The product of two integers is 36 and their

sum
is 13. What is the positive difference
between the
two numbers? c
1
4
5
7
9
How many integers between 1 and 200,
inclusive,
are divisible by both 3 and 4? D (page 60)
8
12
15
16
24
What is the greatest integer that will divide evenly into
both 36 and 54? 18
6
9
12
18
27
What is the smallest p ositive integer that is evenly
divisible by both 21 and 9? 63
189
126
63
42
21
What is the sum of the five consecutive even numbers
whose average (arithmetic mean) is 12?60(p 63)
30
60
90
120
150
If the temp erature readings at noon for three
consecutive days are +9,6, and +8, what must the
reading be at noon
on the fourth day for the average (arithmetic mean)
noon temp erature of all four days to be +4? (5)
11
7
+2
+4
+5
Jerrys average (arithmetic mean) score on the rst three
of four tests is 85. If Jerry wants to raise his average by
2
p oints, what score must he earn on the fourth test?93
87
88
89
91
93
Fifteen movie theaters average 600 customers p er
theater p er day. If six of the theaters close down but the
total theater
attendance stays the same, what is the average daily
attendance p er theater among the remaining theaters?
Advanced (1000)p64
5000
750
1,000
1,200
1,500
If the ratio of boys to girls in a class is 5: 3, and there are
65 boys, how many girls must there be in the class?39
13
18
26
36
39
5. In a local election, votes were cast for Mr. Dyer, Ms.
Frau, and Mr. Borak in the ratio of 4:3:2. If there were
no other
candidates and none of the 1,800 voters cast more than
one vote, how many votes did Ms. Frau receive?600
200
300
400
600
900
6. The ratio of men to women at a p arty is exactly 3: 2.
If there are a total of 120 p eop le at the p arty, how
many of them
are women?48
36
40
48
72
80
7. The weights of two ship s are in the ratio of 5: 9. If
together they weigh 5,600 tons, how many tons does
the larger ship
weigh?3600
2,000
2,400
3,000
3,200
3,600
8. A laboratory has 55 rabbits, some white and the rest
brown. Which of the following could be the ratio of
white rabbits
to brown rabbits in the lab?3:8
1:3
3:8
5:11
3:4
5:1
If the ratio of boys to girls in a class is 5 to 3, which of
the following could not be the number of students in the
class?36
32
36
40
48
56
An alloy of tin and cop p er has 6 p ounds of cop p er for
every 2 p ounds of tin. If 200 p ounds of this alloy are
made, how
many p ounds of tin are required?50
25
50
100
125
150
21. A sp orting goods store ordered an equal number of
white and yellow tennis balls. The tennis ball comp any
delivered 30
extra white balls, making the ratio of white balls to
yellow balls 6:5. How many tennis balls did the store
originally
order?3000
120
150
180
300
330
Ten p ercent of 20 p ercent of 30 is (
0.3
0.6
1.5
3
6
Josep h bought a house for $80,000. If he sells it for a p
rot of 12.5 p ercent of the original cost, what is the
selling p rice
of the house?
$92,500
$90,000
$89,000
$88,000
$80,900
10. A closet contains 24 p airs of shoes. If 25 p ercent of
those p airs of shoes are black, how many p airs are NOT
black?
4
6
12
18
20
The p op ulation of a certain town increases by 50 p
ercent every 50 years. If the p op ulation in 1950 was
810, in what
year was the p op ulation 160?
1650
1700
1750
1800
1850
23. Five p ercent of a certain grass seed is timothy. If the
amount of the mixture needed to p lant one acre
contains 2 p ounds
of timothy, how many acres can be p lanted with 240 p
ounds of the seed mixture?
6
12
20
24
120
24. A brush salesman earns $50 salary each month p lus
10 p ercent commission on the value of his sales. If he
earned $200
last month, what was the total value of his sales?
$1,000
$1,200
$1,500
$2,000
$2,500
25. A man bought 10 crates of oranges for $80 total. If
he lost 2 of the crates, at what p rice would he have to
sell each of
the remaining crates in order to earn a total p rofit of 25
p ercent of the total cost?
$10.00
$12.50
$15.00
$100.00
$120.00
(73)2
=
4
9
16
40
49