Data Sufficiency for GMAT

Directions: Each of the following problems has a question and two statements which are labeled (1) and (2). Use the data
given in (1) and (2) together with other available information to decide whether the statements are sufficient to answer the
question. Then fill in space.
A : if statement (I) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question but statement (II) alone is not sufficient;
B : if statement (II) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question but statement (I) alone is not sufficient;
C: if the two statements TAKEN TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement
ALONE is sufficient;
D: if EACH statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question;
E : if the two statements TAKEN TOGETHER are still NOT sufficient to answer the question.

B. Statistics _Set_2

1. X is a set containing 7 different numbers. Y is the set containing 6 different positive numbers all of which
are members of set X. Is the mean of X equal to the mean of Y?
I. Range of X is greater than range of Y
II. Sum of all the numbers in set X< Sum of all the numbers in set Y

2. Six numbers are randomly selected and placed within a set. If the set has a range of 16, a median of 6, a mean of
7 and a mode of 7, what is the greatest of the six numbers?
I. The sum of the two smallest numbers is one-fifth of the sum of the two greatest numbers
II. The middle two numbers are 5 and 7

3. If x, y, a, and b are positive integers less than 20, is the average of x and y greater than the average of a and b?
I. x = 3a
II. The range of x and y> the range of a and b.

4. What is the average (arithmetic mean) annual salary of the 6 employees of a toy company?
I. If the 6 annual salaries were ordered from least to greatest, each annual salary would be $6,300 greater than the
preceding annual salary.
II. The range of the 6 annual salaries is $31,500.

5. A basketball team plays 10 games, and it scores 12 points on average. Has this team scored at least 40 points
in one game?
I. The team scored 55 points in the first 5 games.
II. The score of each game is at least 9 points.

6. Is the set of all integers between A and B, inclusive. The average (arithmetic mean) of Q is m. If A < B, and
B=190, what is the value of A?
I. Q contains 40 terms that are greater than m.
II. m = 150

7. Set A consists of 8 different integers from the list {1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19}. What is standard deviation of the set
A?
I Set A does not include 11.
II. The average of the numbers in the given list is equal to the average of numbers in set

8. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 4 different numbers is 30, how many of the numbers are less than 30?
I. The median of the numbers is 30.
II. The largest and smallest of the numbers are odd, and the two middle numbers are even.
9. If S is a finite set of consecutive even numbers, is the median of S an odd number?
I. The mean of set S is an even number.
II. The range of set S is divisible

10. A set S contains five numbers k, k + 1, 2k - 1, 5k + 7 and 6k + 8. If k is a positive integer, determine its value.
I The median of the elements of S is k + 1.
II. The average of the elements of S is less than 10.

11. Quick Sell Outlet sold a total of 40 televisions, each of which was either a Model P television or a Model Q television.
Each Model P television sold for $p and each Model Q sold for $q. The average (arithmetic mean) selling price of the
40 televisions was $141. How many of the 40 televisions were Model P televisions?
I. the Model P televisions sold for $30 less than the Model Q televisions
II. Either p=120 or q=120

12. Is the range of the integers 6, 3, y, 4, 5, and x greater than 9?

I. y > 3x
II. y > x > 3
13. x, y, and z are consecutive even numbers. What is the average of x, y, and z?
I. z = 12
II. x = 8

14. The number of elements in set K is an odd number. The minimum value of set K is 22, the maximum value is
40, and the median value is 37. Is the number of elements in set K at least 13?
I. The total average of elements in set K is greater than 37.
II. The sum of the elements in set K is greater than 407.

15. During a 10-week summer vacation, was the average (arithmetic mean) number of books that Carolyn read per week
greater than the average number of books that Jacob read per week?
I. Twice the average number of books that Carolyn read per week was greater than 5 less than twice the average
number of books that Jacob read per week.
II. During the last 5 weeks of the vacation, Carolyn read a total of 3 books more than Jacob.

16. Set X consists of 9 positive elements. Set Y consists of the squares of the elements of X. Is the average of the
elements in Y greater than that of set X?
I. The median of X is greater than 1.
II. The range of X is 2.

17. S is a set with at least two numbers. Is the range of s greater than its arithmetic mean?
I. The median of the set S is negative
II. The mean and the median are equal

18. Set A contains n distinct positive integers, all greater than 1. If the number of even integers in the set is 5 and the
set also contains 4 odd prime numbers, what is the value of n?
I. The set contains 2 odd composite numbers.
II. The set contains 6 composite numbers.
19. The Range of Set A is R. A number having equal value to R, is added to set A. Will the range of Set A increase ?
I. All numbers in Set A are positive.
II. The mean of the new set is smaller than R.

20. The King Edward College team won 25% of its first games and went on to win all of its remaining games. What
was the ratio of games won to the games lost by the team, if there were no ties?
I. If team had won 25% of all its games, it would have lost 30 more games than it actually did.
II. The team won 75% of all its games.
21. For S, a set of five integers, is the mean of the set an integer in S?
I. The difference between the smallest integer in S and the median of S is the same as the difference between the
median and the highest integer in S.
II. The difference between the second smallest integer in S and the median of S is the same as the difference
between the median and the second highest integer in S.

22. Tom started a company with 5 of his friends from the college. They made a software and sold it. Tom sold 15, and
his friends each sold at least 1. Did Tom sell more than at least 3 of his friends?
I. The median number of software sold by 5 friends is 14.
II. The average number of software sold by 5 friends is 9

23. Set A and B are 2 sets of numbers. A has a standard deviation 3 and a mean 5. B has the same mean but standard
deviation 4. Can we find the standard deviation of the set A U B ? If no, then is it possible with the following
additional information?
I. Both sets have the same number of members each.
II. Both sets have distinct members (no number is common to both sets

24. For a set of 3 numbers, assuming there is only one mode, does the mode equal the range?
I. The median equals the range
II. The largest number is twice the value of the smallest number

25. Number of surveyors : Number of people surveyed

x:0

2x : 1
2x : 2

4 : 10
1 : 20

The frequency table above shows the number of surveyors together with the corresponding number of surveyed
people. What is the value of x?
I. The average (arithmetic mean) of the number of people surveyed per surveyor is 3
II. Exactly half of the surveyors have surveyed at most one person

Answer key :
1 D 2 A 3 C 4 E 5 B 6 B 7 C 8 A 9 A 10 A
11 C 12 C 13 C 14 D 15 E 16 B 17 A 18 A 19 C 20 B
21 C 22 D 23 A 24 A 25 D