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SECTION 1
30 Minutes 25 Questions
1. If today the price of an item is $3,600,
what was the price of the item exactly 2
years ago?
(1) The price of the item increased by 10
per-cent per year during this 2-year
period.
(2) Today the price of the item is 1.21
times its price exactly 2 years ago.
2. By what percent has the price of an
overcoat been reduced?
(1) The original price was $380.
(2) The original price was $50 more than
the reduced price.
3. If the Longfellow Playground is
rectangular, what is its width?
(1) The ratio of its length to its width is 7
to 2.
(2) The perimeter of the playground is
396 meters.
4. What is the value of x –1?
(1) x + 1 =3
(2) x – 1 < 3
5. Is William taller than Jane?
(1) William is taller than Anna.
(2) Anna is not as tall as Jane.
6. In parallelogram ABCD above, what is the
measure of ∠ADC?
(1) The measure of ∠ABC is greater
than 90o.
(2) The measure of ∠BCD is 70o
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7. Is x2 equal to xy?
(1) x2 – y2 = (x + 5)(y - 5)
(2) x = y
8. Was 70 the average (arithmetic mean)
grade on a class test?
(1) On the test, half of the class had
grades below 70 and half of the class
had grades above 70.
(2) The lowest grade on the test was 45
and the highest grade on the test was
95.
9. What was John’s average driving speed in
miles per hour during a 15-minute
interval?
(1) He drove 10 miles during this interval.
(2) His maximum speed was 50 miles per
hour and his minimum speed was 35
miles per hour during this interval.
10. Is ΔMNP isosceles?
(1) Exactly two of the angles, ∠M and
∠N, have the same measure
(2) ∠N and ∠P do not have the same
measure.
11. Is n an integer greater than 4?
(1) 3n is a positive integer.
n
(2) is a positive integer.
3
12. In ΔJKL shown above, what is the
length of segment JL?
(1) JK = 10
(2) KL = 5
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13. A coal company can choose to transport
coal to one of its customers by railroad
or by truck. If the railroad charges by the
mile and the trucking company charges
by the ton, which means of transporting
the coal would cost less than the other?
(1) The railroad charges $5,000 plus
$0.01 per mile per railroad car used,
and the trucking company charges
$3,000 plus $85 per ton.
(2) The customer to whom the coal is to
be sent is 195 miles away from the
coal company.
14. Is x – y > r – s?
(1) x > r and y < s?
(2) y = 2, s = 3, r = 5, and x = 6.
15. On a certain day it took Bill three times
as long to drive from home to work as it
took Sue to drive from home to work.
How many kilometers did Bill drive
from home to work?
(1) Sue drove 10 kilometers from home
to work, and the ratio of distance
driven from home to work time to
drive from home to work was the
same for Bill and Sue that day.
(2) The ratio of distance driven from
home to work time to drive from
home to work for Sue that day was
64 kilometers per hour.
16. The figure above represents the floor of
a square foyer with a circular rug
partially covering the floor and
extending to the outer edges of the floor
as shown. What is the area of the foyer
that is not covered by the rug?
(1) The area of the foyer is 9 square
meters.
(2) The area of the rug is 2.25π square
meters.
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17. At a certain university, if 50 percent of
the people who inquire about admission
policies actually submit applications for
admission, what percent of those who
submit applications for admission enroll
in classes at the university?
(1) Fifteen percent of those who submit
applications for admission are
accepted at the university.
(2) Eighty percent of those who are
accepted send a deposit to the
university.
x
18. If x and y are nonzero integers, is an
y
integer?
(1) x is the product of 2 and some other
integer.
(2) There is only one pair of positive
integers whose product equals y.
19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x?
(1) 1  1  1
5 x 1 2
(2) ( x  3)( x  4)  0
20. Is quadrilateral Q a square?
(1) The sides of Q have the same length.
(2) The diagonals of Q have the same
length.
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.
22. A jewelry dealer initially offered a
bracelet for sale at an asking price that
would give a profit to the dealer of 40
percent of the original cost. What was
the original cost of the bracelet?
(1) After reducing this asking price by 10
percent, the jewelry dealer sold the
bracelet at a profit of $403.
(2) The jewelry dealer sold the bracelet
for $1,953.
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23. If n is an integer between 2 and 100 and SECTION 2
if n is also the square of an integer, what 30 Minutes 25 Questions
is the value of n?
1. Who types at a faster rate, John or Bob?
(1) n is the cube of an integer.
(2) n is even. (1) The difference between their typing
rates is 10 words per minute.
24. Is x2 – y2 a positive number? (2) Bob types at a constant rate of 80
words per minute.
(1) x – y is a positive number.
(2) x + y is a positive number.
2. What is the average distance that
automobile D travels on one full tank of
25. The surface area of a square tabletop was
gasoline?
changed so that one of the dimensions
was reduced by 1 inch and the other (1) Automobile D averages 8.5 kilometers
dimension was increased by 2 inches. per liter of gasoline.
What was the surface area before these (2) The gasoline tank of automobile D
changes were made? holds exactly 40 liters of gasoline.
(1) After the changes were made, the
3. If l1,l2 and l3 are lines in a plane, is l1
surface area was 70 square inches.
perpendicular to l3?
(2) There was a 25 percent increase in
one of the dimensions. (1) l1 is perpendicular to l2.
(2) l2 is perpendicular to l3

4. In a certain packinghouse, grapefruit are

packed in bags and the bags are packed in
cases. How many grapefruit are in each
case that is packed?
(1) The grapefruit are always packed 5 to
a bag and the bags are always packed
8 to a case.
(2) Each case is always 80 percent full.

5. What is the value of x?

(1) x + y = 7
(2) x – y = 3 – y

6. A rectangular floor that is 4 meters wide is

to be completely covered with
nonoverlapping square tiles, each with
side of length 0.25 meter, with no portion
of any tile remaining. What is the least
number of such tiles that will be required?
(1) The length of the floor is three times
the width.
(2) The area of the floor is 48 square
meters.

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7. If a rope is cut into three pieces of
unequal length, what is the length of the
shortest of these pieces of rope?
(1) The combined length of the longer
two pieces of rope is 12 meters.
(2) The combined length of the shorter
two pieces of rope is 11 meters.
8. A certain company paid bonuses of $125
to each of its executive employees and
$75 to each of its nonexecutive
employees. If 100 of the employees were
nonexecutives, how many were
executives?
(1) The company has a total of 120
employees.
(2) The total amount that the company
paid in bonuses to its employees was
$10.000.
9. What fraction of his salary did Mr.
Johnson put into savings last week?
(1) Last week Mr. Johnson put $17 into
savings.
(2) Last week Mr. Johnson put 5% of his
salary into savings.
a 15. If xyz≠0, what is the value of
10. For integers a, b, and c,  1,
bc
bc
What is the value of ? z 2 y4 x2
b
a 3
(1) 
b 5
(2) a and b have no common factors greater
than 1.
11. If the price of a magazine is to be
doubled, by what percent will the
number of magazines sold decrease?
(1) The current price of the magazine is
$1.00.
(2) For every $0.25 of increase in price,
the number of magazines sold will
decrease by 10 percent of the number
sold at the current price.
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12. If J, K, L, M, and N and positive integers
in ascending order, what is the value of
L?
(1) The value of K is 3.
(2) The value of M is 7.
13. If a, b, and c are integers, is the number
3(a  b)  c divisible by 3?
(1) a + b is divisible by 3.
(2) c is divisible by 3.
14. Each M-type memory unit will increase
the base memory capacity of a certain
computer by 3 megabytes. What is the
base memory capacity, in megabytes of
the computer?
(1) 2 M-type memory units will increase
the computers base memory capacity
by 300 percent
(2) The memory capacity of the
computer after 2 M-type memory
units are added to the base memory
capacity is 1.6 times the memory
capacity of the computer after 1
M-type memory unit is added to the
base memory capacity.
x5 y 4 z 2
?
(1) x = 1
(2) y = 3
16. What fractional part of the total surface
area of cube C is red?
1
(1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly
2
red.
(2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white.
17. If positive integer x is divided by 2, the
remainder is 1. What is the remainder
when x is divided by 4 ?
(1) 31 < x < 35
(2) x is a multiple of 3.
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(1) Candidate F received 11 of the votes.
(2) Candidate H received 14 of the votes.

23. S is a set of integers such that

i) if a is in S, then –a is in S, and
ii) if each of a and b is in S, then ab is in
S.
18. In the figure above, D is a point on side
Is –4 in S?
AC of ΔABC. Is ΔABC is isosceles? (1) 1 is in S.
(1) The area of triangular region ABD is (2) 2 is in S.
equal to the area of triangular region
DBC. 24. If the area of triangular region RST is 25,
(2) BD┴AC and AD = DC what is the perimeter of RST?
(1) The length of one side of RST is
19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x? 5 2.
(1) –2(x + 5) < -1 (2) RST is a right isosceles triangle.
(2) – 3x > 9
25. If x and y are consecutive odd integers,
Number of Number of what is the sum of x and y?
Calories Grams
Food (1) The product of x and y is negative.
per of Protein per
(2) One of the integers is equal to –1.
Kilogram Kilogram
S 2,000 150
T 1,500 90

20. The table above gives the number of

calories and grams of protein per
kilogram of foods S and T. If a total of 7
kilograms of S and T are combined to
make a certain food mixture, how many
kilograms of food S are in the mixture?
(1) The mixture has a total of 12,000
calories.
(2) The mixture has a total of 810 grams
of protein.

21. If y≠0 and y≠-1, which is greater,

x x
or ?
y y 1
(1) x≠0
(2) x > y

22. Each person on a committee with 40

members voted for exactly one of 3
candidates, F, G, or H. Did Candidate F
receive the most votes from the 40 votes
cast?

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SECTION 3
30 Minutes 25 Questions
1. For a certain bottle and cork, what is the
price of the cork?
(1) The combined price of the bottle and
the cork is 95 cents.
(2) The price of the bottle is 75 cents
more than the price of the cork.
2. Last year an employee received a gross
annual salary of $18,000, which was paid
in equal paychecks throughout the year.
What was the gross salary received in
each of the paychecks?
(1) The employee received a total of 24
paychecks during the year.
(2) The employee received a paycheck
twice a month each month during the
year.
3. What was Bill’s average (arithmetic mean)
grade for all of his courses?
(1) His grade in social studies was 75, and
his grade in science was 75.
(2) His grade in mathematics was 95.
4. If x = 2y, what is the value of xy?
(1) x > y
(2) 3x – 2y = 14
5. A rectangular garden that is 10 feet long
and 5 feet wide is to be covered with a
layer of mulch 0.5 foot deep. At which
store, K or L, will the cost of the
necessary amount of mulch be less?
(1) Store K sells mulch only in bags, each
of which costs $7 and contains 6.25
cubic feet of mulch.
(2) Store L sells mulch only in bags, each
of which costs $40 and contains 25
cubic feet of mulch.
6. If S = {2, 3, x, y}, what is the value of x +
y?
(1) x and y are prime numbers.
(2) 3, x, and y are consecutive odd
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integers in ascending order.
7. In ΔHGM, what is the length of side
HM?
(1) HG = 5
(2) GM = 8
8. Claire paid a total of $1.60 for stamps,
some of which cost $0.20 each, and the
rest of which cost $0.15 each. How many
20-cent stamps did Claire buy?
(1) Claire bought exactly 9 stamps.
(2) The number of 20-cent stamps Claire
bought was 1 more than the number
of 15-cent stamps she bought.
9. If Ruth began a job and worked
continuously until she finished, at what
time of day did she finish the job?
(1) She started the job at 8:15 a.m. and at
noon of the same day she had worked
exactly half of the time that it took her
to do the whole job.
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(2) She was finished exactly 7 hours
2
after she had started.
10. What is the value of x?
(1) 3 + x + y = 14 and 2x + y = 15
(2) 3x + 2y = 12 + 2y
11. Is x an even integer?
(1) x is the square of an integer.
(2) x is the cube of an integer.
12. If John is exactly 4 years older than Bill,
how old is John?
(1) Exactly 9 years ago John was 5 times
as old as bill was then.
(2) Bill is more than 9 years old.
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13. Before play-offs, a certain team had won
80 percent of its games. After play-offs,
what percent of all its games had the
team won?
(1) The team competed in 4 play-off
games.
(2) The team won all of its play-off
games.
14. If x and y are integers, is xy + 1 divisible
by 3?
(1) When x is divided by 3, the
remainder is 1.
(2) When y is divided by 9, the
remainder is 8.
15. If x≠0, is |x| <1?
(1) x2<1
1
(2) |x| <
x
16. The cost to charter a certain airplane is x
dollars. If the 25 members of a club
chartered the plane and shared the cost
equally, what was the cost per member?
(1) If there had been 5 more members
and all 30 had shared the cost equally,
the cost per member would have been
$40 less.
(2) The cost per member was 10 percent
less than the cost per person on a
regularly scheduled flight.
17. Rectangle ABCD is inscribed in a circle
as shown above. What is the radius of
the circle?
(1) The length of the rectangle is 3
and the width of the rectangle is 1.
1 the fuel last Tuesday.
(2) The length of are AB is of the
3
circumference of the circle.
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18. Bowls X and Y each contained exactly 2
jelly beans, each of which was either red
or black. One of the jelly beans in bowl
X was exchanged with one of the jelly
beans in bowl Y. After the exchange,
were both of the jelly beans in bowl X
black?
(1) Before the exchange, bowl X
contained 2 black jelly beans.
(2) After the exchange, bowl Y contained
1 jelly bean of each color.
19. Does x + y = 0?
(1) xy<0
(2) x2 = y2
20. In the figure above, line AC represents a
seesaw that is touching level ground at
point A. If B is the midpoint of AC, how
far above the ground is point C?
(1) x = 30
(2) Point B is 5 feet above the ground.
21. If □ represents a digit in the 7-digit
number 3, 62□, 215, what is the value
of □?
(1) The sum of the 7 digits is equal to 4
times an integer.
(2) The missing digit is different from
any of the other digits in the number.
22. Last Tuesday a trucker paid $155.76,
including 10 percent state and federal
taxes, for diesel fuel. What was the price
per gallon for the fuel if the taxes are
excluded?
(1) The trucker paid $0.118 per gallon in
state and federal taxes on the fuel last
Tuesday.
(2) The trucker purchased 120 gallons of
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23. Is x less than y? SECTION 4
30 Minutes 25 Questions
(1) x-y+1<0
(2) x-y-1<0
1. What is the value of x?
24. Is quadrilateral RSTV a rectangle?
(1) x is negative.
(1) The measure of ∠RST is 90o (2) 2x = -4
(2) The measure of ∠TVR is 90o
2. Did United States carriers use more than
25. If b is an integer, is a  b an
2 2 10 billion gallons of jet fuel during 1983?
integer? (1) United States carriers paid a total of
(1) a2 + b2 is an integer. $9.4 billion for the jet fuel used in
(2) a2 – 3b2 = 0 1983.
(2) United States carriers paid an average
(arithmetic mean) of $0.90 per gallon
for the jet fuel used in 1983.

3. In Country S，if 60 percent of the women

aged 18 and over are in the labor force,
how many million women are in the labor
force?
(1) In Country S, women comprise 45
percent of the labor force.
(2) In Country S, there are no women
under 18 years of age in the labor
force.

4. If x and y are different positive numbers,

is z between x and y?
(1) z > 0
(2) z < y

5. What percent of 16 is m?
(1) m is 5 percent of 10.
(2) 400 percent of m is 2.

6. Kay put 12 cards on a table, some faceup

and the rest facedown. How many were
put facedown?
(1) Kay put an even number of the cards
faceup.
(2) Kay put twice as many of the cards
faceup as she put facedown.

7. Is ΔRST a right triangle?

(1) The degree measure of ∠R is twice
the degree measure of ∠T.
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(2) The degree measure of ∠T is 30.
8. If x is a positive number, is x greater than
1?
1 (1) The ratio of the number of bottles in
(1) 1>
x the collection that are defective to the
1 number that are not defective is
(2)   1
x 3:500.
9. The figure above shows four pieces of tile
that have been glued together to form a
square tile ABCD. Is PR=QS?
(1) BQ = CR = DS = AP
(2) The perimeter of ABCD is 16.
10. How old is Jim?
(1) Eight years ago Jim was half as old as
he is now.
(2) Four years from now Jim will be
twice as old as he was six years ago.
11. What is the value of x?
(1) When x is multiplied by 8, the result
is between 50 and 60.
(2) When x is doubled, the result is
between 10 and 15.
12. At a certain state university last term,
there were p students each of whom paid
either the full tuition of x dollars or half
the full tuition. What percent of the
tuition paid by the p students last term
was tuition from students who paid the
full tuition?
(1) Of the p students, 20 percent paid the
full tuition.
(2) The p students paid a total of $91.2
million for tuition last term.
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13. If a bottle is to be selected at random
from a certain collection of bottles, what
is the probability that the bottle will be
defective?
(2) The collection contains 3,521 bottles.
14. If a grocery shopper received $0.25 off
the original price of a certain product by
using a coupon, what was the original
price of the product?
(1) The shopper received a 20 percent
discount by using the coupon.
(2) The original price was 25 percent
higher than the price the shopper paid
by using the coupon.
15. What was Casey’s total score for
eighteen holes of golf?
(1) Casey’s score for the first nine holes
was 13 less than his score for the last
nine holes.
(2) Twice Casey’s score for the last nine
holes was 58 more than his score for
the first nine holes.
16. What is the rate, in cubic feet per minute,
at which water is flowing into a certain
rectangular tank?
(1) The height of the water in the tank is
increasing at the rate of 2 feet per
minute.
(2) The capacity of the tank is 216 cubic
feet.
17. Is the positive integer n equal to the
square of an integer?
(1) For every prime number p, if p is a
divisor of n, then so is p2.
(2) n is an integer.
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18. What is the volume of a certain cube?
(1) The sum of the areas of the faces of
the cube is 54.
(2) The greatest possible distance
between two points on the cube is
3 3
19. What is the value of k2-k?
1
(1) The value of k  is 1.
k tickets. How many people are in the
(2) The value of 2k –1 is 5 line?
20. In the figure above, what is the product
of the lengths of AD and BC?
(1) The product of the lengths of AC and
BE is 60.
(2) The length of BC is 8.
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24. If x and y are integers between 10 and 99,
x y
inclusive, is an integer?
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(1) x and y have the same two digits, but
in reverse order.
(2) The tens’ digit of x is 2 more than the
units digit, and the tens digit of y is 2
less than the units digit.
25. Pam and Ed are in a line to purchase
(1) There are 20 people behind Pam and
20 people in front of Ed.
(2) There are 5 people between Pam and
Ed.

21. At a business association conference, the

registration fee for members of the
association was $20 and the registration
fee for nonmembers was $25. If the total
receipts from registration were $5,500,
did more members than nonmembers
pay the registration fee?
(1) Registration receipts from members
were $500 greater than receipts from
nonmembers.
(2) A total of 250 people paid the
registration fee.

22. If x and y are positive integers and x is a

multiple of y, is y = 2?
(1) y ≠ 1
(2) x + 2 is a multiple of y.

23. What is the value of n?

(1) n(n –1)(n – 2 ) = 0
(2) n2 + n – 6 = 0

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SECTIION 5
30 minutes 25 questions
1. At a certain picnic, each of the guests was
served either a single scoop or a double
scoop of ice cream. How many of the
guests were served a double scoop of ice
cream?
(1) At the picnic, 60 percent of the guests
were served a double scoop of ice
cream.
(2) A total of 120 scoops of ice cream were
served to all the guests at the picnic.
2. By what percent was the price of a certain
candy bar increased?
(1) The price of the candy bar was
increased by 5 cents.
(2) The price of the candy bar after the
increase was 45 cents.
3. A circular tub has a band painted around
its circumference, as shown above. What
is the surface area of this painted band?
(1) x = 0.5
(2) The height of the tub is 1 meter.
4. Is it true that a > b?
(1) 2a > 2b
(2) a + c > b + c
5. A thoroughly blended biscuit mix includes
only flour and baking powder. What is the
ratio of the number of grams of baking
powder to the number of grams of flour in
the mix?
(1) Exactly 9.9 grams of flour is contained
in 10 grams of the mix.
(2) Exactly 0.3 gram of baking powder is
contained in 30 grams of the mix.
6. If a real estate agent received a
commission of 6 percent of the selling
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price of a certain house, what was the
selling price of the house?
(1) The selling price minus the real estate
agent’s commission was $84,600.
(2) The selling price was 250 percent of the
original purchase price of $36,000.
7. What is the value of |x|?
(1) x = -|x|
(2) x2 = 4
8. What is the value of z in the triangle
above?
(1) x + y = 139
(2) y + z = 108
9. A certain bakery sells rye bread in
16-ounce loaves and 24-ounce loaves,
and all loaves of the same size sell for the
same price per loaf regardless of the
number of loaves purchased. What is the
price of a 24-ounce loaf of rye bread in
this bakery?
(1) The total price of a 16-ounce loaf and a
24-ounce loaf of this bread is $2.40.
(2) The total price of two 16-ounce loaves
and one 24-ounce loaf of this bread is
$3.40.
x
10. If  n , what is the value of x?
y
(1) yn = 10
1
(2) y = 40 and n =
4
11. If m and n are consecutive positive
integers, is m greater than n?
(1) m – 1 and n +1 are consecutive positive
integers.
(2) m is an even integer.
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12. Paula and Sandy were among those 17. If a,b, and c are integers, is a – b + c
people who sold raffle tickets to raise greater than a + b – c ?
money for Club X. If Paula and Sandy
(1) b is negative.
sold a total of 100 of the tickets, how
(2) c is positive.
many of the tickets did Paula sell?
2 18. If x + 2y + 1 = y – x, what is the value
(1) Sandy sold as many of the raffle of x?
3
tickets as Paula did. (1) y2 = 9
(2) Sandy sold 8 percent of all the raffle (2) y = 3
tickets sold for Club X.
19. If n is an integer, then n is divisible by
13. Is the integer n odd? how many positive integers?
(1) n is divisible by 3. (1) n is the product of two different prime
(2) n is divisible by 5. numbers.
(2) n and 23 are each divisible by the same
3.2□△6 number of positive integers.

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
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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

5. A shirt and a pair of gloves cost total of

$41.70. How much does the pair of
gloves cost?
(1) The shirt costs twice as much as the gloves.
(2) The shirt costs $27.80.

6. What is the number of 360-degree

rotations that a bicycle wheel made while
rolling 100 meters in a straight line
without slipping?
(1) The diameter of the bicycle wheel,
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(2) The wheel made twenty 360-degree
rotations per minute.
7. What is the value of the sum of a list of n
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
total of 17,280 frames on film, how many
minutes will it take to run the cartoon?
(1) The cartoon runs without interruption at
the rate of 24 frames per second.
(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.
9. What was the average number of miles
per gallon of gasoline for a car during a
certain trip?
(1) The total cost of the gasoline used by
the car for the 180-mile trip was $12.00.
(2) The cost of the gasoline used by the car
for the trip was $1.20 per gallon.
x (1) – (x + y) = x - y
10. If x and y are positive, is greater than 1?
y
(1) xy >1
(2) x – y > 0
11. In ΔPQR, if PQ = x, QR = x + 2, and
PR = y, which of the three angles of Δ
PQR has the greatest degree measure?
(1) y = x + 3
(2) x = 2
12. Is the prime number p equal to 37?
(1) p = n2 +1, where n is an integer.
(2) p2 is greater than 200.
13. The only contents of a parcel are 25
photographs and 30 negatives. What is
the total weight, in ounces, of the
parcel’s contents?
(1) The weight of each photograph is 3
times the weight of each negative.
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(2) The total weight of 1 of the
photographs and 2 of the negatives is
1
ounce.
3
14. If l and w represent the length and width,
respectively, of the rectangle above,
what is the perimeter?
(1) 2l + w = 40
(2) l + w = 25
(1) x is 4 more than twice y.
(2) The ratio of 0.5x to 2y is 3 to 5.
16. If x, y, and z are three integers, are they
consecutive integers?
(1) z – x = 2
(2) x < y < z
17. What is the value of x?
(2) x + y = 2
18. A sum of $200,000 from a certain estate
was divided among a spouse and three
children. How much of the estate did the
youngest child receive?
(1) The spouse received 1/2 of the sum
from the estate, and the oldest child
received 1/4 of the remainder.
(2) Each of the two younger children
received $12,500 more than the oldest
child and $62,500 less than the
spouse.
19. If the Lincoln Library’s total expenditure
for books, periodicals, and newspapers
last year was $35,000, how much of the
expenditure was for books?
(1) The expenditure for newspapers was
40 percent greater than the
expenditure for periodicals.
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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.

5. If r and s are integers, is r + s divisible by

25. If x ≠ 1, is y equal to x + 1? 3?
y2 (1) s is divisible by 3.
(1) 1
x 1 (2) r is divisible by 3.
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(2) Of the children in the group, 40 are
boys.

12. Is the perimeter of Square S greater than

6. What is the radius of the circle above with
center O?
(1) The ratio of OP to PQ is 1 to 2.
(2) P is the midpoint of chord AB.
the perimeter of equilateral triangle T?
(1) The ratio of the length of a side of S to
the length of a side of T is 4:5.
(2) The sum of the lengths of a side of S
and a side of T is 18.
13. If p and q are positive integers and pq
=24, what is the value of p?

7. A certain 4-liter solution of vinegar and

water consists of x liters of vinegar and y q
(1) is an integer.
liters of water. How many liters of 6
vinegar does the solution contain?
p
x 3 (2) is an integer.
(1) 4  8 2

(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.

10. Does the product jkmn equal 1? 16. If d is a positive integer, is d an

integer?
jk
(1) 1 (1) d is the square of an integer.
mn
1 1 (2) d is the square of an integer.
(2) j  andm 
k n
17. If Q is an integer between 10 and 100,
11. How many of the boys in a group of 100 what is the value of Q?
children have brown hair?
(1) One of Q’s digits is 3 more than the
(1) Of the children in the group, 60 other, and the sum of its digits is 9.
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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

19. What is the value of x2 – y2?

(1) x – y = y + 2 24. The figure above shows the dimensions
of a square picture frame that was
1
(2) x – y = constructed using four pieces of frame as
x y shown. If w is the width of each piece of
the frame, what is the area of each
20. If·represents one of the operations +, –, piece?
and ×, is (1) w = 3 inches
k  (  m)  (k  )  (k  m) for all
(2) PQ = 18 inches
numbers k ,  and m?
(1) k·l is not equal to l·k for some 25. A total of 774 doctorates in mathematics
numbers k. were granted to United States citizens by
American universities in the 1972-1973
(2) ·represents subtraction.
school year, and W of these doctorates
were granted to women. The total of
21. What was Janet’s score on the fourth
such doctorates in the 1986-1987 school
physics test she took? year was 362, and w of these were
(1) Her score on the fourth test was 12 granted to women. If the number of
points higher than her average doctorates in mathematics granted to
(arithmetic mean) score on the first female citizens of the United States by
three tests she took. American universities decreased from
(2) Her score on the fourth test raised her the 1972-1973 school year to the
average (arithmetic mean) test score 1986-1987 school year, was the decrease
from 87 to 90. less than 10 percent?
(1) 1  W  1
22. If x + y >0, is x > |y|? 10 774 9
(1) x > y (2) W  w  5
(2) y < 0

23. If x is an integer, is (x + p)(x + q) an

even integer?
(1) q is an even integer.
(2) p is an even integer.

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SECTION 8
30 Minutes 25 Questions
1. Committee member W wants to schedule
a one-hour meeting on Thursday for
himself and three other committee
members, X,Y, and Z, Is there a one-hour
period on Thursday that is open for all
four members?
(1) On Thursday W and X have an open
period from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
(2) On Thursday Y has an open period
from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Z
has an open period from 8:00 a.m. to
11:00 a.m.
2. If Jack’s and Kate’s annual salaried in
1985 were each 10 percent higher than
their respective annual salaries in 1984,
what was Jack’s annual salary in 1984?
(1) The sum of Jack’s and Kate’s annual
salaries in 1984 was $50,000.
(2) The sum of Jack’s and Kate’s annual
salaries in 1985 was $55,000.
3. What is the value of x?
(1) x + 1 = 2 – 3x
1
(2) 2
2x
4. How many newspapers were sold at a
certain newsstand today?
(1) A total of 100 newspapers were sold at
the newsstand yesterday, 10 fewer
than twice the number sold today.
(2) The number of newspapers sold at the
newsstand yesterday was 45 more
than the number sold today.
5. How much did a certain telephone call
cost?
(1) The call lasted 53 minutes
(2) The cost for the first 3 minutes was 5
times the cost for each additional
minute.
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6. A certain expressway has exits J. K. L.
and M, in that order. What is the road
distance from exit K to exit L?
(1) the road distance from exit J to exit L
is 21 kilometers.
(2) The road distance from exit K to exit
M is 26 kilometers.
7. Two car, S and T, each traveled a distance
of 50 miles. Did car S use more gasoline
than car T?
(1) Cars S and T traveled the entire
distance at the rates of 55 miles per
hour and 50 miles per hour,
respectively.
(2) For the entire distance, car S traveled
20 miles per gallon of gasoline and
car T traveled 25 miles per gallon of
gasoline.
8. If n is a positive integer, is n odd?
(1) 3n is odd.
(2) n + 3 is even.
9. Does 2m – 3n = 0
(1) m ≠0
(2) 6m = 9n
10. If xy < 3, is x < 1?
(1) y > 3
(2) x < 3
11. Each of the eggs in a bowl is dyed red,
or green, or blue. If one egg is to be
removed at random. what is the
probability that the egg will be green?
(1) There are 5 red eggs in the bowl.
(2) The probability that the egg will be
1
blue is
3
12. Is the average (arithmetic mean) of x and
y greater than 20?
(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

20. If k and n are integers, is n divisible by 7?

(1) n – 3 = 2k
(2) 2k – 4 is divisible by 7.
14. In the triangle above, does a2 + b2 = c2?
21. If x and y are integers and y = |x + 3| +
(1) x + y = 90
|4 – x |, does y equal 7?
(2) x = y
(1) x < 4
15. What is the value of the positive integer n? (2) x > -3
(1) n4 < 25
22. If 1 < d <2, is the tenths’ digit of the
(2) n ≠ n2 decimal representation of d equal to 9?
(1) d + 0.01 <2
(2) d + 0.05 > 2

23. The participants in a race consisted of 3

teams with 3 runners on each team. A
team was awarded 6 –n points if one of
its runners finished in nth place, where 1
 n  5. If all of the runners finished the
16. If ab ≠ 0, in what quadrant of the race and if there were no ties, was each
coordinate system above does point (a, b) team awarded at least one point?
lie? (1) No team was awarded more than a
(1) (b, a) lies in quadrant Ⅳ. total of 6 points.
(2) No pair of teammates finished in
(2) (a, -b) lies in quadrant Ⅲ.
consecutive places among the top
five places.
17. From 1984 to 1987, the value of foreign
goods consumed annually in the United
24. If x + y + z > 0, is z > 1?
States increased by what percent?
(1) z > x + y +1
(1) In 1984 the value of foreign goods
(2) x + y + 1 < 0
consumed constituted 19.8 percent of
the total value of goods consumed in
25. How many integers n are there such that
the United States that year.
r < n < s?
(2) In 1987 the value of foreign goods
consumed constituted 22.7 percent of (1) s – r = 5
the total value of goods consumed in (2) r and s are not integers.
the United States that year.
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SECTION 9
30 Minutes 25 Questions

1. A total of 9 women and 12 men reside in

the 21 apartments that are in a certain
apartment building, one person to each
apartment. If a poll taker is to select one
of the apartments at random, what is the
probability that the resident of the
apartment selected will be a woman who 6. In the figure above, segments PR and QR
is a student? are each parallel to one of the rectangular
coordinate axes. Is the ratio of the length
(1) Of the women, 4 are students.
of QR to the length of PR equal to 1?
(2) Of the women, 5 are not students.
(1) c = 3 and d = 4.
2. Is x greater than 1.8? (2) a = -2 and b = -1.
(1) x > 1.7
7. In a school election, if each of the 900
(2) x > 1.9
voters voted for either Edith or Jose (but
not both), what percent of the female
3. Hoses X and Y simultaneously fill an
voters in this election voted for Jose?
empty swimming pool that has a capacity
of 50,000 liters. If the flow in each hose is (1) Eighty percent of the female voters
independent of the flow in the other hose, voted for Edith.
how many hours will it take to fill the (2) Sixty percent of the male voters voted
pool? for Jose.
(1) Hose X alone would take 28 hours to
8. During week W, how much did it cost, per
fill the pool.
mile, for the gasoline used by car X?
(2) Hose Y alone would take 36 hours to
fill the pool. (1) During week W, car X used gasoline
that cost $1.24 per gallon.
(2) During week W, car X was driven 270
miles.

9. If r and s are integers, is r divisible by 7?

(1) The product rs is divisible by 7.
(2) s is not divisible by 7.
4. In the figure above, if lines k and m are
m 5
parallel, what is the value of x? 10. If  , what is the value of m + n?
n 3
(1) y = 120
(2) z = 60 (1) m > 0
(2) 2m + n = 26
5. If x and y are integers, what is the value of
y? 11. If P and Q are each circular regions,
what is the radius of the larger of these
(1) xy = 27 regions?
(2) x = y2
(1) The area of P plus the area of Q is equal
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that is 3 times the radius of the smaller
circular region.
12. Is z less than 0?
(1) xy > 0 and yz < 0.
(2) x > 0
13. If the total price of n equally priced
shares of a certain stock was $12,000,
what was the price per share of the
stock?
(1) If the price per share of the stock had
been $1 more, the total price of the n
shares would have been $300 more.
(2) If the price per share of the stock had
been $2 less, the total price of the n
shares would have been 5 percent less.
14. What is the ratio of x : y : z?
(1) z =1 and xy = 32
x z 1
(2)  2 and  .
y y 4
15. What is Ricky’s age now?
(1) Ricky is now twice as old as he was
exactly 8 years ago.
(2) Ricky’s sister Teresa is now 3 times
as old as Ricky was exactly 8 years
ago.
16. Is xy > 5?
(1) 1 ≦x≦3 and 2≦y≦4.
(2) x + y = 5
17. In year X, 8.7 percent of the men in the
labor force were unemployed in June
compared with 8.4 percent is May. If the
number of men in the labor force was the
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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18. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 4
numbers is 50, how many of the
numbers are greater than 50?
(1) None of the four numbers is equal to 50.
(2) Two of the numbers are equal to 25.
19. On Monday morning a certain machine
ran continuously at a uniform rate to fill
a production order. At what time did it
completely fill the order that morning?
(1) The machine began filling the order at
9:30 a.m.
1
(2) The machine had filled of the
2
5
order by 10:30 a.m. and of the
6
order by 11:10 a.m.
20. If n + k = m, what is the value of k?
(1) n = 10
(2) m + 10 = n
21. Town T has 20,000 residents, 60 percent
of whom are female. What percent of the
residents were born in Town T?
(1) The number of female residents who
were born in Town T is twice the
number of male residents who were
not born in Town T.
(2) The number of female residents who
were not born in Town T is twice the
number of female residents who were
born in Town T.
22. Can the positive integer n be written as
the sum of two different positive prime
numbers?
(1) n is greater than 3.
(2) n is odd.
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SECTION 10
30 Minutes 25 Questions

1. If Hans purchased a pair of skis and a ski

jacket, what was the cost of the skis?
(1) The ratio of the cost of the skis to the
cost of the jacket was 5 to 1.
(2) The total cost of the skis and the
jacket was $360.
23. In the figure above, segments RS and TU
2. Is x < y?
represent two positions of the same
ladder leaning against the side SV of a (1) z < y
wall. The length of TV is how much (2) z < x
greater than the length of RV?
3. If a certain city is losing 12 percent of its
(1) The length of TU is 10 meters.
daily water supply each day because of
(2) The length of RV is 5 meters.
water-main breaks, what is the dollar cost
to the city per day for this loss?
24. If both x and y are nonzero numbers,
y (1) The city’s daily water supply is 350
what is the value of ? million gallons.
x
(2) The cost to the city for each 12,000
(1) x = 6 gallons of water lost is $2.
(2) y2 = x2
4. Machine X runs at a constant rate and
25. If x = 0. rstu, where r, s, t, and u each produces a lot consisting of 100 cans in 2
represent a nonzero digit of x, what is hours. How much less time would it take
the value of x? to produce the lot of cans if both
(1) r = 3s = 2t = 6u machines X and Y were run
(2) The product of r and u is equal to the simultaneously?
product of s and t. (1) Both machines X and Y produce the
same number of cans per hour.
(2) It takes machine X twice as long to
produce the lot of cans as it takes
machines X and Y running
simultaneously to produce the lot.

5. If x and y are positive, what is the value of

x?
(1) 200 percent of x equals 400 percent of
y.
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(2) X and Y have the same capacity.

10. If n is an integer, is n +2 a prime

number?
(1) n is a prime number.
(2) n + 1 is not a prime number.
6. In the figure above, what is the measure
11. Is x between 0 and 1?
of ∠ABC ?
(1) x 2 is less than x.
(1) BX bisects ∠ABY and BY bisects ∠ (2) x3 is positive.
XBC.
(2) The measure of ∠ABX is 40o. 12. Did Sally pay less than x dollars,
including sales tax, for her bicycle?
7. If -10 < k < 10, is k > 0?
(1) The price Sally paid for the bicycle
1 was (0.9)x dollars, excluding the 10
(1) 0 percent sales tax.
k
(2) k2 > 0 (2) The price Sally paid for the bicycle
was $170. excluding sales tax.

R S T U 13. Is the positive square root of x an

R 0 y x 62
integer?
S y 0 56 75 (1) x = n4 and n is an integer.
T x 56 0 69 (2) x = 16
U 62 75 69 0

8. The table above shows the distance, in

kilometers, by the most direct route,
between any two of the four cities, R, S, T,
and U. For example, the distance between 14. If the successive tick marks shown on
City R and City U is 62 kilometers. What the number line above are equally
is the value of x? spaced and if x and y are the numbers
(1) By the most direct route, the distance designating the end points of intervals as
between S and T is twice the distance shown, what is the value of y?
between S and R. 1
(2) by the most direct route, the distance (1) x 
between T and U is 1.5 times the 2
2
distance between R and T. (2) y  x 
3
9. Buckets X and Y contained only water and
1 15. In a certain senior citizens’ club, are
bucket Y was full. If all of the water 1
2 more than of the members over 75
in bucket X was then poured into bucket Y, 4
what fraction of the capacity of Y was years of age?
then filled with water?
(1) Exactly 60 percent of the female
(1) Before the water from X was poured, members are over 60 years of age,
1 1
X was full. and, of these, are over 75 years
3 3
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of age.
(2) Exactly 10 male members are over 75
years of age.
16. If t ≠ 0, is r greater that zero?
(1) rt = 12
(2) r + t = 7
17. If x is an integer, is y an integer?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of x, y
and y – 2 is x.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) of x
and y is not an integer.
18. The inside of a rectangular carton is 48
centimeters long, 32 centimeters wide,
and 15 centimeters high. The carton is
filled to capacity with k identical
cylindrical cans of fruit that stand
upright in rows and columns, as
indicated in the figure above. If the cans
are 15 centimeters high, what is the
value of k?
(1) Each of the cans has a radius of 4
centimeters.
(2) 6 of the cans fit exactly along the
length of the carton.
19. If R  8 x and y  0 what is the value
3y
of R?
2
(1) x =
3
(2) x = 2y
20. Is the positive integer n a multiple of 24?
(1) n is a multiple of 4.
(2) n is a multiple of 6.
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21. What is the area of the rectangular
region above?
(1) l + w = 6
(2) d2 = 20
22. If Aaron, Lee, and Tony have a total of
$36, how much money does Tony have?
(1) Tony has twice as much money as
1
Lee and as much as Aaron.
3
(2) The sum of the amounts of money
that Tony and Lee have is half the
amount that Aaron has.
23. If n is a positive integer, is the value of b
– a at least twice the value of 3n – 2n?
(1) a = 2n + 1 and b = 3n+1
(2) n = 3
24. The price per share of stock X increased
by 10 percent over the same time period
that the price per share of stock Y
decreased by 10 percent. The reduced
price per share of stock Y was what
percent of the original price per share of
stock X?
(1) The increased price per share of stock
X was equal to the original price per
share of stock Y.
(2) The increase in the price per share of
stock X was 10/11 the decrease in the
price per share of stock Y.
25. Any decimal that has only a finite
number of nonzero digits is a
terminating decimal. For example, 24,
0.82, and 5.096 are three terminating
decimals. If r and s are positive integers
and the ratio r/s is expressed as a
decimal, is r/s a terminating decimal?
(1) 90 < r < 100
(2) s = 4
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Section 11
30 Minutes 25 Questions xamination. If 3 of the applicants who
4

1. Kelly's raise increased his salary by what
percent ?
(1) Kelly's raise was $1,200.
(2) Kelly's raise increased his taxes to
$1,700.
2. Mouse population X doubles every week.
How many weeks from now will
population X first exceed 1,000,000 ?
passed the physical examination also
passed the written examination, how many
of the applicants passed both
examinations ?
(1) The number of applicants who did not
pass either examination was equal to
the number who passed the written
examination only.
(2) There was a total of 100 applicants.

(1) The mouse population is now 65,536. 8. Is the integer n even ?

(2) Fifteen weeks ago the mouse
(1) n 2  1 is odd.
population was 2.
(2) n is an integer.

3. If no student took test T more than once,

9. If today is Carol's birthday, how old is
how many students took test T ?
Carol?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of the (1) 6 years ago she was half her present
students' scores on test T was 72. age.
(2) The sum of he students' scores on test (2) 3 years from now she will be 3 times
T was 2,232. as old as she was 7 years ago.

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

5. If x + 2y = 6, what is the value of x ? 11. Is x an integer ?

(1) 2x + y = 9
(2) 3x + 2y = 14 (1) 2 x is an integer.
3
6. Is x  3 (2) x – 4 is an integer.
8 4
12. If y > 0, is y greater than x ?
(1) x > 5.5
(2) x < 7 (1) 3x = 2y
(2) x + y = 5
7. Last year 4 of the applicants for a job on
5 13. Did the population of Country S increase
a police force passed the physical by less than 20 percent from 1965 to
1975 ?
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(1) The population of Country S in 1965
was 180 million.
(2) The population of Country S in 1975
was 1.17 times what it was in 1965.
14. If a and b are positive integers, is
a 2 ?

b 3
(1) 3a = 2b
(2) For integers m and n, a = 2m and b =
3n
15. G, P, and S are animal species. What is
the average life span, in year, of S ?
(1) The average life span of S is twice
that of P and 4 that of G.
5
(2) The average life span of G is 30 years
longer than that of P and 10 years
longer than that of S.
16. If point X is inside a circle with center O
and radius 2, is point Y inside the same
circle?
(1) OX = 1
(2) XY = 2 1
2 (2) d = 25
17. Four dollar amounts, w, x, y, and z, were
invested in a business. Which amount
was greatest'?
(1) y < z < x
(2) x was 25 percent of the total of the
four investments.
18. If the measures of' the three interior
angles of a triangle are y°, 15x°, and
18x°, what is the value of y ?
(1) x =5
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(2) 15x + y = 90
19. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
x and y ?
(1) x  y  10
2 2
(2) x = 2y
20. How many bags of grass seed were used
for rectangular lawn X ?
(1) Lawn X has a perimeter of 720 feet.
(2) One bag of grass seed was used for
each 5,000 square feet of lawn X
21. If x and y are positive. is y< 2 ?
(1) x > 2y
(2) x < y + 2
22. If n is a positive integer, is n divisible by
at least six positive integers?
(1) n is the product of three different
prime numbers.
(2) n = 30
23. A car traveled a distance of d miles in t
minutes at an average rate of r miles per
minute. What is the ratio of d to r ?
(1) t = 30
24. If b is the product of three consecutive
positive integers c, c + 1, and c + 2, is b a
multiple of 24 ?
(1) b is a multiple of 3,
(2) c is odd.
25. If x is a positive number, what is the
value of x ?
(1) | x – 2 | = 1
(2) x 2  4 x  3
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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?

(1) Brian's salary is 125 percent of

Richard's salary, and Amy's salary is
greater than 130 percent of Richard's
salary.
(2) Richard's salary is 75 percent of Amy's
salary but is 80 percent of Brian's
3. In the figure above, what is the length of salary.
segment BC ? 8. Are integers r and s consecutive ?
(1) x = 90 (1) r is odd and s is even.
(2)The perimeter of △ABC is 24. (2) r - s = 1

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.

17. If x and y are positive, then x is what

percent of y?

11. In the figure above, x, y, and z denote the
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
the perimeter of the flower bed ?
(1) x = y = 30 feet.
(2) k = 60
12. Is r > s ?
(1) -r + s < 0
(2) r < | s |
13. A raincoat and an umbrella cost a total of
$53.50. What is the cost of the raincoat?
(1) If the cost of the raincoat were to
increase by 10 percent, the raincoat
and the umbrella would cost a total of
$58.00.
(2) The cost of the raincoat is $2.50 more
than 5 times the cost of the umbrella.
19. If xyz ≠ 0. what is the value of
14. What is the value of x 2  2 xy  y 2 ?
(1) x + y = 7
(2) x = 2
15. If each of the positive integers a, b, and c
is a prime number and abc = 30, what is
the value of c ?
(1) a < b < c
(2) a + b = c
(1) 15 is 25 percent of y.
(2) x is 10 percent of 2y.
was spent for health care in the United
States, 30 percent of which was spent by
private health insurance compa-nies. Was
the amount spent for health care by the
federal government's medicare program
less than 60 billion dollars?
(1) In year X medicare spent more than
1 , but less than 2 , of the amount
2 3
spent by the private health insurance
companies for health care.
(2) In year X medicare spent 50 billion
dollars less for health care than the
amount spent by private health
insurance companies.
z ?
y2
(1) x  3 y
4
2
(2) z  x
3

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20. Jane is in a certain ticket line in which
each of the other people in the line is
either behind her or ahead of her. In the
line, the number of people ahead of Jane
is 5 more than the number of people
behind her. What is the total number of
people in the line?
DATA SUFFICIENCY
same two types of investments, but the
lower rate has decreased. If the higher
rate is unchanged, what fraction of the x
dollars must he reinvest at the 12 percent
rate so that the total interest earned from
the x dollars will be the
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.

22. In the figure above, if PR is a line

segment, what is the sum of the lengths
of the curved paths from P to Q and from
Q to R ?

(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.

23. Last year Luis invested x dollars for one

year, half at 8 percent simple annual
interest and the other half at 12 percent
simple annual interest. Now he wants to
reinvest the x dollars for one year in the
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Section 13
30 Minutes 25 Questions
1. Who is older, Akira or Michiko?
(1) Akira and Michiko are 3 years apart in
age.
(2) Akira's younger brother is 11 years old.
2. What is the value of x ?
(1) 3x = 30
(2) x + y = 40
3. How many hours does it take 12 machines
with identical production rates, running
simultaneously without stopping, to fill a
certain production order ?
(1) It takes each machine alone, running
continuously, 60 hours to fill the
production order.
(2) It takes 10 of these machines, running
simultaneously without stopping, 6
hours to fill the production order.
DATA SUFFICIENCY
7. If x > y, is cx > cy ?
(1) c > 0
(2) xy > 0
8. Terry and Pat collected cans for recycling.
What was the ratio of the number of carts
Terry collected to the number of cans Pat
collected?
(1) Pat collected 50 percent of the cans
that they collected.
(2) Terry collected 140 cans.
9. Is the integer n equal to 25 ?
(1) n is the square of an integer.
(2) 15 < n < 37
10. Is line  parallel to the y-axis?
(1) The equation of line  is x = 4.
(2) The points (4. 2) and (4, - 5) are on
line  .

4. If n is a positive number, what is the value

of n ?

(1) 1  n  5
4
(2) n 2  1
16

5. What are the populations of Cities Y and
Z?
(1) The population of City Z is 275,000
more than the population of City Y.
(2) The ratio of the population of City Z to
the population of City Y is 76 to 21.
6. If n is an integer, is n odd ?
(1) The tens digit of n is odd.
(2) n2 is odd.
11. According to the graph above, the sale of
fruits and vegetables in Store S last week
accounted for what percent of the total sales
income for the week?
(1) Last week the total income from the
sale of fruits and vegetables in Store S
was $16,000.
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12. In a sequence of numbers in which each
term after the first term is 1 more than
twice the preceding term, what is the fifth
term?
(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.
13. Larry saves x dollars per month. Will
Larry’s total savings one year from now
exceed his present savings by at least
$500 ? (Assume that there is no interest.)
18. What was the average (arithmetic mean)
(1) In 6 months Larry's total savings will
be $900.
(2) In 3 months Larry's total savings will
exceed his present savings by $150.
14. Is |x – 3| < 7 ?
(1) x > 0
(2) x < 10
DATA SUFFICIENCY
(1) Pat has just finished reading the first 5
chapters.
(2) Each of the first 3 chapters has more
pages than each of the other 12
chapters in the book..
such that an=2n for all n ≥ 1, is ai
greater than aj ?
(1) i is odd and j is even
(2) i2 > j2
monthly rainfall during 1984 in region Y?
(1) In region Y the total rainfall for the
first 6 months of 1984 was twice the
total rainfall for the last 6 months of
1984.
(2) In region Y the average monthly
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.

19. If 2x + 3y = 5, what is the value of x ?

(1) x + z = 3 + 2y + z
(2) y   1
7
15. In the figure above, what is the area of
20. If S is the sum of the first n positive
the circular region with center O ?
integers, what is the value of n ?
(1) MN is perpendicular to RS.
(1) S < 20
(2) The area of triangular region OMT is (2) s2 > 220
4.

21. A small factory that produces only

16. Pat is reading a book that has a total of upholstered chairs and sofas uses 1
15 chapters. Has Pat read at least 1 of cushion for each chair and 4 cushions for
3 each sofa. If the factory used a total of
the pages in the book? 300 cushions on the furniture it produced

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last week, how many sofas did it produce Section 14
last week ? 25 Minutes 20 Questions

(1) Last week the factory produced more 1. Is 1 < x < 2 ?

chairs than sofas. (1) 0 < x
(2) Last week the factory produced a total (2) x < 3
of 150 chairs and sofas.
2. Water is pumped into a partially filled tank
22. If integer p is a factor of 42, is p a prime
at a constant rate through an inlet pipe. At
number?
the same time, water is pumped out of the
(1) p > 6 tank at a constant rate through an outlet
(2) p < 21
pipe. At what rate, in gallons per minute,
23. What is the value of t ? is the amount of water in the tank
increasing?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of t2
and 8t is –8. (1) The amount of water initially in the
tank is 200 gallons.
(2) t 4  16
(2) Water is pumped into the tank at a rate
of 10 gallons per minute and out of the

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 ?

(1) P is the midpoint of line segment QR.

25. What is the greatest common divisor of
(2) Q and R lie on the same circle with
positive integers m and n ?
center P.
(1) m is a prime number.
(2) m and n are consecutive integers.
4. What distance did Jane travel?

(1) Bill traveled 40 miles in 40 minutes.

(2) Jane traveled at the same average rate
as Bill.

5. The profit from the sale of a certain

appliance increases, though not
proportionally, with the number of units
sold. Did the profit exceed $4 million on
sales of 380,000 units ?

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(1) The profit exceeded $2 million on
sales of 200,000 units.
(2) The profit exceeded $5 million on
sales of 350,000 units.
6. Each number in the arrangement above is
obtained from the two nearest numbers in
the column imme-diately to the left by
subtracting the upper number from the
lower number. What is the value of z ?
(1) x = 7
(2) t = 5
7. How many people are directors of both
Company K and Company R ?
(1) There were 17 directors present at a
joint meeting of the directors of
Company K and Company R, and no
directors were absent.
(2) Company K has 12 directors and
Company R has 8 directors.
8. What is the value of xy –yz ?
(1) y = 2
(2) x – z = 5
9.The length of the edging that surrounds
circular garden K is 1 the length of the
2
edging that surrounds circular garden G.
What is the area of garden K ? (Assume
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that the edging has negligible width.)
(1) The area of G is 25π square meters.
(2) The edging around G is 10π meters
long.
10. If the average (arithmetic mean) of six
numbers is 75, how many of the numbers
are equal to 75 ?
(1) None of the six numbers is less than
75.
(2) None of the six numbers is greater
than 75.
11. An employee is 1.5 times the regular
hourly rate for each hour worked in
excess of 40 hours per week, excluding
Sunday, and 2 times the regular hourly
rate for each hour worked on Sunday.
How much was the employee paid last
week?
(1) The employee’s regular hourly rate is
$10.
(2) Last week the employee worked a
total of 54 hours but did not work
more than 8 hours on any day.
12. If n and k are greater than zero, is n an
k
integer ?
(1) n and k are both integers.
(2) n 2 and k 2 are both integers.
13. At Larry’s Auto Supply Store, Brand X
antifreeze is sold by the gallon and Brand
Y motor oil is sold by the quart.
Excluding sales tax, what is the total cost
for 1 gallon of Brand X antifreeze and 1
quart of Brand Y motor oil?
(1) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
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6 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
10 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is $58. 18. If x, y, and z are positive integers, is x – y
(There is no quantity discount.) odd ?
(2) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for (1) x  z 2
(2) y  ( z  1) 2
4 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
12 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is $44.
19. What is the tens digit of positive integer
(There is no quantity discount.)
x?
(1) x divided by 100 has a remainder of
14. If x is an integer, is x | x | < 2x 30.
(2) x divided by 110 has a remainder of
(1) x < 0
(2) x = - 10 30.

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.

in Country Y was 2 of median

3
household income in Country X.
(2) In 1980 the median household income
in Country Y was 1 of the median
2
household income in Country X.

16. If n is a positive integer, is

n
1
   0.01 ?
 10 
(1) n > 2
n 1
(2)  1   0.1
 10 

17. If x < 0, is y > 0 ?

(1) x  0
y
(2) y - x > 0

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Section 15
25 Minutes 20 Questions

1. The regular price per eight-ounce can of

brand X soup is $0.37, regardless of the
number of cans purchased. What amount
will be saved on the purchase of 3
6. Point (x, y) has in which quadrant of the
eight-ounce cans of brand X soup if the
rectangular coordinate system shown
regular price is reduced ?
above ?
(1) At the reduced price, 3 eight-ounce (1) x + y < 0
cans of brand X soup will cost $0.99 (2) x = 1 and y = -7
(2) The amount that will be saved on each
eight-ounce can of brand X soup 7. What is the average (arithmetric mean ) of
purchased at the reduced price is x, y and z
$0.04. (1) x + y = 5
(2) y + z = 7
2. Does Joe weigh more than Tim?
8. Chan and Micko drove separate cars along
(1) Tim’s weight is 80 percent of Joe’s the entire length of a certain route. If Chan
weight. made the trip in 15 minutes, how many
(2) Joe’s weight is 125 percent of Tim’s minutes did it take Micko to make the
weight. same trip ?
3. Not scored (1) Micko’s average speed for the trip
was 3 of Chan’s average speed.
4. What is the value of xy ? 4
(1) x + y = 10 (2) The route is 14 miles long.
(2) x – y = 6
9. If xy ≠ 0, is x  0 ?
y
5. Elena receives a salary plus a commission (1) x = y
that is equal to a fixed percentage of her (2) –x = - ( - y )
sales revenue. What was the total of
Elena’s salary and commission last 10. What is the value of the two-digit integer
month ? x?

(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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(1) x is an integer. children’s section.

2
(2) 2x is an integer. 17. Is y = 6 ?
(1) y 2  36
13. A swim club that sold only individual and
(2) y 2  7 y  6  0
family memberships charged $300 for an
individual membership. If the club’s total
revenue from memberships was $480,000,
what was the charge
for a family membership ?
(1) The revenue from individual
18. The figure above represents the floor
memberships was 1 of the total
4 plan of an art gallery that has a lobby and
revenue from memberships. 18 rooms. If Lisa goes from the lobby
(2) The club sold 1.5 times as many into room A at the same time that Paul
family member- ships as individual goes from the lobby into room R, and
memberships. each goes through all of the rooms in
succession, entering by one door and
14. If x, y, and z are positive numbers, is x > exiting by the other, which room will they
y>z? be in at the same time ?
(1) xz > yz (1) Lisa spends 2x minutes in each room
(2) yx > yz
and Paul spends 3x minutes in each
room.
15.Can the positive integer p be expressed as (2) Lisa spends 10 minutes less time in
the product of two integers, each of each room than Paul does.
which is greater than 1 ?
(1) 31 < p < 37
(2) p is odd

16. Currently there are 50 picture books each

shelf in the children’s section of a library.
If these books were to be placed on
smaller shelves with 30 picture books on
each shelf, how many of the smaller
shelves would be needed to hold all of
these books ?
(1) The number of smaller shelves needed
is 6 more than the current number of
shelves.
(2) Currently there are 9 shelves in the
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19. Quadrilateral RSTU shown above is a site
plan for a parking lot in which side RU is
parallel to side ST and RU is longer than
ST. What is the area of the parking lot ?
(1) RU = 80 meters
(2) TU= 20 10 meters
20. If xy = -6 , what is the value of xy(x+y ) ?
(1) x – y = 5
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Section 16
25 Minutes 20 Questions
1. Is x greater than 75 percent of y ?
(1) x = 40
(2) y = 50
2. The integer x is how much greater than 3 ?
(1) 10 x = 100,000
(2) 1 = 0.00001
10 x
3. A citrus fruit grower receives $15 for each
crate of oranges shipped and $18 for each
crate of grapefruit shipped. How many
crates of oranges did the grower ship last
week?
(1) Last week the number of crates of
oranges that the grower shipped was
20 more than twice the number of
crates of grapefruit shipped.
(2) Last week the grower received a total
of $38,700 from the crates of oranges
and grapefruit slipped.
4. In the figure above, what is the length of
AC ?
(1) x + y = 13
(2) xy = 36
5. The charge for a telephone call between
City R and City S is $0.42 for each of the
first 3 minutes and $0.18 for each
additional minute. A certain call between
these two cities lasted for x minutes,
where x is an integer. How many
minutes long was the call?
(1) The charge for the first 3 minutes of
the call was $0.36 less than the charge
for the remainder of the call.
(2) The total charge for the call was $2.88.
6. Is the integer P odd ?
(1) The sum of P, P + 4, and P + 11 is
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even.
(2) The sum of P – 3, P, and P + 11 is
odd.
7. If a certain grove consists of 36 pecan
trees, what was the yield per tree last
year?
(1) The yield per tree for the 18 trees in
the northern half of the grove was 60
kilograms last year.
(2) The yield per tree for the 18 trees in
the eastern half of the grove was 55
kilograms last year.
8. What was the percent increase in the value
of a certain antique from January 1, 1981,
to December 31, 1981?
(1) The value of the antique on January 1,
1981, was $3,000.
(2) The value of the antique on December
31, 1981, was double the value of the
antique on January 1,1981.
9. In the xy-plane, is point (2, -3) on line
 ?
(1) Point (-2, 3) is on  .
(2)  is not perpendicular to the x-axis.
10. If r is represented by the decimal 0.t5,
what is the digit t ?
(1) r  1
3
(2) r  1
10
11. Is 7  n  8 ?
(1) n > 50
(2) n < 60
12. If a total of 84 students are enrolled in
two sections of a calculus course, how
many of the 84 students are female?
(1) 2 of the students in Section 1 are
3
female.
(2) 1 of the students in Section 2 are
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male. (1) x – y = 6
(2) y + z = 36
13. What is the value of the greater of two
numbers if one of the numbers is twice 19. Committee X and Committee Y, which
the other number? have no common members, will combine
to form Committee Z. Does Committee
(1) One number is 5.
X have more members than Committee
(2) The sum of the two numbers is 15.
Y?

14. If r > 0 and s > 0, is r  s ?
s r
(1) r  1
3s 4
(2) s = r + 4
15. Company R's annual profit has increased
by a constant amount each calendar year
since 1985. What was Company R's
annual profit in 1991 ?
(1) In 1985 Company R's annual profit
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.
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
the members of Committee X is
25.7 years and the average age of
the members of Committee Y is 29.3
years.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
the members of Committee Z will be
26.6 years.
20. What is the value of y ?
(1) y 2  7 y  12  0
(2) y > 0

16. If x is an integer, is 54  27 an integer ?

x
(1) 6 ≤ x ≤ 81
(2) x is a multiple of 3.

17. The figure above shows the shape of a

flower bed. If arc QR is a semicircle and
PQRS is a rectangle with QR > RS, what
is the perimeter of the flower bed ?
(1) The perimeter of rectangle PQRS is
28 feet.
(2) Each diagonal of rectangle PQRS is
10 feet long.

18. If 4x = 5y = 10z, what is the value of x +

y+z?

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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.

4. If n is a member of the set (33, 36, 38, 39,

11. The circular base of an above-ground
41, 42), what is the value of n ?
swimming pool lies in a level yard and
(1) n is even. just touches two straight sides of a fence
(2) n is a multiple of 3. at points A and B, as shown in the figure
above. Point C is on the ground where
5. What is the value of x ? the two sides of the fence meet.
(1) 2x + 1 = 0 How far from the center of the pool's
(2) ( x  1) 2  x 2 base is point A?
(1) The base has area 250 square feet.
(2) The center of the base is 20 feet from
point C

12. In 1979 Mr. Jackson bought a total of n

shares of stock X and Mrs. Jackson
6. In the figure above, what is the length of bought a total of 300 shares of stock X. If
AD? the couple held all of their respective
(1) AC = 6 shares throughout 1980, and Mr.
(2) BD = 6 Jackson's 1980 dividends on his n shares
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totaled $150, what was the total amount 18. □
of Mrs. Jackson's 1980 dividends on her +△
300 shares ? ★
(1) In 1980 the annual dividend on each In the addition problem above, each of
share of stock X was $0.75. the symbols □, △, and ★ represents a
(2) In 1979 Mr. Jackson bought a total of positive digit. If □ < △,what is the value
200 shares of stock X. of △ ?
13. If Sara's age is exactly twice Bill's age, (1) ★ = 4
what is Sara's age? (2) □ = 1
(1) Four years ago, Sara's age was exactly
3 times Bill's age.
(2) Eight years from now, Sara's age will
be exactly 1.5 times Bill's age.

14. What is the value of x ?

yz

(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
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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

9. If p1 and p2 are the populations and r1 and

r2 are the numbers of representatives of
2. In the figure above, if line  1 is parallel District 1 and District 2, respectively, the
to line  2 , what is the value of x ? ratio of the population to the number of
representatives is greater for which of the
(1) y = 50 two districts ?
(2) z = 130
(1) p1 > p2
3. NOT SCORED (2) r2 > r1

10. What digit does t represent in the decimal

4. If Pat saved $600 of his earnings last 0.t73 ?
month, how much did Pat earn last
month? (1) t < 5
(2) 0.t73 < 1
(1) Pat spent 1 of his earnings last month t
2
for living expenses and saved 1 of
3
the remainder. 11. On the number line above, p, q, r, s, and t
(2) Of his earnings last month, Pat paid are five consecutive even integers in
twice as much in taxes as he saved. increasing order. What is the average
(arithmetic mean) of these five integers ?
5. The purchase price of Beth's new car,
including the sales tax, is $8,000. If she (1) q + s = 24
finances the car, making a down payment (2) The average (arithmetic mean) of q
of $2,000 and paying off the rest in equal and r is 11.
monthly installments, what will be the
total cost of the car, including the sales tax 12. What is the length in meters of a certain
and financing ? rectangular garden ?

(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 nk  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.

17. If a and b are positive integers, what is

the value of a + b ?

(1) a  5
b 8
(2) The greatest common divisor of a and
b is 1.

18. Are all of the numbers in a certain list of

15 numbers equal?
(1) The sum of all of the numbers in the
list is 60.
(2) The sum of any 3 numbers in the list
is 12.

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Section 19
25 Minutes 20 Questions
1. What is the value of y ?
(1) y is an odd integer between 28 and 34
(2) 31 < y < 36
2. The price of a television set was reduced
by 25 percent. What was its original
price?
(1) The reduced price was $187.50.
(2) The original price exceeded the
reduced price by more than $60.00.
3. What is the remainder when the positive
integer n is divided by 6 ?
(1) n is a multiple of 5.
(2) n is a multiple of 12.
4. Three friends rented a car for a week and
divided the cost equally. What was the
total cost of renting the car ?
(1) If the three friends had kept the car for
a second week, they could have
obtained the two-week rate, which was
1.5 times the cost of a one-week
rental.
(2) If a fourth friend had joined the three
friends and the cost had been divided
equally among the four friends, the
cost to each of the original three would
have been reduced by $15 ?
5. Is x > y ?
(1) x = y + 2
(2) x  y  1
2
6. Sally gave some of her candy to her
friends. How many pieces of candy did
she have before giving any to her friends?
(1) Sally gave each friend 8 pieces of
candy.
(2) Sally had 7 pieces of candy left after
giving candy to her friends.
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7. What was Jean's insurance premium in
1995?
(1) The ratio of Jean's insurance premium
in 1995 to her insurance premium in
1994 was 6 .
5
(2) Jean's insurance premium in 1995 was
20 percent more than her insurance
premium in 1994.
8. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of x
and y ?
(1) The average of x and 2y is 10.
(2) The average of 2x and 7y is 32.
9. The figure above shows the present
position on a radar screen of a sweeping
beam that is rotating at a constant rate in a
clockwise direction. In which of the four
quadrants will the beam lie 30 seconds
from now ?
(1) In each 30-second period, the beam
sweeps through 3.690°
(2) r = 40
10. The number of seats in the first row of an
auditorium is 18 and the number of seats
in each row thereafter is 2 morn than in
the previous row. What is the total
number of seats in the auditorium?
(1) The number of rows of seats in the
auditorium is 27.
(2) The number of seats in the last row is
70.
11. How many books did a librarian
purchase ?
(1) The librarian paid an average
(arithmetic mean) of $15 per book
for the books purchased.
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(2) The total sales tax on the books 17. If n  p where p and q are nonzero
purchased was $7. q
integers, is n an integer ?
12. Is the integer n a multiple of 15 ?
(1) n 2 is an integer.
(1) n is a multiple of 20.
(2) n + 6 is a multiple of 3. (2) 2n  4 is an integer.
2
13. What is the area of rectangular region R ?
18. In the rectangular coordinate system, are
(1) Each diagonal of R has length 5. the points (r, s) and (u, v) equidistant
(2) The perimeter of R is 14. from the origin ?
14. In a certain coding scheme, each word is (1) r + s = 1
encoded by replacing each letter in the (2) u = 1 – r and v = 1 – s
word with another letter. The same code
is used for all words, so that the same 19. Is ab = 1 ?
letter replaces a given letter each time the (1) aba = a
given letter occurs. What code will result (2) bab = b
when the word TAME is encoded by this
scheme?
20. Is ( x  3) 2  3  x ?
(1) When the word MAT is encoded, the
result is DLX. (1) x ≠ 3
(2) When the word TEA is encoded, the (2) – x | x | > 0
result is XRL.

15. A certain high school with a total

enrollment of 900 students held a science
fair for three days last week. How many
of the students enrolled in the high
school attended the science fair on all
three days?
(1) Of the students enrolled in the school,
30 percent attended the science fair on
two or more days.
(2) Of the students enrolled in the school,
10 percent of those that attended the
science fair on at least one day
attended on all three days.

16. What is the probability that events A and

B both occur?
(1) The probability that event A occurs is
0.8.
(2) The probability that event B occurs is
0.6.

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Section 20 6. What is the value of 1  1 ?
25 Minutes 20 Questions k r

1. How much is 20 percent of a certain (1) k + r = 20

number ? (2) kr = 64

(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.

10. In the xy-plane, does the point (4, 12) lie

on line k ?
(1) The point (1, 7) lies on line k.
(2) The point (-2, 2) lies on line k.

11. What was the total amount of revenue

that a theater received from the sale of
5. The figure above represents a circle graph 400 tickets, some of which were sold at x
of Company H's total expenses broken percent of full price and the rest of which
down by the expenses for each of its five were sold at full price?
divisions. If O is the center of the circle
and if Company H's total expenses are (1) x = 50
$5,400,000, what are the expenses for (2) Full-price tickets sold for $20 each.
division R ?
12. If x, y, and z are nonzero numbers, is xz =
(1) x = 94 12 ?
(2) The total expenses for divisions S and
T are twice as much as the expenses (1) x 2 yz  12 xy
for division R.
(2) z  3
4 x

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13. When a player in a certain game tossed a
coin a number of times, 4 more heads
than tails resulted. Heads or tails resulted
each time the player tossed the coin. How
many times did heads result?
18. While driving on the expressway, did
(1) The player tossed the coin 24 times.
(2) The player received 3 points each
time heads resulted and 1 point
each time tails resulted, for a total
of 52 points.
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$4.
(2) If 5 club members fail to contribute,
the share of each contributing
member will increase by $2.
Robin ever exceed the 55-miles-per-hour
speed limit ?
(1) Robin drove 100 miles on the
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

15. What is the value of 36,500(1.05) n ?

(1) n 2  5n  6  0
(2) n - 2 ≠ 0

16. The inflation index for the year 1989

relative to the year 1970 was 3.56,
indicating that, on the average, for each
dollar spent in 1970 for goods, $3.56 had
to be spent for the same goods in 1989. If
the price of a Model K mixer increased
precisely according to the inflation index,
what was the price of the mixer in 1970 ?
(1) The price of the Model K mixer was
$102.40 more in 1989 than in 1970.
(2) The price of the Model K mixer was
$142.40 in 1989.

17. Every member of a certain club

volunteers to con-tribute equally to the
purchase of a $60 gift certificate. How
many members does the club have?
(1) Each member's contribution is to be
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Section 21
25 Minutes 20 Questions
1. What is 5 percent of x ?
(1) x = 200
(2) 10 percent of x is 20.
2. For which type of investment, J or K, is
the annual rate of return greater ?
(1) Type J returns $115 per $1,000
invested for any one-year period and
type K returns $300 per $2,500
invested for any one-year period.
(2) The annual rate of return for an
investment of type K is 12 percent.
n
3. What is the value of  a 
b
(1) a  32
n (2) The serving contains 2 ounces of oats.
(2) b n  243
4. What is the tenths digit of the decimal d ?
(1) d  7
25
(2) d is 28 percent of 1.
5. Is a = 0 ?
(1) ab = 0
(2) a2 = 0
6. What percent of the drama club members
enrolled at a certain school are female
students ?
(1) Of the female students enrolled at the
school,40 percent are members of the
drama club.
(2) Of the male students enrolled at the
school, 25percent are members of the
drama club.
7. What is the perimeter of rectangle R ?
(1) R is a square.
(2) The area of R is 36.
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8. Carmen currently works 30 hours per
week at her part-time job. If her gross
hourly wage were to increase by $1.50,
how many fewer hours could she work per
week and still earn the same gross weekly
pay as before the increase ?
(1) Her gross weekly pay is currently
$225.00.
(2) An increase of $1.50 would represent
an increase of 20 percent of her
current gross hourly wage.
9. In a serving of a breakfast cereal that
contains only oats, raisins, and nuts, the
ratio of oats to raisins to nuts by weight is
3 to 2 to 1, respectively.
How many ounces of raisins are in the
serving ?
(1) The serving weighs 4 ounces.
10. Is x > 0
(1) x 2  0
(2) x 3  0
11. A taxi company charges f cents for the
first mile of a taxi ride and m cents for
each additional mile. How much does the
company charge for a 10-mile taxi ride ?
(1) The company charges $0.90 for a
2-mile ride.
(2) The company charges $1.20 for a
4-mile ride.
12. What was the discounted price of a
certain television set ?
(1) The original price of the television set
was $50 more than the discounted
price.
(2) The original price of the television set
was 110 percent of the discounted
price.
13. If x > 0, is x  x ?
y
(1) 0 < y < 1
(2) x > 1
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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  5.110 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.

6. What is the value of x ?

(1) 2x + 3y = 12
(2) 5x + 7y = 29

7. Does x = y ?
(1) | x | = | y |
(2) x 2  y 2
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8. Dan took a 20-question multiple-choice
test in psychology. If Dan answered every
question, did he answer at least 12
questions correctly?
(1) Dan answered fewer than 40 percent of
the questions incorrectly.
(2) Dan answered at least 25 percent of
the questions incorrectly.
9. The figure above shows the circular cross
section of a concrete water pipe. If the
inside radius of the pipe is r feet and the
outside radius of the pipe is t feet, what is
the value of r ?
(1) The ratio of t - r to r is 0.15 and t - r is
equal to 0.3 foot.
(2) The area of the concrete in the cross
section is 1.29π square feet.
10. If a < x < b and c < y < d. is x < y ?
(1) a < c
(2) b < c
11. Is 3x  8 an integer ?
x2
(1) x is an integer.
(2) x = 0
12. How many people did Apex Company
employ in 1990 ?
(1) The company employed 538 more
people in 1991 than in 1990.
(2) The company employed 20 percent
more people in 1991 than in 1990.
DATA SUFFICIENCY
(1) n is divisible by 5.
(2) n is divisible by 6.
15. If Mark saved an average (arithmetic mean)
of $80 per week for 3 consecutive weeks,
how much did he save the second week?
(1) The average amount that Mark saved
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
amount he saved the third week.
16. If p and q are positive integers, what is
the value of q ?
(1) q p 1  1
(2) p=1
1 or
17. If x ≠ -1, which is greater,
x 1
x ？
2
(1) x ≥ 0
(2) x < 3
18. In a certain two-digit integer, the ratio of
the units digit to the tens digit is 2 to 3,
What is the integer ?
(1) The tens digit is 3 more than the units
digit.
(2) The product of the two digits is 54.
19. If Carmen had 12 more tapes, she would
have twice as many tapes as Rafael. Does
Carmen have fewer tapes than Rafael?
(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? tx
(1) q = -s
2t
(2) -t < q (1) 3
tx
14. Is the integer n divisible by 20 ? (2) t – x = 5
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