Section 11 3

30 Minutes 25 Questions xamination. If of the applicants who

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1. Kelly's raise increased his salary by what passed the physical examination also
percent ? passed the written examination, how many
of the applicants passed both examinations
(1) Kelly's raise was $1,200.
?
(2) Kelly's raise increased his taxes to
(1) The number of applicants who did not
$1,700.
pass either examination was equal to
2. Mouse population X doubles every week. the number who passed the written
How many weeks from now will examination only.
population X first exceed 1,000,000 ? (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 (a△b) △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
 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 ?
 Section 12
(1) | x – 2 | = 1 30 Minutes 25 Questions
(2) x 2  4 x  3
[Link] 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
 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) -r + s < 0
(2) r < | s |
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) height
of the girls in the class is 61 inches. 13. A raincoat and an umbrella cost a total of
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) height $53.50. What is the cost of the raincoat?
of the boys in the class is 64 inches. (1) If the cost of the raincoat were to
increase by 10 percent, the raincoat
7. Richard's salary is greater than $25,000. Is and the umbrella would cost a total of
Amy's salary greater than Brian's salary? $58.00.
(1) Brian's salary is 125 percent of (2) The cost of the raincoat is $2.50 more
Richard's salary, and Amy's salary is than 5 times the cost of the umbrella.
greater than 130 percent of Richard's
14. What is the value of x 2  2 xy  y 2 ?
salary.
(2) Richard's salary is 75 percent of Amy's (1) x + y = 7
(2) x = 2
salary but is 80 percent of Brian's
salary. 15. If each of the positive integers a, b, and c
is a prime number and abc = 30, what is
8. Are integers r and s consecutive ?
the value of c ?
(1) r is odd and s is even.
(2) r - s = 1 (1) a < b < c
(2) a + b = c
9. There are exactly 6 teams in league X.
What was the total number of games
played by the 6 teams last season? 16. If y = ax + b, where a and b are
(1) Each team in league X played each of constants, what is the value of y when x =
the other teams at least once. 10 ?
(2) No team in league X played more than
7 games.
 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
simple annual interest. Now he wants to
 reinvest the x dollars for one year in the Section 13
30 Minutes 25 Questions
same two types of investments, but the
lower rate has decreased. If the higher 1. Who is older, Akira or Michiko?
rate is unchanged, what fraction of the x
(1) Akira and Michiko are 3 years apart in
dollars must he reinvest at the 12 percent
age.
rate so that the total interest earned from
(2) Akira's younger brother is 11 years old.
the x dollars will be the
same for both years ? 2. What is the value of x ?
(1) The lower rate is now 6 percent. (1) 3x = 30
(2) The total amount of interest earned (2) x + y = 40
from the two investments last year
3. How many hours does it take 12 machines
was $3,000.
with identical production rates, running
simultaneously without stopping, to fill a
24. Is the integer n a multiple of 140 ?
certain production order ?
(1) n is a multiple of 10.
(1) It takes each machine alone, running
(2) n is a multiple of 14.
continuously, 60 hours to fill the
25. If x, y, and n are positive integers, is production order.
n
(2) It takes 10 of these machines, running
 x simultaneously without stopping, 6
  greater than 1,000 ?
 y hours to fill the production order.
(1) x  y 3 and n > y.
4. If n is a positive number, what is the value
(2) x > 5y and n > x.
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.
 12. In a sequence of numbers in which each
7. If x > y, is cx > cy ?
term after the first term is 1 more than
(1) c > 0 twice the preceding term, what is the fifth
(2) xy > 0
term?
8. Terry and Pat collected cans for recycling. (1) The first term is 1.
What was the ratio of the number of carts (2) The sixth term minus the fifth term is
Terry collected to the number of cans Pat 32.
collected?
(1) Pat collected 50 percent of the cans 13. Larry saves x dollars per month. Will
that they collected. Larry’s total savings one year from now
(2) Terry collected 140 cans. exceed his present savings by at least
$500 ? (Assume that there is no interest.)
9. Is the integer n equal to 25 ?
(1) In 6 months Larry's total savings will
(1) n is the square of an integer.
(2) 15 < n < 37 be $900.
(2) In 3 months Larry's total savings will
10. Is line  parallel to the y-axis?
exceed his present savings by $150.
(1) The equation of line  is x = 4.
(2) The points (4. 2) and (4, - 5) are on 14. Is |x – 3| < 7 ?
line  . (1) x > 0
(2) x < 10

15. In the figure above, what is the area of

the circular region with center O ?
11. According to the graph above, the sale of
fruits and vegetables in Store S last week (1) MN is perpendicular to RS.
accounted for what percent of the total sales (2) The area of triangular region OMT is
income for the week? 4.
(1) Last week the total income from the
sale of fruits and vegetables in Store S
16. Pat is reading a book that has a total of
was $16,000.
1
(2) x = 2y 15 chapters. Has Pat read at least of
3
the pages in the book?
 (1) Pat has just finished reading the first 5 300 cushions on the furniture it produced
chapters. last week, how many sofas did it produce
(2) Each of the first 3 chapters has more last week ?
pages than each of the other 12
(1) Last week the factory produced more
chapters in the book..
chairs than sofas.
(2) Last week the factory produced a total
17. If a1, a2, a3, . . . , an, . . . is a sequence
of 150 chairs and sofas.
such that an=2n for all n ≥ 1, is ai
greater than aj ?
22. If integer p is a factor of 42, is p a prime
(1) i is odd and j is even number?
(2) i2 > j2 (1) p > 6
(2) p < 21
18. What was the average (arithmetic mean)
monthly rainfall during 1984 in region Y? 23. What is the value of t ?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of t2
(1) In region Y the total rainfall for the
and 8t is –8.
first 6 months of 1984 was twice the
total rainfall for the last 6 months of (2) t 4  16
1984.
(2) In region Y the average monthly
rainfall for the first 6 months of 1984 24. What is the area of a rectangular surface
was 2.31 inches more than the that has length x feet and width y feet ?
average monthly rainfall for the last 6
(1) y is the reciprocal of x.
months of 1984.
(2) The perimeter of the rectangular
19. If 2x + 3y = 5, what is the value of x ? 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
each sofa. If the factory used a total of
 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

[Link] 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 ?
 What is the area of garden K ? (Assume quart of Brand Y motor oil?
that the edging has negligible width.) (1) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
6 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
(1) The area of G is 25π square meters.
10 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is $58.
(2) The edging around G is 10π meters
(There is no quantity discount.)
long.
(2) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
10. If the average (arithmetic mean) of six 4 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
numbers is 75, how many of the numbers 12 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is $44.
are equal to 75 ? (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 employee’s 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 Larry’s 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
for 1 gallon of Brand X antifreeze and 1
 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) Tim’s weight is 80 percent of Joe’s
weight.
(2) Joe’s weight is 125 percent of Tim’s
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
Elena’s salary and commission last
month ?

(1) Elena’s monthly salary is $1,000.

(2) Elena’s commission is 5 percent of her
sales revenue.
 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 club’s 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) Micko’s average speed for the trip
3
was of Chan’s average speed.
4 [Link] 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 children’s 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
[Link] x an integer ?
 shelves. 20. If xy = -6 , what is the value of xy(x+y ) ?
(2) Currently there are 9 shelves in the (1) x – y = 5
children’s section. (2) xy 2  18

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