12 In the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of

6 0.1 + (0.1)3 + (0.1)5 = Company X stock, one investor

1 The Wilson family plans to save an equal
amount each month for a calendar year so A 0.1 purchased 20 percent of the stock, while
that they may purchase a $7,200 item at another investor purchased 40 percent of
the end of the year. If the Wilsons have B 0.111 the remaining stock. Between them, what
saved $2,540 by the end of the fourth percent of the stock did these two
C 0.10101 investors purchase?
month, by how much have the Wilsons
saved more than they planned to? D 0.10201 A 48
A $60 E 0.3 B 50
B $120 ! C 52
7 When percent of 2,000 is subtracted
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C $140 ! D 56
from of 2,000, the difference is
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D $160 E 60
A 0.8
E $240
B 18 13 What is the combined area, in square
! inches, of the front and back of a
2 The number 2 - is how many times the C 19.8 !
! rectangular index card measuring 5
! !
number 1 - ? D 180
! inches by 7 inches ?
A 1 E 198 A 35
B 2 B 38.5
8 7(19.99) + 3(19.95) =
C 3 C 77
A 7(19.98) + 3(19.96)
D 4 D 140
B 8(20.00) + 2(19.89)
E 5 E 154
C 9(20.00) + 19.89
3 The average annual precipation in a D 9(20.00) + 19.79 14 1.2 billion is what percent of 600 million?
certain region is 828mm, with an equal
amount falling each month. If the total E 10(19.97) A 50%
precipitation for the first five months of
9 If a certain sample of data has a mean of B 200%
1997 was 287mm, how much less
precipitation fell than average in the five- 20.0 and a standard deviation of 2.0, C 500%
month period? which of the following pairs contain two
values that are each at least 2.5 standard D 2,000%
A 48mm deviations from the mean?
E 5,000%
B 53mm A (14.0,16.5)
!
C 57mm B (14.5, 21.0) 15 The ratio 2 to is equal to the ratio
!

D 58mm C (14.0, 26.5) A 3 to 1

E 63mm D (16.5, 26.0) B 3 to 2
!" E (21.0, 26.5) C 4 to 3
4 =
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D 2 to 3
A 0.720 10 Which of the following is the value of
!
0.000001 ? E 1 to 3
B 0.725
A 0.1 16 Decreasing the original price of an item
C 0.748
B 0.01 by 35% and then increasing the new price
D 0.752 by 15% is equivalent to decreasing the
C 0.001 original price by
E 0.792
D 0.0001 A 20.00%
5 In order for a certain referendum to
E 0.000001 B 25.25%
become law in Country X, it must receive
a "yes" vote from at least 70% of eligible C 27.50%
voters. If Country X has 4,000 eligible 11 A certain playground has 9 sandboxes, 6
!
voters and received 96 too few "yes" of which require 11 cubic feet of sand to D 44.75%
!
votes to become law, what percent of !
fill, and 3 of which require 9 cubic feet E 50.00%
eligible voters voted "yes" on the !
referendum? of sand to fill. What is the average
amount of sand needed to fill one of the 9
A 60.4% sandboxes?
B 62.4% A 10
C 65.0% !
B 10
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D 67.6% !
C 10
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E 68.6%
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D 10
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E 11
17 Running at the same constant rate, 4 22 A florist has a staff of eight full-time 26 What is the 23rd digit to the right of the
!
identical machines can produce a total of employees. It pays annual salaries of decimal point in the decimal form of ?
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220 casings per minute. At this rate, how $13,000 to each of 3 employees, $16,000
many casings could 6 such machines to each of 2 employees, and $18,000 to A 3
produce in 3 minutes? the remaining 3 employees. The average
(arithmetic mean) annual salary of the B 4
A 330 eight employees is equal to which of the C 5
B 660 following?
D 6
C 880 A $15,000
E 7
D 990 B $15,375

E 1320 C $15,625 27 Which of the following CANNOT be the

median of the three positive integers a, b,
D $15,875 and c ?
18 A shirt normally priced at $27.95 was put
on sale. If the discount was less than E $16,000 A b
10%, but no more than 15%, the sale
price of the shirt must have been between 23 A = {3, 4, 5, 6} B a-c
B = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8} C a-b-c
A $24 and $27
B $23 and $26 Two integers will be randomly selected D a+b - c
from the sets above, one integer from set
C $22 and $25 A and one integer from set B. What is the E a+b+c
probability that the sum of the two
D $21 and $24 integers will equal 9? 28 An executive found that, in a 180-day
E $20 and $23 period, he spent time at his company's
A 0.05 branch locations in New York, Boston,
B 0.10 and Los Angeles in the ratio 2 : 5 : 8,
19 The average (arithmetic mean) of 10, 30,
respectively. How many days did he
50, and 70 is 5 more than the average of C 0.15 spend in Boston during this period?
20, 40, and
D 0.20 A 12
A 35
E 0.33 B 24
B 40
C 60
C 45 24 I. 14.82, 14.82, 14.82, 14.82, 14.82
II. 13.22, 14.82, 14.82, 14.82, 16.12 D 90
D 50 III. 14.62, 14.72, 14.82, 14.92, 15.02
E 96
E 60
The data sets I, II, and III above are
! ordered from greatest standard deviation 29 If 0.0010203 x 10n is greater than
20 In the formula, V = , if r is tripled, to least standard deviation in which of the 100,000, what is the least possible integer
(!!)!
then V is multiplied by following? value of n?

A 3 A I, III, II A 5

B
! B II, I, III B 6
!

! C II, III, I C 7
C
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D III, I, II D 8
!
D E III, II, I E 9
!
!
E
! 25 The temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit 30 The average (arithmetic mean) of 5
recorded at 8:00 in the evening in various numbers is 7.6. When one number is
21 ( 2 + 3)( 2 - 3) = parts of a certain country were 40, 35, 26, discarded, the average of the remaining
25, 20, and 50. What is the median of numbers becomes 7.0. What is the
A -7 these temperatures? discarded number?
B 3-3 A 25.5 A 3.0
C -1 B 30 B 6.5
D 2 2-3 C 30.5 C 9.6
E 7 D 31 D 10.0
E 32 E 12.4

31 0.1+(0.2)2 + (0.3)3 =
A 0.123
B 0.149
C 0.167
D 0.6
E 3.2
32 The number 2 - 0.25 is how many times
the number 1 - 0.25? 38 Which of the following must be equal to 43 The arithmetic mean and standard
zero for all real numbers x ? deviation of a certain normal distribution
! !
A 1 are and , respectively. What value is
!! ! !
! I. !
exactly 2 standard deviations less than
B 1 !!
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the mean?
C 2 II.
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A 0
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D 2 III. (-x) + x !
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B
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E 2 A I only !
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C
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B III only
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33 If x = then x + x + x + x = D
! C I and II only !
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A D I and III only E
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B
! E II and III only
! 44 Marcia invested $10,000 in a mutual fund
!" 39 Which of the following is NOT equal to account exactly three years ago. The
C
!"
the square of an integer? value of the account increased by 5
D 1 percent during the first year, decreased by
A 1 10 percent during the second year, and
E 2 increased by 10 percent during the third
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B year. What is the value of the account
!!
! ! ! !
today?
34 − = C 81
! ! !
A $10,350
!
A − D 41 - 9
!" B $10,395
! E 36
B − C $10,500
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! 40 In City Y, 20 percent of the population D $11,500
C −
!" consists of children, and 52 percent of the
E $12,705
! remainder consists of adult women. If the
D
!" population of City Y is 1.2 million and
! every person is either an adult or a child, 45 If S = {4, 0,11, 8,1, 6}, what is the
E how many adult men are there in City Y? positive difference between the median of
!"
the numbers in S and the mean of the
A 360,000 numbers in S?
35 479 is between
B 460,800 A 0.0
A 21 and 22
C 480,000 B 0.5
B 22 and 23
D 499,200 C 1.0
C 23 and 24
E 520,000 D 1.5
D 24 and 25
!" E 2.0
E 25 and 26 41 =
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! A 0.450 46 Of the following, which is least?

36 When percent of 5,000 is subtracted
!" !
!
from of 1,000, the difference is B 0.475 A
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C 0.480 B (0.3)2
A -300
D 0.488 C 0.03
B -4
E 0.492 D
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C 5 !

D 195 42 If 1 mile is approximately 1.61 E 0.3

kilometers, which of the following best
E 200
approximates the number of miles in 10 47 The regular price per can of a certain
kilometers? brand of soup is $0.30. If the regular
37 A certain tax rate is $0.79 per $100.00.
A 3.1 price per can is discounted 20 percent
What is this rate, expressed as a percent?
when the soup is purchased in 12-can
A 79% B 5.8 boxes, what is the price of 60 cans of this
brand of soup purchased in 12-can boxes?
B 7.9% C 6.2
A $3.60
C 0.79% D 11.6
B $12.00
D 0.079% E 16.1
C $14.40
E 0.0079%
D $16.20
E $18.00
48 Of the 24 students in a typing class, 9 can
type a basic business letter in an average
of 512 minutes, while the other 15
students can type the same letter in an
average of 715 minutes. What is the
average amount of time it takes, in
minutes, for a student in the typing class
to type a basic business letter?
!
A 6
!
52 If a certain sample of data has a mean of 57 Last month a certain video club offered a
18.0 and a standard deviation of 2.5, discount to preferred customers. After the
which of the following values is more first video purchased, preferred
than 3.0 standard deviations from the customers paid $6.99 for each additional
mean? video purchased. If a preferred customer
purchased a total of 6 videos and paid
A 11.0 $23.95 for the first video, then the dollar
B 14.5 amount that the customer paid for the 6
videos is equivalent to which of the
C 16.5 following?

B 6
!! D 23.0 A 5(7.00) + 23.90
!"

! E 26.5 B 5(7.00) + 23.95

C 6
!"
C 5(7.00) + 24.00
! 53 Increasing the original price of an item by
D 6 25 percent and then increasing the new
! D 5(7.00 - 0.01) + 23.90
! price by 25 percent is equivalent to
E 6 increasing the original price by E 5(7.00 - 0.05) + 23.95
!"

A 56.25%
49 The regular price of a local bus fare in 58 If ! =
!
, what is the value of ! ?
City X is $1.50. If the regular price is B 53.75% !"

discounted 20 percent when a bus pass of !

50 or more rides is purchased, what is the C 51.25% A
!
price of a bus pass of 80 rides? D 50.00% !
B
! !
A $60 E 37.50%
!
B $96 C
!
54 On Monday a music retailer sold 50 !
C $105 compact discs at the retail price of D
! !
D $108 $18.00. On Tuesday she sold 30% more !
compact discs at a discount of 20% off E
!
E $120 the original price. By what amount did
her revenues increase on the second day?
59 Laura deposited $5,000 to open a new
50 In a recent election, Jorge received 0.8 A $10.00 savings account that earned six percent
percent of the 3,000 votes cast. To win annual interest, compounded semi-
the election, a candidate needed to B $36.00 annually. If there were no other
receive more than 50 percent of the vote. transactions in the account, what the
How many additional votes would Jorge C $42.50
amount of money in Laura's account 6
have needed to win the election? D $72.00 months after the account was opened?
A 1261 E $144.00 A $5,050
B 1475 B $5,100
55 A researcher computed the mean, the
C 1477 median, and the standard deviation for a C $5,150
D 1501 set of test scores. If 50 were to be added
D $5,250
to each score, which of these three
E 1525 statistics would change? E $5,300
A The mean only
51 The contents of a certain jar consist of 16 60 Of the following, the closest
chocolate chip cookies and 23 oatmeal B The median only !".!"(!"#.!)
cookies. How many oatmeal cookies approximation of is
!!.!"
must be removed from the box so that 80 C The standard deviation
percent of the cookies in the box will be only A 0.5
chocolate chip? D The mean and the B 2
A 4 median
C 5
B 8 E The mean and the
standard deviation D 20
C 12
E 50
D 19 56 What is the 22nd digit to the right of the
!
decimal point in the decimal form of ? 61 How much is 30 percent of a certain
!
E 20
number?
A 5
(1) 10 percent of the
B 6
number is 8.
C 7
(2) 20 percent of twice the
D 8 number is 36.

E 9
62 Is r greater than 0.52?
!
(1) r is greater than .
!
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(2) r is equal to .
!
63 What is the value of the sum of a list of n
odd integers? 70 An art dealer purchased 12 paintings last 75 Lily took an exam that had 100 questions
month. How many of those did she sell numbered from 1 to 100. How many of
(1) Each integer after the by the end of the month? the questions did she answer correctly?
first on the list is the
square of the previous (1) By the end of the (1) The number of odd-
integer. month, the art dealer numbered questions
had sold fewer than 23 she answered correctly
(2) n=4 of the paintings she was 9 more than the
purchased last month. number of even-
64 Bill and Luke each received an increase numbered questions
(2) By the end of the she answered
in salary. Which one received the greater month, the art dealer
dollar increase? correctly.
had sold more than 12
(1) Bill's salary increased of the paintings she (2) She answered t0 of the
6 percent. purchased last month. questions in the first
half of the exam
(2) Luke's salary 71 Is the prime number m equal to 31 ? incorrectly and â of
increased 9 percent. the questions in the
(1) m2 is greater than 900. second half of the
65 What is the ratio of x to y? exam incorrectly.
(2) m2 is less than 1600.
(1) x is 30% less than y. 76 Jade's compensation consists of a salary
72 What was the amount of money awarded plus a commission that is equal to a fixed
(2) x is more than 30% of to a prizewinner?
y. percentage of her sales revenue. What
(1) Of the amount percent of sales revenue is Jade's
awarded, $20,000 commission?
66 If P is an integer between 10 and 100,
what is the value of P ? must be used toward (1) Jade's total
the prizewinner's compensation last
(1) One of R's digits is the education. month was $2,400, 3
square of the other
(2) Of the amount of which was her
digit.
awarded, 80% must be commission
(2) The second digit of R used toward the (2) Jade's sales revenue
is half the first digit. prizewinner's last month was 10
education. times the amount of
67 If an item is purchased for x percent less her monthly salary.
than its retail price, and then sold for y 73 A certain 3-liter solution of water and
percent less than its retail price, what was concentrate consists of w liters of water 77 If set S consists of the numbers w, x, y,
the retail price of the item? and c liters of concentrate. How many and z, is the range of the numbers in S
liters of concentrate does the solution greater than 3 ?
(1) The item was contain?
purchased for $56
(1) w > x > y >z
(1) If the amount of
(2) x = 20 concentrate were (2) x-z>3
doubled, the ratio of w
68 If x and y are positive, what is the value to c would be 5 : 2. 78 If x is less than 90 percent of y, is x less
of y ?
(2) If the amount of water than 100 ?
(1) x = 2.247y were doubled, the ratio (1) y < 110
of w to c would be 10 :
(2) x = 5.724 1. (2) x + 11 = y

69 Joseph wants to schedule a full-day

74 How many copies of book A were sold at 79 An empty swimming pool with a capacity
meeting in November with co-workers
a certain bookstore yesterday? of 30,000 liters is to be filled by hoses X
Karla and Lawrence. Is there a full day in and Y simultaneously. If the amount of
November that is open for Joseph, Karla, (1) The number of copies water flowing from each hose is
and Lawrence? sold at the book today independent of the amount flowing from
was two more than the the other hose, how long, in hours, will it
(1) Joseph is not available number sold
on any even-numbered take to fill the pool?
yesterday.
days in November,
(1) Working alone, hose
and on even-numbered (2) A total of 13 copies X would fill 4% of the
days, Lawrence is only were sold at the pool per hour.
available in the bookstore today, 9
morning. fewer than twice the (2) Working alone, hose
number that were sold Y would fill 3% of the
(2) Karla is not available yesterday. pool per hour.
on any odd-numbered
days in November.
 91 How many of the female students in a
80 In year X, a certain stock market index 85 The only contents of a shopping bag are class of 30 children received a perfect
was at 97.2 percent of its January high on 30 plastic forks and 36 plastic knives. score on their last test?
February 1st. If the index was at 97.5% of What is the total weight, in ounces, of the
its January high on March 1st, what was bag's contents? (1) Of the students in the
the level of the index on February 1st? class, 10% of the
(1) The total weight of the students received a
(1) On February 1st of 36 knives is 12 perfect score on their
year X, the level of the ounces. last test.
index was $7.80 less
than the level on (2) The weight of each of (2) Of the students in the
!
March 1st. the forks is ounce. class, 12 are female.
!

(2) The level of the index

on March 1st of year 86 If x and y are positive integers, what is 92 If the average (arithmetic mean) of 4
X was $2546.70. the value of x ? numbers is 30, how many of the numbers
are greater than 30 ?
(1) xy is the square of a
81 If machine X ran continuously at a positive integer. (1) Two of the numbers
uniform rate to fill a production order, at are equal to 20.
what time did the machine finish filling (2) 280 percent of x
the order? equals 70 percent of y. (2) None of the numbers
are equal to 30.
(1) Machine X began 87 If David, Oscar, and Xavier have a total
filling the order at of $32, how much money does Oscar 93 What number is 20 percent of x ?
7:30 a.m. and had have?
!
filled of the order by (1) 14 is 7 percent of x.
!
9:30 a.m. (1) The ratio of the !
amount of money (2) of x is 75.
!
(2) Machine X spent 40 Oscar has to the total
minutes filling the last amount that David and 94 Does Chris weigh more than Sam?
!
of the order. Xavier have is 3: 5.
!
(1) Chris weighs 45
(2) The ratio of the pounds more than
82 What was the ratio of the number of amount of money Sam.
parcels to envelopes picked up by a Xavier has to the total
certain mail truck on Tuesday? amount that David and (2) Sam's weight is 70%
Oscar have is 1 : 7. of Chris's weight.
(1) On Tuesday, the mail
truck picked up 15
88 If the average (arithmetic mean) of 5 95 What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
fewer than three times
numbers is 60, how many of the numbers a, b, and c ?
as many envelopes as
are less than 60?
parcels. (1) a=c
(1) The median of the
(2) On Tuesday, the mail (2) b=0
numbers is 60.
truck picked up 5
more than one third as (2) Each of the numbers is 96 Is the number x between 0.2 and 0.7 ?
many parcels as distinct.
envelopes. (1) 350x > 140
89 If x is a positive integer less than 10, is z (2) 280x < 140
83 If x, y, and z are numbers, is z = 12 ? less than the average (arithmetic mean) of
x and 10 ?
(1) The average 97 If the length of Yoel's telephone call was
(arithmetic mean) of x, (1) The positive rounded up to the nearest whole minute
y, and z is 12. difference between z by his telephone company, then Yoel was
and x is greater than charged for how many minutes for his
(2) z is the median of the
the positive difference telephone call?
set {x, y, z}.
between z and 10.
(1) If Yoel had ended the
84 A box contains 28 beads, of which 16 are (2) z = 5x call 30 seconds
red, 6 are green, and 6 are blue. If 8 of the sooner, he would have
beads are removed, how many were blue? 90 An electronics store that rents movies been charged 25 cents
rents each of its VHS movies for a certain less.
(1) Of the beads that
price and each of its DVD movies for a (2) Yoel was charged 25
remain in the box,
certain price. If Lonnie, Odelia, and Ron cents more for the first
60% are red.
rented movies in this store, how much did minute of the
(2) Of the beads that Odelia pay to rent 2 VHS movies and 1 telephone call than for
remain in the box, DVD movie? each minute after the
15% are blue. first.
(1) Ronald rented 4 VHS
movies and 1 DVD
movie and paid $4.50
more than Odelia.
(2) Lonnie rented 1 VHS
movie and 1 DVD
movie and paid $2.25
less than Odelia.
98 In a survey of homeowners, what percent
had purchased a computer in the last two
years?
(1) 80 percent of the
homeowners surveyed
who owned a
computer had
purchased a computer
in the last two years.
(2) 65 percent of the
homeowners surveyed
owned a computer.

99 The rules of a certain board game specify

that for each turn, a player will receive
either 50 points or 5 points. If a player
takes 12 turns, how many points did she
receive?
(1) In at least seven turns,
the player received 50
points.
(2) The player received a
total of between 400
and 450 points.

100 Is v less than 0.72?

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(1) v is less than .
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(2) v is equal to .
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14 B 61 D
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16 B 63 E
17 D 64 E
18 B 65 A
19 C 66 C
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22 C 69 C
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