1

Exercise-01
(1) If each package of fresh gum contains s
sticks, and each of the students in Mr. Peris
class chews f sticks each day , how many
packages do 6s students finish in 3 days?
(A)

(B)

(C) (D) (E)

(2) If 'n' is an even integer and a multiple of
7, which of the following cannot be an Even
Integer?
(A)

(B)

(C) 7n (D) 7n+2 (E) 7n+3

(3) If positive integers a and b are not
both odd, which of following must be even?


(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E) ( )

(4) If where a, b, and c are
three different prime numbers greater than
2, how many positive factors , including 1
and d, does d have?
(A) 3 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
(5) If a, b, c are positive integers such that 'a'
is even, 'b' is odd and 'c' is prime and
1<a<b<c. Which of the following could be
a+b+c ?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 11 (D) 13 (E) 16
(6) A number when divided by 510 gives a
Remainder 102 what remainder will be
obtained by dividing the same number by
17?
(A) 0 (B) 1 (C) 2 (D) 3 (E) 4
(7) How many numbers between 1 and 200
are of the form 7n+5 where 'n' is a positive
integer?
(A) 32 (B) 25 (C) 30 (D) 28 (E) 27

(8) How many times should the keys of type
Writer be pressed in order to write first 300
counting numbers?
(A) 789 (B) 792 (C) 795 (D) 798 (E) 789
(9) Let P be a collection of consecutive
positive integers. If the sum of all the
numbers in p is 91, what is the largest
number of positive integers in p?
(A) 10 (B) 11 (C) 13 (D) 15 (E) 16
(10) If when a certain integer 'a' is divided by
5 the remainder is 2, then each of the
following could also be an integer except
(A) a/17 (B) a/11 (C) a/10 (D) a/6 (E)a/3
(11) How many integers between 100 and
150, inclusive can be evenly divided by
neither 3 nor 5.
(A) 33 (B) 28 (C) 27 (D) 26 (E) 29
(12) Which of the following could be the
remainders when four consecutive positive
integers are each divided by 3?
(A) 1,2,3,1 (B) 1,2,3,4 (C) 0,1,2,3
(D) 0,1,2,0 (E) none
(13) A number 'a' when divided by 75 leaves
a remainder 30. What will be the remainder
if 5a is divided by 75?
(A) 30 (B) 0 (C) 15 (D) 45 (E) 60
(14) If the product of the integers
and is 770, and if ,
what is the value of ?
(A) 10 (B) 13 (C)16 (D)18 (E)21
(15) On the number line, if , if is
halfway between and , and if is halfway
between and , then

=
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D) 3 (E) 4



2

(16) The weight of four packages are 1,3,5,
and 7 pounds, respectively. Which of the
following CANNOT be the total weight, in
pounds, of any combination of the
packages?
(A) 9 (B)10 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 14
(17) In an increasing sequence of 10
consecutive integers, the sum of the first 5
integers is 560. What is the sum of the last 5
integers in the sequence?
(A) 585 (B) 580 (C) 575 (D) 570 (E) 565
(18) A cashier mentally reversed the digits of
one customers correct amount of change
and thus gave the customer an incorrect
amount of change. If the cash register
contained 45 cents more than it should have
as a result of this error, which of the
following could have been the correct
amount of change in cents?
(A) 14 (B) 45 (C) 54 (D) 65 (E) 83
(19) If is an even integer and is an odd
integer, which of the following must be an
odd integer?
(A)

(B) (C)
(D)( ) (E)

(20) If positive integers and are not both
odd, which of the following must be even?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E) 2( )-1

















































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Exercise-02
(1) If a,b,c are positive integers such that 'a'
is a multiple of 'b' and 'a' is a factor of 'c'
which of the following is not an integer?
(A)
()

(B)

(C)

(D)
()

(E) none
(2) If k is a multiple of 2,3 and 5. What is the
next large integer which is divisible by these
numbers?
(A) k (B) k+2 (C) k+3 (D) k+6 (E) k+30

(3) If the numbers 70 and 105 are both
multiples of a prime number n, how many
possible values are there for n?
(A) (B) (C) (D) 3 (E) 4
(4) If the integer is a multiple of both 10
and 12, then all of the following must be
factors of EXCEPT
(A) 15 (B) 12 (C) 10 (D) 8 (E) 6
(5) If and are positive integers such
that is divisible by , and is divisible by
, which of the following is NOT necessarily
an integer?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(6) Which of the following cannot be the
greatest common divisor of two positive
integers 'a' and b?
(A) 1 (B) a (C) b (D) a-b (E) a+b
(7) If integers and are distinct factors of
30, which of the following CANNOT be a
factor of 30?
(I)
2

(II)( )

(III)
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only
(D)I and II only (E) I, II, and III
(8) Two positive integers are compatible if
their greatest common factor is a prime
number. For instance, 15 and 25 are
compatible because their greatest common
factor is 5, which is prime. If and 98 are
compatible, and is an odd number, then
what is the greatest common factor of
and 98?
(A) 2 (B) 5 (C) 7 (D) 14 (E) 49
(9) Three different containers contain Petrol
420 gallons, 220 gallons and 620 gallons.
Which of the following is the biggest
measure that can measure all the different
quantities exactly?
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 80
(10) Chime A and Chime B ring
simultaneously at Noon. Afterwards, chime
A rings every 72 minutes and chime B rings
every 54 minutes. What time is it when they
next ring simultaneously?
(A) 3:18 pm (B) 3:24 pm (C) 3:36 pm
(D) 3:54 pm (E) 4:16 pm
(11) Jacob has 60 red, 156 blue & 204 green
marbles. He distributes them amongst a
group of kids such that each kid gets equal
number of marbles and no kid has marbles
of more than one color. Find the number of
kids?
(A) 12 (B) 21 (C) 35 (D) 36 (E) 40
(12) A computer is programmed to generate
a list of multiples of Prime Numbers 2,3 and
5 as shown below
Program I __ List of Multiples of 2
Program II____ List of Multiples of 3
Program III ___ List of Multiples of 5
How many integers between 1 and 100 will
appear on all three of the lists of the
programs produced above?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) none

4

Questions 13 and 14 refer to the following
definition.
For any positive integer n, n>1, the length
of n is the number of positive primes (not
necessarily distinct) whose product is n. For
example, the length of 50 is 3 since
50 = (2)(5)(5).
(13) Which of the following integers has
length 3?
(A) 3 (B) 15 (C) 60 (D) 64 (E) 105
(14) What is the greatest possible length of a
positive integer less than 1000?
(A) 10 (B) 9 (C)8 (D) 7 (E) 6
(15) How many positive integers less than 20
are either a multiple of 2, an odd multiple of
9, or the sum of a positive multiple of 2 and
a positive multiple of 9?
(A) 19 (B) 18 (C) 17 (D) 16 (E) 15

(16) If is a positive integer less than 200
and

is an integer, then has how many

different positive prime factors?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C)5 (D)6 (E) 8
(17) Simplify 30-54+(7-3)
2
8
(A) 10 (B) 13 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) none
(18) (

- (

) (

) =
(A) -

(B) -

(C)

(D)

(E)

(19) ()() ()() =
(A)4 (B) 24 (C) 25 (D) 4 +8 (E)32
(20)
=
(

|
.
|

\
|
+
16
9
4
8
3
3
2
2
1


(A)
16
29
(B)
16
19
(C)
16
15
(D)
13
9
(E) 0

















































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Exercise -03
(1) Peter traveled 13

miles by Taxi , 17

miles by Bus and 14 miles by Train. In the
return journey he traveled 11

miles by
Train, 19

miles by Taxi and the rest of the

distance by Bus. How much distance did he
travel by Bus in the return Journey?
(A) 12

(B) 14

(C) 13

(D) 14 (E) 12
(2) 0.2 + 0.02 + 0.002 is equal to
0.02 0.002 0.0002
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 0.04 (E) 40
(3) If k is an integer and 0.0010101 x 10
k
is
greater than 1000, what is the least possible
value of k
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6
(4) If 1/2 of the money in a certain trust fund
was invested in Stocks, 1/4 in Bonds 1/5 in a
Mutual Fund, and 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) 50000 (E) 180,000
(5) In a mayoral election, Candidate X
received 1/3 more votes than Candidate Y,
and Candidate Y received 1/4 fewer votes
than Candidate Z. If candidate Z , received
24,000 votes, how many votes did candidate
X received?
(A) 18000 (B) 22000 (C) 24000
(D) 26000 (E) 28000
(6) A collection of books went on sale, and
2/3 of them were sold for $2.5 each. If none
of the 36 remaining books were sold, what
was the total amount received for the books
that were sold?
(A) $180 (B) $135 (C) $90 (D)$ 60 (E)$ 54
(7) In a certain class consisting of 36
students, some boys and some girls, exactly
1/3 of boys and 1/4 of girls walk to school.
What is the greatest possible number of
students in this class who walk to school?
(A) 9 (B) 10 (C) 11 (D) 12 (E) 13
(8) During the four years that Mr. John
owned his car, he found that his total car
expenses were $18000. Fuel and
maintenance costs accounted for 1/3 of the
total and depreciation accounted for 3/5 of
the remainder. The cost of insurance was 3
times the cost of financing, and together
these two costs accounted for 1/5 of the
total. If the only other expenses were taxes
and license fees, then the cost of financing
was how much more or less than the cost of
taxes and license fees?
(A) $1,500 more (B) $1,200 more
(C)$ 100 less (D) $ 300 less (E) $1,500 less
(9) In a nationwide poll, N people were
interviewed. If 1/4 of them answered "yes"
to question 1, and of those,1/3 answered
"yes" to question 2, which of the following
expressions represents the number of
people interviewed who DID NOT answer
"yes" to both questions?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(10) A restaurant buys fruit in cans
containing 3

cups of fruit each. If the

restaurant uses

cup of the fruit in each

serving of its fruit compote, what is the least
number of cans needed to prepare 60
servings of the compote.
(A) 7 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 10 (E) 12





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(11) Drum X is 1/2 full of oil and drum Y ,
which has twice the capacity of drum X, is
2/3 full of oil. If all of the oil in drum X is
poured into drum Y, then the drum Y will be
filled to what fraction of its capacity
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(12) In a certain flower shop, which stocks
four types of flowers, there are 1/3 as many
violets as carnations, and 1/2 as many tulips
as violets. If there are equal number of roses
and tulips, what fraction of the flowers in
the shop are carnations?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(13) During a sale, a store sells 20 percent of
its remaining stock each day, without
replenishment. After 4 days, what fraction of
its original stock has it sold?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(14) Company Z spent

of its revenue last

year on marketing and

of the remainder on
maintenance of its facilities. What fraction of
last years original revenue did company Z
have left after its marketing and
maintenance expenditures?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

15) Which of the following fractions has the
greatest value?
(A)

)(

)
(B)

)(

)
(C)

)(

)

(D)

)(

)
(E)

)(

)


16) At a certain pizzeria,

of the pizzas sold

in one week were mushrooms and

of the
remaining pizzas sold were pepperonis. If
of the pizzas sold were pepperoni, how
many were mushroom?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) 3

(17) of the final grades received by the
students in a certain math course,

are As,

are Bs,

are Cs, and the remaining 10

grades are Ds. What is the number of
students in the course?
(A) 80 (B) 110 (C) 160 (D) 200 (E) 400
(18) If

of the air in a tank is removed with

each stroke of a vacuum pump, what
fraction of the original amount of air has
been removed after 4 strokes?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(19) Equal amounts of water were poured
into two empty jars of different capacities,
which made one jar

full and the other jar

full. If the water in the jar with the lesser
capacity is then poured into the jar with the
greater capacity, what fraction of the larger
jar will be filled with water?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(20) In company X, no employee is both a
technician and an Accountant. Also in
company X,

of the employees are

technicians and

of the remaining
employees are Accountants. What fraction
of the total number of employees at
company X are neither technicians nor
Accountants.
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

7

Exercise -04
(1) A vessel contains 48 liters mixture of milk
and water in the ratio 5:3. How much water
should be added to the mixture so that the
ratio of milk and water is 1:1?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16
(2) At a certain party the ratio of men and
women was 2:1. If 2 men and 3 women left
the party, the ratio becomes 4: 1. How many
people were present in the party?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 25
(3) A fruit Salad mixture consists of Apples,
Mangoes and grapes in the ratio 7:5:3
respectively by weight. If 60 pounds of the
mixtures is prepared, the mixture includes
how many more pounds of Apples than
grapes?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 14 (E) 16
(4) A container holding 16 Gallons of a
Solution that is 1 Part alcohol to 3 parts
water is added to another container holding
9 gallons of a solution that is 1 part Alcohol
to 2 parts water. What is the ratio of alcohol
to water in the resulting solution?
(A) 7:15 (B) 15:7 (C) 7: 18 (D) 18: 7 (E) 12: 17
(5) In a mixture of 45 liters, the ratio of milk
and water is 5:4 how much milk must be
added to make the ratio 2:1?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 20 (E) 25
(6) If a rectangular photograph that is 10
inches wide by 15 inches long is to be
enlarged so that 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


(7) The amounts of time that three
secretaries worked on a special project are
in the ratio of 1 to 2 to 5 . If they worked a
combined total of 112 hours, how many
hours did the secretary who worked the
longest spend on the project?
(A) 80 (B) 70 (C) 56 (D)16 (E) 14

(8) In a certain class, the ratio of the number
of mathematics majors to the number of
students who are not mathematics majors is
2 to 5. If 2 more mathematics majors were
to enter the class, the ratio would be 1 to
2. How many students are in the class?
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 21 (D) 28 (E) 35
(9) If

, which of the following is NOT

true
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(10) In a certain company, the ratio of the
number of managers to the number of
production line workers is 5 to 72. If 8
additional production line workers were to
be hired, the ratio of the number of
managers to the number of production line
workers would be 5 to 74.How many
mangers does the company have?
(A)5 (B)10 (C)15 (D) 20 (E) 25
(11) The ratio of two quantities is 3 to 4. If
each of the quantities is increased by 5, what
is the ratio of these two quantities?
(A) 3 :4 (B) 8 : 9 (C) 18 : 19 (D) 23 : 24
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given


8

(12) The ratio by volume of soap to alcohol
to water in a certain solution is 2:50:100.
The solution will be altered so that the ratio
of soap to alcohol is doubled while the ratio
of soap to water is halved. If the altered
solution will contain 100 cubic centimeters
of alcohol, how many cubic centimeters of
water will it contain?
(A) 50 (B) 200 (C) 400 (D) 625 (E) 800

(13)
Shipment Number of
defective
chips in the
shipment
Total number
of
chips in the
shipment
S1 2 5000
S2 5 12000
S3 6 18000
S4 4 16000

A computer chip manufacturer expects the
ratio of the number of defective chips to the
total number of chips in all future shipments
to equal the corresponding ratio for
shipments S1, S2, S3 and S4 combined, as
shown in the table above. What is the
expected number of defective chips in a
shipment of 60000 chips?
(A) 14 (B) 20 (C) 22 (D) 24 (E) 25
(14) On a 3 day fishing trip, 4 adults
consumed food costing $60. For the same
food costs per person per day, what would
be the cost of food (in $) consumed by 7
adults during a 5 day fishing trip?
(A) 300 (B) 175 (C) 105 (D) 100 (E) 84


(15) If a fleet of buses uses gallons of
gasoline every two days, how many gallons
of gasoline will be used by 4 buses every 5
days?
(A)

(B) (C)

(D)

(E)

(16) A machine can produce 50 computer
chips in 2 hours. At this rate, how many
computer chips can the machine produce in
7 hours.
(A) 175 (B) 200 (C) 225 (D) 250 (E) 275
(17) To make a purple dye, red dye and blue
dye are mixed in a ratio of 3:4. To make a
certain orange dye, red dye and yellow dye
are mixed in a ratio of 3:2. If equal amounts
of the purple and orange dye are mixed,
what fraction of the new mixture is red dye?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(18) If 4 cows produce 4 cans of milk in 4
days, how many days does it take eight cow
to produce 8 cans of milk?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 4 (D) 8 (E) 16
(19) In a class of 160 seniors, the ratio of
boys to girls is 3 to 5. In the junior class, the
ratio of boys to girls is 3 to 2. When the two
classes are combined, the ratio of boys to
girls is 1 to 1. How many students are in the
junior class?
(A) 160 (B) 180 (C) 200 (D) 360 (E) 400
(20) If 1 pound of grain can feed 5 chickens
or 2 pigs, then 10 pounds of grain can feed
20 chickens and how many pigs?
(A) 8 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 24 (E) 40


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Exercise -05
(1) Peter received grades of 92, 88 and 75 on
three tests. What grade must he receive on
the next test so that his average for these
four tests is 84?
(A) 78 (B) 80 (C) 81 (D) 86 (E) 88
(2) Marys average grade for four math tests
is 86 . What grade must she receive on her
next test to increase her average by 2
points?
(A) 92 (B) 94 (C) 96 (D) 98 (E) 100
(3) If the average of a, b and 45, is 15, then
the average of a and b is
(A) 1.5 (B) 10 (C) 5 (D) 1 (E) 0

(4) The average test score earned by a group
of students is 82. If 60 percent of the
students have an average score of 75 then
what is the average score of the remaining
students?
(A) 82.5 (B) 85 (C) 87.5 (D) 90 (E) 92.5
(5) The average weight of 15 students in a
class is increased by 300grams, when one of
the boys whose weight is 30 kg is replaced
by new boy. What is the weight of the new
boy (in kg)?
(A) 25 (B) 25.5 (C) 34.5 (D) 35 (E) none
(6) Average of 9 members is 30. The average
of first 5 members is 27 and the average of
last 5 members is 31. Find the 5th number?
(A) 20 (B) 22 (C) 25 (D) 28 (E) 34
(7) Bobs average score for five math tests
was 150 out of possible 200. His scores on
three of the tests were 182, 147 and 171
respectively. Lowest of his other scores
could have been?
(A) 45 (B) 50 (C) 70 (D) 75 (E) 95


(8) The average of 20 observations was
calculated as 40, it was found later that one
of the observations was misread as 54
instead of 34, the correct mean is
(A) 38 (B) 39 (C) 40 (D) 41 (E) 42

(9) A man purchased two varieties of wheat
in equal weight, the prices of respective
wheat are $12 per kg and $ 15 per kg, then
the average price (in $) (per Kg)
(A) 12.5 (B) 13 (C) 13.5 (D) 14 (E) 14.5
(10) The average of 5 numbers is 55 if each
number is multiplied by 5, the average of the
new set of numbers is
(A) 55 (B) 60 (C) 80 (D) 225 (E) 275
(11) The average of 6 numbers is 8.5. When
one number is discarded, the average of the
remaining numbers becomes 7.2. What is
the discarded number?
(A) 7.8 (B) 9.8 (C) 10.0 (D) 12.4 (E) 15.0

(12) If books cost $5 each and books cost
$8 each, then the average cost, in dollars per
book, is equal to
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(13) If , then which of the
following represents the average of
in terms of ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)

(E)

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(14) A Club sold an average of 92 raffle
tickets per member. Among the female
members, the average number sold was 84,
and among the male members, the average
number sold was 96. What was the ratio of
the number of male members to the number
of female members in the club?
(A) 1:1 (B) 1:2 (C) 1:3 (D) 2:1 (E) 3:1
(15) On 3 sales John has received
commission of $240, $80, and $110, and he
has 1 more sale pending. If John is to receive
an average commission of exactly $150 on
the 4 sales, then the fourth commission
must be
(A) $164 (B) $170 (C) $175 (D) $182 (E) $185
(16) If the average of and is 60 and the
average of and is 80, what is the value of
?
(A)70 (B) 40 (C) 20 (D) 10
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given
(17) A certain college has a student-to-
teacher ratio of 11 to 1. The average annual
salary for teachers is $26000. If the college
pays a total of $3380000 in annual salaries
to its teachers, how many students does the
college have?
(A) 130 (B) 169 (C) 1300 (D) 1430 (E) 1560
(18) Last year John received 26 pay checks.
Each of his first 6 paychecks was $750; each
of his remaining paychecks was $30 more
than each of his first 6 paychecks. To the
nearest dollar, what was the average
amount of his paychecks for the year?
(A) $752 (B) $755 (C) $765 (D) $773 (E) $775
(19) If 3 pounds of dried apricots that cost
dollars per pound are mixed with 2 pounds
of prunes that cost dollars per pound,
what is the cost, in dollars, per pound of the
mixture?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D) ( ) (E)

(20) The manager of a theater noted that for
every 10 admission tickets sold, the theater
sells 3 bags of popcorn at $2.25 each, 4
sodas at $1.50 each, and 2 candy bars at $
1.00 each. To the nearest cent, what is the
average amount of these snack sales per
ticket sold?
(A) $1.18 (B) $1.48 (C) $1.60
(D)$1.64 (E) $1.7













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Exercise -06
(1) The boys and girls in a school are in the
ratio 15:8 .If the 20% of boys and 25 % of
girls are adults, the percentage of students
who are adults is
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) 33

(2) Last year Peters annual salary was $
25,000.This years raise brings his annual
salary to $ 30,000 .If he gets the same
percent raise every year, what will his salary
be next year?
(A)$ 33,000 (B) $ 35,000 (C) $ 36,000
(D) $ 38,000 (E) $ 40,000

(3) If the total expenses of certain business
in year 2012 was $ 60,000, which was 20%
more than in year 2011 what was the total
expenses in year 2011?
(A) $48,000 (B) $50,000 (C) $51,000
(D) $52,000 (E) $72,000

(4) If 60% of students in a school are boys
and the number of boys exceeds that of girls
by 140. Find the total girl students in the
school?
(A) 200 (B) 240 (C) 280 (D) 320 (E) 360

(5) Of the 4800 employees of company z,

are nontechnicians. If the non- technicians
staff were to be reduced by

, what percent
of the total number of the remaining
employees would then be non- technicians?
(A) 40 (B) 50 (C) 56 (D) 60 (E) 62
(6) In an examination, there are 3 papers of
math, science and English of 100 marks
each. A boy secures 90% in math, and 78% in
the Science paper. In order to secure 85% in
the aggregate, the percentage of marks he
should secure in English will be
(A) 80 (B) 82 (C) 84 (D) 85 (E) 87


(7) A union contract specifies a 6 percent
salary increase plus a $ 450 bonus for each
employee. For a certain employee this is
equivalent to an 8 percent salary increase.
What was this employee's salary before the
new contract?
(A)$21500 (B)$22500 (C)$23500
(D)$24300 (E)$25000

(8) If the length and width of a rectangular
garden plot were each increased by 20
percent, what would be the percent increase
in the area of the plot?
(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 40 (E) 44

(9) Tickets for all but 100 seats in a
10000seat stadium were sold. Of the tickets
sold, 20 percent were sold at half price and
the remaining tickets were sold at the full
price of $2? What was the total revenue (in
$) from the tickets sales?
(A) 15840 (B) 17820 (C) 18000
(D) 19800 (E) 21780
(10) In a shipment of 120 machine parts, 5
percent were defective. In a shipment of 80
machine parts, 10 percent were defective.
For the two shipments combined, what
percent of the machine parts were
defective?
(A) 6.5 (B) 7 (C) 7.5 (D) 8 (E) 8.5

(11) Of the 3600 employees of company X,

are clerical. If the clerical staff were to be
reduced by

, what percent of the total

number of the remaining employees would
then be the clerical?
(A) 25 (B) 22.2 (C) 20 (D) 12.5 (E) 11.1



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(12) In country a returning tourist may
import goods with a total value $500 or less
tax free, but must pay a 8 percent tax on the
portion of the total value in excess of $500.
What tax must be paid by a returning tourist
who imports goods with a total value of
$730?
(A) $58.40 (B) $40.00 (C) $24.60
(D) $18.40 (E) $16.00
(13) A tank contains 10, 000 gallons of a
solution that is 5 percent sodium chloride by
volume. If 2,500 gallons of water evaporate
from the tank, the remaining solution will be
approximately what percent sodium
chloride?
(A) 1.25% (B) 3.75% (C) 6.25%
(D) 6.67% (E) 11.7%
(14) In 2005, 45 percent of a document
storage facilitys 60 customers were banks,
and in 2007, 25 percent of its 144 customers
were banks. What was the percent increase
from 2005 to 2007 in the number of bank
customers the facility had?
(A) 10.7% (B)20% (C)25% (D) 33

% (E) 58

%
(15) During a certain season, a team won 80
percent of its first 100 games and 50 percent
of its remaining games. If the team won 70
percent of its games for the entire season,
what was the total number of the games
that the team played?
(A) 180 (B) 170 (C) 156 (D)150 (E) 105

(16) In a poll of 66000 physicians, only 20
percent responded; of these, 10 percent
disclosed their preference for pain reliever X.
how many of the physicians who responded
did NOT disclose a preference for pain
reliever X?
(A) 1320 (B) 5280 (C) 6600 (D) 10560
(E)11880

(17) Thirty percent of the members of a
swim club have passed the lifesaving test.
Among the members who have not passed
the test, 12 have taken the preparatory
course and 30 have not taken the course.
How many members are there in the swim
club?
(A) 60 (B) 80 (C) 100 (D) 120 (E) 140
(18) The organizers of a fair projected a 25
percent increase in attendance this year
over that of last year, but attendance this
year actually decreased by 20 percent. What
percent of the projected attendance was the
actual attendance?
(A) 45% (B) 56%(C) 64%(D) 75% (E) 80%

(19) A part-time employee whose hourly
wage was increased by 25 percent decided
to reduce the number of hours worked per
week so that the employees total weekly
income would remain unchanged. By what
percent should the number of hours worked
be reduced?
(A) 12.5% (B) 20% (C) 25%
(D) 50% (E) 75%

(20) Of the researchers in a workgroup, 40
percent will be assigned to team A and the
remaining 60 percent to team B. However,
70 percent of the researchers prefer team A
and 30 percent prefer tem B. what is the
least possible number of researchers who
will NOT be assigned to the team they
prefer?
(A) 15 (B) 17 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30





13

Exercise -07
(1) The price of a cell phone is discounted by
5 percent and the reduced price is further
discounted by 3 percent, this is equal to a
single discount (%)
(A) 8 (B) 7.85 (C) 7.5 (D) 7.25 (E) 7
(2) A certain customer paid $81 for a pair of
shoes. If the price represented a 10%
discount on the original price of the shoes.
The original price of the shoes is?
(A) $ 72 (B) $ 90 (C) $ 91 (D) 71(E) $ 98
(3) A man sells two watches for $ 20 each,
on one he gained 5% and on the other he
losses 5%. Find his gain % or Loss % ?
(A) 0.5% Loss (B) 0.25 % Loss (C) 0.5% gain
(D) 1% Gain (E) 0.25% gain
(4) If the selling price of 10 oranges is the
same as the cost price of 8 oranges. Find the
gain or loss percentage?
(A) 20% gain (B) 25% gain (C) 20% Loss
(D) 25% Loss (E)16(2/3) % gain
(5) The cost of a sweater to a merchant was
$ 50. The merchant fixes the marked price. If
the marked price were later discounted by
25%, the Selling Price would be 10% greater
than cost of the sweater. What is the
marked price (in $) of the sweater?
(A) 70 (B) 73(1/3) (C) 80 (D) 83(1/3) (E) 30
(6) A businessman allows two successive
discounts of 10% and 4% on his goods, still
he gets a profit of 8%. Find by what % the
goods were marked up?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30
(7) Peter sold a camera at a profit of 15% If
he has sold it for $ 6 more than its SP, he
would have gained 25% profit, what was the
Cost price of the camera?
(A) 50 (B) 60 (C) 80 (D) 100 (E) 12
(8) At a selling price of $920, a car yields a
20% Profit on the cost. What selling price
will yield a 5% profit on the cost?
(A) $805 (B) $815 (C) $825 (D) $845 (E) $865
(9) A bookseller bought 200 books at $ 25
each and spent $ 0.25 for binding each of
them. He then sells the books at $ 30 each.
Find his gain percent?
(A) 15 (B) 16 (C) 19 (D) 21 (E) 25
(10) A man sells an article at a loss of 10%,
had he sold it for $20 more, he would have
gained 10%. Find Cost Price of the article.
(A) $50 (B) $100 (C) $200 (D) $400 (E) $600
(11) An article is offered $ 800 and a
customer pays $ 576 for it, after a series of
two discounts. If the rate of the first
discount is 20%, find the second discount.(%)
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 12 (E) 20
(12) A toy store regularly sells all stock at a
discount of 20% to 40%. If an additional 25%
were deducted from the discount price
during a special sale, what would be the
lowest possible price of a toy costing $16
before any discount
(A) $5.6 (B) $7.2 (C) $8.8 (D) $9.6 (E) $15.2
(13) During a floral shop sale, for every 5
roses purchased, one rose is free of charge.
If the cost of one rose is $1.20, how much
money is saved by buying 2 dozen roses
Ans:



(14) A sports jacket marked $48 is offered at
a discount of 25 percent during a sale. At
this reduced price the dealer makes a profit
of 20 percent on the cost. The cost to the
dealer is
(A) 29 (B) 30(C) 32 (D) 36 (E) 40





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(15) A lamp is manufactured to sell for $35,
which yields a profit of 25percent of cost. If
the profit is to be reduced to 15 percent of
cost, the new retail price will be?
(A) 21 (B) 28(C) 31.50 (D) 32.2 (E) 43

(16)A furniture store sells only two models
of desks, model A and model B. The selling
price of model A is $120, which is 30 % of
the selling price of model B. If the furniture
store sells 2000 desks, 3/4 of which are
model B, what is the furniture stores total
revenue from the sale of desks?
(A) $660000 (B) $186000 (C) $294000
(D) $380000 (E) $114000
(17) A dealer originally purchased 100
identical batteries at a total cost of dollars.
If each battery was sold at 50 percent above
the original cost battery, then, in terms of ,
for how many dollars was each battery sold?
(A)

(B)

(C) 150 (D)

+50
(E)

(18) Ms. Adams sold two properties, X and Y,
for $30000 each. She sold property X for 20
percent more than she paid for it and sold
property Y for 20 percent less than she paid
for it. If expenses are disregarded, what was
her total net gain or loss, if any, on the two
properties?
(A) Loss of $1250
(B) Loss of $2500
(C)Gain of $1250
(D) Gain of $2500
(E)There was neither a net gain nor a net
loss





(19) Envelopes can be purchased for $1.50
per pack of 100, $1.00 per pack of 50, or
$0.03 each. What is the greatest number of
envelopes that can be purchased for $7.30?
(A) 426 (B) 430 (C) 443 (D) 460 (E) 486

(20) A shipment of 1500 heads of cabbage,
each of which was approximately the same
size, was purchased for $600. The day the
shipment arrived,

of the heads were sold,

each at 25 percent above the cost per head.
The following day the rest were sold at a
price per head equal to 10 percent less than
the price each head sold for on the day
before. What was the gross profit on this
shipment?
(A) $100 (B) $115 (C)$125(D)$130 (E) $135



























15

Exercise -08
(1) Albert takes half as long as Bush to do a
piece of work. Albert and Bush together can
complete a work in 12 days. In how many
days can, Albert does it separately?
(A) 10 (B) 14 (C) 15 (D) 18 (E) 20
(2) Two pipes A and B can separately fill a
tank in 10 minutes and 15 minutes
respectively. If both the pipes are opened
simultaneously, how much time will be
taken to fill the 2/3 of the tank?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
(3) If 5 printing machines can print 500 leaf
lets in 5 hours. How many hours are
required for 10 printing machines to print
1000 leaflets?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 10
(4) If 5 people working together at the same
rate can do a job in 5 days, what fraction of
that job can two of these people do in one
day
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) 5
(5) When three taps are kept open, the tank
is filled in 10 hours. If one tap can fill it in 5
hours and the second in 15 hours, In how
many hours can the 3
rd
tap empty it?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) none
(6) One inlet pipe fills an empty tank in 5 hrs.
A second inlet pipe fills the same tank in 3
hrs. If both pipes are used together, then
how long (hrs) will it takes to fill 2/3 of the
tank?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(7) Machine A produces bolts at a uniform
rate of 120 every 40 seconds, and Machine B
produces bolts at a uniform rate of 100
every 20 seconds. If the two machines run
simultaneously, how many seconds will it
take for them to produce a total of 200
bolts.
(A) 22 (B) 25 (C) 28 (D) 32 (E) 56

(8) Three machines, individually can do a
certain job in 4, 5 and 6 hours respectively.
What is the greatest part of the job that can
be done in one hour by two of the machines
working together at their respective rates?
(A) 11/30 (B) 9/20 (C) 3/5 (D) 11/15(E) 5/6
(9) Machine A produces 100 parts, twice as
fast as machine B does. Machine B produces
100 parts in 40 minutes. If each machine
produces parts at a constant rate, how many
parts does machine A produce in 6 minutes.
(A) 30 (B) 25 (C) 20 (D) 15 (E) 7.5
(10) Machines 'A' and 'B 'always operate
independently and at their respective
constant rates. When working alone
machine 'A' can fill a production lot in 5
hours, and machine 'B' can fill the same in 'x
hours. When the two machines operate
simultaneously to fill the production lot, it
takes them 2 hours to complete the job.
What is the value of 'x'
(A) 3

(B) 3 (C) 2

(D) 2

(E)1

(11) Working alone printers X,Y, and Z can do
a certain printing job in 12,15, and 18 hours,
respectively. What is the ratio of the time it
takes printer X to do the Job, working alone
at its rate, to the time it takes printers Y and
Z to do the job, working together at their
individual rates.
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

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(12) Running at the same constant rate, 6
identical machines can produce a total of
270 bottles per minute. At this rate, how
many bottles could 10 such machines
produce in 4 minutes?
(A)648 (B) 1800 (C)2700 (D)10800 (E) 64800

(13) Three machines, individually, can do a
certain job in 4, 5, and 6 hours, respectively.
What is the greatest part of the job that can
be done in one hour by two of the machines
working together at their respective rates?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(14) An automobile tyre has two punctures.
The first puncture by itself would make the
tyre flat in 9 minutes. The second puncture
by itself would make the tyre flat in 6
minutes. How long will it take(in minutes)
for both punctures together to make the
tyre flat?
(A)

(B) 4 (C)

(D) 7

(E) 15
(15) A cistern has two pipes, pipe A and pipe
B. if both pipes are opened; the cistern is
drained in 20 minutes. If pipe A is closed and
pipe B is open, the cistern will be drained in
30 minutes. If pipe B is closed and pipe A is
opened, how long (in minutes) will it take to
drain the cistern?
(A) 10 (B) 30 (C) 60 (D) 90 (E) 120




















































17

Exercise -09
(1) A bus departed from New York at 10: 47
a.m. and arrived in New Jersey at 3: 37 p.m
on the same day, the distance between
above cities is 290 miles. What was the
approximate average speed of the bus?
(A) 20 (B) 40 (C) 60 (D) 70 (E) 80

(2) A boy rode his bicycle from home to
school, a distance of 16 miles, at an average
speed of 16 miles per hour. He returned
from school (same route) at an average
speed of 12 miles per hour. What was his
average speed for the round trips?
(A) 13

(B) 12

(C) 14 (D) 14

(E) 15

(3) Two motor cyclist leave a signal point at
11 a.m., with one motor cyclist Traveling
North at 75 miles per hour and other south
at 55 miles per hour along a Straight road .At
what time (P.M) they will be 390 miles
apart?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3.30 (D) 3.50 (E) 4
(4) If a man walks at 5 miles per hour, He
reaches the bus stop 7 minutes too late and
if he walks at 6 miles per hour, he reaches
the stop 8 minutes too early. The bus stop is
at a distance of?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 7.5

(5) A train covers a distance in 40 minutes if
it runs at a speed of 60 mph. How much
speed will be required to cover the same
distance in 50 minutes
(A) 42 (B) 46 (C) 48 (D) 50 (E) 75
(6) A train travels at average speed of 65
miles per hour for the first 5 hours of a trip
and averages 55 miles per hour for each
additional hour of travel time if the average
speed for the entire trip 60 miles per hour,
how many hours long is the trip?
(A) 2.5 (B) 5 (C) 7.5 (D) 8 (E) 10
(7) Two trains X and Y started simultaneously
from opposite ends of a 100 mile route and
travelled toward each other on parallel
tracks. Train X travelling at a constant rate,
completed the 100 mile trip in 5 hours ; train
Y travelling at a constant rate, completed the
100 mile trip in 3 hours. How many miles
had train X travelled when it met train Y?
(A) 37.5 (B) 40.0(C) 60.0 (D) 62.5 (E) 77.5
(8) A Car travels at an average speed of
10mph through Urban area in 0.8 hours,50
mph through Suburban area in3 hours, and
70 mph through rural areas in 6.2 hours,
What is the Cars average speed for the
entire trip?
(A) 52.2 (B) 56.2 (C) 59.2 (D) 60 (E) 62.2

(9) Thirty minutes after Peter started walking
from A to B distance of 14 miles, Paul started
walking from along the same road from B to
A. if Peters walking speed was 4 miles per
hour and Pauls was 2 miles per hour, how
many miles had Paul walked when they met
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 6

(10) Two trains start from two stations x
and y with speeds 60 miles per hour and 40
miles per hour in the opposite direction at
11 a.m. Find at what time they will meet
each other, if the distance between the two
stations is 350 miles?
(A) 2:30p.m. (B) 3: 30 p.m. (C) 3 p.m.
(D) 2 p.m. (E) None
(11) Two motorcyclists do the same Journey
by traveling at 40 miles per hour and 50
miles per hour respectively. Find the
distance traveled when one of them takes
one hour longer than the other?
(A) 200(B) 300 (C) 400 (D) 600 (E) 2000




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(12) Two hundred gallons of fuel oil are
purchased at $0.91 per gallon and are
consumed at a rate of $0.70 worth of fuel
per hour. At this rate, how many hours are
required to consume the 200 gallons of fuel
oil?
(A) 140 (B) 220 (C) 260 (D) 322 (E)330

(13) An airline passenger is planning a trip
that involves three connecting flights that
leave from Airports A, B and C respectively.
The first flight leaves airport A every hour,
beginning at 8:00a.m and arrives at airport B
2

hours later. The second flight leaves

airport B every 20 minutes, beginning at
8:00a.m and arrives at airport C 1

hours
later. The third flight leaves airport C every
hour beginning at 8:45 a.m. What is the least
Total Amount of Time the passenger must
spend between flights if all flights keep to
their schedules.
(A) 25 min (B) 1 hr 5 min (C) 1 hr 15 min
(D) 2 hr 20min (E) 3 hr 40 min

(14) A certain car increased its average speed
by 5 miles per hour in each successive 5-
minute interval after the first interval. If in
the first 5- minute interval its average speed
was 20 miles per hour, how many miles did
the car travel in the third 5- minute interval?
(A) 1.0 (B) 1.5 (C) 2.0 (D) 2.5 (E) 3.0

(15) A hiker walked for two days. On the
second day the hiker walked 2 hours longer
at an average speed 1 mile per hour faster
than he walked on the first day. If during the
two days he walked a total of 64 miles and
spent a total of 18 hours walking, what was
his average speed (mph) on the first day?
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) 5 (E) 6


(16) A train travels from New York city to
Chicago a distance of 840 miles, at an
average rate of 60 mph and arrives in
Chicago at 6:00 in the evening, Chicago
Time. At what hour in the morning, New
York city time did the Train depart for
Chicago?(Note : Chicago time is 1 Hour
earlier than New York city time)
(A) 4:00 (B) 5:00 (C) 6:00 (D) 7:00 (E) 8:00
(17) During a car trip Maria stopped to rest
after she traveled half of the total distance
to her destination. She stopped again after
she traveled 1/4 of the distance remaining
between her first stop and her destination
and then she drove the remaining 120 miles
to her destination. What was the Total
distance in miles from Maria's starting point
to her Destination?
(A) 280 (B) 320 (C) 360 (D) 420 (E) 480
(18) One hour after Yolanda started walking
from X to Y, a distance of 45miles; Bob
started walking along the same road from Y
to X. If Yolandas walking rate was 3 miles
per hour and Bobs was 4 miles per hour,
how many miles had Bob walked when they
met?
(A) 24 (B) 23 (C)22 (D) 21 (E) 19.5
(19) A car travels from Mayville to Rome at
an average speed of 30 miles per hour and
returns immediately along the same route at
an average speed of 40 miles per hour. Of
the following, which is closest to the average
speed in miles per hour, for the round trip?
(A) 32.0 (B) 33.0(C) 34.3(D) 35.5(E) 36.5
(20) Starting at town S, Fred rode his bicycle
8 miles due east, 3 miles due south, 2 miles
due west, and 11 miles due north, finally
stopping at town T. if the entire region is
flat, what is the straight line distance, in
miles, between town S and T?
(A) 10 (B) 8 (C) (D) 14 (E) 24


19

Exercise -10
(1) If 4
2
-12 +k is a perfect square find
the numerical value of k?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) none
(2) If x and y are positive consecutive odd
integers where > which of the following is
equal to
2

2

(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 2+2
(D) 2+4 (E) 4+4
(3) If (a
2
- 3a)(a+3) =0 then a = ?
(A) { 3 } (B) { -3} (C) { 3,-3}
(D) { 0,3,-3 } (E) {0,-1,3,-3}
(4) If (b-3) (4+

) = 0 and b 3, then b =
(A) -8 (B) -2 (C)

(D)

(E) 2
(5) If

= , what is the value of

(A) -4 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 2

(6) If = -1, then

=
(A) -

(B)

(C) 0 (D)

(E)

(7) If the quotient

is positive, which of the

following must be true?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) (E)
(8) If

and

then

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) 5
(9) If

= 5, then =
(A) -3.7 (B) 0.1 (C) 0.3 (D) 0.5 (E) 2.8

(10) If = 1-3 and = 2-1, then for what
value of does ?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) 0

(11) If is an integer and , which
of the following CANNOT be a divisor of ?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
(12) If

, which of the following

must be an integer?
I.

II.

III.

(A ) I only (B) II only (C) I and III only
(D) II and III only (E) I, II and III
(13) If

and

then
what is the value of x.
(A) 12 (B) 19 (C) 24 (D) 28 (E) 38
14) If

then
(A) -3 (B) -1 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 3
(15) If 0.001510
m
= 510
7
then m-k =
0.0310
k
(A) 9 (B) 8 (C) 7 (D) 6 (E) 5
(16)

=
(A) 870 (B) 841 (C) 58 (D) 31 (E) 30
(17) If

=33 , then what is the

value of .
(A)33 (B) 54 (C)44 (D) 22 (E)11


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(18) Bills school is 10 miles from his home.
He travels 4 miles from school to football
practice and then 2 miles to a friends house.
If he is then

miles from home, what is the
range of possible values for

?
(A) 2
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E) 6
(19) If
2
-9 < 0 which of the following is
true?
(a) < -3 (b) >3 (c) >9
(d) < -3 or > 3 (e) -3< < 3
(20) How many integers are there such
that

(A) Five (B)Four (C) Three (D) Two (E) One






















































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Exercise -11

(1) The amount of fat in an ounce of food A
plus the amount of protein in an ounce of
food A is 100 grams. The amount of protein
in an ounce of food A minus twice the
amount of fat in an ounce of food A is 10
grams. How many grams of protein are there
in an ounce of food A?
(A) 210 (B) 105 (C) 70 (D) 35 (E) 190
(2) Eight persons are planning to share
equally the cost of a rental car. If one person
withdraws from the arrangement and the
others share equally, the entire cost of the
car, then the share of each remaining person
increased by what fraction.
(A)7 (B) 1/7 (C) 1/56 (D) 1/8 (E) 8

(3) A labor is engaged for 30 days on the
condition that he receives $25 for each day
he works and he is fined $7.5 for each day
he absents from work. He gets $ 425 in all
for how many days was he absent?
(A) 20 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) 25 (E) 5
(4) A fathers Age is three times the sum of
the ages of his two children. In four years, he
will be twice as old as the sum of their ages.
How old is the Father?
(A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 48 (E) 40
(5) There is the same number of boys and
girls on a school bus when it departs from
school. At the first stop, four boys get off the
bus and no body gets on. After the first stop
there are twice as many girls as boys on the
bus. How many girls are on the bus?
(A) 8 (B) 4 (C) -4 (D) 0 (E) can't determine

(6) In a weight lifting competition, the total
Weight of Joes two lifts was 750 pounds. If
twice the weight of his first lift was300
pounds more than the weight of his second
lift, what was the weight, in pounds, of his
first lift.
(A) 225 (B) 275 (C) 325 (D) 350 (E) 400
(7) Which of the following has a root in
common with

?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(8) Elena purchase brand pens for $4 a
piece and brand for $2.80 a piece. If Elena
purchased a total of 12 of these pens for
$42, how many brand pens did she
purchase?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
(9) Marion rented a car for $18.00 plus $0.10
per mile driven. Craig rented a car for $25.00
plus $0.05 per mile driven. If each drove
miles and each was charged exactly the
same amount for the rental, then equals
(A) 100 (B ) 125 (C) 135 (D) 140 (E ) 150
(10) Today Rose is twice as old as Sam and
Sam is 3 years younger than Tina. If Rose,
Sam and Tina are all alive 4 years from
today, which of the following must be true
on that day?
I Rose is twice as old as Sam
II Sam is 3 years younger than Tina.
III Rose is older than Tina.
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only
(D) I and II (E) II and III
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(11) Jack is now 14 years older than Bill. If in
10 years Jack will be twice as old as Bill, how
old will Jack be in 5 years?
(A) 9 (B) 19 (C) 21 (D) 23 (E) 33
(12) A rope 40 feet long is cut into two
pieces. If one piece is 18 feet longer than the
other, what is the length, in feet, of the
shorter piece?
(A) 9 (B) 11 (C) 18 (D) 22(E) 29
(13) Jan lives floors above the ground floor
of a high rise building. It takes her 30
seconds per floor to walk down the steps
and 2 seconds per floor to ride the elevator.
If it takes Jan the same amount of time to
walk down the steps to the ground floor as
to wait for the elevator for 7 minutes and
ride down, then equals
(A) 4 (B) 7 (C) 14 (D) 15 (E) 16
(14) A certain manufacturer produces items
for which the production costs consists of
annual fixed costs totaling $130000 and
variable costs averaging $8 per item. If the
manufacturers selling price per item is $15,
how many items must the manufacturer
produce and sell to earn an annual profit of
$150000?
(A)2858 (B)18667 (C)21429
(D) 35000 (E)40000

(15) Sales person As compensation for any
week is $360 plus 6 percent of the portion of
As total sales above $1000 for that week.
Salesperson Bs compensation for any week
is 8 percent of Bs total sales for that week.
For what amount of total weekly sales would
both salespeople earn the same
compensation?
(A) $21000 (B) $18000 (C) $15000
(D) $4500 (E) $4000
(16) If the number of calculators sold per
week varies with the price in dollars
according to the equation ,
what would be the total weekly revenue
from the sale of $10 calculators?
(A) $100 (B) $300 (C) $1000
(D) $2800 (E) $3000
(17) An optometrist charges $150 per pair
for soft contact lenses and $85 per pair of
hard contact lenses. Last week she sold 5
more pairs of soft lenses than hard lenses. If
her total sales for pairs of contact lenses last
week were $1690, what was the total
number of pairs of contact lenses that she
sold.
(A) 11 (B) 13 (C) 15 (D) 17 (E) 19
(18) The cost to rent a small bus for a trip is
dollars, which is to be shared equally
among the people taking the trip. If 10
people take the trip rather than 16, how
many more dollars, in terms of , will it cost
per person?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(19) If Sam were twice as old he is, he would
be 40 years older than Jim. If Jim is 10 years
younger than Sam, how old is Sam?
(A) 20 (B) 30 (C) 40 (D) 50 (E) 60
(20) The contents of a certain box consist of
14 apples and 23 oranges. How many
oranges must be removed from the box so
that 70 percent of the pieces of fruit in the
box will be apples?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 14 (D) 17 (E) 20


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Exercise -12
(1) If the number of points of intersection of
a set of 10 lines lying in a plane is denoted
by 'n' , what will be the greatest possible
number of points of intersection when
eleventh line is added to the set?
(A) n+10 (B)n+11 (C) 2n (D) 10n (E) n
2


(2)

If XYZ in the figure above is a right angle,
what is the value of x?
(A) 155 (B) 145 (C) 135 (D) 125 (E) 110

(3)

Note: Figure not drawn to scale.
In the figure above, the value of y is
(A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 24 (D) 36 (E) 42
(4)

Find the value of x?
(A) 80 (B) 100 (C) 120 (D) 240 (E) none

(5)


In the figure above, if line m is parallel to line
k and s = t + 30 then, what is the value of t.
(A) 30 (B) 60 (C) 75 (D) 80 (E) 105
(6)



In the figure above, what is the average of
and ?
(A)60 (B) 70 (C) 80 (D) 90 (E) 50


(7)

In the figure above, what is the value of ?
(A) 30 (B) 80 (C) 100 (D) 130 (E) 160

(8)






m
n
Y
X
Z
q
p
l



d

24

In the above line m and n are parallel and l
bisects angle XYZ. If p=105, what is the value
of q?
(A) 52.5 (B)37.5 (C) 75(D) 105(E) 30

(9)




In the figure above, what is the value of a-b?
(A) 7 (B)30 (C) 37 (D) 107 (E)148

(10)






If m is parallel to n in the figure above,
which of the following expressions must
equal 180?
(I) a+b
(II) c+e
(III) c+d+e
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only
(D) II and III only (E) I, II, and III


(11)





In the figure above, if x=40, what is the
value of y+z?
(A) 80 (B)120 (C) 160 (D) 180 (E)220

(12)





In the figure above l is parallel to m. If x=50,
what is the value of z+q?
(A) 25 (B)50 (C) 100 (D) 125 (E)130

(13)




In the figure above line m is parallel to line
n, find the value of a+b?
(A) 160 (B)180 (C) 195 (D) 200 (E)cant say

(14) Lines and are parallel. If line and
are cut by three different transversals,
what is the least number of points of
intersection that can occur among the five
lines
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8


(15)
110



150
(4a+2)
b
m
n
c d
b
e
a
m
n
l
y
z
x
m
n
l
x
m
y
z
q
m
n
95 105
a
b
S
P
R
Q
x
15
25

In the figure above, if PQ is parallel to RS,
then x=?
(A) 95 (B)85 (C) 75 (D) 65 (E)55

(16)




In the figure above, AB and CD intersect at
point X . If EX bisects angle BXD, what is the
degree measure of angle CXB?
(A) 60 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 120

(17) In a plane, lines and are drawn such
that is parallel to . If third line is drawn
such that is perpendicular to , and a
fourth line is drawn such that , which
of the following statements must be true?
(I)
(II)
(III)
(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and II
(E) I and II




(18)





In the figure above, what is the value of ?
(A) 50 (B) 70 (C) 90 (D) 100 (E) 140

(19)






In the figure above, l is parallel to m and m
is parallel to n then what is the value
of a+2c+d?
(A) 180 (B) 270 (C) 360 (D) 450
(E) cant be determined.
(20)




Three lines intersect in a point as shown in
the figure above. Which of the following
pairs of angle measures is NOT sufficient for
determining all six angle measures?
(A) r and t (B) s and x (C) t and z
(D) t and y (E) r and s













C
A D
B
E
30
X




30

l
m
n
d
c
b
a

t
x
y
s
r
z
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Exercise -13

(1)




The figure above shows the route of
Johns trip from his house to his friends
house. John travels 6 miles from A to B,
6 miles from B to C, and 2 miles from C to D.
If john were able to travel from A to D
directly, how much shorter in miles, would
the trip be ?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 10 (E) 18

(2)








In Triangle XYZ above, what is the value
of a+c+d+e ?

(A) 60 (B) 45 (C) 240 (D)100 (E) 180


(3)







In the figure above, if AB=2, what is the area
of triangle ABC

(A) (B) 2 (C) 1+ (D) 1+ (E) 2+




(4)






In triangle PQR below, angle RPQ is greater
than angle RQP, and the bisector of angle P
and angle Q meet in S. which of the
following must be true?
(A) SQ> SP (B) SQ=SP (C) SQ<SP
(D) SQ SP (E) Cant say

(5) Peter lives 12 miles west of his school
and Bill lives north of the school. Peter finds
that the direct distance from his house to
Bills is 6 miles shorter than the distance by
way of school. How many miles north of the
school does Bill live?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D)6 (E) 6

(6)




In triangle PQR, QS and SR are angle
bisectors and the measure of angle p is 80
o
.
How many degrees are there in angle QSR?
(A) 115 (B) 120 (C) 125 (D)130 (E) 135
(7) A ladder is placed against a building such
that the top of the ladder forms an angle of

with the side of the building. If the

ladder is 20 feet long, how far in feet is the
bottom of the ladder from the base of the
building?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C) 15 (D) (E)


C D
2mile
minC
B
6 mile
6 mile
A
Y
X
Z
e
b
b b
c d
a
P
R
Q
S
P
Q
80
R
S
A
B
C
2
105

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(8) If an equilateral triangle with sides has
the same perimeter as another triangle with
sides 6, 8 and , what is the value of ?



(9)





What is the area of the triangle in the figure
above?
(A) 2+2 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 8 (E) 12

(10)





What is the length of BC in the figure above?
(A) 10 (B)16 (C) 18 (D) 20 (E) 24

(11)

In PQS above, if PQ =3 and PS = 4,
then find the value of ?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(12)

If each side of ACD above has length 3
and if AB has length 1, what is the area of
region BCDE?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)
(13)

In ABC above, what is x in terms of z ?
(A) z + 73 (B) z 73 (C) 70 z
(D) z 70 (E) 73 z
(14)

In the figure above, if AB is parallel to CE,
and CE = DE, and y = 45, then what is the
value of x?
(A) 45 (B) 60 (C) 67.5 (D) 112.5 (E) 135


105
30
2
B
A D C
26
30
4a 5a
28

(15)

The figure above shows the dimensions of an
isosceles triangle in terms of x. What is the
area of the triangle?
(A) 24 (B) 30 (C) 48 (D) 60 (E) 96
(16)

In the figure above, M, N, and P are
midpoints of the sides of an equilateral
triangle whose perimeter is 18. What is the
perimeter of the triangular region MNP?
(A) 2 (B) 3(C)

(D) 6 (E) 9

(17)





In triangle PQR above, what is the value of
w?
(A) 50 (B) 55 (C) 60 (D) 65 (E) 75

(18) What is the area of a right triangle
whose perimeter is 36 and whose sides are
, , and ?
(A) 27 (B) 54 (C) 81 (D) 108 (E) 135
(19) The three sides of a triangle have
lengths of 9, 16 and k. which of the following
could equal K?
(Indicate that all apply)
(I) 6
(II) 16
(III) 25
(20) If the hypotenuse of isosceles right
triangle ABC is , then what is the area of
triangle ABC?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 18 (E) 36














P

w
140
R
Q
35 40
P
29

Exercise -14
(1) If a rectangle of perimeter 12 has a
width that is 2 less than its length, then what
is its area?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 20 (E) 35

(2) A rectangle is cut in half, resulting in
squares each of area 25. What is the
perimeter of the original rectangle?
(A)10 (B)20 (C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 50

(3)




In quadrilateral ABCD above, if CD=6, BC= 8,
and AB= 5, what is the length of AD?
(A) 4 (B) 3 (C) 5 (D) 10 (E) 15
(4) A diagonal of a rectangle forms an angle
of measure

with each of the two

shorter sides of the rectangle. If the length
of a shorter side of the rectangle is 2,
what is the length of the diagonal?
(A) (B) (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5

(5)


In the figure above, all intersecting sides of
the polygon meet at right angles. What is
the area of the polygon?
(A) 108 (B) 104 (C) 102 (D) 98 (E) 96

(6)

The shaded region in the figure above
represents a rectangular frame with length
18 inches and width 15 inches. The frame
encloses a rectangular picture that has the
same area as the frame itself. If the length
and width of the picture have the same ratio
as the length and width of the frame, what is
the length of the picture, in inches?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E) none
(7)

In the figure above, the two square regions
have areas 16 and 25, respectively. What is
the area of the shaded triangular region?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 9 (D) 12 (E) 15
(8)


In the figure above, the areas of square
regions X and Y are 1 and 4, respectively.
What is the area of the triangular region?
(A) 2 (B) 1 (C)

(D)

(E)

D
C
B
A
30

(9)

What is the value of h in the trapezoid
above?
(A)

(B)

(C) 8 (D) 6 (E) 4
(10)

In the figure above, M, N, and P are the
midpoints on the respective sides of
equilateral triangle ABC. If the perimeter of
triangle ABC is 24, what is the perimeter of
quadrilateral AMNP?
(A) 8 (B) 16 (C) 32 (D) 48 (E) 64
(11)





In the figure above, the hexagon with centre
P has six sides, each of length 6, and six
angles that each measure 120
o
. What is the
length of JK?
(A) 3 (B) 6 (C) 6 (D) 6 (E) 12



(12) If the perimeter of a regular polygon of
six sides is 48. What is its area?
(A) 96 (B)384 (C) 288 (D) 108 (E) 96

(13)





Note: Figure is not drawn to scale
The figure above shows the lengths of sides
of an equiangular polygon. What is the area
of the polygon.

Ans:

(14)







If the area of the square in the figure is 81
and the perimeter of each of the 4 triangles
is 30. What is the perimeter of figure
outlined by dashed line?
(A) 36 (B) 72 (C) 80 (D) 84 (E) 120





J
K
P

6
120








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(15)




Note: Figure is not drawn to scale
What is the perimeter of the figure?
Ans:

(16) Harry wants to put up fencing around
three sides of his rectangular yard and leave
a side of 20 feet unfenced. If the yard has an
area of 680 square feet, how many feet of
fencing does he need?
(A) 34 (B) 40 (C) 68 (D) 88 (E) 102

(17)

In the figure above, three squares and a
triangle have areas of A, B, C, and X as shown.
If A = 144, B=81, and C=225, then X =
(A) 150 (B) 144 (C) 80 (D) 54 (E) 36










(18)

In the figure above, CE = 5, BD = 8, and the
area of quadrilateral ABCD is 36. What is the
area of ABD ?
(A) 4 (B) 9 (C) 16 (D) 20 (E) 56

(19)

In the figure above, if PQRS is a square and
QT = TR, which of the following statements is
NOT true?
(A) PT = TS (B) x = y (C) u = v (D) r = y
(E) The area of PQT is equal to the area of
SRT.

(20)

In the figure above, what is the value of x ?
(A) 50 (B) 70 (C) 80 (D) 90 (E) 100


30
30
6
6
6
32


Exercise -15
(1) A light house emits a light which can be
seen for 60 miles in all directions. If the
intensity of the light is strengthened so that
its visibility is increased by 40 miles in all
directions, by approximately how many
square miles is its region of visibility
increased?
(A) 6300 (B) 10000 (C) 10300
(D) 20000 (E) 31400
(2)

The outline of a sign for an ice-cream store is
made by placing

of the circumference of a
circle with radius 2 feet on top of an
isosceles triangle with height 5 feet, as
shown above. What is the perimeter, in feet,
of the sign?
(A) (B) (C)
(D) 4 (E) 4
(3)





In the diagram above, if the circle with
centre A has an area of 32, what is the
area of the circle with centre B?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 8 (D) 12 (E) 16
(4)



In the figure above, circles A and B are
tangent. The circumference of circle A is 6,
and the circumference of circle B is 4. If
point P(not shown ) lies on the circle A and
point Q(not shown) lies on circle B, what is
the greatest possible distance between
points P and Q?
(A) 5 (B) 5 (C) 10 (D) 5 (E) 10
(5)



Square ABCD is inscribed in the circle with
center O. if the area of the square is 36,
what is the area of the circle?
(A) 6 (B) 12 (C) 18 (D) 27 (E) 36
(6)




In the figure above, two circles with the
same area are inscribed rectangle ABCD. If
the area of the rectangle is 32, what is the
area of one of the circles?

A
B

A B




A
D
B
C
A
B
D
C


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(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 10
(7)

If A is the center of the circle shown above
and AB=BC=CD, what is the value of x?
(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 45 (D) 60 (E) 75
(8)

The figure above shows the shape of a
tunnel entrance. If the curved portion is
4
3

of a circle and the base of the entrance is 12
feet across, what is the perimeter, in feet, of
the curved portion of the entrance'?
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) (D)18 (E)

(9)

The figure above shows a cord around two
circular disks. If the radii of the two disks are
80 centimeters and 60 centimeters,
respectively, what is the total length, in
centimeters, of the cord?
(A) 210 (B) 210+ 280 (C) 280
(D) 280 + 80 (E) 280+ 280

(10)

The rectangular region above contains two
circles and a semicircle, each with a radius of
7. If

is used as an approximation for ,

then the area of the shaded region is
approximately
(A) 105 (B) 210 (C) 380 (D) 385 (E) 405

(11)

If O is the center of the circle above and the
length of arc RSP is twice the length of arc
PQR, then x equals
(A) 60 (B) 100 (C) 120 (D) 150 (E) 240
(12)

The curve above consists of three
semicircles: AB, BC, and CD. The diameter of
AB is 2, the diameter of BC is twice the diameter
of AB, and the diameter of CD is twice the
diameter of BC. What is the total length of
the curve?
(A) 2t

(B) 4t

(C) 6t

(D) 7t

(E) 8t


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(13)


Fig not drawn to scale.
The figure above shows a semicircle with
center O and a quarter circle with center R. If
OQ = 4 and QR = 6, what is the ratio of the
area of the shaded region to the area of the
semicircular region?
(A) 2:3 (B) 4:3 (C) 8:9 (D) 9:4 (E) 9:8
(14)


An equilateral triangle with perimeter p, a
square and a semicircle were joined to form
the figure shown above. What is the
perimeter of this figure?
(A) 3p (B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(15) A line segment joining two points on the
circumference of a circle is 1 inch from the
centre of the circle at its closest point. If the
circle has a 2 inch radius, what is the length
of the line segment?
(A) 1 (B) (C) 2 (D) (E)

(16)

In the figure above, the circle with center A
and the circle with center C are tangent at
point D. If the circles each have radius 10,
and if line is tangent to the circle with
center A at point B, what is the value of ?
(A) 55 (B)60 (C) 63 (D) 65
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given.

(17)

In the figure above, inscribed triangle ABC is
equilateral. If the radius of the circle is r,
then the length of arc AXB is
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

( E)

(18) Jane customized her bicycle by
exchanging the front wheel for a wheel that
had one half the diameter of the back wheel.
Now when Jane rides the bicycle, how many
revolutions does the front wheel make for
each revolution of the back wheel?
(A) 8 (B) 4 (C) 2 (D)

(E)

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(19)


In the figure above, o is the center of the
circle and triangle ABO is equilateral. If the
sides of triangle ABO are of length 6, what is
the length of BC?
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 12

(20)The radius of circle A is twice the radius
of circle B. if the sum of their circumferences
is 36, then what is the radius of circle A?
(A) 9 (B) 12 (C) 14 (D) 16 (E)18



























































36

Exercise -16
(1) For a rectangular box to be shipped by a
courier, the sum of the height of the box and
the perimeter of the base of the box must be
no more than 60 inches. If a box that is
shipped by this courier has height 4 inches
and length 16 inches, what is the maximum
possible width of the box inches?
(A) 4.5(B) 9 (C) 12 (D) 15 (E) 16
(2) A can of soup completely fills a cylinder 5
inches tall and 3 inches in diameter. If one
can of soup can be poured into a cylindrical
pot with diameter of 6 inches, to what
depth, in inches, will it fill the pot?
(A) 1.25(B) 2 (C) 2.5 (D) 5 (E) 10
(3)




The figure above is a rectangular solid. What
is the perimeter of triangle ABC.
(A) (B) (C) 6
(D) (E) 2
(4) Some clay is shaped into a sphere with
radius of 2 inches. If more clay is added to
the original sphere so that the radius is
increased by 4 inches, then the volume of
the new sphere is how many times greater
than the volume of the original sphere?
(A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 27 (D) 64 (E) 208


(5)





In the rectangular solid above, AB = 3, BC =4,
and FC=12. What is the area of triangle ACF?
Ans:

(6) If a cylindrical can with radius of 2 feet
and a volume of 30 cubic feet is filled up
half way with water, how high (in feet) up
the side of the can will the water reach
(A) 15/4 (B) 5 (C) 15/2 (D) 19/2 (E) 10

(7) Milk is poured from a rectangular
container with dimensions 4 inches by 10
inches by 9 inches into a cylindrical
container with a diameter of 6 inches.
Assuming the milk does not overflow, how
many inches high will the milk raise?
(A)

(B) 24 (C)

(D) 10 (E)
(8) A right circular cylinder has a height of 20
and a radius of 5. A rectangular solid with a
height of 15 and a square base is placed in
the cylinder such that each of the corners of
the solid is tangent to the cylinders walls.
Liquid is then poured into the cylinder such
that it reaches the rim. What is the volume
of the liquid?
(A) ( ) (B) ( )
(C) ( ) (D) ( )
(E) ( )

A
B
C
2
1
1
E
A
B
C
F
H
D
G

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(9) A rectangular box is 10 inches wide, 10
inches long, 5 inches high. What is the
greatest possible (straight line) distance, in
inches, between any two points on the box?
(A) 15 (B) 20 (C) 25 (D) 10 (E) 10
(10) The inside dimensions of a rectangular
wooden box are 6 inches by 8 inches by 10
inches. A cylindrical canister is to be placed
inside the box so that it stands upright when
the closed box rests on one of its six faces.
Of all such canisters that could be used,
what is the radius, in inches, of the one that
has maximum volume?
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6 (E) 8

(11) The bottom of an underground
rectangular tank has an area of 12 square
feet and the depth of the tank is 10 feet. A
liquid is pumped into the empty tank at the
constant rate of 30 cubic feet per minute.
After how many minutes will the depth of
the liquid in the tank be 8 feet?
(A) 1.5 (B) 2.0 (C) 2.5 (D) 3.2 (E) 4.0
(12) If cylinder P has a height twice that of
cylinder Q and a radius half that of cylinder
Q, what is the ratio between the volume of
cylinder P and cylinder Q?
(A) 1:8 (B) 1:4 (C) 1:2 (D) 1:1 (E) 2:1
(13) Some clay is shaped into a sphere with
radius of 2 inches. If more clay is added to
the original sphere so that the radius is
increased by 4 inches, then the value of the
new sphere is how many times greater than
the volume of the original sphere?
(A) 3 (B) 8 (C) 27 (D) 64 (E) 208


(14) A rectangular fish tank 25 inches by 9
inches has water in it to a level of 2 inches.
This water is carefully poured into a
cylindrical container with a diameter of 10
inches. How high will the water reach in the
cylindrical container?
(A) 18 (B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(15) A rectangular box is 24 inches long, 10
inches wide and 15 inches high. If exactly 60
smaller identical rectangular boxes can be
stored perfectly in this larger box, then
which of the following could be the
dimensions in inches of these smaller boxes?
(A) 2 by 5 by 6
(B) 3 by 4 by 6
(C) 3 by 5 by 6
(D) 4 by 5 by 6
(E) 5 by 6 by 12
(16) One of the faces of a rectangular solid is
a square of area 4. If the surface area of the
solid 32, what is the volume of the solid?
(A) 8 (B) 12 (C) 16 (D) 24 (E) 128
(17) How many cubical blocks, each with
edges of length 4 are needed to fill a
rectangular box that has inside dimensions
20 by 24 by 32?
(A) 38 (B) 96 (C) 192 (D) 240 (E) 384
(18) A right circular cylinder with radius 5
and height 4 has volume V. in terms of V,
what is the volume of a right circular
cylinder with radius 5 and height 8?
(A) V+4 (B) 2V (C) 4V (D) 6V (E) 8V



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(19) How much greater is the combined
surface area of two cylinders each with a
height of 4 cm and a radius of 2 cm than the
surface area of a single cylinder with a
height of 8 cm and a radius of 2 cm.
(A) 8 (B) 4 (C) 12 (D) 2 (E) 0
(20) The volume of right cylinder A is twice
the volume of right cylinder B. if the height
of cylinder B is twice the height of cylinder A,
then what Is the ratio of the radius of
cylinder A to the radius of cylinder B?
(A) 1:2 (B) 1:1 (C) :1 (D) 2:1 (E) 4:1




































































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Exercise -17
1) Which of the following lines is perpendicular
to and has the same
intercept as ?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)
(E)
2)






In the rectangular coordinate system above,
of the area of the right triangle ACB is 24,
what are the coordinates of point B ?
(A)(10,-2) (B) (10,2) (C) (8,-2) (D) (2,6)
(E) It cannot be determined from the
information given.
3) In the coordinate system, if ( ) and
( ) are two points on the line
with equation , then k= ?
(A)

(B) 1 (C) 2 (D)

(E) 4

4)




In the figure above, line RS passes through
origin. If the x-coordinate of point R is -6,
what is the y coordinate of R?
(A) -9 (B) -6 (C) -4 (D) -3 (E) -2



(5) In a coordinate plane, if points C (2,5)
D (-1,2) and E (x,y) lie on the line l, which of
the following could be the coordinates of
point E?
(A) (0,1) (B) (1,1) (C) (0,2) (D) (1,3) (E) (1,4)
(6) In the rectangular coordinate system,
what is the area of a square with vertices
(0,0), (-2,2) , (0,4), and (2,2) ?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) 16
(7) Line L has a slope of -2 and contains the
point (4,-3), which of the points is also on
the line L?
(A) (2,1) (B) (3,0) (C) (3,1) (D) (4,8) (E) (6,2)

(8) The area of a circle whose centre is at
(0,0) is 25. The circle passes through all of
the following points EXCEPT?
(A) (-5,0) (B) (5,0) (C) (0,5) (D) (0,-5) (E) (5,5)
(9) Find the equation of a line parallel to
2x + 5y = 7 and passing through the
midpoint of the line joining points (2, 7) and
(-4, 1).
(A) 5y+2x = 18 (B) 5y+2x = -22 (C) 2y+5x = 13
(D) 5y+2x=10 (E) 5y+2x=50
(10) The vertices of rectangle ABCD are
A(0,0) B(8,0) C(8,k) D(0,9). Value of k is?
(A) 1 (B) 4 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 17
(11)


What is the area of the shaded region in
the figure above ?
(A) 72 (B) 57 (C) 55 (D)

(E)

O
O

O
A(2,4)
C(2,-2)
B

x
x
O
R


S(9,6)
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(12)

The circle with center C shown above is
tangent to both axes. If the distance from
O to C is equal to k, what is the radius of
the circle, in terms of k ?
(A) k (B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(13)

What are the coordinates of point B in the
xy-plane above ?
(A) (6, 12) (B) (6, 28) (C) (8, 20)
(D) (12, 20) (E) (14, 28)
(14)

In the figure above, how many of the points
on line segment PQ have coordinates that
are both integers?
(A) 5 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 20


(15)

In the rectangular coordinate system above,
if point (a, b), shown, and the two points
(4a, b) and (2a, 2b), not shown, were
connected by straight lines, then the area of
the resulting triangular region, in terms of a
and b, would be
(A)

(B) ab (C)

(D) 2ab (E) 4ab

(16)

In the figure above, ABCE is a square. What
are the coordinates of point B?
(A) (-4,2) (B) (-2,4) (C) (-2,6)
(D) (4, -6) (E) (6,-2)
(17) The vertices of triangle ABC are (4,3)
(4,7) and (8,3). What is the area of triangle
ABC?
(A) 8 (B) (C) 4 (D) 16 (E) 12.5

(18) If A is point (-4, 1) and B is point (2, 1).
What is the area of the circle that has AB as
a diameter?
(A) 3 (B)6 (C)9 (D) 12 (E) 36
(19) What is the area of the circle whose
centre is at the origin and that passes
through point (3,-3)?
(A) 3 (B) 3 (C) 9 (D) 18 (E) 36
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Exercise -18
(1) If the range of the six measurements 140,
125, 180, 110, 165, and x is 80, which of
the following could be the value of x?
(A) 60 (B) 85 (C) 190 (D) 220 (E) 245
(2) Which of the following sets of number has
the greatest standard deviation?
(A) 2, 3, 4 (B) 2.5, 3, 3.5 (C) 1, 1.25, 1.5
(D) 2, 0, 2 (E) 20, 21, 21.5

(3)
3, 7, 9, 14, x
The numbers in the list above are ordered
from least to greatest. If the average
(arithmetic mean) is 2 greater than the
median, what is the value of x?
(A) 22 (B) 20 (C) 17 (D) 16 (E) 15

(4) The Arithmetic mean and standard
deviation of a certain normal distribution are
13.5 and 1.5, respectively. What value is
exactly 2 standard deviations less than the
mean?
(A) 10.5 (B) 11.0 (C) 11.5 (D) 12.0 (E) 12.5

(5) If S={0, 4, 5, 2, 11, 8}, how much greater
than the median of the number in S is the
mean of the number in S?
(A) 0.5 (B) 1.0 (C) 1.5 (D) 2.0 (E) 2.5
(6) List I: 3, 6, 8, 19
List II; , 3, 6, 8, 19
If the median of the numbers in list I above
is equal to the median of the numbers in list
II above, what is the value of ?
(A) 6 (B) 7 (C) 8 (D) 9 (E) 10
(7) The mean of , 2, 6 and 10 is 8. What is
the median of , 2, 6 and 10.
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 7 (D) 8 (E) 9


(8) 2, 4, 6, 8, , 3, 5, 7, 9
In the list above, if is an integer between 1
and 10, inclusive, then the median must be
(A) Either 4 or 5 (B) Either 5 or 6
(C) Either 6 or 7 (D) (E) 5.5
(9)
I 72, 73, 74, 75, 76
II 74, 74, 74, 74, 74
III 62, 74, 74, 74, 89
The data sets I, II, and III above are ordered
from greatest standard deviation to least
standard deviation in which of the
following?
(A) I, II, III (B) I, III, II (C) II, III, I
(D) III, I, II (E) III, II, I
(10) If a certain sample of data has a mean
of 20 and a standard deviation of 3, which of
the following values is more than 2.5
standard deviations from the mean?
(A) 12 (B) 13.5 (C) 17 (D) 23.5 (E) 26.5
(11) If is the average of first 10 positive
multiples of 5 and if is the median of the
first 10 positive multiples of 5, what is the
value of ?
(A) -5 (B) 0 (C) 5 (D) 25 (E) 27.5
(12) 3, , 2, 8, , 3
The arithmetic mean of the list of numbers
above is 4. If and are integers and
, what is the median of the list?
(A) 2 (B) 2.5 (C) 3 (D) 3.5 (E) 4
(13) The average of seven integers is 11. If
each of these integers is less than 20, then
what is the least possible value of any one of
these integers?
(A) -113 (B) -77 (C) -37 (D) -22 (E) 0

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(14) is a set containing 9 different
numbers. is a set containing 8 different
numbers, all of which are members of .
Which of the following statements CANNOT
be true?
(A) The mean of is equal to the mean of
(B) The median of is equal to the median
of
(C)The range of is equal to the range of
(D) The mean of is greater than the mean
of
(E) The range of is less than the range of

(15) The following table shows the hourly
wages earned by the employees of Peri &
company and the number of employees who
earn each wage.
Wage per
hour
Number of
employees
$6 3
$8 5
$10 4
$13 4
What is the average of the median and the
mode of this set of data?
(A) 4.5 (B) 8 (C) 8.5 (D) 9 (E) 9.5
(16) The standard deviation on a test was 12
points, and the mean was 70. If student X
scored 95 points, then student X scored
higher than approximately what percent of
students?
(A) 2% (B) 13% (C) 48% (D) 96% (E) 98%



17) The average (arithmetic mean) number
of passengers on a subway car is 60. If the
number of passengers on a car has a normal
distribution with a standard deviation of 20,
approximately what percent of subway cars
carry more than 80 passengers?
(A) 16% (B) 48% (C) 68% (D) 88% (E) 98%

(18) In both rural and urban areas of country
G, the average annual number of holidays
taken by citizens is 8, and the annual
number of holidays follows a normal
distribution. In rural areas, 2% of the citizens
take more than 12 holidays per year. In
urban areas, 2% of the citizens take more
than 16 holidays per year. How much
greater is the standard deviation of the
annual number of holidays taken by urban
citizens than that of rural citizens?


(19) At Rock Town College, the 400 students
taking statistics received an average score of
76 on the final exam, and the scores had a
normal distribution. Students who received
a score of 66 or lower on the exam will fail
the course and only 8 students earned a
score of 96 or higher. How many of the
students will fail the course?


(20) The fourth grade at School x is made up
of 300 students who have a total weight of
21,600 pounds. If the weight of these fourth
graders has a normal distribution and the
standard deviation equals 12 pounds,
approximately what percentage of the
fourth graders weighs more than 84
pounds?
(A) 12% (B) 16% (C) 36% (D) 48% (E) 60%



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Exercise -19
(1) Four points lie on a circle. How many
different triangles can be drawn with 3 of
these points as vertices?
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 7 (E) 8
(2) 1,2,6,7 and 9
A three digit integer is to be formed from
the digits listed above. If the first digit must
be odd, either the second or third digit must
be 2, and no digit may be repeated, how
many such integers are possible?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 18 (D) 24 (E) 30
(3)In a group of 8 semifinalists, all but 2 will
advance to the final round. If in the final
round only the top 3 will be awarded
medals, then how many groups of medal
winners are possible?
(A) 20 (B) 56 (C) 120 (D) 560 (E) 720

(4) Eight Alaskan Huskies are split into pairs
to pull one of four sleds in a race. How many
different assignments of huskies to sleds are
possible?
(A) 32 (B) 64 (C) 420 (D) 1680 (E) 2520
(5) The cooperative board of a certain
residential building must consist of two men
and three women. If there are six men and
seven women who want to be on the
committee, how many different make ups of
the committee exist?
(A) 65 (B) 525 (C) 1050 (D) 1287 (E) 1080
(6) At a prestigious dog show, six dogs of
different breeds are to be displayed on six
adjacent podiums. If the Springer spaniel
breed must be displaced on the left most
podium, how many display arrangements of
the six dogs are possible?
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 30 (D) 120 (E) 240



(7) Coach John is filling out the starting line
up for his indoor soccer team. There are 10
boys on the team, and he must assign 6
starters to the following positions: 1 goal
keeper, 2 on defense, 2 in midfield, and 1
forward. Only 2 of the boys can play
goalkeeper, and they cannot play any other
positions. The other boys can each play any
of the other positions. How many different
groupings are possible?
(A) 60 (B) 210 (C) 2580 (D)3360 (E) 151200

(8) Judges will select 5 finalists from the 7
contestants entered in a singing
competition. The judges will then rank the
contestants and award prizes to the 3
highest ranked contestants: a blue ribbon for
first place, a red ribbon for second place,
and a yellow ribbon for third place. How
many different arrangements of prize-
winners are possible?
(A) 10 (B) 21 (C) 210 (D) 420 (E) 1260

(9) How many 4 digit numbers begin with a
digit that is prime and end with a digit that is
prime?
(A) 16 (B) 80 (C) 800 (D) 1440 (E) 1600

(10) Of the 5 wires that lead into a
apartment, 2 are for cable television service
and 3 are for telephone service. Using these
wires, how many distinct combinations of 3
wires are there such that at least 1 of the
wires is for cable television?
(A) 6 (B) 9 (C) 8 (D) 7 (E) 10

(11) A company that ships boxes to a total
of 12 distribution centers uses color coding
to identify each centre. If either a single
color or a pair of two different colors is
chosen to represent each centre and if each
center is uniquely represented by that
choice of one color or two colors, what is the
minimum number of colors needed for the
coding? (Assume that the order of the colors
in a pair does not matter.)
(A)4 (B) 5 (C) 6 (D) 12 (E) 24
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(12) A certain class has 6 girls and 5 boys.
Four of these students are to line up in the
front of the room, with two girls on either
end, and two boys in between. How many
such arrangements are possible?
(A) 20 (B) 200 (C) 462 (D) 600 (E) 900
(13) How many different positive three digit
integers begin with an odd digit and end
with an even digit?
(A)125 (B) 180 (C) 200 (D) 225 (E) 250
(14) A bakery offers three different sizes of
cakes, two different types of flavor, and
eight different choices for toppings. How
many different one topping cakes are there
to choose from?
(A) 13 (B) 16 (C) 24 (D) 48 (E) 60
(15) Six students -3 boys and 3 girls are to
sit side by side in a row for a make up
exam. In how many ways could they
arrange themselves given that no two
boys and no two girls can sit next to one
another?
(A) 12 (B) 36 (C) 72 (D) 240 (E) 720

(16) For an upcoming charity event, a
famous singer has agreed to sing 4 out of
6 old songs and 2 out of 5 new songs. In
hoe many ways can the singer make his
selection?
(A) 25 (B) 50 (C) 150 (D) 480 (E) 600
(17) To use certain cash machine, you need a
personal identification code(PIC). If each PIC
consists of two letters followed by one of
the digits from 1 to 9( such as AQ7 or BB3)
or one letter followed by two digits (such as
Q37 or J88), how many different PICs can be
assigned?
(A) 2106 (B) 6084 (C) 8190
(D) 12168 (E) none of these
(18) Mary has 4 paintings in the basement.
She is going to bring up 2 of them and hang
1 in her drawing room and 1 in her
bedroom. In how many ways can she choose
which painting go in each room?
(A) 4 (B) 6 (C) 12 (D) 16 (E) 24
(19) A cafeteria has a lunch special consisting
of soup or salad, a sandwich, coffee or tea,
and a dessert. If the menu lists 3 soups, 2
salads, 8 sandwiches, and 7 desserts, how
many different lunches can you
choose?(Note: Two lunches are different if
they in any aspect?)
(A) 22 (B) 280 (C) 336 (D) 560 (E) 672
(20) Dr. Peri works on the second floor of a
building . There are 10 doors to the building
and 8 stair cases from the first to the second
floor. Dr. Peri decided that each day he
would enter by one door and leave by a
different one, and go up one stair case and
down another. If Dr. Peri works 240 days a
year, for how many years can he work
without ever repeating the same path?












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Exercise -20
(1) An integer between 100 and 999,
inclusive is chosen at random. What is the
Probability that all the digits of the number
are odd?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(2) A jar contains 20 marbles, 4 red 6 white
and 10 blue. If you remove marbles one at a
time, randomly, what is the minimum
number that must be removed to be certain
that you have at least 2 marbles of each
color?
(A) 6 (B) 10 (C) 12 (D) 18 (E) 20
(3) A box contains 5 Red balls, 4 Black balls
and 7 White balls. What is the probability,
that a ball drawn is either Red or Black.
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(4) One bag contains 4Red balls and 5Black
balls and another bag contains 7Red and
2Black balls. 2balls are drawn one from each
bag. What is the probability that both are
black?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(5) From 25 tickets, marked with first 25
numerals one is drawn at random. Find the
chance that it is a multiple of 5 or 7
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(6) A town has two doctors A and B
operating independently with probabilities
of 0.8 and 0.7 of their availability. What is
the probability that at least one doctor is
available if a patient needs medical
attention?
(A) 1 (B) 0.6 (C) 0.06 (D) 0.94 (E) 0.56

(7) What is the probability of getting six
on either the first or second toss of a
normal six sided die?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(8) In his wardrobe, Alfred has three
trousers, one of them is black, the second is
blue and the third is brown. In his wardrobe,
he also has four shirts one of them is black
and the other three are white. He opens his
wardrobe in the dark and picks out one shirt
trouser pair without seeing the color. What
is the likelihood that neither the shirt nor
the trouser is black?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(9)






The fig. Shows the top view of an open
square box that is divided into six
compartments with walls of equal height.
Each of the rectangles D,E and F has twice
the area of each of the equal squares A,B
and C when a marble is dropped into the box
at random, it falls into one of the
compartments. What is the probability that
it will fall into compartment F?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(10) A list of numbers consist of 'p' positive
and 'n' negative numbers. If a number is
picked at random from this list, the
probability that the number is positive is 3/5,
what is the value of n/p?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(11) There are eight job applicants sitting
in a waiting room 4 women and 4 men.
If two of the applicants are selected at
random, what is the probability that both
will be women?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

A
B
C
D
E
F
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(12) Each person in room A is a student and

of the students in room A are seniors. Each

person in room B is a student and

of the
students in room B are seniors. If 1 student
is chosen at random from room A, and 1
student is chosen at random from room B,
what is the probability that exactly 1 of the
students chosen is a senior?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(13) A computer wholesaler sells eight
different computers and each is priced
differently. If the wholesaler chooses
three computers for display at a trade
show, what is the probability (all things
being equal) that the two most expensive
computers will be among the three
chosen for display?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(14) There are 5 marbles in a bag- 2
orange and 3 blue. If two marbles are
pulled from the bag, what is the
probability that at least one will be
orange?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(15) A student is to take her final exams
in two subjects. The probability that she
will pass the first subject is and the
probability that she will pass the second
subject is 2/3. What is the probability
that she will pass one exam or the other
exam?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(16) A student is to take her final exams
in three subjects. The probability that she
will pass the first subject is , the
probability that she will pass the second
subject is 2/3, and the probability that
she will pass the third subject is . What
is the probability that she will pass at
least one of these three exams?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

17) What is the probability of tossing a
coin five times and having heads appear
at most three times?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(18) A bag contains 4 red hammers, 10
blue and 6 yellow hammers. If three
hammers are removed at random and no
hammer is returned to the bag after
removal, what is the probability that all
three hammers will be blue?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

(19)A jar contains a number of jelly beans
of which 58 are red, 78 are green and the
rest are blue. If the probability of
choosing a blue jelly bean from this jar at
random is

, how many blue jelly beans

are in the Jar?
(A) 34 (B) 56 (C) 78 (D) 102 (E)152
(20) A bag contains only red marbles, blue
marbles and yellow marbles. The probability
of randomly selecting a red marble from this
bag is

, and the probability of randomly

selecting a blue marble is

. Which of the
following could be the total number of
marbles in the bag?(Indicate all that apply)
(A) 10 (B) 12 (C) 18 (D) 24 (E) 36

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Exercise -21
To count how many quantities are there
between two given quantities, follow
these rules:
(i) If exactly one of the end quantity is
included, subtract the end quantities.
(ii) If both the end quantities are included,
subtract the end quantities and add 1
(iii) If neither end quantity is included,
subtract the end quantities and subtract 1.
(1) John started solving questions 6-20 in his
Maths paper at 1:13 hrs and finished by
1:43 hrs. At this rate, how long will it take
him to complete questions between29-75?
(A) 90 min (B) 60 min (D) 45 min (D) 30 min
(2) Given an integer C, how many integers
are greater than C and less than 2C?
(A) C (B) 2C (C) 2C+1 (D) C-1 (E) C+1
(3) In a painting competition there are 35
participants. They use blue or green or both
colors. If 26 participants use blue color and
19 participants use both colors. Find the
number of participants who use the green
color.
(A) 28 (B) 18 (C) 38 (D) 16 (E) 0
(4) In a college team, there are 29 Athletes,
20 are field event athletes while 15 are track
event athletes. Find the number of athletes
in both the events.
(A) 14 (B) 6 (C) 9 (D) 20 (E) 5
(5) In a group of 50 students, 25 play hockey,
30-play Football and 8 play neither game.
Find the number of students who play both
Hockey and Football.
(A) 12 (B) 13 (C) 17 (D) 25 (E) 30



(6) Out of 50 students in a school, 15
students study English, 12 study Spanish, 8
study French, 7 study English and Spanish, 4
study English and French, 6 study Spanish
and French, 3 students in all the three.
(a) How many study only English
(b) Exactly in two Languages.
(c) In more then one Language.
(A) 7,8,11 (B) 15,8,11 (C) 7,11,3
(D) 15,17,3 (E) none
(7) In an examination 65% of the candidates
passed in math, 30 % in science and 20%
failed in both subjects. The pass percentage
is
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30
(8) In an examination, 45 % of the students
failed in maths , 35 % of the students failed
in science and 20% failed in both the
subjects, the pass % is
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 40 (E) 50
(9) If 75 % of all Americans own an
automobile, 15% of all Americans own a
bicycle and 20% of all Americans own
neither an automobile nor a bicycle, what
percent of Americans own both an
automobile and a bicycle.
(A) 0 (B) 1.33 (C) 3.75 (D) 5 (E) 10
(10) Of the 500 delegates attending a
convention, 200 are Republicans and the
rest are Democrats. One hundred of the
delegates are vegetarians and, of those who
are not vegetarians, 270 are Democrats.
How many of the vegetarian delegates are
Republicans?
(A) 30 (B) 40 (C) 50 (D) 60 (E) 70




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(11) At a certain high school, 30 students
study French, 40 study Spanish and 25 study
neither. If there are 80 students in the
school, how many study both French and
Spanish?


(12) A certain company employs 25 women
and 25 men. Some employees drive to work
and the rest take public transportation. If 29
employees drive to work and exactly 6 men
take public transportation, how many
women drive to work?
(A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 13

(13) Of 30 applicants for a job, 14 had at
least 4 years experience, 18 had degrees,
and 3 had less than 4 years experience and
did not have a degree. How many of the
applicants had at least 4 years experience
and a degree?
(A) 14 (B) 13 (C) 9 (D) 7 (E) 5
(14) A certain clock marks every hour by
striking a number of times equal to the hour,
and the time required for a stroke is exactly
equal to the time interval between strokes.
At 6.00 the time lapse between the
beginning of the stroke and the end of the
last stroke is 22 seconds. At 12.00, how
many seconds elapse between the beginning
of the first stroke and the end of the last
stroke?
(A) 72 (B) 50 (C) 48 (D) 46 (E) 44



(15) Of the 65 cars on a car lot, 45 have air
conditioning, 30 have power windows, and
12 have both air conditioning and power
windows. How many of the cars on the lot
have neither air conditioning nor power
windows?
(A) 2 (B) 8 (C) 10 (D) 15 (E) 18
(16) If 75 percent of a class answered the
first question on a certain test correctly, 55
percent answered the second question on
the test correctly, and 20 percent answered
neither of the questions correctly, what
percent answered both correctly?
(A) 10% (B)20% (C)30%(D) 50% (E) 65%

(17) Every sophomore at hill side high school
is required to study at least one language
among Spanish, French and Latin, but no one
may study more than 2. if 120 sophomores
study Spanish, 80 study French, 75 study
Latin and 50 study two of the three
languages, how many sophomores are there
at Hill side high school?
(A) 75 (B) 125 (C) 225 (D) 275 (E)325
(18) The Business News daily has 25
reporters covering Asia, 20 covering Europe
and 20 covering America. 4 reporters cover
Asia and Europe, but not America, 6
reporters cover Asia and America, but not
Europe, and 7 reporters cover Europe and
America, but not Asia. If The Business News
daily has 38 reporters in total covering at
least one of the three continents: Asia,
Europe and America then how many
reporters cover all of the 3 continents?
(A) 5 (B) 10 (C)11 (D) 15
(E)cannot be determined