Brazil Recruiting

L.E.K. Mock Exam – 2019

Quantitative Section: 20 questions, 30 minutes

Directions: For each of the following questions, blacken the oval next to the correct answer. Do not
skip any questions, and do not go back to any questions you have already answered.

Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers.

Figures: The diagrams and figures that accompany these questions are for the purpose of providing
information useful in answering the questions. Unless it is stated that a specific figure is not drawn to
scale, the diagrams and figures are drawn as accurately as possible. All figures are in a plane unless
otherwise indicated.

For Data Sufficiency questions: Each question is followed by two numbered facts. You are to determine
whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Use the data given,
plus your knowledge of math and everyday facts, to choose between the five possible answers. Blacken
the oval next to your choice.

Example: Which car, X or Y, uses more gas?

1. Car X uses 90 gallons per 500 mile trip

2. For the 500 mile trip, Car X uses 1.5 more gas than Y

a. statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 alone is not
sufficient
b. statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 alone is not
sufficient
c. both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement
alone is sufficient
d. either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question
e. not enough facts are given to answer the question

Correct Answer: B
1. Mr. Williams invested a total of $12,000 for a one-year period. Part of the money was invested at 5%
simple interest, and the rest was invested at 12% simple interest. If he earned a total of $880 in interest
for the year, how much of the money was invested at 12%?

A. $1,920
B. $4,000
C. $4,800
D. $7,200
E. $8,000

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O

III IV

2. In the rectangular coordinate system shown above, which quadrant, if any, contains no point
(x,y) that satisfies the inequality 2𝑥 − 3𝑦 ≤ −6 ?

A. None
B. I
C. II
D. III
E. IV

3. The area of triangle ABC is 12 square units. The triangle DEF is inscribed in triangle ABC so that D,
E and F are midpoints of the side on which they lie. Triangle GHJ is similarly constructed with G, H, J
as midpoints of the segments DE, EF and FD, respectively. If the construction is repeated two more
times, what is the area of the triangle constructed last (in square units)?

A. 1/8
B. 3/8
C. 3/16
D. 3/64
E. 3/128

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4. In 1972, country X had a population of P and M cases of meningitis, for a per capita rate of meningitis
𝑀
of 𝑃 . If, over the next ten years, the number of cases of meningitis decreased by 50% and the
population of country X increased by 50%, what is the percentage change in the per capita rate of
meningitis over the ten-year period?

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A. 33 3 % increase

B. No change

C. 33 1 % decrease
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D. 50% decrease
2
E. 66 3 % decrease

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5. If of the money in a certain trust fund was invested in stocks, in bonds, in a mutual fund, and
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the remaining $10,000 in a government certificate, what was the total amount of the trust fund

A. $100,000
B. $150,000
C. $200,000
D. $500,000
E. $2,000,000

6. In a certain year, the income of an individual from her investments amounted to 45 percent of her
total income. If municipal bonds accounted for 2 of her investment income, then the ratio of income
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derived from municipal bonds to total noninvestment income was:

A. 2
3
B. 6
11
3
C.
10
3
D.
11
3
E. 20

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7. Which of the following equations has a root in common with 𝑥 2 − 6𝑥 + 5 = 0 ?

A. 𝑥2 + 1 = 0
B. 𝑥2 − 𝑥 − 2 = 0
C. 𝑥 2 − 10𝑥 − 5 = 0
D. 2𝑥 2 − 2 = 0
E. 𝑥 2 − 2𝑥 − 3 = 0

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8. If = 𝑥 , what is the value of 𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 − 4 ?
2+𝑥

A. -4
B. -1
C. 0
D. 1
E. 2

9. A clothing manufacturer has determined that she can sell 100 suits a week at a selling price of $200
each. $200 is her minimum selling price (breakeven), and for each rise of $4 in the selling price she will
sell 2 less suits a week. If she sells the suits for $x each, how much money a week will she receive from
the sales of the suits?

10. If a rectangular photograph that is 10 inches wide by 15 inches long is to be enlarged so that the
width will be 22 inches and the ratio of width to length will be unchanged, then the length, in inches, of
the enlarged photograph will be

A. 33
B. 32
C. 30
D. 27
E. 25

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11. (a + b + c) is an even or odd number?

1. “a”, ”b” y “c” are prime algebraic numbers

2. none of them is the number “2”

A. statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient
B. statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient
C. both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement alone is
sufficient
D. either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question
E. not enough facts are given to answer the question

x° y°

𝑥 3
12. In the figure above, if = , then x =
𝑥+𝑦 8

A. 60°
B. 67.5°
C. 72°
D. 108°
E. 112.5°

13. There are one cuboid and one pyramid, what figure has the highest volume?

(these figures are not representative)

1. The cuboid has a height of 15,80 cm and the bases are squares, and the pyramid has four
vertices, six edges and three lateral faces.
2. The cuboid has four lateral faces and two bases with edges of 5 cm long and the pyramid has one
base with three edges of 6 cm long.

A. statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient
B. statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient
C. both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement alone is
sufficient
D. either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question
E. not enough facts are given to answer the question

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14. A positive number x is multiplied by 2, and this product is then divided by 3. If the positive square
root of the result of these two operations equals x, what is the value of x?

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A.
4

3
B.
2

4
C.
3

2
D.
3

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E.
2

15. What is the value of the positive integer n?

1. n4 < 25

2. n ≠ n2

1 statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient
2 statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient
3 both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement alone is
sufficient
4 either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question
5 not enough facts are given to answer the question

16. For an agricultural experiment, 300 seeds were planted in one plot and 200 were planted in a
second plot. If exactly 25 percent of the seeds in the first plot germinated and exactly 35 percent of the
seeds in the second plot germinated, what percent of the total number of seeds germinated?

A. 12%
B. 26%
C. 29%
D. 30%
E. 60%

17. If the result of squaring a number N is less than twice the number, then the value of N must be:

A. negative
B. positive
C. between -1 and +1
D. greater than 1
E. between 0 and 2

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18. Bill´s school is 10 miles from his home. He travels 4 miles from school to football practice and
then 2 miles to a friend´s house. If he is x miles from home, what is the range of possible values for x?

A. 2 ≤ x ≤ 10
B. 4 ≤ x ≤ 10
C. 4 ≤ x ≤ 12
D. 4 ≤ x ≤ 16
E. 6 ≤ x ≤ 16

19. How many miles long is the route from Houghton to Callahan?

1. It will take 1 hour less time to travel the entire route at an average rate of 55 miles per hour than at
an average rate of 50 miles per hour.

2. It will take 11 hours to travel the first half of the route at an average rate of 25 miles per hour.

A. statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient
B. statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient
C. both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement alone is
sufficient
D. either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question
E. not enough facts are given to answer the question

20. Is 2𝑥 greater than 100?

1. 2√𝑥 = 8
1
2. 2𝑥 < 0.01

A. statement 1 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 2 alone is not sufficient
B. statement 2 alone is sufficient to answer the question, but statement 1 alone is not sufficient
C. both statements together are needed to answer the question, but neither statement alone is
sufficient
D. either statement by itself is sufficient to answer the question
E. not enough facts are given to answer the question

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Critical reasoning section: 14 questions – 20 minutes

Directions: Answer each question in order. Do not skip any questions, and do not go back to any
questions you have already answered.

You should select the BEST answer to the question, that is, an answer that does not require you to
make assumptions that violate common sense standards by being implausible, redundant, irrelevant or
inconsistent

Example: Most consumers do not get much use out of the sports equipment they purchase. For
example, twenty percent of adults in the Country own jogging shoes, but only forty-five percent of the
owners jog more than once a year, and only ten percent jog more than once a week.

Which of the following, if true casts most doubt on the claim that most consumers get little use out of
the sports equipment they purchase?

A. Joggers who jog more than once a week are often active participants in other sports as well.
B. Consumers who take up jogging often purchase an athletic shoe that can be used in other
sports.
C. Joggers are most susceptible to sports injuries during the first six months in which they jog.
D. Many consumers purchase jogging shoes for use in activities other than jogging.
E. Joggers often exaggerate the frequency with which they jog in surveys designed to elicit such
information.

Correct answer: D

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1. Many people argue that tobacco advertising plays a crucial role in causing teenagers to start or
continue smoking. In Norway, however, where there has been a ban on tobacco advertising since 1975,
smoking is at least as prevalent among teenagers as it is in countries that do not ban such advertising.

Which of the following statements draws the most reliable conclusions from the information above?

A. Tobacco advertising cannot be the only factor that affects the prevalence of smoking among
teenagers.
B. Advertising does not play a role in causing teenagers to start or continue smoking
C. Banning tobacco advertising does not reduce the consumption of tobacco
D. More teenagers smoke if they are not exposed to tobacco advertising than if they are.
E. Most teenagers who smoked in 1975 did not stop when the ban on tobacco advertising was
implemented.

2. Because of widespread hurricane damage in Santo Domingo, the cost of potatoes at the local market
has increased 83%, while the cost of a pound of apples has increased 25%. Therefore, potatoes are
now more expensive than apples.

The argument's reasoning is questionable because the argument fails to reject the possibility that

A. Before the hurricane, potatoes had already been more expensive than apples
B. Potatoes will fall back to their normal price more quickly than apples will
C. Before the hurricane, apples were significantly more expensive than potatoes
D. Consumers will reduce their purchases of potatoes until the price falls to below that of apples
E. Before the hurricane, potatoes had increased in price less than apples

3. Which of the following best completes the passage below?

Established companies concentrate on defending what they already have. Consequently, they tend not
to be innovative themselves and tend to underestimate the effects of the innovations of others. The
clearest example of this defensive strategy is the fact that ______.

A. ballpoint pens and soft-tip markers have eliminated the traditional market for fountain pens,
clearing the way for the marketing of fountain pens as luxury or prestige items.

B. a highly successful automobile was introduced by the same company that had earlier introduced
a model that had been a dismal failure.

C. a once-successful manufacturer of slide rules reacted to the introduction of electronic calculators

by trying to make better slide rules.

D. one of the first models of modern accounting machines, designed for use in the banking industry,
was purchased by a public library as well as by banks.

E. the inventor of a commonly used anesthetic did not intend the product to be used by dentists,
who currently account for almost the entire market for that drug.

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4. Meteorite explosions in the Earth´s atmosphere as large as the one that destroyed forests in Siberia,
with approximately the force of a twelve-megaton nuclear blast, occur about once a century.
The response of highly automated system controlled by complex computer programs to unexpected
circumstances is unpredictable.
Which of the following conclusions can most properly be drawn, if the statements above are true,
about highly automated nuclear – missile defense system controlled by a complex computer
program?

A. Within a century after is construction, the system would react inappropriately and might
accidentally start a nuclear war.
B. The system would be destroyed if an explosion of a large meteorite occurred in the Earth´s
atmosphere
C. It would be impossible for the system to distinguish the explosion of a large meteorite from the
explosion of a nuclear weapon
D. Whether the system would respond inappropriately to the explosion of a large meteorite would
depend on the location of the blast
E. It is not certain what the system´s response to the explosion of a large meteorite would be, if its
designers did not plan for such a contingency.

5. E-business is gradually taking over from ordinary "bricks-and-mortar" premises. The companies
listed on the NASDAQ, the stock exchange index for the new technological companies, rose on
average more than twice as fast as the fastest-rising stocks listed on the Dow Jones index.

The argument above contains which of the following assumptions?

A. The share price of e-businesses will continue to rise.

B. The Dow Jones index only lists companies which perform badly.
C. The NASDAQ never lists companies which are performing badly.
D. The Dow Jones index will continue to rise less quickly than the NASDAQ.
E. The companies listed on the NASDAQ are not also listed on the Dow Jones.

Question 6 – 7 are based on the following.

The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of legal services, the more lawyers there are
who advertise their services and the lawyers who advertise a specific service usually charge less for
that service than lawyers who do not advertise. Therefore, if the state removes any of its current
restrictions, such as the one against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements, overall
consumer legal costs will be lower than if the state retains its current restrictions.

6. If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
5.1 Some lawyers who now advertise will change more for specific services if they do not have to
specify fee arrangements in the advertisements.
5.2 More consumers will use legal service if there are fewer restrictions on the advertising of legal
services.
5.3 If the restriction against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements is removed, more
lawyers will advertise their services.
5.4 If more lawyers advertise lower prices for specific services, some lawyers who do not advertise
will also charge less than they currently charge for those services.
5.5 If the only restrictions on the advertising of legal services were those that apply to every type of
advertising, most lawyers would advertise their services.

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7. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument concerning overall
consumer legal cost?

A. The state has recently removed some other restriction that had limited the advertising of legal
services
B. The state is unlikely to remove all of the restrictions that apply solely to the advertising of legal
services
C. Lawyers who do not advertise generally provide legal services of the same quality as those
provided by lawyers who do advertise
D. Most lawyers who now specify fee arrangements in their advertisements would continue to do
so even if the specification were not required
E. Most lawyers who advertise specific services do not lower their fees for those services when
they begin to advertise.

8. Kale has more nutritional value than spinach. But since collard greens have more nutritional value
than lettuce, it follows that kale has more nutritional value than lettuce.
Any of the following, if introduced into the argument as an additional premise, makes the argument
above logically correct EXCEPT:

A. Collard greens have more nutritional value than kale.

B. Spinach has more nutritional value than lettuce.
C. Spinach has more nutritional value than collard greens.
D. Spinach and collard greens have the same nutritional value
E. Kale and collard green have the same nutritional value.

Questions 09 and 10 are based on the following:

If there is an oil-supply disruption resulting in higher international oil prices, domestic oil prices in open-
market countries such as the United States will rise as well, whether such countries import all or none
of their oil.

9. If the above statements above concerning oil-supply disruptions is true, which of the following policies
in an open-market nation is most likely to reduce the long-term economic impact on that nation of sharp
and unexpected increases in international oil prices?

A. Maintaining the quantity of oil imported at constant yearly levels

B. Increasing the number of oil tankers in its fleet
C. Suspending diplomatic relations with major oil-producing nations
D. Decreasing oil consumptions through conservation
E. Decreasing domestic production of oil.

10. Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the statement above?

A. Domestic producers of oil in open-market countries are excluded from the international oil
market when there is a disruption in the international oil supply
B. International oil-supply disruptions have little, if any, effect on the price of domestic oil as long
as an open-market county has domestic demand
C. The oil market in an open-market country is actually part of the international oil market, even
if most of that country´s domestic oil is usually sold to consumers within its borders
D. Open-market countries that export little or none of their oil can maintain stable domestic oil
prices even when international prices rise sharply
E. If international oil process rise, domestic distributors of oil in open-market countries will begin
to import more oil than they export.

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11. Property taxes are typically set at a flat rate per $1,000 of officially assessed value. Reassessments
should be frequent in order to remove distortions that arise when property values change at differential
rates. In practice, however, reassessments typically occur when they benefit the government – that is,
when their effect is to increase total tax revenue.

If the statements above are true, which of the following describes a situation in which a reassessment
should occur but is unlikely to do so?

A. Property values have risen sharply and uniformly

B. Property values have all risen – some very sharply, some less so
C. Property values have for the most part risen sharply; yet some have dropped slightly
D. Property values have for the most part dropped significantly; yet some have risen slightly
E. Property values have dropped significantly and uniformly

12. Neither a rising standard of living nor balanced trade, by itself, establishes a country’s ability to
compete in the international marketplace. Both are required simultaneously since standards of living
can rise because of growing trade deficits and trade can be balanced by means of a decline in a
country’s standard of living.
If the facts stated in the passage above are true, a proper test of a country’s ability to be competitive is
its ability to

A. Balance its trade while its standard of living rises

B. Balance its trade while its standard of living falls
C. Increase trade deficits while its standards of living rises
D. Decrease trade deficits while its standards of living falls
E. Keep its standards of living constant while trade deficits rise

13. A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only
from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild. It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make
one kilogram of the drug. It follows, therefore, that continued production of the drug must inevitably lead
to the ibora´s extinction.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument above?

A. The drug made from ibora bark is dispensed to doctors from a central authority
B. The drug made from ibora bark is expensive to produce
C. The leaves of the ibora are used in a number of medical products
D. The ibora can be propagated from cutting and grown under cultivation
E. The ibora generally grows in largely inaccessible places.

14. A greater number of newspapers are sold in Town S than in Town T. Therefore, the citizens of Town
S are better informed about major world events than are the citizens in Town T.

Each of the following, if true, weakens the conclusion above EXCEPT:

A. Town S has a larger population than Town T.

B. Most citizens of Town T work in Town S and buy there newspapers there.
C. The average citizen of Town S spends less time reading newspapers than does the average
citizen of Town T
D. A weekly newspaper restricted to the coverage of local events is published in Town S.
E. The average newsstand price of newspapers sold in Town S is lower than the average price pf
newspapers sold in Town T.

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 Answers

Quantitative section
1. B 11.C
2. E 12.B
3. C 13.C
4. E 14.D
5. C 15.C
6. B 16.C
7. D 17.E
8. C 18.D
9. E 19.D
10.A 20.D

Critical reasoning section

1. A
2. C
3. C
4. E
5. E
6. C
7. E
8. A
9. D
10. C
11. D
12. A
13. D
14. E

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