance from exit K to exit
members, X,Y, and Z, Is there a one-hour
M is 26 kilometers.
period on Thursday that is open for all
four members?
7. Two car, S and T, each traveled a distance
(1) On Thursday W and X have an open of 50 miles. Did car S use more gasoline
period from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. than car T?
(2) On Thursday Y has an open period
(1) Cars S and T traveled the entire
from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Z
distance at the rates of 55 miles per
has an open period from 8:00 a.m. to
hour and 50 miles per hour,
11:00 a.m.
respectively.
(2) For the entire distance, car S traveled
2. If Jack’s and Kate’s annual salaried in
20 miles per gallon of gasoline and
1985 were each 10 percent higher than
car T traveled 25 miles per gallon of
their respective annual salaries in 1984,
gasoline.
what was Jack’s annual salary in 1984?
(1) The sum of Jack’s and Kate’s annual 8. If n is a positive integer, is n odd?
salaries in 1984 was $50,000.
(1) 3n is odd.
(2) The sum of Jack’s and Kate’s annual
(2) n + 3 is even.
salaries in 1985 was $55,000.
9. Does 2m – 3n = 0
3. What is the value of x?
(1) x + 1 = 2 – 3x (1) m ≠0
(2) 6m = 9n
1
(2) 2
2x 10. If xy < 3, is x < 1?
(1) A total of 100 newspapers were sold at 11. Each of the eggs in a bowl is dyed red,
the newsstand yesterday, 10 fewer or green, or blue. If one egg is to be
than twice the number sold today. removed at random. what is the
(2) The number of newspapers sold at the probability that the egg will be green?
newsstand yesterday was 45 more
than the number sold today. (1) There are 5 red eggs in the bowl.
(2) The probability that the egg will be
5. How much did a certain telephone call 1
blue is
cost? 3
(1) The call lasted 53 minutes
(2) The cost for the first 3 minutes was 5 12. Is the average (arithmetic mean) of x and
times the cost for each additional y greater than 20?
minute. (1) The average (arithmetic mean) of 2x
and 2y is 48.
(2) x = 3y
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13. Marcia’s bucket can hold a maximum of y
how many liters of water? 18. If x, y, and z are positive, is x 2 ?
z
y
(1) The bucket currently contains 9 liters (1) z
xz
of water. y
(2) If 3 liters of water are added to the (2) z
x
bucket when it is half full of water,
the amount of water in the bucket 19. If x and y are positive integers and xy =
will increase by
1
. x2y-3, what is the value of xy?
3 (1) x = 2
(2) x3 = 8
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that is 3 times the radius of the smaller 18. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 4
circular region. numbers is 50, how many of the
numbers are greater than 50?
12. Is z less than 0?
(1) None of the four numbers is equal to 50.
(1) xy > 0 and yz < 0. (2) Two of the numbers are equal to 25.
(2) x > 0
19. On Monday morning a certain machine
13. If the total price of n equally priced ran continuously at a uniform rate to fill
shares of a certain stock was $12,000, a production order. At what time did it
what was the price per share of the completely fill the order that morning?
stock?
(1) The machine began filling the order at
(1) If the price per share of the stock had 9:30 a.m.
been $1 more, the total price of the n 1
shares would have been $300 more. (2) The machine had filled of the
2
(2) If the price per share of the stock had
5
been $2 less, the total price of the n order by 10:30 a.m. and of the
shares would have been 5 percent less. 6
order by 11:10 a.m.
14. What is the ratio of x : y : z?
20. If n + k = m, what is the value of k?
(1) z =1 and xy = 32
(1) n = 10
x z 1
(2) 2 and . (2) m + 10 = n
y y 4
21. Town T has 20,000 residents, 60 percent
of whom are female. What percent of the
15. What is Ricky’s age now? residents were born in Town T?
(1) Ricky is now twice as old as he was (1) The number of female residents who
exactly 8 years ago. were born in Town T is twice the
(2) Ricky’s sister Teresa is now 3 times number of male residents who were
as old as Ricky was exactly 8 years not born in Town T.
ago. (2) The number of female residents who
were not born in Town T is twice the
16. Is xy > 5? number of female residents who were
born in Town T.
(1) 1 ≦x≦3 and 2≦y≦4.
(2) x + y = 5 22. Can the positive integer n be written as
the sum of two different positive prime
17. In year X, 8.7 percent of the men in the numbers?
labor force were unemployed in June
compared with 8.4 percent is May. If the (1) n is greater than 3.
number of men in the labor force was the (2) n is odd.
same for both months, how many men
were unemployed in June of that year?
(1) In May of year X, the number of
unemployed men in the labor force
was 3.36 million.
(2) In year X, 120,000 more men in the
labor force were unemployed in June
than in May.
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SECTION 10
30 Minutes 25 Questions
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(2) X and Y have the same capacity.
1. Kelly's raise increased his salary by what passed the physical examination also
percent ? passed the written examination, how many
of the applicants passed both
(1) Kelly's raise was $1,200.
examinations ?
(2) Kelly's raise increased his taxes to
(1) The number of applicants who did not
$1,700.
pass either examination was equal to
2. Mouse population X doubles every week. the number who passed the written
How many weeks from now will examination only.
population X first exceed 1,000,000 ? (2) There was a total of 100 applicants.
4. if △ denotes an operation, what is the 10. If x, y, and z are positive, what is the
value of (a△b) △c ? value of x ?
(1) a △ b = 5 (1) x + y = z + y
(2) 5 △ c = 3 (2) z – y = 4 – y
(1) x y 10
14. If a and b are positive integers, is 2 2
a 2 ? (2) x = 2y
b 3
20. How many bags of grass seed were used
(1) 3a = 2b for rectangular lawn X ?
(2) For integers m and n, a = 2m and b = (1) Lawn X has a perimeter of 720 feet.
3n (2) One bag of grass seed was used for
each 5,000 square feet of lawn X
15. G, P, and S are animal species. What is
the average life span, in year, of S ? 21. If x and y are positive. is y< 2 ?
(1) The average life span of S is twice (1) x > 2y
(2) x < y + 2
that of P and 4 that of G.
5
22. If n is a positive integer, is n divisible by
(2) The average life span of G is 30 years
at least six positive integers?
longer than that of P and 10 years
(1) n is the product of three different
longer than that of S.
prime numbers.
16. If point X is inside a circle with center O (2) n = 30
and radius 2, is point Y inside the same
23. A car traveled a distance of d miles in t
circle?
minutes at an average rate of r miles per
(1) OX = 1 minute. What is the ratio of d to r ?
(2) XY = 2 1 (1) t = 30
2 (2) d = 25
17. Four dollar amounts, w, x, y, and z, were 24. If b is the product of three consecutive
invested in a business. Which amount positive integers c, c + 1, and c + 2, is b a
was greatest'? multiple of 24 ?
(1) y < z < x (1) b is a multiple of 3,
(2) x was 25 percent of the total of the (2) c is odd.
four investments.
25. If x is a positive number, what is the
18. If the measures of' the three interior value of x ?
angles of a triangle are y°, 15x°, and
(1) | x – 2 | = 1
18x°, what is the value of y ?
(2) x 2 4 x 3
(1) x =5
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Section 12 5. In the terminating decimal equivalent of d,
30 Minutes 25 Questions what is the number of nonzero digits to
1.What is the total number of employees in the right of the deci-mal point?
the per-sonnel and data processing (1) d 5 416
1,000
divisions of Company S ?
(1) The number of employees in the data (2) The terminating decimal equivalent of
processing division is 3 more than d has one nonzero digit to the left of
twice the number of employees in the the decimal point.
personnel division.
6. In a given class, what is the average
(2) The number of employees in the data
(arithmetic mean) height per pupil ?
process-ing division is 15.
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) height
2. If x and y are integers, is x + y divisible by of the girls in the class is 61 inches.
6? (2) The average (arithmetic mean) height
(1) x is divisible by 6. of the boys in the class is 64 inches.
(2) y is divisible by 6.
7. Richard's salary is greater than $25,000. Is
Amy's salary greater than Brian's salary?
4. Of the books that are standing upright 9. There are exactly 6 teams in league X.
along the top shelf of a bookcase, some What was the total number of games
are 1 -inch thick and the rest are 3 -inch played by the 6 teams last season?
2 4 (1) Each team in league X played each of
thick. What is the total number of books the other teams at least once.
standing upright along the top shelf ? (2) No team in league X played more than
7 games.
(1) Half of these books are 1 -inch thick.
2
(2) The total thickness of all of these
books is 25 inches.
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10. Does x y ?
2
16. If y = ax + b, where a and b are
constants, what is the value of y when x =
(1) y x
10 ?
(2) x < y
(1) When x = 1, y = 5.
(2) When x = 5, y = 13.
(1) 15 is 25 percent of y.
11. In the figure above, x, y, and z denote the (2) x is 10 percent of 2y.
lengths of the sides of a triangular flower
18. In year X a total of 355 billion dollars
bed bounded by three driveways. What is
was spent for health care in the United
the perimeter of the flower bed ?
States, 30 percent of which was spent by
(1) x = y = 30 feet. private health insurance compa-nies. Was
(2) k = 60
the amount spent for health care by the
12. Is r > s ? federal government's medicare program
(1) -r + s < 0 less than 60 billion dollars?
(2) r < | s | (1) In year X medicare spent more than
1 , but less than 2 , of the amount
13. A raincoat and an umbrella cost a total of 2 3
$53.50. What is the cost of the raincoat? spent by the private health insurance
(1) If the cost of the raincoat were to companies for health care.
increase by 10 percent, the raincoat (2) In year X medicare spent 50 billion
and the umbrella would cost a total of dollars less for health care than the
$58.00. amount spent by private health
(2) The cost of the raincoat is $2.50 more insurance companies.
than 5 times the cost of the umbrella.
19. If xyz ≠ 0. what is the value of z ?
14. What is the value of x 2 2 xy y 2 ? y2
(1) x + y = 7 (1) x 3 y
(2) x = 2 4
2
(2) z x
15. If each of the positive integers a, b, and c 3
is a prime number and abc = 30, what is
the value of c ?
(1) a < b < c
(2) a + b = c
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20. Jane is in a certain ticket line in which same two types of investments, but the
each of the other people in the line is lower rate has decreased. If the higher
either behind her or ahead of her. In the rate is unchanged, what fraction of the x
line, the number of people ahead of Jane dollars must he reinvest at the 12 percent
is 5 more than the number of people rate so that the total interest earned from
behind her. What is the total number of the x dollars will be the
people in the line? same for both years ?
(1) There are 11 people ahead of Jane in (1) The lower rate is now 6 percent.
the line. (2) The total amount of interest earned
(2) The total number of people in the line from the two investments last year
is 3 times the number of people was $3,000.
behind Jane.
24. Is the integer n a multiple of 140 ?
21. In the rectangular coordinate system, if (1) n is a multiple of 10.
line is parallel to one of the axes, (2) n is a multiple of 14.
does line contain the point (4, 5) ?
25. If x, y, and n are positive integers, is
(1) Line contains the point (4, -5).
n
(2) Line crosses the x-axis. x
greater than 1,000 ?
y
(1) x y 3 and n > y.
(2) x > 5y and n > x.
(1) XQ = QY = 5 centimeters.
(2) Every point on arc PQ is 5
centimeters from point X, and every
point on arc QR is 5 centimeters from
point Y.
(1) 1 n 5
4
(2) n 2 1
16
5. What are the populations of Cities Y and 11. According to the graph above, the sale of
Z? fruits and vegetables in Store S last week
accounted for what percent of the total sales
(1) The population of City Z is 275,000 income for the week?
more than the population of City Y. (1) Last week the total income from the
(2) The ratio of the population of City Z to sale of fruits and vegetables in Store S
the population of City Y is 76 to 21. was $16,000.
(2) x = 2y
6. If n is an integer, is n odd ?
(1) The tens digit of n is odd.
(2) n2 is odd.
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12. In a sequence of numbers in which each (1) Pat has just finished reading the first 5
term after the first term is 1 more than chapters.
twice the preceding term, what is the fifth (2) Each of the first 3 chapters has more
term? pages than each of the other 12
chapters in the book..
(1) The first term is 1.
(2) The sixth term minus the fifth term is
17. If a1, a2, a3, . . . , an, . . . is a sequence
32.
such that an=2n for all n ≥ 1, is ai
greater than aj ?
13. Larry saves x dollars per month. Will
Larry’s total savings one year from now (1) i is odd and j is even
exceed his present savings by at least (2) i2 > j2
$500 ? (Assume that there is no interest.)
18. What was the average (arithmetic mean)
(1) In 6 months Larry's total savings will
monthly rainfall during 1984 in region Y?
be $900.
(2) In 3 months Larry's total savings will (1) In region Y the total rainfall for the
exceed his present savings by $150. first 6 months of 1984 was twice the
total rainfall for the last 6 months of
14. Is |x – 3| < 7 ? 1984.
(1) x > 0 (2) In region Y the average monthly
(2) x < 10 rainfall for the first 6 months of 1984
was 2.31 inches more than the
average monthly rainfall for the last 6
months of 1984.
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last week, how many sofas did it produce Section 14
last week ? 25 Minutes 20 Questions
24. What is the area of a rectangular surface tank at a rate of 10 gallons every 2 1
2
that has length x feet and width y feet ?
minutes.
(1) y is the reciprocal of x.
(2) The perimeter of the rectangular 3. If P, Q, and R are three distinct points, do
surface is 5 feet. line segments PQ and PR have the same
length ?
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(1) The profit exceeded $2 million on that the edging has negligible width.)
sales of 200,000 units.
(1) The area of G is 25π square meters.
(2) The profit exceeded $5 million on
(2) The edging around G is 10π meters
sales of 350,000 units.
long.
6. Each number in the arrangement above is 11. An employee is 1.5 times the regular
obtained from the two nearest numbers in hourly rate for each hour worked in
the column imme-diately to the left by excess of 40 hours per week, excluding
subtracting the upper number from the Sunday, and 2 times the regular hourly
lower number. What is the value of z ? rate for each hour worked on Sunday.
How much was the employee paid last
(1) x = 7
(2) t = 5 week?
15. By what percent did the median 20. If x and y are positive, is the ratio of x to
household income in Country Y decrease y greater than 3 ?
from 1970 to 1980 ? (1) x is 2 more than 3 times y.
(1) In 1970 the median household income (2) The ratio of 2x to 3y is greater than 2.
(1) x 0
y
(2) y - x > 0
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Section 15
25 Minutes 20 Questions
(1) Elena’s monthly salary is $1,000. (1) The sum of the two digits is 3
(2) Elena’s commission is 5 percent of her (2) x is divisible by 3
sales revenue.
11. Is the number x between 0.2 and 0.7 ?
(1) 560x < 280
(2) 700x > 280
12.Is x an integer ?
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3. A citrus fruit grower receives $15 for each 8. What was the percent increase in the value
crate of oranges shipped and $18 for each of a certain antique from January 1, 1981,
crate of grapefruit shipped. How many to December 31, 1981?
crates of oranges did the grower ship last
week? (1) The value of the antique on January 1,
1981, was $3,000.
(1) Last week the number of crates of (2) The value of the antique on December
oranges that the grower shipped was 31, 1981, was double the value of the
20 more than twice the number of antique on January 1,1981.
crates of grapefruit shipped.
(2) Last week the grower received a total 9. In the xy-plane, is point (2, -3) on line
of $38,700 from the crates of oranges ?
and grapefruit slipped.
(1) Point (-2, 3) is on .
(2) is not perpendicular to the x-axis.
14. If r > 0 and s > 0, is r s ? (1) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
s r the members of Committee X is
25.7 years and the average age of
(1) r 1 the members of Committee Y is 29.3
3s 4 years.
(2) s = r + 4 (2) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
the members of Committee Z will be
15. Company R's annual profit has increased 26.6 years.
by a constant amount each calendar year
since 1985. What was Company R's 20. What is the value of y ?
annual profit in 1991 ?
(1) y 2 7 y 12 0
(1) In 1985 Company R's annual profit (2) y > 0
was $212,000; in 1989 Company
R's annual profit was $242,000.
(2) Company R's annual profit has
increased by $7,500 each year since
1985.
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Section 17 7. A retailer purchased a television set for x
25 Minutes 20 Questions percent less than its list price, and then
sold it for y percent less than its list price.
1. If the list price of a new car was $12,300, What was the list price of the television
what was the cost of the car to the dealer ? set ?
(1) The cost to the dealer was equal to 80 (1) x = 15
percent of the list price. (2) x – y = 6
(2) The car was sold for $11,070, which
was 12.5 percent more than the cost 8. Is x 2 greater than x ?
to the dealer.
(1) x 2 is greater than 1.
2. If p, q, x, y, and z are different positive (2) x is greater than –1.
integers, which of the five integers is the
median? 9. What is the value of r s ?
2 2
(1) p + x < q
(1) r s 5
(2) y < z
2
3. A certain employee is paid $6 per hour for (2) r + s = 10
an 8-hour workday. If the employee is
paid 1 1 times this rate for time worked 10. If x, y, and z are numbers, is z = 18
2
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of x, y,
in excess of 8 hours during a single day,
and z is 6
how many hours did the employee work
(2) x = -y
today?
(1) The employee was paid $18 more for
hours worked today than for hours
worked yesterday.
(2) Yesterday the employee worked 8
hours.
(1) x y and z 2x
2 5
x 5 1 1 19. The table above shows the cancelation
(2) and
z 2 y 10 fee schedule that a travel agency uses to
determine the fee charged to a tourist
15. An infinite sequence of positive integers who cancels a trip prior to departure. If a
is called an “alpha sequence” if the tourist canceled a trip with a package
number of even integers in the sequence price of $1,700 and a departure date of
is finite. If S is an infinite sequence of September 4, on what day was the trip
positive integers, is S an alpha sequence? canceled ?
(1) The first ten integers in S are even. (1) The cancelation fee was $595
(2) An infinite number of integers in S are (2) If the trip had been canceled one day
odd. later, the cancelation fee would have
been $255 more.
16. if xy > 0, does (x - 1)(y - 1) = 1 ?
20. Is 5 k less than 1,000 ?
(1) x + y = xy
(2) x = y (1) 5 k 1 3,000
(2) 5 k 1 5 k 500
17. After winning 50 percent of the first 20
games it played. Team A won all of the
remaining games it played. What was the
total number of games that Team A won?
(1) Team A played 25 games altogether
(2) Team A won 60 percent of all the
games it played.
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Section 18 (2) 0.1x = 0.05y
25 Minutes 20 Questions
7. If n is an integer, is n even ?
1. How many numbers do the sets S and T
have in common? (1) n 2 1 is an odd integer.
(2) 3n + 4 is an even integer.
(1) S is a set of 10 numbers.
(2) T is a set of 100 numbers. 8. If x, y, p, and q are positive, is x ≥ y ?
(1) px p
qy q
(2) xy = p
(1) The installments are to be $200 per (1) The length of the garden is 6 meters
month. more than twice the width.
(2) The installments will extend over a (2) The length of the garden is 4 times the
period of exactly 3 years. width.
13. If x < y, is x 2 y 2
6. If y ≠ 0, is x 1
y 2 (1) y > 0
(2) x > 0
(1) x is 50 percent of y.
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14. If Fran jumps straight up off the floor and
lands on her feet T seconds later, her feet
will reach a max-imum height of 1.22T2
meters above the floor. On one such jump,
was Fran off the floor for less than 1
second ?
(1) On her jump Fran’s feet reached a
maximum height of 1 meter above
the floor.
(2) On her jump Fran spent more than 1 19. The table above shows the morning
4 schedule for train X. If Juan took train X
second ascending. on Monday morning, did he arrive at
station T on schedule?
15. If [x] denotes the greatest integer less (1) Juan arrived at station T on Monday
than or equal to x, is [x] = 0 ? morning 1 hour and 2 minutes after he
(1) 5x + 1 = 3 + 2x left station S.
(2) 0 < x < 1 (2) Juan arrived at his office at 8:30 (EST)
on Monday morning, which was 20
16. During a 6-day local trade show, the least minutes after he arrived at station T.
number of people registered in a single
day was 80. Was the average (arithmetic 20. If n and k are positive integers, is
mean) number of people registered per nk 2 n ?
day for the 6 days greater than 90?
(1) For the 4 days with the greatest (1) k > 3n
number of people registered, the (2) n + k > 3n
average (arithmetic mean) number
registered per day was 100.
(2) For the 3 days with the smallest
number of people registered, the
average (arithmetic mean) number
registered per day was 85.
(1) a 5
b 8
(2) The greatest common divisor of a and
b is 1.
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Section 19 7. What was Jean's insurance premium in
25 Minutes 20 Questions 1995?
(1) The ratio of Jean's insurance premium
in 1995 to her insurance premium in
1. What is the value of y ?
1994 was 6 .
(1) y is an odd integer between 28 and 34 5
(2) 31 < y < 36 (2) Jean's insurance premium in 1995 was
20 percent more than her insurance
2. The price of a television set was reduced premium in 1994.
by 25 percent. What was its original
price? 8. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of x
(1) The reduced price was $187.50. and y ?
(2) The original price exceeded the (1) The average of x and 2y is 10.
reduced price by more than $60.00. (2) The average of 2x and 7y is 32.
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Section 20 6. What is the value of 1 1 ?
25 Minutes 20 Questions k r
(1) 10 percent of the number is 5. 7. A number of people each wrote down one
(2) 40 percent of twice the number is 40. of the first 30 positive integers. Were any
of the integers written down by more than
2. Is r greater than 0.27 ? one of the people?
(1) r is greater than 1 (1) The number of people who wrote
4 down an integer was greater than 40.
(2) r is equal to 3 (2) The number of people who wrote
10 down an integer was less than 70.
3. What percent of a group of people are
women with red hair ? 8. If d denotes a decimal, is d ≥ 0.5 ?
(1) Of the women in the group, 5 percent (1) When d is rounded to the nearest tenth,
have red hair. the result is 0.5.
(2) Of the men in the group, 10 percent (2) When d is rounded to the nearest
have red hair. integer, the result is 1.
4. If i and j are integers, is i + j an even 9. How many of the 60 cars sold last month
integer ? by a certain dealer had neither power
(1) i < 10 windows nor a stereo?
(2) i = j (1) Of the 60 cars sold, 20 had a stereo but
not power windows.
(2) Of the 60 cars sold, 30 had both power
windows and a stereo.
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13. When a player in a certain game tossed a $4.
coin a number of times, 4 more heads (2) If 5 club members fail to contribute,
than tails resulted. Heads or tails resulted the share of each contributing
each time the player tossed the coin. How member will increase by $2.
many times did heads result?
18. While driving on the expressway, did
(1) The player tossed the coin 24 times.
Robin ever exceed the 55-miles-per-hour
(2) The player received 3 points each
speed limit ?
time heads resulted and 1 point
each time tails resulted, for a total (1) Robin drove 100 miles on the
of 52 points. expressway.
(2) Robin drove for 2 hours on the
expressway.
19. Is n an integer ?
(1) n 2 is an integer.
(2) n is an integer.
20. Is x negative ?
(1) n 3 (1 x 2 ) 0
14. What is the area of triangular region (2) x 2 1 0
ABC above?
(1) The product of BD and AC is 20.
(2) x = 45
(1) n 2 5n 6 0
(2) n - 2 ≠ 0
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14. Is n an integer? Section 22
25 Minutes 20 Questions
(1) 2n is an integer.
(2) n is an integer. 1. What is the capacity, in liters, of a certain
2 aquarium ?
15. At what speed was a train traveling on a (1) Three liters is 1 of the capacity of
trip when it had completed half of the 2
total distance of the trip? the aquarium.
(1) The trip was 460 miles long and took (2) One-half liter is 1 of the capacity of
4 hours to complete. 12
(2) The train traveled at an average rate of the aquarium.
115 miles per hour on the trip.
2. What is the value of n ?
2
16. If r and s are integers, is r + s even ? (1) n 2
(1) The product rs is odd. (2) 4n 4
(2) r is odd.
3. In △PQR, what is the measure of angle P?
17. What is the volume of a certain
rectangular solid? (1) Angle Q is a right angle.
(2) The measure of angle R is 17°
(1) Two adjacent faces of the solid have
areas 15 and 24, respectively.
4. What amount did Jean earn from the
(2) Each of two opposite faces of the
commission on her sales in the first half of
solid has area 40.
1988 ?
18. Is x > y ? (1) In 1988 Jean's commission was 5
percent of the total amount of her
(1) ax > ay
sales.
(2) a 2 x a 2 y
(2) The amount of Jean's sales in the
second half of 1988 averaged
19. If n is a positive integer and $10,000 per month more than in the
k 5.110 n , what is the value of k ? first half.
(1) 6,000 < k < 500,000
5. A certain car traveled from one town to
(2) k 2 2.601 10 9
another without stopping. What was the
car's average speed for the trip ?
20. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
3x and 6y ? (1) The car traveled the 90-mile trip in 2
hours.
(1) x + 2y = 7
(2) The car traveled the first 40 miles of
(2) x + y = 5
the trip in 1 hour.
7. Does x = y ?
(1) | x | = | y |
(2) x 2 y 2
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8. Dan took a 20-question multiple-choice (1) n is divisible by 5.
test in psychology. If Dan answered every (2) n is divisible by 6.
question, did he answer at least 12
questions correctly? 15. If Mark saved an average (arithmetic mean)
of $80 per week for 3 consecutive weeks,
(1) Dan answered fewer than 40 percent of
how much did he save the second week?
the questions incorrectly.
(2) Dan answered at least 25 percent of (1) The average amount that Mark saved
the questions incorrectly. per week for the first 2 weeks was
$60.
(2) The amount that Mark saved the first
week was 1 the amount he saved
2
the second week and 1 the
3
9. The figure above shows the circular cross amount he saved the third week.
section of a concrete water pipe. If the
inside radius of the pipe is r feet and the 16. If p and q are positive integers, what is
outside radius of the pipe is t feet, what is the value of q ?
the value of r ?
(1) q p 1 1
(1) The ratio of t - r to r is 0.15 and t - r is (2) p=1
equal to 0.3 foot.
(2) The area of the concrete in the cross 1 or
section is 1.29π square feet. 17. If x ≠ -1, which is greater,
x 1
x ?
10. If a < x < b and c < y < d. is x < y ?
2
(1) a < c
(2) b < c (1) x ≥ 0
(2) x < 3
11. Is 3x 8 an integer ? 18. In a certain two-digit integer, the ratio of
x2
the units digit to the tens digit is 2 to 3,
(1) x is an integer. What is the integer ?
(2) x = 0
(1) The tens digit is 3 more than the units
digit.
12. How many people did Apex Company
(2) The product of the two digits is 54.
employ in 1990 ?
(1) The company employed 538 more 19. If Carmen had 12 more tapes, she would
people in 1991 than in 1990. have twice as many tapes as Rafael. Does
(2) The company employed 20 percent Carmen have fewer tapes than Rafael?
more people in 1991 than in 1990.
(1) Rafael has more than 5 tapes.
(2) Carmen has fewer than 12 tapes.
13. Of the four numbers represented on the 20. What is the value of 2t t x ?
number line above, is r closest to zero? tx
(1) q = -s
2t
(2) -t < q (1) 3
tx
14. Is the integer n divisible by 20 ? (2) t – x = 5
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