PRACTISE PAPER

1. If a + b + c = 110, a = 4b, and 3a = 2c, then b =

(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 9 (d) 10 (e) 14

2. A number x is increased by 30 percent, and then the result is decreased by 20

percent. What is the final result of these changes?
(a) x is increased by 10 percent (b) x is increased by 6 percent
(c) x is increased by 4 percent (d) x is increased by 5 percent
(e) x is decreased by 10 percent

3. A certain pump can drain a full 375-gallon tank in 15 minutes. At this rate, how
many more minutes would it takes to drain a full 6oo-gallon tank?
(a) 9 (b) 15 (c) 18 (d) 24
(e) 25

4. A 7.5 -L mixture of water and molasses is 60 percent molasses. If 1.5 L of water is

added, approximately what percent of the new mixture is molasses?
(a) 40% (b) 50% (c) 63% (d) 64% (e) 68%

5. When n is divided by 7, the remainder is 4. What is the remainder when 2n is

divided
by 7?
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3 (e) 4

6. Last year Edna’s annual salary was $20000. This year’s raise brings her to an
annual salary of $25000. If she gets a raise of the same percentage every year,
what will her salary be next year?
(a) $27500 (b) $30000 (c) $31250 (d) $32500 (e) $35500

7. Set I = {2, 3, 4, 5} Set II = {1, 2, 3}

If x is a number generated by multiplying a number from Set I by a number from
Set II, how many possible values of x are greater than 5?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6 (e) 7

8. When z is divided by 8, the remainder is 5. What is the remainder when 4z is

divided
by 8?
(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5 (e) 7

9. A three-digit code is made up of three different digits from the set {2, 4, 6, 8}. If 2
is always the first digit in the code, how many three-digit codes can be formed if
each digit is used only once?
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 12 (e) 16
10. The average (arithmetic mean) of six numbers is 16. If five of the numbers are 15,
37, 16, 9 and 23, what is the sixth number?
(a) -20 (b) -4 (c) 0 (d) 6 (e) 16

11. If Andy drove 120 miles in x hours at constant speed, how many miles did he travel
in the first 20 minutes of his trip?
(a) 60x (b) 3x (c) 120/x (d) 40/x (e) 6/x

12. Magazine A has a total of 28 pages, 16 of which are advertisements and 12 of

which are articles. Magazine B has a total of 35 pages, all of them either
advertisements or articles. If the ratio of the number of pages of advertisements to
the number of pages of articles is the same for both magazines, then Magazine B
has how many more pages of advertisements than Magazine A?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 5 (e) 6

13. A bracelet is made up of colored beads in the repeated sequence red, orange,
yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. If the first bead in the bracelet is red and the
last is yellow, then the total number of beads in the bracelet could be:
(a) 48 (b) 49 (c) 50 (d) 51
(e) 52

14. If a sweater sells for $48 after a 25 percent markdown, what was its original price?
(a) $56 (b) $60 (c) $64 (d) $68 (e) $72

15. Three people stop for lunch at a hot dog stand. If each person orders one item and
there are three items to choose from, how many different combinations of food
could be purchased?
(a) 6 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 18 (e) 27

16. If the first term in a geometric sequence is 4, and the fifth term is 64, what is the
eighth term?
(a) 512 (b) 864 (c) 1,245 (d) 13,404 (e) 22,682

17. If │r + 7│< 2, which of the following statements are true?

I. r < -9 II. r < -5 III. r > -9
(a) I only (b) II only (c) III only (d) I and II only (e) II, III
only

18. If the length of a sea turtle is directly proportional to its age, and a 2-year-old sea
turtle is 3 inches long, how many feet long is an 80-year-old sea turtle?
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 100 (d) 120 (e)
144
19. A scientist is running an experiment with two species of bacteria that grow
exponentially. If species A doubles in population every 2 days, species B doubles in
population every 5 days, and each species began the experiment with a population
of 50 bacteria, what will be the difference between the populations of the two
species after 10 days?
(a) 200 (b) 800 (c) 1,200 (d)1,400 (e) 1,500

20. The rate at which a certain balloon travels is inversely proportional to the amount
of weight attached to it. If the balloon travels at 10 inches per second when there
is a 2-gram weight attached to it, approximately how much weight must be
attached to the balloon for it to travel 18 inches per second? (in grams)
(a) 0.4 (b) 1.0 (c) 1.1 (d) 3.6 (e) 10.0

21. Sammy purchased a new car in 2000. Three years later, he sold it to a dealer for
40 percent less than he paid for it in 2000. The dealer then added 20 percent onto
the price he paid and resold it to another customer. The price the final customer
paid for the car was what percent of the original price Sammy paid in 2000?
(a) 40% (b) 60% (c) 72% (d) 80% (e) 88%

22. In a class of 27 students, the average (arithmetic mean) score of the male
students on the final exam was 83. If the average score of the 15 female students
in the class was 92, what was the average of the whole class?
(a) 86.2 (b) 87.0 (c) 87.5 (d) 88.0 (e) 88.2

23. Phillip’s coin collection consists of quarters, dimes and nickels. If the ratio of the
number of quarters to the number of dimes is 5 : 2, and the ratio of the number of
dimes to the number of nickels is 3 : 4, what is the ratio of the number of quarters
to the number of nickels?
(a) 5 : 4 (b) 7 : 5 (c) 10 : 6 (d) 12 : 7 (e) 15 : 8

24. If n ≠ 0, then which of the following must be true?

I. n2 > n II. 2n > n III. n + 1> n
(a) I only (b) II only (c) III only (d) I and III only (e) I, II & III

25. At a certain restaurant, the hourly wage for a waiter is 20 percent more than the
hourly wage for a dishwasher, and the hourly wage for a dishwasher is half as
much as the hourly wage for a cook’s assistant. If a cook’s assistant earns $8.50
per hour, how much less than a cook’s assistant does a waiter earn each hour?
(a) $2.55 (b) $3.40 (c) $4.25 (d) $5.10 (e) $5.95
26. A certain school event was open only to juniors and seniors. Half the number of
juniors who had planned to attend actually attended. Double the number of seniors
who had planned to attend actually attended. If the ratio of the number of juniors
who had planned to attend to the number of seniors who had planned to attend
was 4 to 5, then juniors were what fraction of attendees?
(a) 1/6 (b) 1/5 (c) 4/19 (d) 4/15
(e) It cannot be determined from the information given

27. Pump 1 can drain a 400-gallon-water tank in 1.2 hours. Pump 2 can drain the same
tank in 1.8 hours. How many minutes longer than pump 1would it takes pump 2 to
drain a 100-gallon tank?
(a) 0.15 (b) 1.2 (c) 6 (d) 9 (e) 18

28. A reservoir is at full capacity at the beginning of summer. By the first day of fall,
the level in the reservoir is 30 percent below full capacity. Then during the fall, a
period of heavy rains increases the level by 30 percent. After the rains, the
reservoir is at what percent of its full capacity?
(a) 60% (b) 85% (c) 91% (d) 95% (e) 100%

29. Two classes, one with 50 students and the other with 30, take the same exam. The
combined average of both classes is 84.5. If the larger class averages 80, what is
the average of the smaller class?
(a) 87.2 (b) 89.0 (c) 92.0 (d) 93.3 (e) 94.5

30. In a pet shop, the ratio of puppies to kittens is 7 : 6, and the ratio of kittens to
guinea pigs is 5 : 3. What is the ratio of puppies to guinea pigs?
(a) 7 : 3 (b) 6 : 5 (c) 13 : 8 (d) 21 : 11 (e) 35 : 18

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