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SECTION 1
30 Minutes 25 Questions 7. Is x2 equal to xy?
(1) x2 – y2 = (x + 5)(y - 5)
1. If today the price of an item is $3,600,
(2) x = y
what was the price of the item exactly 2
years ago?
8. Was 70 the average (arithmetic mean)
(1) The price of the item increased by 10 grade on a class test?
per-cent per year during this 2-year
(1) On the test, half of the class had
period.
grades below 70 and half of the class
(2) Today the price of the item is 1.21
had grades above 70.
times its price exactly 2 years ago.
(2) The lowest grade on the test was 45
and the highest grade on the test was
2. By what percent has the price of an
95.
overcoat been reduced?
(1) The original price was $380. 9. What was John’s average driving speed in
(2) The original price was $50 more than miles per hour during a 15-minute
the reduced price. interval?
(1) He drove 10 miles during this
3. If the Longfellow Playground is
interval.
rectangular, what is its width?
(2) His maximum speed was 50 miles per
(1) The ratio of its length to its width is 7 hour and his minimum speed was 35
to 2. miles per hour during this interval.
(2) The perimeter of the playground is
396 meters. 10. Is ΔMNP isosceles?
(1) Exactly two of the angles, ∠M and
4. What is the value of x –1?
∠N, have the same measure
(1) x + 1 =3 (2) ∠N and ∠P do not have the same
(2) x – 1 < 3 measure.
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23. If n is an integer between 2 and 100 and 1. Who types at a faster rate, John or Bob?
if n is also the square of an integer, what
(1) The difference between their typing
is the value of n?
rates is 10 words per minute.
(1) n is the cube of an integer. (2) Bob types at a constant rate of 80
(2) n is even. words per minute.
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7. If a rope is cut into three pieces of 12. If J, K, L, M, and N and positive integers
unequal length, what is the length of the in ascending order, what is the value of
shortest of these pieces of rope? L?
(1) The combined length of the longer (1) The value of K is 3.
two pieces of rope is 12 meters. (2) The value of M is 7.
(2) The combined length of the shorter
two pieces of rope is 11 meters. 13. If a, b, and c are integers, is the number
3(a + b) − c divisible by 3?
8. A certain company paid bonuses of $125
to each of its executive employees and (1) a + b is divisible by 3.
$75 to each of its nonexecutive (2) c is divisible by 3.
employees. If 100 of the employees were
nonexecutives, how many were 14. Each M-type memory unit will increase
executives? the base memory capacity of a certain
computer by 3 megabytes. What is the
(1) The company has a total of 120 base memory capacity, in megabytes of
employees. the computer?
(2) The total amount that the company
paid in bonuses to its employees was (1) 2 M-type memory units will increase
$10.000. the computers base memory capacity
by 300 percent
9. What fraction of his salary did Mr. (2) The memory capacity of the
Johnson put into savings last week? computer after 2 M-type memory
units are added to the base memory
(1) Last week Mr. Johnson put $17 into capacity is 1.6 times the memory
savings. capacity of the computer after 1 M-
(2) Last week Mr. Johnson put 5% of his type memory unit is added to the
salary into savings. base memory capacity.
a x5 y 4 z 2
10. For integers a, b, and c, = 1 , What 15. If xyz≠0, what is the value of ?
b−c z2 y4 x2
b−c
is the value of ? (1) x = 1
b
(2) y = 3
a 3
(1) =
b 5 16. What fractional part of the total surface
(2) a and b have no common factors greater area of cube C is red?
than 1. 1
(1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly
2
11. If the price of a magazine is to be red.
doubled, by what percent will the (2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white.
number of magazines sold decrease?
(1) The current price of the magazine is 17. If positive integer x is divided by 2, the
$1.00. remainder is 1. What is the remainder
(2) For every $0.25 of increase in price, when x is divided by 4 ?
the number of magazines sold will (1) 31 < x < 35
decrease by 10 percent of the number (2) x is a multiple of 3.
sold at the current price.
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13. Before play-offs, a certain team had won circumference of the circle.
80 percent of its games. After play-offs,
what percent of all its games had the
team won?
(1) The team competed in 4 play-off
games.
(2) The team won all of its play-off
games.
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3. In Country S,if 60 percent of the women 9. The figure above shows four pieces of tile
aged 18 and over are in the labor force, that have been glued together to form a
how many million women are in the labor square tile ABCD. Is PR=QS?
force? (1) BQ = CR = DS = AP
(1) In Country S, women comprise 45 (2) The perimeter of ABCD is 16.
percent of the labor force.
(2) In Country S, there are no women 10. How old is Jim?
under 18 years of age in the labor (1) Eight years ago Jim was half as old
force. as he is now.
(2) Four years from now Jim will be
4. If x and y are different positive numbers, twice as old as he was six years ago.
is z between x and y?
(1) z > 0 11. What is the value of x?
(2) z < y (1) When x is multiplied by 8, the result
is between 50 and 60.
5. What percent of 16 is m? (2) When x is doubled, the result is
(1) m is 5 percent of 10. between 10 and 15.
(2) 400 percent of m is 2.
12. At a certain state university last term,
6. Kay put 12 cards on a table, some faceup there were p students each of whom paid
and the rest facedown. How many were either the full tuition of x dollars or half
put facedown?
the full tuition. What percent of the
(1) Kay put an even number of the cards tuition paid by the p students last term
faceup. was tuition from students who paid the
(2) Kay put twice as many of the cards
full tuition?
faceup as she put facedown.
(1) Of the p students, 20 percent paid the
7. Is ΔRST a right triangle? full tuition.
(2) The p students paid a total of $91.2
(1) The degree measure of ∠R is twice
million for tuition last term.
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3.2□△6
8. What is the value of z in the triangle
above?
14. If □and△each represent single digits in
(1) x + y = 139 the decimal above, what digit does □
(2) y + z = 108 represent?
(1) When the decimal is rounded to the
9. A certain bakery sells rye bread in 16-
nearest tenth, 3.2 is the result.
ounce loaves and 24-ounce loaves, and all
(2) When the decimal is rounded to the
loaves of the same size sell for the same
nearest hundredth, 3.24 is the result.
price per loaf regardless of the number of
loaves purchased. What is the price of a
15. A certain company currently has how
24-ounce loaf of rye bread in this bakery?
many employees?
(1) The total price of a 16-ounce loaf and
(1) If 3 additional employees are hired
a 24-ounce loaf of this bread is $2.40.
by the company and all of the present
(2) The total price of two 16-ounce loaves
employees remain, there will be at
and one 24-ounce loaf of this bread is
least 20 employees in the company.
$3.40.
(2) If no additional employees are hired
by the company and 3 of the present
x employees resign, there will be fewer
10. If = n , what is the value of x? than 15 employees in the company.
y
(1) yn = 10 16. If x is equal to one of the numbers
1 1 3 2
(2) y = 40 and n = , , or what is the value of x?
4 4 8 5
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18. If x + 2y + 1 = y – x, what is the value 24. All trainees in a certain aviator training
of x? program must take both a written test
and a flight test. If 70 percent of the
(1) y2 = 9
trainees passed the written test, and 80
(2) y = 3
percent of the trainees passed the flight
test, what percent of the trainees passed
19. If n is an integer, then n is divisible by
both tests?
how many positive integers?
(1) 10 percent of the trainees did not pass
(1) n is the product of two different
either test.
prime numbers.
(2) 20 percent of the trainees passed only
(2) n and 23 are each divisible by the
the flight test.
same number of positive integers.
n
20. How many miles long is the route from 25. If n is an integer, is an integer?
Houghton to Callahan? 15
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6. What is the number of 360-degree 12. Is the prime number p equal to 37?
rotations that a bicycle wheel made while (1) p = n2 +1, where n is an integer.
rolling 100 meters in a straight line (2) p2 is greater than 200.
without slipping?
(1) The diameter of the bicycle wheel, 13. The only contents of a parcel are 25
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16. If x, y, and z are three integers, are they 22. In a certain group of people, the average
consecutive integers? (arithmetic mean) weight of the males is
(1) z – x = 2 180 pounds and of the females, 120
(2) x < y < z pounds. What is the average weight of
the people in the group?
17. What is the value of x? (1) The group contains twice as many
(1) – (x + y) = x - y females as males.
(2) x + y = 2 (2) The group contains 10 more females
than males.
18. A sum of $200,000 from a certain estate
was divided among a spouse and three 23. If n = p + r, where n, p, and r are
children. How much of the estate did the positive integers and n is odd, does p
youngest child receive? equal 2?
(1) The spouse received 1/2 of the sum (1) p and r are prime numbers.
from the estate, and the oldest child (2) r ≠ 2
received 1/4 of the remainder.
(2) Each of the two younger children 24. If y = 2x+1, what is the value of y – x?
received $12,500 more than the (1) 22x+2 = 64
oldest child and $62,500 less than the (2) y = 22x –1
spouse.
y−2 SECTION 7
(1) =1
x −1 30 minutes 25 questions
(2) y2 = (x + 1)2
1. The regular price for canned soup was
reduced during a sale. How much money
could one have saved by purchasing a
dozen 7-ounce cans of soup at the
reduced price rather than at the regular
price?
(1) The regular price for the 7-ounce cans
was 3 for a dollar.
(2) The reduced price for the 7-ounce
cans was 4 for a dollar.
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x 3
(1) 4 =8
(2) y
=5
4 8
8. Is x < 0?
(1) –2x > 0
(2) x3 < 0
jk
(1) =1
mn
1 1
(2) j = andm =
k n
11. How many of the boys in a group of 100
children have brown hair?
(1) Of the children in the group, 60
percent have brown hair.
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(2) Of the children in the group, 40 are 18. If digit h is the hundredths’ digit in the
boys. decimal d=0.2h6, what is the value of d,
rounded to the nearest tenth?
12. Is the perimeter of Square S greater than
the perimeter of equilateral triangle T? 1
(1) d <
4
(1) The ratio of the length of a side of S (2) h < 5
to the length of a side of T is 4:5.
(2) The sum of the lengths of a side of S 19. What is the value of x2 – y2?
and a side of T is 18.
(1) x – y = y + 2
13. If p and q are positive integers and pq 1
=24, what is the value of p? (2) x – y =
x+ y
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(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of 2x the total value of goods consumed in
and 2y is 48. the United States that year.
(2) x = 3y (2) In 1987 the value of foreign goods
consumed constituted 22.7 percent of
the total value of goods consumed in
13. Marcia’s bucket can hold a maximum of the United States that year.
how many liters of water?
y
(1) The bucket currently contains 9 liters 18. If x, y, and z are positive, is x = 2 ?
y z
of water. z=
(1) xz
(2) If 3 liters of water are added to the
bucket when it is half full of water, y
(2) z = x
the amount of water in the bucket
1
will increase by . 19. If x and y are positive integers and xy =
3 x2y-3, what is the value of xy?
(1) x = 2
(2) x3 = 8
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25. How many integers n are there such that 1. A total of 9 women and 12 men reside in
r < n < s? the 21 apartments that are in a certain
apartment building, one person to each
(1) s – r = 5
apartment. If a poll taker is to select one
(2) r and s are not integers.
of the apartments at random, what is the
probability that the resident of the
apartment selected will be a woman who
is a student?
(1) Of the women, 4 are students.
(2) Of the women, 5 are not students.
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(1) The area of P plus the area of Q is equal (1) In May of year X, the number of
to 90π. unemployed men in the labor force
was 3.36 million.
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SECTION 10
30 Minutes 25 Questions
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(2) n is a multiple of 6.
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(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of the 10. If x, y, and z are positive, what is the
students' scores on test T was 72. value of x ?
(2) The sum of he students' scores on test
T was 2,232. (1) x + y = z + y
(2) z – y = 4 – y
4. if △ denotes an operation, what is the
value of (a△b) △c ? 11. Is x an integer ?
2
(1) a △ b = 5 (1) x is an integer.
3
(2) 5 △ c = 3 (2) x – 4 is an integer.
(1) x =5
(2) 15x + y = 90
x y
(1) + = 10
2 2
(2) x = 2y
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Section 12 416
30 Minutes 25 Questions (1) d = 5 +
1,000
(2) The terminating decimal equivalent of
1.What is the total number of employees in d has one nonzero digit to the left of
the per-sonnel and data processing the decimal point.
divisions of Company S ?
(1) The number of employees in the data 6. In a given class, what is the average
processing division is 3 more than (arithmetic mean) height per pupil ?
twice the number of employees in the
personnel division. (1) The average (arithmetic mean) height
(2) The number of employees in the data of the girls in the class is 61 inches.
process-ing division is 15. (2) The average (arithmetic mean) height
of the boys in the class is 64 inches.
2. If x and y are integers, is x + y divisible
by 6 ? 7. Richard's salary is greater than $25,000.
Is Amy's salary greater than Brian's
(1) x is divisible by 6. salary?
(2) y is divisible by 6.
(1) Brian's salary is 125 percent of
Richard's salary, and Amy's salary is
greater than 130 percent of Richard's
salary.
(2) Richard's salary is 75 percent of
Amy's salary but is 80 percent of
Brian's salary.
1
(1) Half of these books are -inch thick.
2
(2) The total thickness of all of these
books is 25 inches.
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10. Does x 2 = y ? = 10 ?
(1) When x = 1, y = 5.
(2) When x = 5, y = 13.
(1) 15 is 25 percent of y.
(1) y = − x (2) x is 10 percent of 2y.
(2) x < y
18. In year X a total of 355 billion dollars
11. In the figure above, x, y, and z denote the was spent for health care in the United
lengths of the sides of a triangular flower States, 30 percent of which was spent by
bed bounded by three driveways. What private health insurance compa-nies.
is the perimeter of the flower bed ? Was the amount spent for health care by
the federal government's medicare
(1) x = y = 30 feet. program less than 60 billion dollars?
(2) k = 60
(1) In year X medicare spent more than
12. Is r > s ? 1 2
, but less than , of the amount
2 3
(1) -r + s < 0 spent by the private health insurance
(2) r < | s | companies for health care.
(2) In year X medicare spent 50 billion
13. A raincoat and an umbrella cost a total of dollars less for health care than the
$53.50. What is the cost of the raincoat? amount spent by private health
(1) If the cost of the raincoat were to insurance companies.
increase by 10 percent, the raincoat
and the umbrella would cost a total z
of $58.00. 19. If xyz ≠ 0. what is the value of ?
y2
(2) The cost of the raincoat is $2.50 more 3
than 5 times the cost of the umbrella. (1) x = y
4
2
14. What is the value of x 2 + 2 xy + y 2 ? (2) z = x
3
(1) x + y = 7
(2) x = 2
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(1) XQ = QY = 5 centimeters.
(2) Every point on arc PQ is 5
centimeters from point X, and every
point on arc QR is 5 centimeters from
point Y.
1. Who is older, Akira or Michiko? 8. Terry and Pat collected cans for recycling.
What was the ratio of the number of carts
(1) Akira and Michiko are 3 years apart in
Terry collected to the number of cans Pat
age.
collected?
(2) Akira's younger brother is 11 years
old. (1) Pat collected 50 percent of the cans
that they collected.
2. What is the value of x ? (2) Terry collected 140 cans.
(1) 3x = 30
9. Is the integer n equal to 25 ?
(2) x + y = 40
(1) n is the square of an integer.
3. How many hours does it take 12 (2) 15 < n < 37
machines with identical production rates,
running simultaneously without stopping, 10. Is line parallel to the y-axis?
to fill a certain production order ?
(1) The equation of line is x = 4.
(2) The points (4. 2) and (4, - 5) are on
(1) It takes each machine alone, running
line .
continuously, 60 hours to fill the
production order.
(2) It takes 10 of these machines, running
simultaneously without stopping, 6
hours to fill the production order.
5
(1) 1 + n =
4
1
(2) n =
2
16
11. According to the graph above, the sale of
fruits and vegetables in Store S last week
5. What are the populations of Cities Y and accounted for what percent of the total sales
Z? income for the week?
(1) Last week the total income from the
(1) The population of City Z is 275,000 sale of fruits and vegetables in Store
more than the population of City Y. S was $16,000.
(2) The ratio of the population of City Z (2) x = 2y
to the population of City Y is 76 to 21.
6. If n is an integer, is n odd ?
(1) The tens digit of n is odd. 12. In a sequence of numbers in which each
(2) n2 is odd. term after the first term is 1 more than
twice the preceding term, what is the
7. If x > y, is cx > cy ? fifth term?
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(1) x + z = 3 + 2y + z
1
(2) y = −
7
(1) S < 20
15. In the figure above, what is the area of (2) s2 > 220
the circular region with center O ?
Section 14
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of t2
25 Minutes 20 Questions
and 8t is –8.
(2) t 4 = 16 1. Is 1 < x < 2 ?
(1) 0 < x
24. What is the area of a rectangular surface (2) x < 3
that has length x feet and width y feet ?
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Section 15
25 Minutes 20 Questions
12.Is x an integer ?
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x (2) y 2 − 7 y + 6 = 0
(1) is an integer.
2
(2) 2x is an integer.
17. Is y = 6 ?
(1) y 2 = 36
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4. In the figure above, what is the length 10. If r is represented by the decimal 0.t5,
of AC ? what is the digit t ?
(1) x + y = 13 1
(2) xy = 36 (1) r <
3
1
5. The charge for a telephone call between (2) r <
10
City R and City S is $0.42 for each of the
first 3 minutes and $0.18 for each
additional minute. A certain call between 11. Is 7 < n < 8 ?
these two cities lasted for x minutes, (1) n > 50
where x is an integer. How many minutes (2) n < 60
long was the call?
(1) The charge for the first 3 minutes of 12. If a total of 84 students are enrolled in
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two sections of a calculus course, how is the perimeter of the flower bed ?
many of the 84 students are female?
(1) The perimeter of rectangle PQRS is
2 28 feet.
(1) of the students in Section 1 are (2) Each diagonal of rectangle PQRS is
3
female. 10 feet long.
1
(2) of the students in Section 2 are 18. If 4x = 5y = 10z, what is the value of x +
2
male. y+z?
(1) x – y = 6
13. What is the value of the greater of two (2) y + z = 36
numbers if one of the numbers is twice
the other number? 19. Committee X and Committee Y, which
(1) One number is 5. have no common members, will
(2) The sum of the two numbers is 15. combine to form Committee Z. Does
Committee X have more members than
r s Committee Y ?
14. If r > 0 and s > 0, is < ?
s r (1) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
the members of Committee X is 25.7
r 1 years and the average age of the
(1) =
3s 4 members of Committee Y is 29.3
(2) s = r + 4 years.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
15. Company R's annual profit has increased the members of Committee Z will be
by a constant amount each calendar year 26.6 years.
since 1985. What was Company R's
annual profit in 1991 ? 20. What is the value of y ?
(1) In 1985 Company R's annual profit (1) y 2 − 7 y + 12 = 0
was $212,000; in 1989 Company
(2) y > 0
R's annual profit was $242,000.
(2) Company R's annual profit has
increased by $7,500 each year since
1985.
54 + 27
16. If x is an integer, is an integer ?
x
(1) 6 ≤ x ≤ 81
(2) x is a multiple of 3.
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Section 17 (2) BD = 6
25 Minutes 20 Questions
7. A retailer purchased a television set for x
1. If the list price of a new car was $12,300, percent less than its list price, and then
what was the cost of the car to the sold it for y percent less than its list price.
dealer ? What was the list price of the television
set ?
(1) The cost to the dealer was equal to 80
percent of the list price. (1) x = 15
(2) The car was sold for $11,070, which (2) x – y = 6
was 12.5 percent more than the cost
to the dealer. 8. Is x 2 greater than x ?
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x
14. What is the value of ?
yz
y 2x
(1) x =and z =
2 5
x 5 1 1
(2) = and = 19. The table above shows the cancelation
z 2 y 10
fee schedule that a travel agency uses to
determine the fee charged to a tourist
15. An infinite sequence of positive integers
who cancels a trip prior to departure. If a
is called an “alpha sequence” if the
tourist canceled a trip with a package
number of even integers in the sequence
price of $1,700 and a departure date of
is finite. If S is an infinite sequence of
September 4, on what day was the trip
positive integers, is S an alpha sequence?
canceled ?
(1) The first ten integers in S are even.
(1) The cancelation fee was $595
(2) An infinite number of integers in S
(2) If the trip had been canceled one day
are odd.
later, the cancelation fee would have
been $255 more.
16. if xy > 0, does (x - 1)(y - 1) = 1 ?
(1) x + y = xy 20. Is 5 k less than 1,000 ?
(2) x = y
(1) 5 k −1 > 3,000
17. After winning 50 percent of the first 20 (2) 5 k −1 = 5 k − 500
games it played. Team A won all of the
remaining games it played. What was
the total number of games that Team A
won?
(1) Team A played 25 games altogether
(2) Team A won 60 percent of all the
games it played.
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4. If Pat saved $600 of his earnings last 10. What digit does t represent in the
month, how much did Pat earn last decimal 0.t73 ?
month?
(1) t < 5
1 1
(1) Pat spent of his earnings last month (2) 0.t73 <
2 t
1
for living expenses and saved of
3
the remainder.
(2) Of his earnings last month, Pat paid 11. On the number line above, p, q, r, s, and
twice as much in taxes as he saved. t are five consecutive even integers in
increasing order. What is the average
5. The purchase price of Beth's new car, (arithmetic mean) of these five integers ?
including the sales tax, is $8,000. If she
finances the car, making a down payment (1) q + s = 24
of $2,000 and paying off the rest in equal (2) The average (arithmetic mean) of q
monthly installments, what will be the and r is 11.
total cost of the car, including the sales
tax and financing ? 12. What is the length in meters of a certain
rectangular garden ?
(1) The installments are to be $200 per
month. (1) The length of the garden is 6 meters
(2) The installments will extend over a more than twice the width.
period of exactly 3 years. (2) The length of the garden is 4 times
the width.
x 1
6. If y ≠ 0, is = 13. If x < y, is x 2 < y 2
y 2
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Section 20 1 1
6. What is the value of + ?
25 Minutes 20 Questions k r
(1) 10 percent of the number is 5. 7. A number of people each wrote down one
(2) 40 percent of twice the number is 40. of the first 30 positive integers. Were any
of the integers written down by more than
2. Is r greater than 0.27 ? one of the people?
1 (1) The number of people who wrote
(1) r is greater than
4 down an integer was greater than 40.
3 (2) The number of people who wrote
(2) r is equal to down an integer was less than 70.
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3. What percent of a group of people are
women with red hair ? 8. If d denotes a decimal, is d ≥ 0.5 ?
(1) Of the women in the group, 5 percent (1) When d is rounded to the nearest
have red hair. tenth, the result is 0.5.
(2) Of the men in the group, 10 percent (2) When d is rounded to the nearest
have red hair. integer, the result is 1.
4. If i and j are integers, is i + j an even 9. How many of the 60 cars sold last month
integer ? by a certain dealer had neither power
(1) i < 10 windows nor a stereo?
(2) i = j (1) Of the 60 cars sold, 20 had a stereo
but not power windows.
(2) Of the 60 cars sold, 30 had both
power windows and a stereo.
13. When a player in a certain game tossed a (1) Each member's contribution is to be
coin a number of times, 4 more heads $4.
than tails resulted. Heads or tails resulted (2) If 5 club members fail to contribute,
each time the player tossed the coin. the share of each contributing
How many times did heads result? member will increase by $2.
(1) The player tossed the coin 24 times.
18. While driving on the expressway, did
(2) The player received 3 points each
Robin ever exceed the 55-miles-per-hour
time heads resulted and 1 point each
speed limit ?
time tails resulted, for a total of 52
points. (1) Robin drove 100 miles on the
expressway.
(2) Robin drove for 2 hours on the
expressway.
19. Is n an integer ?
(1) n 2 is an integer.
(2) n is an integer.
20. Is x negative ?
(1) Of the female students enrolled at the 12. What was the discounted price of a
school,40 percent are members of the certain television set ?
drama club.
(2) Of the male students enrolled at the (1) The original price of the television
school, 25percent are members of the set was $50 more than the discounted
drama club. price.
(2) The original price of the television
7. What is the perimeter of rectangle R ? set was 110 percent of the
discounted price.
(1) R is a square. x
(2) The area of R is 36. 13. If x > 0, is > x ?
y
(1) 0 < y < 1
(2) x > 1
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Section 22
25 Minutes 20 Questions
14. Is n an integer?
1. What is the capacity, in liters, of a certain
(1) 2n is an integer. aquarium ?
n
(2) is an integer. 1
2 (1) Three liters is of the capacity of the
2
aquarium.
15. At what speed was a train traveling on a
1
trip when it had completed half of the (2) One-half liter is of the capacity of
total distance of the trip? 12
the aquarium.
(1) The trip was 460 miles long and took
4 hours to complete. 2. What is the value of n ?
(2) The train traveled at an average rate
of 115 miles per hour on the trip. (1) n =2
(2) 4n = 4
16. If r and s are integers, is r2 + s even ?
(1) The product rs is odd. 3. In △PQR, what is the measure of angle P?
(2) r is odd. (1) Angle Q is a right angle.
(2) The measure of angle R is 17°
17. What is the volume of a certain
rectangular solid?
4. What amount did Jean earn from the
(1) Two adjacent faces of the solid have commission on her sales in the first half
areas 15 and 24, respectively. of 1988 ?
(2) Each of two opposite faces of the
(1) In 1988 Jean's commission was 5
solid has area 40.
percent of the total amount of her
sales.
18. Is x > y ?
(2) The amount of Jean's sales in the
(1) ax > ay second half of 1988 averaged
(2) a 2 x > a 2 y $10,000 per month more than in the
first half.
19. If n is a positive integer and
k = 5.1×10 n , what is the value of k ? 5. A certain car traveled from one town to
another without stopping. What was the
(1) 6,000 < k < 500,000 car's average speed for the trip ?
(2) k 2 = 2.601 × 10 9
(1) The car traveled the 90-mile trip in 2
hours.
20. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
(2) The car traveled the first 40 miles of
3x and 6y ?
the trip in 1 hour.
(1) x + 2y = 7
(2) x + y = 5 6. What is the value of x ?
(1) 2x + 3y = 12
(2) 5x + 7y = 29
7. Does x = y ?
(1) | x | = | y |
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12. How many people did Apex Company (1) The tens digit is 3 more than the units
employ in 1990 ? digit.
(2) The product of the two digits is 54.
(1) The company employed 538 more
people in 1991 than in 1990. 19. If Carmen had 12 more tapes, she would
(2) The company employed 20 percent have twice as many tapes as Rafael.
more people in 1991 than in 1990. Does Carmen have fewer tapes than
Rafael?
(1) Rafael has more than 5 tapes.
13. Of the four numbers represented on the (2) Carmen has fewer than 12 tapes.
number line above, is r closest to zero?
(1) q = -s
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2t + t − x
20. What is the value of ?
t−x
2t
(1) =3
t−x
(2) t – x = 5
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