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Section 11
30 Minutes 25 Questions
1. Kelly's raise increased his salary by what
percent ?
(1) Kelly's raise was $1,200.
(2) Kelly's raise increased his taxes to
$1,700.
2. Mouse population X doubles every week.
How many weeks from now will
population X first exceed 1,000,000 ?
3
xamination. If of the applicants who
4
passed the physical examination also
passed the written examination, how many
of the applicants passed both examinations
?
(1) The number of applicants who did not
pass either examination was equal to
the number who passed the written
examination only.
(2) There was a total of 100 applicants.

(1) The mouse population is now 65,536. 8. Is the integer n even ?

(2) Fifteen weeks ago the mouse
(1) n 2 1 is odd.
population was 2.
(2) n is an integer.
3. If no student took test T more than once,
9. If today is Carol's birthday, how old is
how many students took test T ?
Carol?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of the (1) 6 years ago she was half her present
students' scores on test T was 72. age.
(2) The sum of he students' scores on test (2) 3 years from now she will be 3 times
T was 2,232. as old as she was 7 years ago.

4. if denotes an operation, what is the 10. If x, y, and z are positive, what is the
value of (ab) c ? value of x ?
(1) a b = 5 (1) x + y = z + y
(2) 5 c = 3
(2) z y = 4 y
5. If x + 2y = 6, what is the value of x ?
11. Is x an integer ?
(1) 2x + y = 9
(2) 3x + 2y = 14 2
(1) x is an integer.
3
x 3
6. Is (2) x 4 is an integer.
8 4
(1) x > 5.5 12. If y > 0, is y greater than x ?
(2) x < 7
(1) 3x = 2y
4 (2) x + y = 5
7. Last year of the applicants for a job on
5
13. Did the population of Country S increase
a police force passed the physical
by less than 20 percent from 1965 to

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1975 ? 18x, what is the value of y ?

(1) The population of Country S in 1965 (1) x =5

was 180 million. (2) 15x + y = 90
(2) The population of Country S in 1975
was 1.17 times what it was in 1965. 19. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
x and y ?
14. If a and b are positive integers, is x y
a 2 (1) 10
? 2 2
b 3 (2) x = 2y
(1) 3a = 2b 20. How many bags of grass seed were used
(2) For integers m and n, a = 2m and b = for rectangular lawn X ?
3n (1) Lawn X has a perimeter of 720 feet.
(2) One bag of grass seed was used for
15. G, P, and S are animal species. What is
each 5,000 square feet of lawn X
the average life span, in year, of S ?

(1) The average life span of S is twice that 21. If x and y are positive. is y< 2 ?
4 (1) x > 2y
of P and that of G.
5 (2) x < y + 2
(2) The average life span of G is 30 years
22. If n is a positive integer, is n divisible by
longer than that of P and 10 years
at least six positive integers?
longer than that of S.
(1) n is the product of three different
16. If point X is inside a circle with center O prime numbers.
and radius 2, is point Y inside the same (2) n = 30
circle?
23. A car traveled a distance of d miles in t
(1) OX = 1 minutes at an average rate of r miles per
1 minute. What is the ratio of d to r ?
(2) XY = 2
2 (1) t = 30
(2) d = 25
17. Four dollar amounts, w, x, y, and z, were
invested in a business. Which amount 24. If b is the product of three consecutive
was greatest'? positive integers c, c + 1, and c + 2, is b a
(1) y < z < x multiple of 24 ?
(2) x was 25 percent of the total of the (1) b is a multiple of 3,
four investments. (2) c is odd.

18. If the measures of' the three interior 25. If x is a positive number, what is the
angles of a triangle are y, 15x, and value of x ?
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Section 12
(1) | x 2 | = 1 30 Minutes 25 Questions
(2) x 2 4 x 3
1.What is the total number of employees in
the per-sonnel and data processing
divisions of Company S ?
(1) The number of employees in the data
processing division is 3 more than
twice the number of employees in the
personnel division.
(2) The number of employees in the data
process-ing division is 15.

2. If x and y are integers, is x + y divisible by

6?

(1) x is divisible by 6.
(2) y is divisible by 6.

3. In the figure above, what is the length of

segment BC ?
(1) x = 90
(2)The perimeter of ABC is 24.

4. Of the books that are standing upright

along the top shelf of a bookcase, some
1 3
are -inch thick and the rest are -
2 4
inch thick. What is the total number of
books standing upright along the top
shelf ?

1
(1) Half of these books are -inch thick.
2
(2) The total thickness of all of these
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books is 25 inches. 10. Does x 2 y ?

(1) y x
5. In the terminating decimal equivalent of d,
(2) x < y
what is the number of nonzero digits to the
right of the deci-mal point? 11. In the figure above, x, y, and z denote the
416 lengths of the sides of a triangular flower
(1) d 5
1,000 bed bounded by three driveways. What is
(2) The terminating decimal equivalent of the perimeter of the flower bed ?
d has one nonzero digit to the left of (1) x = y = 30 feet.
the decimal point. (2) k = 60

6. In a given class, what is the average 12. Is r > s ?

(arithmetic mean) height per pupil ?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) height
of the girls in the class is 61 inches.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) height
of the boys in the class is 64 inches.
7. Richard's salary is greater than $25,000. Is
Amy's salary greater than Brian's salary?
(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.
8. Are integers r and s consecutive ?
(1) r is odd and s is even.
(2) r - s = 1
9. There are exactly 6 teams in league X.
What was the total number of games
played by the 6 teams last season?
(1) Each team in league X played each of
the other teams at least once.
(2) No team in league X played more than
7 games.
(1) -r + s < 0
(2) r < | s |
13. A raincoat and an umbrella cost a total of
$53.50. What is the cost of the raincoat?
(1) If the cost of the raincoat were to
increase by 10 percent, the raincoat
and the umbrella would cost a total of
$58.00.
(2) The cost of the raincoat is $2.50 more
than 5 times the cost of the umbrella.
14. What is the value of x 2 2 xy y 2 ?
(1) x + y = 7
(2) x = 2
15. If each of the positive integers a, b, and c
is a prime number and abc = 30, what is
the value of c ?
(1) a < b < c
(2) a + b = c
16. If y = ax + b, where a and b are
constants, what is the value of y when x =
10 ?

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20. Jane is in a certain ticket line in which

(1) When x = 1, y = 5. each of the other people in the line is
(2) When x = 5, y = 13. either behind her or ahead of her. In the
line, the number of people ahead of Jane
17. If x and y are positive, then x is what is 5 more than the number of people
percent of y? behind her. What is the total number of
(1) 15 is 25 percent of y. people in the line?
(2) x is 10 percent of 2y. (1) There are 11 people ahead of Jane in
the line.
18. In year X a total of 355 billion dollars
(2) The total number of people in the line
was spent for health care in the United
is 3 times the number of people
States, 30 percent of which was spent by
behind Jane.
private health insurance compa-nies. Was
the amount spent for health care by the 21. In the rectangular coordinate system, if
federal government's medicare program line is parallel to one of the axes,
less than 60 billion dollars? does line contain the point (4, 5) ?
(1) In year X medicare spent more than
(1) Line contains the point (4, -5).
1 2
, but less than , of the amount (2) Line crosses the x-axis.
2 3
spent by the private health insurance
companies for health care.
(2) In year X medicare spent 50 billion
dollars less for health care than the
amount spent by private health
insurance companies. 22. In the figure above, if PR is a line
segment, what is the sum of the lengths
z
19. If xyz 0. what is the value of ? of the curved paths from P to Q and from
y2
Q to R ?
3
(1) x y
4 (1) XQ = QY = 5 centimeters.
2 (2) Every point on arc PQ is 5
(2) z x
3 centimeters from point X, and every
point on arc QR is 5 centimeters from
point Y.

23. Last year Luis invested x dollars for one

year, half at 8 percent simple annual
interest and the other half at 12 percent
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reinvest the x dollars for one year in the
same two types of investments, but the
lower rate has decreased. If the higher
rate is unchanged, what fraction of the x
dollars must he reinvest at the 12 percent
rate so that the total interest earned from
the x dollars will be the
same for both years ?
(1) The lower rate is now 6 percent.
(2) The total amount of interest earned
from the two investments last year
was $3,000.
24. Is the integer n a multiple of 140 ?
(1) n is a multiple of 10.
(2) n is a multiple of 14.
25. If x, y, and n are positive integers, is
n
x simultaneously without stopping, 6
greater than 1,000 ?
y hours to fill the production order.
(1) x y 3 and n > y.
(2) x > 5y and n > x.
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Section 13
30 Minutes 25 Questions
1. Who is older, Akira or Michiko?
(1) Akira and Michiko are 3 years apart in
age.
(2) Akira's younger brother is 11 years old.
2. What is the value of x ?
(1) 3x = 30
(2) x + y = 40
3. How many hours does it take 12 machines
with identical production rates, running
simultaneously without stopping, to fill a
certain production order ?
(1) It takes each machine alone, running
continuously, 60 hours to fill the
production order.
(2) It takes 10 of these machines, running
4. If n is a positive number, what is the value
of n ?
5
(1) 1 n
4
1
(2) n 2
16
5. What are the populations of Cities Y and Z
?
(1) The population of City Z is 275,000
more than the population of City Y.
(2) The ratio of the population of City Z 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.
(2) n2 is odd.
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7. If x > y, is cx > cy ?
(1) c > 0
(2) xy > 0
8. Terry and Pat collected cans for recycling.
What was the ratio of the number of carts
Terry collected to the number of cans Pat
collected?
(1) Pat collected 50 percent of the cans
that they collected.
(2) Terry collected 140 cans.
9. Is the integer n equal to 25 ?
(1) n is the square of an integer.
(2) 15 < n < 37
10. Is line parallel to the y-axis?
(1) The equation of line is x = 4.
(2) The points (4. 2) and (4, - 5) are on
line .
11. According to the graph above, the sale of
fruits and vegetables in Store S last week
accounted for what percent of the total sales
income for the week?
(1) Last week the total income from the
sale of fruits and vegetables in Store S
was $16,000.
(2) x = 2y
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12. In a sequence of numbers in which each
term after the first term is 1 more than
twice the preceding term, what is the fifth
term?
(1) The first term is 1.
(2) The sixth term minus the fifth term is
32.
13. Larry saves x dollars per month. Will
Larrys total savings one year from now
exceed his present savings by at least
$500 ? (Assume that there is no interest.)
(1) In 6 months Larry's total savings will
be $900.
(2) In 3 months Larry's total savings will
exceed his present savings by $150.
14. Is |x 3| < 7 ?
(1) x > 0
(2) x < 10
15. In the figure above, what is the area of
the circular region with center O ?
(1) MN is perpendicular to RS.
(2) The area of triangular region OMT is
4.
16. Pat is reading a book that has a total of
1
15 chapters. Has Pat read at least of
3
the pages in the book?
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(1) Pat has just finished reading the first 5
chapters.
(2) Each of the first 3 chapters has more
pages than each of the other 12
chapters in the book..
17. If a1, a2, a3, . . . , an, . . . is a sequence
such that an=2n for all n 1, is ai
greater than aj ?
(1) i is odd and j is even
(2) i2 > j2
18. What was the average (arithmetic mean)
monthly rainfall during 1984 in region Y?
(1) In region Y the total rainfall for the
first 6 months of 1984 was twice the
total rainfall for the last 6 months of
1984.
(2) In region Y the average monthly
rainfall for the first 6 months of 1984
was 2.31 inches more than the
average monthly rainfall for the last 6
months of 1984.
19. If 2x + 3y = 5, what is the value of x ?
300 cushions on the furniture it produced
last week, how many sofas did it produce
last week ?
(1) Last week the factory produced more
chairs than sofas.
(2) Last week the factory produced a total
of 150 chairs and sofas.
22. If integer p is a factor of 42, is p a prime
number?
(1) p > 6
(2) p < 21
23. What is the value of t ?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of t2
and 8t is 8.
(2) t 4 16
24. What is the area of a rectangular surface
that has length x feet and width y feet ?
(1) y is the reciprocal of x.
(2) The perimeter of the rectangular
surface is 5 feet.

(1) x + z = 3 + 2y + z
1 25. What is the greatest common divisor of
(2) y
7 positive integers m and n ?

20. If S is the sum of the first n positive (1) m is a prime number.

(2) m and n are consecutive integers.
integers, what is the value of n ?
(1) S < 20
(2) s2 > 220

21. A small factory that produces only

upholstered chairs and sofas uses 1
cushion for each chair and 4 cushions for
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Section 14 (1) The profit exceeded $2 million on

25 Minutes 20 Questions
sales of 200,000 units.
1. Is 1 < x < 2 ? (2) The profit exceeded $5 million on
(1) 0 < x sales of 350,000 units.
(2) x < 3

2. Water is pumped into a partially filled tank

at a constant rate through an inlet pipe. At
the same time, water is pumped out of the
tank at a constant rate through an outlet
pipe. At what rate, in gallons per minute,
is the amount of water in the tank
increasing?
6. Each number in the arrangement above is
(1) The amount of water initially in the
obtained from the two nearest numbers in
tank is 200 gallons.
the column imme-diately to the left by
(2) Water is pumped into the tank at a rate
subtracting the upper number from the
of 10 gallons per minute and out of the
lower number. What is the value of z ?
1
tank at a rate of 10 gallons every 2 (1) x = 7
2
(2) t = 5
minutes.
7. How many people are directors of both
3. If P, Q, and R are three distinct points, do
Company K and Company R ?
line segments PQ and PR have the same
length ? (1) There were 17 directors present at a
joint meeting of the directors of
(1) P is the midpoint of line segment QR.
Company K and Company R, and no
(2) Q and R lie on the same circle with
directors were absent.
center P.
(2) Company K has 12 directors and
Company R has 8 directors.
4. What distance did Jane travel?

(1) Bill traveled 40 miles in 40 minutes. 8. What is the value of xy yz ?

(2) Jane traveled at the same average rate (1) y = 2
as Bill. (2) x z = 5

5. The profit from the sale of a certain

9.The length of the edging that surrounds
appliance increases, though not
1
proportionally, with the number of units circular garden K is the length of the
2
sold. Did the profit exceed $4 million on
edging that surrounds circular garden G.
sales of 380,000 units ?

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What is the area of garden K ? (Assume quart of Brand Y motor oil?

that the edging has negligible width.)
(1) The area of G is 25 square meters.
(2) The edging around G is 10 meters
long.
10. If the average (arithmetic mean) of six
numbers is 75, how many of the numbers
are equal to 75 ?
(1) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
6 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
10 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is $58.
(There is no quantity discount.)
(2) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
4 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
12 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is $44.
(There is no quantity discount.)

(1) None of the six numbers is less than

75. 14. If x is an integer, is x | x | < 2x
(2) None of the six numbers is greater (1) x < 0
than 75. (2) x = - 10

11. An employee is 1.5 times the regular 15. By what percent did the median
hourly rate for each hour worked in household income in Country Y decrease
excess of 40 hours per week, excluding from 1970 to 1980 ?
Sunday, and 2 times the regular hourly (1) In 1970 the median household income
rate for each hour worked on Sunday. 2
How much was the employee paid last in Country Y was of median
3
week? household income in Country X.
(1) The employees regular hourly rate is (2) In 1980 the median household income
$10. 1
in Country Y was of the median
(2) Last week the employee worked a 2
total of 54 hours but did not work household income in Country X.
more than 8 hours on any day.
16. If n is a positive integer, is
n n
12. If n and k are greater than zero, is an 1
k 0.01 ?
10
integer ?
(1) n and k are both integers. (1) n > 2
n 1
(2) n 2 and k 2 are both integers. 1
(2) 0.1
10
13. At Larrys Auto Supply Store, Brand X
17. If x < 0, is y > 0 ?
antifreeze is sold by the gallon and Brand
x
Y motor oil is sold by the quart. (1) 0
y
Excluding sales tax, what is the total cost
(2) y - x > 0
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Section 15
18. If x, y, and z are positive integers, is x y 25 Minutes 20 Questions
odd ?
1. The regular price per eight-ounce can of
(1) x z 2
brand X soup is $0.37, regardless of the
(2) y ( z 1) 2
number of cans purchased. What amount
19. What is the tens digit of positive integer will be saved on the purchase of 3 eight-
x? ounce cans of brand X soup if the regular
(1) x divided by 100 has a remainder of price is reduced ?
30. (1) At the reduced price, 3 eight-ounce
(2) x divided by 110 has a remainder of cans of brand X soup will cost $0.99
30. (2) The amount that will be saved on each
eight-ounce can of brand X soup
20. If x and y are positive, is the ratio of x to
purchased at the reduced price is
y greater than 3 ?
$0.04.

(1) x is 2 more than 3 times y.

2. Does Joe weigh more than Tim?
(2) The ratio of 2x to 3y is greater than 2.
(1) Tims weight is 80 percent of Joes
weight.
(2) Joes weight is 125 percent of Tims
weight.

3. Not scored

4. What is the value of xy ?

(1) x + y = 10
(2) x y = 6

5. Elena receives a salary plus a commission

that is equal to a fixed percentage of her
sales revenue. What was the total of
Elenas salary and commission last
month ?

(1) Elenas monthly salary is $1,000.

(2) Elenas commission is 5 percent of her
sales revenue.

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x
(1) is an integer.
2
(2) 2x is an integer.

13. A swim club that sold only individual and

family memberships charged $300 for an
6. Point (x, y) has in which quadrant of the individual membership. If the clubs total
rectangular coordinate system shown revenue from memberships was $480,000,
above ? what was the charge
for a family membership ?
(1) x + y < 0
(2) x = 1 and y = -7 (1) The revenue from individual
1
7. What is the average (arithmetric mean ) of memberships was of the total
4
x, y and z
revenue from memberships.
(1) x + y = 5 (2) The club sold 1.5 times as many
(2) y + z = 7
family member- ships as individual
8. Chan and Micko drove separate cars along memberships.
the entire length of a certain route. If Chan
14. If x, y, and z are positive numbers, is x >
made the trip in 15 minutes, how many
y>z?
minutes did it take Micko to make the
same trip ? (1) xz > yz
(2) yx > yz
(1) Mickos average speed for the trip
3
was of Chans average speed.
4 15.Can the positive integer p be expressed as
(2) The route is 14 miles long. the product of two integers, each of
x which is greater than 1 ?
9. If xy 0, is 0 ?
y
(1) 31 < p < 37
(1) x = y (2) p is odd
(2) x = - ( - y )
16. Currently there are 50 picture books each
10. What is the value of the two-digit integer
shelf in the childrens section of a library.
x?
If these books were to be placed on
(1) The sum of the two digits is 3 smaller shelves with 30 picture books on
(2) x is divisible by 3 each shelf, how many of the smaller
shelves would be needed to hold all of
11. Is the number x between 0.2 and 0.7 ?
these books ?
(1) 560x < 280
(1) The number of smaller shelves needed
(2) 700x > 280
is 6 more than the current number of
12.Is x an integer ?
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shelves.
(2) Currently there are 9 shelves in the
childrens section.
17. Is y = 6 ?
(1) y 2 36
(2) y 2 7 y 6 0
18. The figure above represents the floor
plan of an art gallery that has a lobby and
18 rooms. If Lisa goes from the lobby
into room A at the same time that Paul
goes from the lobby into room R, and
each goes through all of the rooms in
succession, entering by one door and
exiting by the other, which room will they
be in at the same time ?
(1) Lisa spends 2x minutes in each room
and Paul spends 3x minutes in each
room.
(2) Lisa spends 10 minutes less time in
each room than Paul does.
19. Quadrilateral RSTU shown above is a site
plan for a parking lot in which side RU is
parallel to side ST and RU is longer than
ST. What is the area of the parking lot ?
(1) RU = 80 meters
(2) TU= 20 10 meters
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20. If xy = -6 , what is the value of xy(x+y ) ?
(1) x y = 5
(2) xy 2 18
Section 16
25 Minutes 20 Questions
1. Is x greater than 75 percent of y ?
(1) x = 40
(2) y = 50
2. The integer x is how much greater than 3 ?
(1) 10 x = 100,000
1
(2) = 0.00001
10 x
3. A citrus fruit grower receives $15 for each
crate of oranges shipped and $18 for each
crate of grapefruit shipped. How many
crates of oranges did the grower ship last
week?
(1) Last week the number of crates of
oranges that the grower shipped was
20 more than twice the number of
crates of grapefruit shipped.
(2) Last week the grower received a total
of $38,700 from the crates of oranges
and grapefruit slipped.
4. In the figure above, what is the length of
AC ?
(1) x + y = 13
(2) xy = 36
5. The charge for a telephone call between
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
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these two cities lasted for x minutes, 1

(1) r
where x is an integer. How many minutes 3
long was the call? 1
(2) r
(1) The charge for the first 3 minutes of 10
the call was $0.36 less than the charge
for the remainder of the call. 11. Is 7 n 8 ?
(2) The total charge for the call was $2.88. (1) n > 50
(2) n < 60
6. Is the integer P odd ?
(1) The sum of P, P + 4, and P + 11 is 12. If a total of 84 students are enrolled in
even. two sections of a calculus course, how
(2) The sum of P 3, P, and P + 11 is many of the 84 students are female?
odd. 2
(1) of the students in Section 1 are
3
7. If a certain grove consists of 36 pecan female.
trees, what was the yield per tree last 1
(2) of the students in Section 2 are
year? 2
(1) The yield per tree for the 18 trees in male.
the northern half of the grove was 60
kilograms last year. 13. What is the value of the greater of two
(2) The yield per tree for the 18 trees in numbers if one of the numbers is twice
the eastern half of the grove was 55 the other number?
kilograms last year. (1) One number is 5.
(2) The sum of the two numbers is 15.
8. What was the percent increase in the value
of a certain antique from January 1, 1981, r s
14. If r > 0 and s > 0, is ?
to December 31, 1981? s r
(1) The value of the antique on January 1, r 1
(1)
1981, was $3,000. 3s 4
(2) The value of the antique on December (2) s = r + 4
31, 1981, was double the value of the
15. Company R's annual profit has increased
antique on January 1,1981.
by a constant amount each calendar year
9. In the xy-plane, is point (2, -3) on line since 1985. What was Company R's
? annual profit in 1991 ?
(1) Point (-2, 3) is on . (1) In 1985 Company R's annual profit
(2) is not perpendicular to the x-axis. was $212,000; in 1989 Company R's
annual profit was $242,000.
10. If r is represented by the decimal 0.t5, (2) Company R's annual profit has
what is the digit t ? increased by $7,500 each year since
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1985. (1) y 2 7 y 12 0
(2) y > 0
54 27
16. If x is an integer, is an integer ?
x
(1) 6 x 81
(2) x is a multiple of 3.

17. The figure above shows the shape of a

flower bed. If arc QR is a semicircle and
PQRS is a rectangle with QR > RS, what
is the perimeter of the flower bed ?
(1) The perimeter of rectangle PQRS is
28 feet.
(2) Each diagonal of rectangle PQRS is
10 feet long.

18. If 4x = 5y = 10z, what is the value of x +

y+z?
(1) x y = 6
(2) y + z = 36

19. Committee X and Committee Y, which

have no common members, will combine
to form Committee Z. Does Committee X
have more members than Committee Y ?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
the members of Committee X is 25.7
years and the average age of the
members of Committee Y is 29.3
years.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
the members of Committee Z will be
26.6 years.

20. What is the value of y ?

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Section 17
25 Minutes 20 Questions

1. If the list price of a new car was $12,300,

what was the cost of the car to the dealer ? 6. In the figure above, what is the length of
(1) The cost to the dealer was equal to 80 AD?
percent of the list price. (1) AC = 6
(2) The car was sold for $11,070, which (2) BD = 6
was 12.5 percent more than the cost to
7. A retailer purchased a television set for x
the dealer.
percent less than its list price, and then
2. If p, q, x, y, and z are different positive sold it for y percent less than its list price.
integers, which of the five integers is the What was the list price of the television
median? set ?
(1) p + x < q (1) x = 15
(2) y < z (2) x y = 6

3. A certain employee is paid $6 per hour for 8. Is x 2 greater than x ?

an 8-hour workday. If the employee is (1) x 2 is greater than 1.
1 (2) x is greater than 1.
paid 1 times this rate for time worked
2
r s
in excess of 8 hours during a single day, 9. What is the value of ?
2 2
how many hours did the employee work
rs
today? (1) 5
2
(1) The employee was paid $18 more for
(2) r + s = 10
hours worked today than for hours
worked yesterday. 10. If x, y, and z are numbers, is z = 18
(2) Yesterday the employee worked 8 (1) The average (arithmetic mean) of x, y,
hours. and z is 6
(2) x = -y
4. If n is a member of the set (33, 36, 38, 39,
41, 42), what is the value of n ?
(1) n is even.
(2) n is a multiple of 3.

5. What is the value of x ?

(1) 2x + 1 = 0

(2) ( x 1) 2 x 2 11. The circular base of an above-ground

swimming pool lies in a level yard and
just touches two straight sides of a fence
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at points A and B, as shown in the figure
above. Point C is on the ground where
the two sides of the fence meet.
How far from the center of the pool's
base is point A?
(1) The base has area 250 square feet.
(2) The center of the base is 20 feet from
point C
12. In 1979 Mr. Jackson bought a total of n
shares of stock X and Mrs. Jackson
bought a total of 300 shares of stock X. If
the couple held all of their respective
shares throughout 1980, and Mr.
Jackson's 1980 dividends on his n shares
totaled $150, what was the total amount
of Mrs. Jackson's 1980 dividends on her
300 shares ?
(1) In 1980 the annual dividend on each
share of stock X was $0.75.
(2) In 1979 Mr. Jackson bought a total of
200 shares of stock X.
13. If Sara's age is exactly twice Bill's age,
what is Sara's age?
(1) Four years ago, Sara's age was exactly
3 times Bill's age.
(2) Eight years from now, Sara's age will
be exactly 1.5 times Bill's age.
number of even integers in the sequence
is finite. If S is an infinite sequence of
positive integers, is S an alpha sequence?
(1) The first ten integers in S are even.
(2) An infinite number of integers in S are
odd.
16. if xy > 0, does (x - 1)(y - 1) = 1 ?
(1) x + y = xy
(2) x = y
17. After winning 50 percent of the first 20
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.
18.
+
In the addition problem above, each of the
symbols , , and represents a positive
digit. If < ,what is the value of ?
(1) = 4
(2) = 1

x
14. What is the value of ?
yz
y 2x
(1) x and z
2 5
x 5 1

1
(2) and
z 2 y 10

15. An infinite sequence of positive integers 19. The table above shows the cancelation
is called an alpha sequence if the fee schedule that a travel agency uses to

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determine the fee charged to a tourist Section 18

25 Minutes 20 Questions
who cancels a trip prior to departure. If a
tourist canceled a trip with a package 1. How many numbers do the sets S and T
price of $1,700 and a departure date of have in common?
September 4, on what day was the trip (1) S is a set of 10 numbers.
canceled ? (2) T is a set of 100 numbers.
(1) The cancelation fee was $595
(2) If the trip had been canceled one day
later, the cancelation fee would have
been $255 more.

20. Is 5 k less than 1,000 ?

(1) 5 k 1 3,000
2. In the figure above, if line 1 is parallel
(2) 5 k 1 5 k 500

to line 2 , what is the value of x ?

(1) y = 50
(2) z = 130

3. NOT SCORED

4. If Pat saved $600 of his earnings last

month, how much did Pat earn last
month?
1
(1) Pat spent of his earnings last month
2
1
for living expenses and saved of
3
the remainder.
(2) Of his earnings last month, Pat paid
twice as much in taxes as he saved.

5. The purchase price of Beth's new car,

including the sales tax, is $8,000. If she
finances the car, making a down payment
of $2,000 and paying off the rest in equal
monthly installments, what will be the
total cost of the car, including the sales tax
and financing ?

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(1) The installments are to be $200 per (1) q + s = 24

month. (2) The average (arithmetic mean) of q
(2) The installments will extend over a and r is 11.
period of exactly 3 years.
12. What is the length in meters of a certain
x 1 rectangular garden ?
6. If y 0, is
y 2 (1) The length of the garden is 6 meters
(1) x is 50 percent of y. more than twice the width.
(2) 0.1x = 0.05y (2) The length of the garden is 4 times the
width.
7. If n is an integer, is n even ?
(1) n 2 1 is an odd integer. 13. If x < y, is x 2 y 2
(2) 3n + 4 is an even integer. (1) y > 0
(2) x > 0
8. If x, y, p, and q are positive, is x y ?
px p 14. If Fran jumps straight up off the floor and
(1)
qy q lands on her feet T seconds later, her feet
(2) xy = p will reach a max-imum height of 1.22T2
meters above the floor. On one such
9. If p1 and p2 are the populations and r1 and jump, was Fran off the floor for less than
r2 are the numbers of representatives of 1 second ?
District 1 and District 2, respectively, the (1) On her jump Frans feet reached a
ratio of the population to the number of maximum height of 1 meter above
representatives is greater for which of the the floor.
two districts ? (2) On her jump Fran spent more than
(1) p1 > p2 1
(2) r2 > r1 second ascending.
4

10. What digit does t represent in the decimal 15. If [x] denotes the greatest integer less
0.t73 ? than or equal to x, is [x] = 0 ?
(1) t < 5 (1) 5x + 1 = 3 + 2x
1 (2) 0 < x < 1
(2) 0.t73 <
t
16. During a 6-day local trade show, the least
number of people registered in a single
day was 80. Was the average (arithmetic
11. On the number line above, p, q, r, s, and t
mean) number of people registered per
are five consecutive even integers in
day for the 6 days greater than 90?
increasing order. What is the average
(1) For the 4 days with the greatest
(arithmetic mean) of these five integers ?
number of people registered, the
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average (arithmetic mean) number 20. If n and k are positive integers, is

registered per day was 100. nk 2 n ?
(2) For the 3 days with the smallest
(1) k > 3n
number of people registered, the
(2) n + k > 3n
average (arithmetic mean) number
registered per day was 85.

17. If a and b are positive integers, what is

the value of a + b ?
a 5
(1)
b 8
(2) The greatest common divisor of a and
b is 1.

18. Are all of the numbers in a certain list of

15 numbers equal?
(1) The sum of all of the numbers in the
list is 60.
(2) The sum of any 3 numbers in the list
is 12.

19. The table above shows the morning

schedule for train X. If Juan took train X
on Monday morning, did he arrive at
station T on schedule?
(1) Juan arrived at station T on Monday
morning 1 hour and 2 minutes after he
left station S.
(2) Juan arrived at his office at 8:30
(EST) on Monday morning, which
was 20 minutes after he arrived at
station T.

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Section 19 (1) Sally gave each friend 8 pieces of

25 Minutes 20 Questions
candy.
(2) Sally had 7 pieces of candy left after
1. What is the value of y ? giving candy to her friends.
(1) y is an odd integer between 28 and 34
(2) 31 < y < 36
7. What was Jean's insurance premium in
2. The price of a television set was reduced 1995?
by 25 percent. What was its original price? (1) The ratio of Jean's insurance premium
(1) The reduced price was $187.50. in 1995 to her insurance premium in
(2) The original price exceeded the 6
1994 was .
reduced price by more than $60.00. 5
(2) Jean's insurance premium in 1995 was
3. What is the remainder when the positive 20 percent more than her insurance
integer n is divided by 6 ? premium in 1994.
(1) n is a multiple of 5.
(2) n is a multiple of 12. 8. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of x
and y ?
4. Three friends rented a car for a week and (1) The average of x and 2y is 10.
divided the cost equally. What was the (2) The average of 2x and 7y is 32.
total cost of renting the car ?
(1) If the three friends had kept the car for
a second week, they could have
obtained the two-week rate, which was
1.5 times the cost of a one-week
rental.
(2) If a fourth friend had joined the three
friends and the cost had been divided 9. The figure above shows the present
equally among the four friends, the position on a radar screen of a sweeping
cost to each of the original three would beam that is rotating at a constant rate in a
have been reduced by $15 ? clockwise direction. In which of the four
quadrants will the beam lie 30 seconds
5. Is x > y ?
from now ?
(1) x = y + 2
(1) In each 30-second period, the beam
x
(2) y 1 sweeps through 3.690
2
(2) r = 40
6. Sally gave some of her candy to her
10. The number of seats in the first row of an
friends. How many pieces of candy did
auditorium is 18 and the number of seats
she have before giving any to her friends?
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in each row thereafter is 2 morn than in
the previous row. What is the total
number of seats in the auditorium?
(1) The number of rows of seats in the
auditorium is 27.
(2) The number of seats in the last row is
70.
11. How many books did a librarian purchase
? attended on all three days.
(1) The librarian paid an average
(arithmetic mean) of $15 per book
for the books purchased.
(2) The total sales tax on the books
purchased was $7.
12. Is the integer n a multiple of 15 ?
(1) n is a multiple of 20.
(2) n + 6 is a multiple of 3.
of the students enrolled in the high school
attended the science fair on all three
days?
(1) Of the students enrolled in the school,
30 percent attended the science fair on
two or more days.
(2) Of the students enrolled in the school,
10 percent of those that attended the
science fair on at least one day
16. What is the probability that events A and
B both occur?
(1) The probability that event A occurs is
0.8.
(2) The probability that event B occurs is
0.6.

13. What is the area of rectangular region R ?

(1) Each diagonal of R has length 5.
(2) The perimeter of R is 14. p
17. If n where p and q are nonzero
q
14. In a certain coding scheme, each word is integers, is n an integer ?
encoded by replacing each letter in the (1) n 2 is an integer.
word with another letter. The same code 2n 4
(2) is an integer.
is used for all words, so that the same 2
letter replaces a given letter each time the
given letter occurs. What code will result 18. In the rectangular coordinate system, are
when the word TAME is encoded by this the points (r, s) and (u, v) equidistant
scheme? from the origin ?
(1) When the word MAT is encoded, the (1) r + s = 1
result is DLX. (2) u = 1 r and v = 1 s
(2) When the word TEA is encoded, the
19. Is ab = 1 ?
result is XRL.
(1) aba = a
15. A certain high school with a total (2) bab = b
enrollment of 900 students held a science
fair for three days last week. How many
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Section 20
20. Is ( x 3) 2 3 x ? 25 Minutes 20 Questions

(1) x 3 1. How much is 20 percent of a certain

(2) x | x | > 0 number ?
(1) 10 percent of the number is 5.
(2) 40 percent of twice the number is 40.

2. Is r greater than 0.27 ?

1
(1) r is greater than
4
3
(2) r is equal to
10
3. What percent of a group of people are
women with red hair ?
(1) Of the women in the group, 5 percent
have red hair.
(2) Of the men in the group, 10 percent
have red hair.

4. If i and j are integers, is i + j an even

integer ?
(1) i < 10
(2) i = j

5. The figure above represents a circle graph

of Company H's total expenses broken
down by the expenses for each of its five
divisions. If O is the center of the circle
and if Company H's total expenses are
$5,400,000, what are the expenses for
division R ?

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(1) x = 94
(2) The total expenses for divisions S and
T are twice as much as the expenses
for division R.
1 1
6. What is the value of ?
k r
(1) k + r = 20
(2) kr = 64
7. A number of people each wrote down one
of the first 30 positive integers. Were any
of the integers written down by more than
one of the people?
(1) The number of people who wrote
down an integer was greater than 40.
(2) The number of people who wrote
down an integer was less than 70.
8. If d denotes a decimal, is d 0.5 ?
(1) When d is rounded to the nearest tenth,
the result is 0.5.
(2) When d is rounded to the nearest
integer, the result is 1.
9. How many of the 60 cars sold last month
by a certain dealer had neither power
windows nor a stereo?
(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.
10. In the xy-plane, does the point (4, 12) lie
on line k ?
(1) The point (1, 7) lies on line k.
(2) The point (-2, 2) lies on line k.
11. What was the total amount of revenue
that a theater received from the sale of
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400 tickets, some of which were sold at x
percent of full price and the rest of which
were sold at full price?
(1) x = 50
(2) Full-price tickets sold for $20 each.
12. If x, y, and z are nonzero numbers, is xz =
12 ?
(1) x 2 yz 12 xy
z 3
(2)
4 x
13. When a player in a certain game tossed a
coin a number of times, 4 more heads
than tails resulted. Heads or tails resulted
each time the player tossed the coin. How
many times did heads result?
(1) The player tossed the coin 24 times.
(2) The player received 3 points each time
heads resulted and 1 point each time
tails resulted, for a total of 52 points.
14. What is the area of triangular region ABC
above?
(1) The product of BD and AC is 20.
(2) x = 45
15. What is the value of 36,500(1.05) n ?
(1) n 2 5n 6 0
(2) n - 2 0
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16. The inflation index for the year 1989 Section 21

relative to the year 1970 was 3.56,
indicating that, on the average, for each
dollar spent in 1970 for goods, $3.56 had
to be spent for the same goods in 1989. If
the price of a Model K mixer increased
precisely according to the inflation index,
what was the price of the mixer in 1970 ?
(1) The price of the Model K mixer was
$102.40 more in 1989 than in 1970.
(2) The price of the Model K mixer was
$142.40 in 1989.
17. Every member of a certain club
volunteers to con-tribute equally to the
purchase of a $60 gift certificate. How
many members does the club have?
(1) Each member's contribution is to be
$4.
(2) If 5 club members fail to contribute,
the share of each contributing
member will increase by $2.
18. While driving on the expressway, did
Robin ever exceed the 55-miles-per-hour
speed limit ?
(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) n 3 (1 x 2 ) 0
(2) x 2 1 0
25 Minutes 20 Questions
1. What is 5 percent of x ?
(1) x = 200
(2) 10 percent of x is 20.
2. For which type of investment, J or K, is
the annual rate of return greater ?
(1) Type J returns $115 per $1,000
invested for any one-year period and
type K returns $300 per $2,500
invested for any one-year period.
(2) The annual rate of return for an
investment of type K is 12 percent.
n
a
3. What is the value of
b
(1) a n 32
(2) b n 243
4. What is the tenths digit of the decimal d ?
7
(1) d
25
(2) d is 28 percent of 1.
5. Is a = 0 ?
(1) ab = 0
(2) a2 = 0
6. What percent of the drama club members
enrolled at a certain school are female
students ?
(1) Of the female students enrolled at the
school,40 percent are members of the
drama club.
(2) Of the male students enrolled at the
school, 25percent are members of the
drama club.

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7. What is the perimeter of rectangle R ? 12. What was the discounted price of a
(1) R is a square. certain television set ?
(2) The area of R is 36. (1) The original price of the television set
was $50 more than the discounted
price.
(2) The original price of the television set
8. Carmen currently works 30 hours per
was 110 percent of the discounted
week at her part-time job. If her gross
price.
hourly wage were to increase by $1.50,
x
how many fewer hours could she work per 13. If x > 0, is x ?
y
week and still earn the same gross weekly (1) 0 < y < 1
pay as before the increase ? (2) x > 1
(1) Her gross weekly pay is currently
$225.00.
(2) An increase of $1.50 would represent
an increase of 20 percent of her 14. Is n an integer?
current gross hourly wage. (1) 2n is an integer.
n
(2) is an integer.
9. In a serving of a breakfast cereal that 2
contains only oats, raisins, and nuts, the
ratio of oats to raisins to nuts by weight is 15. At what speed was a train traveling on a
3 to 2 to 1, respectively. trip when it had completed half of the
How many ounces of raisins are in the total distance of the trip?
serving ? (1) The trip was 460 miles long and took
(1) The serving weighs 4 ounces. 4 hours to complete.
(2) The serving contains 2 ounces of oats. (2) The train traveled at an average rate of
115 miles per hour on the trip.
10. Is x > 0
(1) x 2 0 16. If r and s are integers, is r2 + s even ?
(2) x 3 0 (1) The product rs is odd.
(2) r is odd.
11. A taxi company charges f cents for the
first mile of a taxi ride and m cents for 17. What is the volume of a certain
each additional mile. How much does the rectangular solid?
company charge for a 10-mile taxi ride ? (1) Two adjacent faces of the solid have
(1) The company charges $0.90 for a 2- areas 15 and 24, respectively.
mile ride. (2) Each of two opposite faces of the
(2) The company charges $1.20 for a 4- solid has area 40.
mile ride.
18. Is x > y ?

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(1) ax > ay Section 22

25 Minutes 20 Questions
(2) a 2 x a 2 y
1. What is the capacity, in liters, of a certain
19. If n is a positive integer and
aquarium ?
k 5.1 10 n , what is the value of k ?
1
(1) 6,000 < k < 500,000 (1) Three liters is of the capacity of
2
(2) k 2 2.601 10 9
the aquarium.
20. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of 1
(2) One-half liter is of the capacity
3x and 6y ? 12
(1) x + 2y = 7 of the aquarium.
(2) x + y = 5
2. What is the value of n ?
(1) n 2
(2) 4n 4

3. In PQR, what is the measure of angle P?

(1) Angle Q is a right angle.
(2) The measure of angle R is 17

4. What amount did Jean earn from the

commission on her sales in the first half of
1988 ?
(1) In 1988 Jean's commission was 5
percent of the total amount of her
sales.
(2) The amount of Jean's sales in the
second half of 1988 averaged $10,000
per month more than in the first half.

5. A certain car traveled from one town to

another without stopping. What was the
car's average speed for the trip ?
(1) The car traveled the 90-mile trip in 2
hours.
(2) The car traveled the first 40 miles of
the trip in 1 hour.

6. What is the value of x ?

(1) 2x + 3y = 12

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(2) 5x + 7y = 29 (1) The company employed 538 more

people in 1991 than in 1990.
7. Does x = y ? (2) The company employed 20 percent
(1) | x | = | y | more people in 1991 than in 1990.
(2) x 2 y 2

8. Dan took a 20-question multiple-choice

13. Of the four numbers represented on the
test in psychology. If Dan answered every number line above, is r closest to zero?
question, did he answer at least 12 (1) q = -s
questions correctly? (2) -t < q
(1) Dan answered fewer than 40 percent of
the questions incorrectly. 14. Is the integer n divisible by 20 ?
(2) Dan answered at least 25 percent of the (1) n is divisible by 5.
questions incorrectly. (2) n is divisible by 6.

15. If Mark saved an average (arithmetic

mean) of $80 per week for 3 consecutive
weeks, how much did he save the second
week?
(1) The average amount that Mark saved
9. The figure above shows the circular cross
per week for the first 2 weeks was
section of a concrete water pipe. If the
$60.
inside radius of the pipe is r feet and the
(2) The amount that Mark saved the first
outside radius of the pipe is t feet, what is
1
the value of r ? week was the amount he saved
2
(1) The ratio of t - r to r is 0.15 and t - r is
1
equal to 0.3 foot. the second week and the amount
3
(2) The area of the concrete in the cross
he saved the third week.
section is 1.29 square feet.
16. If p and q are positive integers, what is
10. If a < x < b and c < y < d. is x < y ?
the value of q ?
(1) a < c
(1) q p 1 1
(2) b < c
(2) p=1
3x 8
11. Is an integer ? 1
x2 17. If x -1, which is greater, or
x 1
(1) x is an integer.
x
(2) x = 0
2
12. How many people did Apex Company (1) x 0
employ in 1990 ? (2) x < 3

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18. In a certain two-digit integer, the ratio of

the units digit to the tens digit is 2 to 3,
What is the integer ?
(1) The tens digit is 3 more than the units
digit.
(2) The product of the two digits is 54.

19. If Carmen had 12 more tapes, she would

have twice as many tapes as Rafael. Does
Carmen have fewer tapes than Rafael?
(1) Rafael has more than 5 tapes.
(2) Carmen has fewer than 12 tapes.

2t t x
20. What is the value of ?
tx
2t
(1) 3
tx
(2) t x = 5

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