GMAT Plus Math - Data Sufficiency

GMAT 数学 Math: Data Sufficiency
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DATA SUFFICIENCY

SECTION 1
30 Minutes 25 Questions 7. Is x2 equal to xy?
(1) x2 – y2 = (x + 5)(y - 5)
1. If today the price of an item is $3,600,
(2) x = y
what was the price of the item exactly 2
years ago?
8. Was 70 the average (arithmetic mean)
(1) The price of the item increased by 10 grade on a class test?
per-cent per year during this 2-year
(1) On the test, half of the class had
period.
grades below 70 and half of the class
(2) Today the price of the item is 1.21
had grades above 70.
times its price exactly 2 years ago.
(2) The lowest grade on the test was 45
and the highest grade on the test was
2. By what percent has the price of an
95.
overcoat been reduced?
(1) The original price was $380. 9. What was John’s average driving speed in
(2) The original price was $50 more than miles per hour during a 15-minute
the reduced price. interval?
(1) He drove 10 miles during this
3. If the Longfellow Playground is
interval.
rectangular, what is its width?
(2) His maximum speed was 50 miles per
(1) The ratio of its length to its width is 7 hour and his minimum speed was 35
to 2. miles per hour during this interval.
(2) The perimeter of the playground is
396 meters. 10. Is ΔMNP isosceles?
(1) Exactly two of the angles, ∠M and
4. What is the value of x –1?
∠N, have the same measure
(1) x + 1 =3 (2) ∠N and ∠P do not have the same
(2) x – 1 < 3 measure.
5. Is William taller than Jane? 11. Is n an integer greater than 4?

(1) William is taller than Anna. (1) 3n is a positive integer.
(2) Anna is not as tall as Jane. n
(2) is a positive integer.
3
6. In parallelogram ABCD above, what is

the measure of ∠ADC? 12. In ΔJKL shown above, what is the length
(1) The measure of ∠ABC is greater than of segment JL?
90o. (1) JK = 10
(2) The measure of ∠BCD is 70o (2) KL = 5

13. A coal company can choose to transport 17. At a certain university, if 50 percent of
coal to one of its customers by railroad the people who inquire about admission
or by truck. If the railroad charges by the policies actually submit applications for
mile and the trucking company charges admission, what percent of those who
by the ton, which means of transporting submit applications for admission enroll
the coal would cost less than the other? in classes at the university?
(1) The railroad charges $5,000 plus (1) Fifteen percent of those who submit
$0.01 per mile per railroad car used, applications for admission are
and the trucking company charges accepted at the university.
$3,000 plus $85 per ton. (2) Eighty percent of those who are
(2) The customer to whom the coal is to accepted send a deposit to the
be sent is 195 miles away from the university.
coal company.
x
14. Is x – y > r – s? 18. If x and y are nonzero integers, is an
y
(1) x > r and y < s? integer?
(2) y = 2, s = 3, r = 5, and x = 6. (1) x is the product of 2 and some other
integer.
15. On a certain day it took Bill three times (2) There is only one pair of positive
as long to drive from home to work as it integers whose product equals y.
took Sue to drive from home to work.
How many kilometers did Bill drive 19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x?
from home to work?
(1) 1 < 1 <1
(1) Sue drove 10 kilometers from home
to work, and the ratio of distance
5 x +1 2
(2) ( x −3)( x −4) =0
driven from home to work time to
drive from home to work was the
same for Bill and Sue that day. 20. Is quadrilateral Q a square?
(2) The ratio of distance driven from
(1) The sides of Q have the same length.
home to work time to drive from
(2) The diagonals of Q have the same
home to work for Sue that day was
length.
64 kilometers per hour.
21. If K is a positive integer less than 10 and
N = 4,321 + K, what is the value of K?
(1) N is divisible by 3.
(2) N is divisible by 7.
22. A jewelry dealer initially offered a

16. The figure above represents the floor of bracelet for sale at an asking price that
a square foyer with a circular rug would give a profit to the dealer of 40
partially covering the floor and percent of the original cost. What was
extending to the outer edges of the floor the original cost of the bracelet?
as shown. What is the area of the foyer
that is not covered by the rug? (1) After reducing this asking price by 10
percent, the jewelry dealer sold the
(1) The area of the foyer is 9 square bracelet at a profit of $403.
meters. (2) The jewelry dealer sold the bracelet
(2) The area of the rug is 2.25π square for $1,953.
meters.

23. If n is an integer between 2 and 100 and SECTION 2

if n is also the square of an integer, what 30 Minutes 25 Questions
is the value of n?
1. Who types at a faster rate, John or Bob?
(1) n is the cube of an integer.
(2) n is even. (1) The difference between their typing
rates is 10 words per minute.
24. Is x2 – y2 a positive number? (2) Bob types at a constant rate of 80
words per minute.
(1) x – y is a positive number.
(2) x + y is a positive number.
2. What is the average distance that
automobile D travels on one full tank of
25. The surface area of a square tabletop
gasoline?
was changed so that one of the
dimensions was reduced by 1 inch and (1) Automobile D averages 8.5 kilometers
the other dimension was increased by 2 per liter of gasoline.
inches. What was the surface area before (2) The gasoline tank of automobile D
these changes were made? holds exactly 40 liters of gasoline.
(1) After the changes were made, the
3. If l1,l2 and l3 are lines in a plane, is l1
surface area was 70 square inches.
perpendicular to l3?
(2) There was a 25 percent increase in
one of the dimensions. (1) l1 is perpendicular to l2.
(2) l2 is perpendicular to l3
4. In a certain packinghouse, grapefruit are

packed in bags and the bags are packed in
cases. How many grapefruit are in each
case that is packed?
(1) The grapefruit are always packed 5 to
a bag and the bags are always packed
8 to a case.
(2) Each case is always 80 percent full.
5. What is the value of x?

(1) x + y = 7
(2) x – y = 3 – y
6. A rectangular floor that is 4 meters wide

is to be completely covered with
nonoverlapping square tiles, each with
side of length 0.25 meter, with no portion
of any tile remaining. What is the least
number of such tiles that will be
required?
(1) The length of the floor is three times
the width.
(2) The area of the floor is 48 square
meters.

7. If a rope is cut into three pieces of 12. If J, K, L, M, and N and positive integers
unequal length, what is the length of the in ascending order, what is the value of
shortest of these pieces of rope? L?
(1) The combined length of the longer (1) The value of K is 3.
two pieces of rope is 12 meters. (2) The value of M is 7.
(2) The combined length of the shorter
two pieces of rope is 11 meters. 13. If a, b, and c are integers, is the number
3( a + b) − c divisible by 3?
8. A certain company paid bonuses of $125
to each of its executive employees and (1) a + b is divisible by 3.
$75 to each of its nonexecutive (2) c is divisible by 3.
employees. If 100 of the employees were
nonexecutives, how many were 14. Each M-type memory unit will increase
executives? the base memory capacity of a certain
computer by 3 megabytes. What is the
(1) The company has a total of 120 base memory capacity, in megabytes of
employees. the computer?
(2) The total amount that the company
paid in bonuses to its employees was (1) 2 M-type memory units will increase
$10.000. the computers base memory capacity
by 300 percent
9. What fraction of his salary did Mr. (2) The memory capacity of the
Johnson put into savings last week? computer after 2 M-type memory
units are added to the base memory
(1) Last week Mr. Johnson put $17 into capacity is 1.6 times the memory
savings. capacity of the computer after 1 M-
(2) Last week Mr. Johnson put 5% of his type memory unit is added to the
salary into savings. base memory capacity.
a 15. If xyz≠0, what is the value of

10. For integers a, b, and c, =1 ,
b −c x5 y 4 z 2
?
b −c z2 y4x2
What is the value of ?
b
(1) x = 1
a 3 (2) y = 3
(1) =
b 5
(2) a and b have no common factors greater 16. What fractional part of the total surface
than 1. area of cube C is red?
1
11. If the price of a magazine is to be (1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly
doubled, by what percent will the 2
number of magazines sold decrease? red.
(2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white.
(1) The current price of the magazine is
$1.00. 17. If positive integer x is divided by 2, the
(2) For every $0.25 of increase in price, remainder is 1. What is the remainder
the number of magazines sold will when x is divided by 4 ?
decrease by 10 percent of the number
sold at the current price. (1) 31 < x < 35
(2) x is a multiple of 3.

(2) Candidate H received 14 of the votes.
23. S is a set of integers such that

i) if a is in S, then –a is in S, and
ii) if each of a and b is in S, then ab is in
S.
Is –4 in S?
18. In the figure above, D is a point on side
(1) 1 is in S.
AC of ΔABC. Is ΔABC is isosceles?
(2) 2 is in S.
(1) The area of triangular region ABD is
equal to the area of triangular region 24. If the area of triangular region RST is 25,
DBC. what is the perimeter of RST?
(2) BD┴AC and AD = DC
(1) The length of one side of RST is
5 2.
19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x?
(2) RST is a right isosceles triangle.
(1) –2(x + 5) < -1
(2) – 3x > 9 25. If x and y are consecutive odd integers,
what is the sum of x and y?
Food Number of Number of
Calories Grams (1) The product of x and y is negative.
per of Protein per (2) One of the integers is equal to –1.
Kilogram Kilogram
S 2,000 150
T 1,500 90
20. The table above gives the number of

calories and grams of protein per
kilogram of foods S and T. If a total of 7
kilograms of S and T are combined to
make a certain food mixture, how many
kilograms of food S are in the mixture?
(1) The mixture has a total of 12,000
calories.
(2) The mixture has a total of 810 grams
of protein.
21. If y≠0 and y≠-1, which is greater,

x x
or ?
y y +1
(1) x≠0
(2) x > y
22. Each person on a committee with 40

members voted for exactly one of 3
candidates, F, G, or H. Did Candidate F
receive the most votes from the 40 votes
cast?
(1) Candidate F received 11 of the votes.

SECTION 3 integers in ascending order.

30 Minutes 25 Questions
7. In ΔHGM, what is the length of side HM?
(1) HG = 5
1. For a certain bottle and cork, what is the
(2) GM = 8
price of the cork?
(1) The combined price of the bottle and
the cork is 95 cents. 8. Claire paid a total of $1.60 for stamps,
(2) The price of the bottle is 75 cents some of which cost $0.20 each, and the
more than the price of the cork. rest of which cost $0.15 each. How many
20-cent stamps did Claire buy?
2. Last year an employee received a gross
(1) Claire bought exactly 9 stamps.
annual salary of $18,000, which was paid
(2) The number of 20-cent stamps Claire
in equal paychecks throughout the year.
bought was 1 more than the number
What was the gross salary received in
of 15-cent stamps she bought.
each of the paychecks?
(1) The employee received a total of 24 9. If Ruth began a job and worked
paychecks during the year. continuously until she finished, at what
(2) The employee received a paycheck time of day did she finish the job?
twice a month each month during the
(1) She started the job at 8:15 a.m. and at
year.
noon of the same day she had worked
exactly half of the time that it took her
3. What was Bill’s average (arithmetic
to do the whole job.
mean) grade for all of his courses?
1
(1) His grade in social studies was 75, (2) She was finished exactly 7 hours
2
and his grade in science was 75. after she had started.
(2) His grade in mathematics was 95.
4. If x = 2y, what is the value of xy?
(1) 3 + x + y = 14 and 2x + y = 15
(1) x > y (2) 3x + 2y = 12 + 2y
(2) 3x – 2y = 14
11. Is x an even integer?
5. A rectangular garden that is 10 feet long
and 5 feet wide is to be covered with a (1) x is the square of an integer.
layer of mulch 0.5 foot deep. At which (2) x is the cube of an integer.
store, K or L, will the cost of the
necessary amount of mulch be less? 12. If John is exactly 4 years older than Bill,
how old is John?
(1) Store K sells mulch only in bags, each
of which costs $7 and contains 6.25 (1) Exactly 9 years ago John was 5 times
cubic feet of mulch. as old as bill was then.
(2) Store L sells mulch only in bags, each (2) Bill is more than 9 years old.
of which costs $40 and contains 25
cubic feet of mulch.
6. If S = {2, 3, x, y}, what is the value of x +

y?
(1) x and y are prime numbers.
(2) 3, x, and y are consecutive odd

13. Before play-offs, a certain team had won 18. Bowls X and Y each contained exactly 2
80 percent of its games. After play-offs, jelly beans, each of which was either red
what percent of all its games had the or black. One of the jelly beans in bowl
team won? X was exchanged with one of the jelly
beans in bowl Y. After the exchange,
(1) The team competed in 4 play-off
were both of the jelly beans in bowl X
games.
black?
(2) The team won all of its play-off
games. (1) Before the exchange, bowl X
contained 2 black jelly beans.
14. If x and y are integers, is xy + 1 divisible (2) After the exchange, bowl Y contained
by 3? 1 jelly bean of each color.
(1) When x is divided by 3, the
19. Does x + y = 0?
remainder is 1.
(2) When y is divided by 9, the (1) xy<0
remainder is 8. (2) x2 = y2
15. If x≠0, is |x| <1?

(1) x2<1
1
(2) |x| <
x
20. In the figure above, line AC represents a
16. The cost to charter a certain airplane is x seesaw that is touching level ground at
dollars. If the 25 members of a club point A. If B is the midpoint of AC, how
chartered the plane and shared the cost far above the ground is point C?
equally, what was the cost per member?
(1) x = 30
(1) If there had been 5 more members (2) Point B is 5 feet above the ground.
and all 30 had shared the cost
equally, the cost per member would 21. If □ represents a digit in the 7-digit
have been $40 less. number 3, 62□, 215, what is the value
(2) The cost per member was 10 percent of □?
less than the cost per person on a
regularly scheduled flight. (1) The sum of the 7 digits is equal to 4
times an integer.
(2) The missing digit is different from
any of the other digits in the number.
22. Last Tuesday a trucker paid $155.76,

including 10 percent state and federal
taxes, for diesel fuel. What was the price
per gallon for the fuel if the taxes are
17. Rectangle ABCD is inscribed in a circle excluded?
as shown above. What is the radius of (1) The trucker paid $0.118 per gallon in
the circle? state and federal taxes on the fuel last
Tuesday.
(1) The length of the rectangle is 3
(2) The trucker purchased 120 gallons of
and the width of the rectangle is 1. the fuel last Tuesday.
1
(2) The length of are AB is of the
3
circumference of the circle.

23. Is x less than y? SECTION 4

(1) x-y+1<0
(2) x-y-1<0
24. Is quadrilateral RSTV a rectangle?
(1) x is negative.
(1) The measure of ∠RST is 90o
(2) 2x = -4
(2) The measure of ∠TVR is 90o
2. Did United States carriers use more than
25. If b is an integer, is a 2 + b 2 an 10 billion gallons of jet fuel during 1983?
integer?
(1) United States carriers paid a total of
(1) a2 + b2 is an integer. $9.4 billion for the jet fuel used in
(2) a2 – 3b2 = 0 1983.
(2) United States carriers paid an average
(arithmetic mean) of $0.90 per gallon
for the jet fuel used in 1983.
3. In Country S，if 60 percent of the women

aged 18 and over are in the labor force,
how many million women are in the labor
force?
(1) In Country S, women comprise 45
percent of the labor force.
(2) In Country S, there are no women
under 18 years of age in the labor
force.
4. If x and y are different positive numbers,

is z between x and y?
(1) z > 0
(2) z < y
5. What percent of 16 is m?
(1) m is 5 percent of 10.
(2) 400 percent of m is 2.
6. Kay put 12 cards on a table, some faceup

and the rest facedown. How many were
put facedown?
(1) Kay put an even number of the cards
faceup.
(2) Kay put twice as many of the cards
faceup as she put facedown.
7. Is ΔRST a right triangle?

(1) The degree measure of ∠R is twice
the degree measure of ∠T.
(2) The degree measure of ∠T is 30.
8. If x is a positive number, is x greater than 13. If a bottle is to be selected at random

1? from a certain collection of bottles, what
1 is the probability that the bottle will be
(1) 1>
x defective?
1 (1) The ratio of the number of bottles in
(2) − > −1
x the collection that are defective to the
number that are not defective is
3:500.
(2) The collection contains 3,521 bottles.
14. If a grocery shopper received $0.25 off

the original price of a certain product by
using a coupon, what was the original
9. The figure above shows four pieces of tile price of the product?
that have been glued together to form a (1) The shopper received a 20 percent
square tile ABCD. Is PR=QS? discount by using the coupon.
(1) BQ = CR = DS = AP (2) The original price was 25 percent
(2) The perimeter of ABCD is 16. higher than the price the shopper paid
by using the coupon.
10. How old is Jim?
15. What was Casey’s total score for
(1) Eight years ago Jim was half as old eighteen holes of golf?
as he is now.
(2) Four years from now Jim will be (1) Casey’s score for the first nine holes
twice as old as he was six years ago. was 13 less than his score for the last
nine holes.
11. What is the value of x? (2) Twice Casey’s score for the last nine
holes was 58 more than his score for
(1) When x is multiplied by 8, the result the first nine holes.
is between 50 and 60.
(2) When x is doubled, the result is 16. What is the rate, in cubic feet per
between 10 and 15. minute, at which water is flowing into a
certain rectangular tank?
12. At a certain state university last term,
(1) The height of the water in the tank is
there were p students each of whom paid increasing at the rate of 2 feet per
either the full tuition of x dollars or half minute.
the full tuition. What percent of the (2) The capacity of the tank is 216 cubic
tuition paid by the p students last term feet.
was tuition from students who paid the
17. Is the positive integer n equal to the
full tuition? square of an integer?
(1) Of the p students, 20 percent paid the (1) For every prime number p, if p is a
full tuition. divisor of n, then so is p2.
(2) The p students paid a total of $91.2
(2) n is an integer.
million for tuition last term.

18. What is the volume of a certain cube? 24. If x and y are integers between 10 and
(1) The sum of the areas of the faces of x−y
99, inclusive, is an integer?
the cube is 54. 9
(2) The greatest possible distance (1) x and y have the same two digits, but
between two points on the cube is in reverse order.
3 3 (2) The tens’ digit of x is 2 more than the
units digit, and the tens digit of y is 2
19. What is the value of k2-k? less than the units digit.
1
(1) The value of k − is 1. 25. Pam and Ed are in a line to purchase
k tickets. How many people are in the
(2) The value of 2k –1 is 5 line?
(1) There are 20 people behind Pam and
20. In the figure above, what is the product 20 people in front of Ed.
of the lengths of AD and BC? (2) There are 5 people between Pam and
(1) The product of the lengths of AC and Ed.
BE is 60.
(2) The length of BC is 8.
21. At a business association conference, the

registration fee for members of the
association was $20 and the registration
fee for nonmembers was $25. If the total
receipts from registration were $5,500,
did more members than nonmembers
pay the registration fee?
(1) Registration receipts from members
were $500 greater than receipts from
nonmembers.
(2) A total of 250 people paid the
registration fee.
22. If x and y are positive integers and x is a

multiple of y, is y = 2?
(1) y ≠ 1
(2) x + 2 is a multiple of y.
23. What is the value of n?

(1) n(n –1)(n – 2 ) = 0
(2) n2 + n – 6 = 0

commission of 6 percent of the selling

SECTIION 5 price of a certain house, what was the
30 minutes 25 questions selling price of the house?
(1) The selling price minus the real estate
1. At a certain picnic, each of the guests was
agent’s commission was $84,600.
served either a single scoop or a double
(2) The selling price was 250 percent of
scoop of ice cream. How many of the
the original purchase price of
guests were served a double scoop of ice
$36,000.
cream?
(1) At the picnic, 60 percent of the guests 7. What is the value of |x|?
were served a double scoop of ice
(1) x = -|x|
cream.
(2) x2 = 4
(2) A total of 120 scoops of ice cream
were served to all the guests at the
picnic.
2. By what percent was the price of a certain

candy bar increased?
(1) The price of the candy bar was 8. What is the value of z in the triangle
increased by 5 cents. above?
(2) The price of the candy bar after the
(1) x + y = 139
increase was 45 cents.
(2) y + z = 108
9. A certain bakery sells rye bread in 16-

ounce loaves and 24-ounce loaves, and all
loaves of the same size sell for the same
price per loaf regardless of the number of
loaves purchased. What is the price of a
3. A circular tub has a band painted around 24-ounce loaf of rye bread in this bakery?
its circumference, as shown above. What
is the surface area of this painted band? (1) The total price of a 16-ounce loaf and
a 24-ounce loaf of this bread is $2.40.
(1) x = 0.5 (2) The total price of two 16-ounce loaves
(2) The height of the tub is 1 meter. and one 24-ounce loaf of this bread is
$3.40.
4. Is it true that a > b?
(1) 2a > 2b x
10. If = n , what is the value of x?
(2) a + c > b + c y
5. A thoroughly blended biscuit mix (1) yn = 10

includes only flour and baking powder. 1
(2) y = 40 and n =
What is the ratio of the number of grams 4
of baking powder to the number of grams
of flour in the mix? 11. If m and n are consecutive positive
(1) Exactly 9.9 grams of flour is integers, is m greater than n?
contained in 10 grams of the mix. (1) m – 1 and n +1 are consecutive
(2) Exactly 0.3 gram of baking powder is positive integers.
contained in 30 grams of the mix. (2) m is an even integer.
6. If a real estate agent received a 12. Paula and Sandy were among those
people who sold raffle tickets to raise (2) c is positive.

money for Club X. If Paula and Sandy
sold a total of 100 of the tickets, how 18. If x + 2y + 1 = y – x, what is the value
many of the tickets did Paula sell? of x?
2 (1) y2 = 9
(1) Sandy sold as many of the raffle (2) y = 3
3
tickets as Paula did.
(2) Sandy sold 8 percent of all the raffle 19. If n is an integer, then n is divisible by
tickets sold for Club X. how many positive integers?
(1) n is the product of two different
13. Is the integer n odd? prime numbers.
(1) n is divisible by 3. (2) n and 23 are each divisible by the
(2) n is divisible by 5. same number of positive integers.
3.2□△6 20. How many miles long is the route from

Houghton to Callahan?
14. If □and△each represent single digits in (1) It will take 1 hour less time to travel
the decimal above, what digit does □ the entire route at an average rate of
represent? 55 miles per hour than at an average
(1) When the decimal is rounded to the rate of 50 miles per hour.
nearest tenth, 3.2 is the result. (2) It will take 11 hours to travel the first
(2) When the decimal is rounded to the half of the route at an average rate of
nearest hundredth, 3.24 is the result. 25 miles per hour.
15. A certain company currently has how

many employees?
(1) If 3 additional employees are hired
by the company and all of the present
employees remain, there will be at
least 20 employees in the company. 21. What is the circumference of the circle
(2) If no additional employees are hired above?
by the company and 3 of the present
employees resign, there will be fewer (1) The length of arc XYZ is 18.
than 15 employees in the company. (2) r = s
16. If x is equal to one of the numbers 22. If p,q,r, and s are nonzero numbers, is
(p – 1)(q - 2)2(r – 3)3(s – 4)4 ≧ 0?
1 3 2
, , or what is the value of x?
4 8 5 (1) q > 2 and s > 4
(2) p > 1 and r > 3
(1)1
<x< 1
4 2
(2)1 < x < 3
3 5
17. If a,b, and c are integers, is a – b + c

greater than a + b – c ?
(1) b is negative.
SECTION 6
23. If ☉ denotes a mathematical operation, 30 minutes 25 questions
does
x☉y=y☉x for all x and y? 1. If x and y are positive, what’s the value of
2 2 x?
(1) For all x and y, x☉y = 2(x + y ).
(2) For all y, 0☉y = 2 y2 (1) x = 3.927y
(2) y = 2.279
24. All trainees in a certain aviator training
program must take both a written test 2. John and David each received a salary
and a flight test. If 70 percent of the increase. Which one received the greater
trainees passed the written test, and 80 salary increase?
percent of the trainees passed the flight
(1) John’s salary increased 8 percent.
test, what percent of the trainees passed
(2) David’s salary increased 5 percent.
both tests?
(1) 10 percent of the trainees did not pass 3. Carlotta can drive from her home to her
either test. office by one of two possible routes. If she
(2) 20 percent of the trainees passed only must also return by one of these routes,
the flight test. what is the distance of the shorter route?
(1) When she drives from her home to her
n office by the shorter route and returns
25. If n is an integer, is an integer?
15 by the longer route, she drives a total
of 42 kilometers.
3n
(1) is an integer. (2) when she drives both ways from her
15 home to her office and back, by the
8n longer route, she drives a total of 46
(2) is an integer. kilometers.
15
4. If r and s are positive integers, r is what

percent of s?
3
(1) r = s
4
75
(2) r ÷ s =
100
5. A shirt and a pair of gloves cost total of

$41.70. How much does the pair of
gloves cost?
(1) The shirt costs twice as much as the
gloves.
(2) The shirt costs $27.80.
6. What is the number of 360-degree

rotations that a bicycle wheel made while
rolling 100 meters in a straight line
without slipping?
(1) The diameter of the bicycle wheel,
including the tire, was 0.5 meter.
(2) The wheel made twenty 360-degree
rotations per minute. (1) The weight of each photograph is 3

times the weight of each negative.
7. What is the value of the sum of a list of n (2) The total weight of 1 of the
odd integers? photographs and 2 of the negatives is
(1) n = 8 1
ounce.
(2) The square of the number of integers 3
on the list is 64.
8. If a certain animated cartoon consists of a

total of 17,280 frames on film, how many
minutes will it take to run the cartoon?
14. If l and w represent the length and width,
(1) The cartoon runs without interruption respectively, of the rectangle above,
at the rate of 24 frames per second. what is the perimeter?
(2) It takes 6 times as long to run the
cartoon as it takes to rewind the film, (1) 2l + w = 40
and it takes a total of 14 minutes to do (2) l + w = 25
both.
15. What is the ratio of x to y?
9. What was the average number of miles (1) x is 4 more than twice y.
per gallon of gasoline for a car during a (2) The ratio of 0.5x to 2y is 3 to 5.
certain trip?
(1) The total cost of the gasoline used by 16. If x, y, and z are three integers, are they
the car for the 180-mile trip was consecutive integers?
$12.00. (1) z – x = 2
(2) The cost of the gasoline used by the (2) x < y < z
car for the trip was $1.20 per gallon.
x
10. If x and y are positive, is greater than (1) – (x + y) = x - y
y
(2) x + y = 2
1?
(1) xy >1 18. A sum of $200,000 from a certain estate
(2) x – y > 0 was divided among a spouse and three
children. How much of the estate did the
11. In ΔPQR, if PQ = x, QR = x + 2, and PR youngest child receive?
= y, which of the three angles of ΔPQR
(1) The spouse received 1/2 of the sum
has the greatest degree measure?
from the estate, and the oldest child
(1) y = x + 3 received 1/4 of the remainder.
(2) x = 2 (2) Each of the two younger children
received $12,500 more than the
12. Is the prime number p equal to 37? oldest child and $62,500 less than the
spouse.
(1) p = n2 +1, where n is an integer.
(2) p2 is greater than 200.
19. If the Lincoln Library’s total expenditure
for books, periodicals, and newspapers
13. The only contents of a parcel are 25
last year was $35,000, how much of the
photographs and 30 negatives. What is
expenditure was for books?
the total weight, in ounces, of the
parcel’s contents? (1) The expenditure for newspapers was
40 percent greater than the

expenditure for periodicals. SECTION 7

(2) The total of the expenditure for 30 minutes 25 questions
periodicals and newspapers was 25
percent less than the expenditure for 1. The regular price for canned soup was
books. reduced during a sale. How much money
could one have saved by purchasing a
20. The symbol ▽ represents one of the dozen 7-ounce cans of soup at the
following operations: addition, reduced price rather than at the regular
subtraction, multiplication, or division. price?
What is the value of 3 ▽ 2?
(1) The regular price for the 7-ounce cans
(1) 0▽1 = 1 was 3 for a dollar.
(2) 1▽0 = 1 (2) The reduced price for the 7-ounce
cans was 4 for a dollar.
k z r
21. Are the numbers , and in
4 3 2 2. If on a fishing trip Jim and Tom each
increasing order? caught some fish, which one caught more
fish?
(1) 3 < z < 4
(2) r < z < k 2
(1) Jim caught as many fish as Tom.
3
22. In a certain group of people, the average (2) After Tom stopped fishing, Jim
(arithmetic mean) weight of the males is continued fishing until he had caught
180 pounds and of the females, 120 12 fish.
pounds. What is the average weight of
the people in the group? 3. If 5x + 3y = 17 , what is the value of x?
(1) The group contains twice as many (1) x is a positive integer.
females as males. (2) y = 4x
(2) The group contains 10 more females
than males. 4. Yesterday Nan parked her car at a certain
parking garage that charges more for the
23. If n = p + r, where n, p, and r are first hour than for each additional hour. If
positive integers and n is odd, does p Nan’s total parking charge at the garage
equal 2? yesterday was $3.75, for how many hours
(1) p and r are prime numbers. of parking was she charged?
(2) r ≠ 2 (1) Parking charges at the garage are
x+1
$0.75 for the first hour and $0.50 for
24. If y = 2 , what is the value of y – x? each additional hour or fraction of an
(1) 22x+2 = 64 hour.
(2) y = 22x –1 (2) If the charge for the first hour had
been $1.00, Nan’s total parking
charge would have been $4.00.
25. If x ≠ 1, is y equal to x + 1? 5. If r and s are integers, is r + s divisible by

3?
y −2
(1) =1 (1) s is divisible by 3.
x −1
(2) y2 = (x + 1)2 (2) r is divisible by 3.

boys.
12. Is the perimeter of Square S greater than

the perimeter of equilateral triangle T?
(1) The ratio of the length of a side of S
to the length of a side of T is 4:5.
(2) The sum of the lengths of a side of S
and a side of T is 18.
6. What is the radius of the circle above with
center O?
13. If p and q are positive integers and pq
(1) The ratio of OP to PQ is 1 to 2. =24, what is the value of p?
(2) P is the midpoint of chord AB.
7. A certain 4-liter solution of vinegar and q

(1) is an integer.
water consists of x liters of vinegar and y 6
liters of water. How many liters of
vinegar does the solution contain? p
(2) is an integer.
2
x=3
(1)
4 8 14. If x≠0, what is the value of
(2) y
=5 xp 4
4
8. Is x < 0?
8
( q) ?
(1) –2x > 0
x
(2) x3 < 0 (1) p = q
(2) x = 3
9. Of the 230 single-family homes built in
City X last year, how many were 15. From May 1,1960 to May 1,1975, the
occupied at the end of the year? closing price of a share of stock X
(1) Of all single-family homes in City X, doubled. what was the closing price of a
90 percent were occupied at the end share of stock X on May 1, 1960?
of last year. (1) From May 1,1975, to May 1,1984,
(2) A total of 7,200 single-family homes the closing price of a share of stock
in City X were occupied at the end of X doubled.
last year. (2) From May 1,1975, to May 1,1984,
the closing price of a share of stock
10. Does the product jkmn equal 1? X increased by $4.50.
(1) jk = 1 16. If d is a positive integer, is d an

mn integer?
1 1
(2) j = and m =
k n (1) d is the square of an integer.
(2) d is the square of an integer.
11. How many of the boys in a group of 100
children have brown hair?
17. If Q is an integer between 10 and 100,
(1) Of the children in the group, 60 what is the value of Q?
percent have brown hair.
(2) Of the children in the group, 40 are (1) One of Q’s digits is 3 more than the
other, and the sum of its digits is 9.
(2) Q < 50
18. If digit h is the hundredths’ digit in the

decimal d=0.2h6, what is the value of d,
rounded to the nearest tenth?
1
(1) d <
4
(2) h < 5
24. The figure above shows the dimensions
19. What is the value of x2 – y2? of a square picture frame that was
constructed using four pieces of frame as
(1) x – y = y + 2
shown. If w is the width of each piece of
1
(2) x – y = the frame, what is the area of each
x +y piece?
(1) w = 3 inches
20. If·represents one of the operations +, –,
(2) PQ = 18 inches
and ×, is k • ( + m) = (k • ) + (k • m)
for all numbers k ,  and m?
25. A total of 774 doctorates in mathematics
(1) k·l is not equal to l·k for some were granted to United States citizens by
numbers k. American universities in the 1972-1973
(2) ·represents subtraction. school year, and W of these doctorates
were granted to women. The total of
21. What was Janet’s score on the fourth such doctorates in the 1986-1987 school
physics test she took? year was 362, and w of these were
granted to women. If the number of
(1) Her score on the fourth test was 12 doctorates in mathematics granted to
points higher than her average female citizens of the United States by
(arithmetic mean) score on the first American universities decreased from
three tests she took. the 1972-1973 school year to the 1986-
(2) Her score on the fourth test raised her 1987 school year, was the decrease less
average (arithmetic mean) test score than 10 percent?
from 87 to 90.
(1) 1
22. If x + y >0, is x > |y|? < W <1
10 774 9
(2) W = w+ 5
(1) x > y
(2) y < 0
23. If x is an integer, is (x + p)(x + q) an

even integer?
(1) q is an even integer.
(2) p is an even integer.

distance from exit K to exit L?

SECTION 8
(1) the road distance from exit J to exit L
is 21 kilometers.
(2) The road distance from exit K to exit
1. Committee member W wants to schedule
M is 26 kilometers.
a one-hour meeting on Thursday for
himself and three other committee
7. Two car, S and T, each traveled a distance
members, X,Y, and Z, Is there a one-hour
of 50 miles. Did car S use more gasoline
period on Thursday that is open for all
than car T?
four members?
(1) Cars S and T traveled the entire
(1) On Thursday W and X have an open
distance at the rates of 55 miles per
period from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.
hour and 50 miles per hour,
(2) On Thursday Y has an open period
respectively.
from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Z
(2) For the entire distance, car S traveled
has an open period from 8:00 a.m. to
20 miles per gallon of gasoline and
11:00 a.m.
car T traveled 25 miles per gallon of
gasoline.
2. If Jack’s and Kate’s annual salaried in
1985 were each 10 percent higher than
8. If n is a positive integer, is n odd?
their respective annual salaries in 1984,
what was Jack’s annual salary in 1984? (1) 3n is odd.
(2) n + 3 is even.
(1) The sum of Jack’s and Kate’s annual
salaries in 1984 was $50,000.
9. Does 2m – 3n = 0
(2) The sum of Jack’s and Kate’s annual
salaries in 1985 was $55,000. (1) m ≠0
(2) 6m = 9n
10. If xy < 3, is x < 1?
(1) x + 1 = 2 – 3x
1 (1) y > 3
(2) =2 (2) x < 3
2x
4. How many newspapers were sold at a 11. Each of the eggs in a bowl is dyed red,
certain newsstand today? or green, or blue. If one egg is to be
removed at random. what is the
(1) A total of 100 newspapers were sold probability that the egg will be green?
at the newsstand yesterday, 10 fewer
than twice the number sold today. (1) There are 5 red eggs in the bowl.
(2) The number of newspapers sold at the (2) The probability that the egg will be
newsstand yesterday was 45 more 1
blue is
than the number sold today. 3
5. How much did a certain telephone call 12. Is the average (arithmetic mean) of x and
cost? y greater than 20?
(1) The call lasted 53 minutes (1) The average (arithmetic mean) of 2x
(2) The cost for the first 3 minutes was 5 and 2y is 48.
times the cost for each additional (2) x = 3y
minute.
6. A certain expressway has exits J. K. L. 13. Marcia’s bucket can hold a maximum of
and M, in that order. What is the road
how many liters of water? y

18. If x, y, and z are positive, is x = ?
(1) The bucket currently contains 9 liters z2
of water. (1) z = y
(2) If 3 liters of water are added to the xz
y
bucket when it is half full of water, (2) z =
the amount of water in the bucket x
1 19. If x and y are positive integers and xy =
will increase by .
3 x2y-3, what is the value of xy?
(1) x = 2
(2) x3 = 8
20. If k and n are integers, is n divisible by

7?
14. In the triangle above, does a2 + b2 = c2? (1) n – 3 = 2k
(1) x + y = 90 (2) 2k – 4 is divisible by 7.
(2) x = y
21. If x and y are integers and y = |x + 3| + |
15. What is the value of the positive integer n? 4 – x |, does y equal 7?
(1) n4 < 25 (1) x < 4

(2) n ≠ n2 (2) x > -3
22. If 1 < d <2, is the tenths’ digit of the

decimal representation of d equal to 9?
(1) d + 0.01 <2
(2) d + 0.05 > 2
23. The participants in a race consisted of 3

teams with 3 runners on each team. A
team was awarded 6 –n points if one of
16. If ab ≠ 0, in what quadrant of the its runners finished in nth place, where 1
coordinate system above does point (a, ≤ n ≤ 5. If all of the runners finished
b) lie? the race and if there were no ties, was
(1) (b, a) lies in quadrant Ⅳ. each team awarded at least one point?
(2) (a, -b) lies in quadrant Ⅲ. (1) No team was awarded more than a
total of 6 points.
17. From 1984 to 1987, the value of foreign (2) No pair of teammates finished in
goods consumed annually in the United consecutive places among the top
States increased by what percent? five places.
(1) In 1984 the value of foreign goods
consumed constituted 19.8 percent of 24. If x + y + z > 0, is z > 1?
the total value of goods consumed in (1) z > x + y +1
the United States that year. (2) x + y + 1 < 0
(2) In 1987 the value of foreign goods
consumed constituted 22.7 percent of 25. How many integers n are there such that
the total value of goods consumed in r < n < s?
the United States that year.
(1) s – r = 5
(2) r and s are not integers.
SECTION 9
1. A total of 9 women and 12 men reside in

the 21 apartments that are in a certain
apartment building, one person to each
apartment. If a poll taker is to select one
of the apartments at random, what is the
probability that the resident of the
apartment selected will be a woman who 6. In the figure above, segments PR and QR
is a student? are each parallel to one of the rectangular
coordinate axes. Is the ratio of the length
(1) Of the women, 4 are students.
of QR to the length of PR equal to 1?
(2) Of the women, 5 are not students.
(1) c = 3 and d = 4.
2. Is x greater than 1.8? (2) a = -2 and b = -1.
(1) x > 1.7
7. In a school election, if each of the 900
(2) x > 1.9
voters voted for either Edith or Jose (but
not both), what percent of the female
3. Hoses X and Y simultaneously fill an
voters in this election voted for Jose?
empty swimming pool that has a capacity
of 50,000 liters. If the flow in each hose (1) Eighty percent of the female voters
is independent of the flow in the other voted for Edith.
hose, how many hours will it take to fill (2) Sixty percent of the male voters
the pool? voted for Jose.
(1) Hose X alone would take 28 hours to
8. During week W, how much did it cost, per
fill the pool.
mile, for the gasoline used by car X?
(2) Hose Y alone would take 36 hours to
fill the pool. (1) During week W, car X used gasoline
that cost $1.24 per gallon.
(2) During week W, car X was driven
270 miles.
9. If r and s are integers, is r divisible by 7?

(1) The product rs is divisible by 7.
(2) s is not divisible by 7.
4. In the figure above, if lines k and m are
parallel, what is the value of x? m 5
10. If = , what is the value of m + n?
n 3
(1) y = 120
(2) z = 60 (1) m > 0
(2) 2m + n = 26
5. If x and y are integers, what is the value
of y? 11. If P and Q are each circular regions,
what is the radius of the larger of these
(1) xy = 27
regions?
(2) x = y2
(1) The area of P plus the area of Q is equal
to 90π.
(2) The larger circular region has a radius
that is 3 times the radius of the smaller

circular region. 18. If the average (arithmetic mean) of 4

numbers is 50, how many of the
12. Is z less than 0? numbers are greater than 50?
(1) xy > 0 and yz < 0. (1) None of the four numbers is equal to 50.
(2) x > 0 (2) Two of the numbers are equal to 25.
13. If the total price of n equally priced 19. On Monday morning a certain machine
shares of a certain stock was $12,000, ran continuously at a uniform rate to fill
what was the price per share of the a production order. At what time did it
stock? completely fill the order that morning?
(1) If the price per share of the stock had (1) The machine began filling the order at
been $1 more, the total price of the n 9:30 a.m.
shares would have been $300 more. 1
(2) If the price per share of the stock had (2) The machine had filled of the
2
been $2 less, the total price of the n
5
shares would have been 5 percent less. order by 10:30 a.m. and of the
6
14. What is the ratio of x : y : z? order by 11:10 a.m.
(1) z =1 and xy = 32 20. If n + k = m, what is the value of k?
x z 1 (1) n = 10
(2) = 2 and = .
y y 4 (2) m + 10 = n
21. Town T has 20,000 residents, 60 percent

15. What is Ricky’s age now? of whom are female. What percent of the
residents were born in Town T?
(1) Ricky is now twice as old as he was
exactly 8 years ago. (1) The number of female residents who
(2) Ricky’s sister Teresa is now 3 times were born in Town T is twice the
as old as Ricky was exactly 8 years number of male residents who were
ago. not born in Town T.
(2) The number of female residents who
16. Is xy > 5? were not born in Town T is twice the
number of female residents who were
(1) 1 ≦x≦3 and 2≦y≦4. born in Town T.
(2) x + y = 5
22. Can the positive integer n be written as
17. In year X, 8.7 percent of the men in the the sum of two different positive prime
labor force were unemployed in June numbers?
compared with 8.4 percent is May. If the
number of men in the labor force was (1) n is greater than 3.
the same for both months, how many (2) n is odd.
men were unemployed in June of that
year?
(1) In May of year X, the number of
unemployed men in the labor force
was 3.36 million.
(2) In year X, 120,000 more men in the
labor force were unemployed in June
than in May.

SECTION 10
1. If Hans purchased a pair of skis and a ski

jacket, what was the cost of the skis?
(1) The ratio of the cost of the skis to the
cost of the jacket was 5 to 1.
(2) The total cost of the skis and the
jacket was $360.
23. In the figure above, segments RS and
2. Is x < y?
TU represent two positions of the same
ladder leaning against the side SV of a (1) z < y
wall. The length of TV is how much (2) z < x
greater than the length of RV?
(1) The length of TU is 10 meters. 3. If a certain city is losing 12 percent of its
(2) The length of RV is 5 meters. daily water supply each day because of
water-main breaks, what is the dollar cost
to the city per day for this loss?
24. If both x and y are nonzero numbers,
y (1) The city’s daily water supply is 350
what is the value of ? million gallons.
x
(2) The cost to the city for each 12,000
(1) x = 6 gallons of water lost is $2.
(2) y2 = x2
4. Machine X runs at a constant rate and
25. If x = 0. rstu, where r, s, t, and u each produces a lot consisting of 100 cans in 2
represent a nonzero digit of x, what is hours. How much less time would it take
the value of x? to produce the lot of cans if both
(1) r = 3s = 2t = 6u machines X and Y were run
(2) The product of r and u is equal to the simultaneously?
product of s and t. (1) Both machines X and Y produce the
same number of cans per hour.
(2) It takes machine X twice as long to
produce the lot of cans as it takes
machines X and Y running
simultaneously to produce the lot.
5. If x and y are positive, what is the value

of x?
(1) 200 percent of x equals 400 percent of
y.
(2) xy is the square of a positive integer.

10. If n is an integer, is n +2 a prime

number?
(1) n is a prime number.
(2) n + 1 is not a prime number.
11. Is x between 0 and 1?

6. In the figure above, what is the measure (1) x 2 is less than x.
of ∠ABC ? (2) x3 is positive.
(1) BX bisects ∠ABY and BY bisects
12. Did Sally pay less than x dollars,
∠XBC.
including sales tax, for her bicycle?
(2) The measure of ∠ABX is 40o.
(1) The price Sally paid for the bicycle
7. If -10 < k < 10, is k > 0? was (0.9)x dollars, excluding the 10
percent sales tax.
1 (2) The price Sally paid for the bicycle
(1) >0
k was $170. excluding sales tax.
(2) k2 > 0
13. Is the positive square root of x an
integer?
R S T U
(1) x = n4 and n is an integer.
R 0 y x 62 (2) x = 16
S y 0 56 75
T x 56 0 69
U 62 75 69 0
8. The table above shows the distance, in
kilometers, by the most direct route,
between any two of the four cities, R, S, 14. If the successive tick marks shown on
T, and U. For example, the distance the number line above are equally
between City R and City U is 62 spaced and if x and y are the numbers
kilometers. What is the value of x? designating the end points of intervals as
shown, what is the value of y?
(1) By the most direct route, the distance
between S and T is twice the distance 1
(1) x =
between S and R. 2
(2) by the most direct route, the distance 2
between T and U is 1.5 times the (2) y − x =
3
distance between R and T.
15. In a certain senior citizens’ club, are
9. Buckets X and Y contained only water and
1
1 more than of the members over 75
bucket Y was full. If all of the water 4
2
years of age?
in bucket X was then poured into bucket
Y, what fraction of the capacity of Y was (1) Exactly 60 percent of the female
then filled with water? members are over 60 years of age,
(1) Before the water from X was poured, 1
and, of these, are over 75 years
1 3
X was full. of age.
3
(2) Exactly 10 male members are over 75
(2) X and Y have the same capacity.
years of age.
16. If t ≠ 0, is r greater that zero?

(1) rt = 12
(2) r + t = 7
17. If x is an integer, is y an integer?

(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of x, y 21. What is the area of the rectangular
and y – 2 is x. region above?
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) of x
(1) l + w = 6
and y is not an integer.
(2) d2 = 20
22. If Aaron, Lee, and Tony have a total of

$36, how much money does Tony have?
(1) Tony has twice as much money as
1
Lee and as much as Aaron.
3
(2) The sum of the amounts of money
18. The inside of a rectangular carton is 48 that Tony and Lee have is half the
centimeters long, 32 centimeters wide, amount that Aaron has.
and 15 centimeters high. The carton is
filled to capacity with k identical
23. If n is a positive integer, is the value of b
cylindrical cans of fruit that stand
– a at least twice the value of 3n – 2n?
upright in rows and columns, as
indicated in the figure above. If the cans (1) a = 2n + 1 and b = 3n+1
are 15 centimeters high, what is the (2) n = 3
value of k?
24. The price per share of stock X increased
(1) Each of the cans has a radius of 4
by 10 percent over the same time period
centimeters.
that the price per share of stock Y
(2) 6 of the cans fit exactly along the
decreased by 10 percent. The reduced
length of the carton.
price per share of stock Y was what
percent of the original price per share of
8x stock X?
19. If R = and y ≠ 0 what is the
3y
(1) The increased price per share of stock
value of R?
X was equal to the original price per
2 share of stock Y.
(1) x = (2) The increase in the price per share of
3
(2) x = 2y stock X was 10/11 the decrease in the
price per share of stock Y.
20. Is the positive integer n a multiple of 24?
25. Any decimal that has only a finite
(1) n is a multiple of 4. number of nonzero digits is a
(2) n is a multiple of 6. terminating decimal. For example, 24,
0.82, and 5.096 are three terminating
decimals. If r and s are positive integers
and the ratio r/s is expressed as a
decimal, is r/s a terminating decimal?
(1) 90 < r < 100
(2) s = 4

Section 11 examinations ?
(1) The number of applicants who did not
pass either examination was equal to
1. Kelly's raise increased his salary by what
the number who passed the written
percent ?
examination only.
(2) There was a total of 100 applicants.
(1) Kelly's raise was $1,200.
(2) Kelly's raise increased his taxes to
8. Is the integer n even ?
$1,700.
(1) n 2 −1 is odd.
2. Mouse population X doubles every week. (2) n is an integer.
How many weeks from now will
population X first exceed 1,000,000 ?
9. If today is Carol's birthday, how old is
Carol?
(1) The mouse population is now 65,536.
(2) Fifteen weeks ago the mouse (1) 6 years ago she was half her present
population was 2. age.
(2) 3 years from now she will be 3 times
3. If no student took test T more than once, as old as she was 7 years ago.
how many students took test T ?
10. If x, y, and z are positive, what is the
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of the value of x ?
students' scores on test T was 72.
(2) The sum of he students' scores on test (1) x + y = z + y
T was 2,232. (2) z – y = 4 – y
4. if △ denotes an operation, what is the 11. Is x an integer ?

value of (a△b) △c ?
2
(1) x is an integer.
(1) a △ b = 5 3
(2) 5 △ c = 3 (2) x – 4 is an integer.
5. If x + 2y = 6, what is the value of x ? 12. If y > 0, is y greater than x ?
(1) 2x + y = 9 (1) 3x = 2y
(2) 3x + 2y = 14 (2) x + y = 5
x 3 13. Did the population of Country S increase

6. Is = by less than 20 percent from 1965 to
8 4 1975 ?
(1) x > 5.5
(2) x < 7 (1) The population of Country S in 1965
was 180 million.
4 (2) The population of Country S in 1975
7. Last year of the applicants for a job was 1.17 times what it was in 1965.
5
on a police force passed the physical 14. If a and b are positive integers, is
3 a 2
xamination. If of the applicants who = ?
4 b 3
passed the physical examination also
passed the written examination, how (1) 3a = 2b
many of the applicants passed both (2) For integers m and n, a = 2m and b =
3n (1) x > 2y
(2) x < y + 2
15. G, P, and S are animal species. What is
the average life span, in year, of S ? 22. If n is a positive integer, is n divisible by
at least six positive integers?
(1) The average life span of S is twice
(1) n is the product of three different
4 prime numbers.
that of P and that of G.
5 (2) n = 30
(2) The average life span of G is 30 years
longer than that of P and 10 years 23. A car traveled a distance of d miles in t
longer than that of S. minutes at an average rate of r miles per
minute. What is the ratio of d to r ?
16. If point X is inside a circle with center O
and radius 2, is point Y inside the same (1) t = 30
circle? (2) d = 25
(1) OX = 1 24. If b is the product of three consecutive

positive integers c, c + 1, and c + 2, is b
1
(2) XY = 2 a multiple of 24 ?
2
(1) b is a multiple of 3,
17. Four dollar amounts, w, x, y, and z, were (2) c is odd.
invested in a business. Which amount
was greatest'? 25. If x is a positive number, what is the
value of x ?
(1) y < z < x
(2) x was 25 percent of the total of the (1) | x – 2 | = 1
four investments. (2) x 2 = 4 x − 3
18. If the measures of' the three interior
angles of a triangle are y°, 15x°, and
18x°, what is the value of y ?
(1) x =5
(2) 15x + y = 90
19. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of

x and y ?
x y
(1) + = 10
2 2
(2) x = 2y
20. How many bags of grass seed were used

for rectangular lawn X ?
(1) Lawn X has a perimeter of 720 feet.
(2) One bag of grass seed was used for
each 5,000 square feet of lawn X
21. If x and y are positive. is y< 2 ?

Section 12 the right of the deci-mal point?

416
(1) d = 5 +
1.What is the total number of employees in 1,000
the per-sonnel and data processing (2) The terminating decimal equivalent of
divisions of Company S ? d has one nonzero digit to the left of
the decimal point.
(1) The number of employees in the data
processing division is 3 more than 6. In a given class, what is the average
twice the number of employees in the (arithmetic mean) height per pupil ?
personnel division.
(2) The number of employees in the data
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) height
process-ing division is 15.
of the girls in the class is 61 inches.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) height
2. If x and y are integers, is x + y divisible of the boys in the class is 64 inches.
by 6 ?
7. Richard's salary is greater than $25,000.
(1) x is divisible by 6. Is Amy's salary greater than Brian's
(2) y is divisible by 6. 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.
3. In the figure above, what is the length of 8. Are integers r and s consecutive ?
segment BC ? (1) r is odd and s is even.
(2) r - s = 1
(1) x = 90
(2)The perimeter of △ABC is 24. 9. There are exactly 6 teams in league X.
What was the total number of games
4. Of the books that are standing upright played by the 6 teams last season?
along the top shelf of a bookcase, some
(1) Each team in league X played each of
1 3 the other teams at least once.
are -inch thick and the rest are -
2 4 (2) No team in league X played more than
inch thick. What is the total number of 7 games.
books standing upright along the top shelf
?
1
(1) Half of these books are -inch
2
thick.
(2) The total thickness of all of these
books is 25 inches.
5. In the terminating decimal equivalent of

d, what is the number of nonzero digits to

(1) When x = 1, y = 5.
(2) When x = 5, y = 13.
17. If x and y are positive, then x is what

percent of y?
(1) 15 is 25 percent of y.
10. Does x 2 = y ? (2) x is 10 percent of 2y.
(1) y =−x
18. In year X a total of 355 billion dollars
(2) x < y was spent for health care in the United
States, 30 percent of which was spent by
11. In the figure above, x, y, and z denote the private health insurance compa-nies.
lengths of the sides of a triangular flower Was the amount spent for health care by
bed bounded by three driveways. What the federal government's medicare
is the perimeter of the flower bed ? program less than 60 billion dollars?
(1) x = y = 30 feet. (1) In year X medicare spent more than
(2) k = 60 1 2
, but less than , of the amount
2 3
12. Is r > s ? spent by the private health insurance
(1) -r + s < 0 companies for health care.
(2) r < | s | (2) In year X medicare spent 50 billion
dollars less for health care than the
13. A raincoat and an umbrella cost a total of amount spent by private health
$53.50. What is the cost of the raincoat? insurance companies.
(1) If the cost of the raincoat were to z

increase by 10 percent, the raincoat 19. If xyz ≠ 0. what is the value of ?
and the umbrella would cost a total y2
of $58.00. 3
(1) x = y
(2) The cost of the raincoat is $2.50 more 4
than 5 times the cost of the umbrella. 2
(2) z = x
3
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 ?

20. Jane is in a certain ticket line in which (1) The lower rate is now 6 percent.
each of the other people in the line is (2) The total amount of interest earned
either behind her or ahead of her. In the from the two investments last year
line, the number of people ahead of Jane was $3,000.
is 5 more than the number of people
behind her. What is the total number of 24. Is the integer n a multiple of 140 ?
people in the line?
(1) n is a multiple of 10.
(1) There are 11 people ahead of Jane in (2) n is a multiple of 14.
the line.
(2) The total number of people in the line 25. If x, y, and n are positive integers, is
is 3 times the number of people x
n
behind Jane. 
y
 greater than 1,000 ?
 
21. In the rectangular coordinate system, if
(1) x = y 3 and n > y.
line  is parallel to one of the axes,
(2) x > 5y and n > x.
does line  contain the point (4, 5) ?
(1) Line  contains the point (4, -5).

(2) Line  crosses the x-axis.
22. In the figure above, if PR is a line

segment, what is the sum of the lengths
of the curved paths from P to Q and
from Q to R ?
(1) XQ = QY = 5 centimeters.
(2) Every point on arc PQ is 5
centimeters from point X, and every
point on arc QR is 5 centimeters from
point Y.
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
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 ?

Section 13 8. Terry and Pat collected cans for recycling.

30 Minutes 25 Questions What was the ratio of the number of carts
Terry collected to the number of cans Pat
1. Who is older, Akira or Michiko? collected?
(1) Akira and Michiko are 3 years apart in (1) Pat collected 50 percent of the cans
age. that they collected.
(2) Akira's younger brother is 11 years (2) Terry collected 140 cans.
old.
9. Is the integer n equal to 25 ?
2. What is the value of x ?
(1) n is the square of an integer.
(1) 3x = 30 (2) 15 < n < 37
(2) x + y = 40
10. Is line  parallel to the y-axis?
3. How many hours does it take 12
machines with identical production rates, (1) The equation of line  is x = 4.
running simultaneously without stopping, (2) The points (4. 2) and (4, - 5) are on
to fill a certain production order ? line  .
(1) It takes each machine alone, running

continuously, 60 hours to fill the
production order.
(2) It takes 10 of these machines, running
simultaneously without stopping, 6
hours to fill the production order.
4. If n is a positive number, what is the value

of n ?
5
(1) 1 + n =
4 11. According to the graph above, the sale of
1 fruits and vegetables in Store S last week
(2) n =
2
16 accounted for what percent of the total sales

income for the week?
(1) Last week the total income from the
5. What are the populations of Cities Y and sale of fruits and vegetables in Store
Z? S was $16,000.
(2) x = 2y
(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.
12. In a sequence of numbers in which each
6. If n is an integer, is n odd ? term after the first term is 1 more than
twice the preceding term, what is the
(1) The tens digit of n is odd. fifth term?
(2) n2 is odd.
(1) The first term is 1.
7. If x > y, is cx > cy ? (2) The sixth term minus the fifth term is
(1) c > 0 32.
(2) xy > 0
13. Larry saves x dollars per month. Will Y?

Larry’s total savings one year from now
exceed his present savings by at least (1) In region Y the total rainfall for the
$500 ? (Assume that there is no interest.) first 6 months of 1984 was twice the
total rainfall for the last 6 months of
(1) In 6 months Larry's total savings will 1984.
be $900. (2) In region Y the average monthly
(2) In 3 months Larry's total savings will rainfall for the first 6 months of 1984
exceed his present savings by $150. was 2.31 inches more than the
average monthly rainfall for the last 6
14. Is |x – 3| < 7 ? months of 1984.
(1) x > 0
19. If 2x + 3y = 5, what is the value of x ?
(2) x < 10
(1) x + z = 3 + 2y + z
1
(2) y = −
7
20. If S is the sum of the first n positive

integers, what is the value of n ?
(1) S < 20
(2) s2 > 220
15. In the figure above, what is the area of
the circular region with center O ?
21. A small factory that produces only
(1) MN is perpendicular to RS. upholstered chairs and sofas uses 1
(2) The area of triangular region OMT is cushion for each chair and 4 cushions for
4. each sofa. If the factory used a total of
300 cushions on the furniture it
produced last week, how many sofas did
16. Pat is reading a book that has a total of it produce last week ?
1
15 chapters. Has Pat read at least of
3 (1) Last week the factory produced more
the pages in the book? chairs than sofas.
(2) Last week the factory produced a
(1) Pat has just finished reading the first total of 150 chairs and sofas.
5 chapters.
(2) Each of the first 3 chapters has more 22. If integer p is a factor of 42, is p a prime
pages than each of the other 12 number?
chapters in the book..
(1) p > 6
17. If a1, a2, a3, . . . , an, . . . is a sequence (2) p < 21
such that an=2n for all n ≥ 1, is ai
greater than aj ? 23. What is the value of t ?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of t2
(1) i is odd and j is even and 8t is –8.
(2) i2 > j2
(2) t 4 =16
18. What was the average (arithmetic mean)
monthly rainfall during 1984 in region
24. What is the area of a rectangular surface Section 14

that has length x feet and width y feet ? 25 Minutes 20 Questions
(1) y is the reciprocal of x. 1. Is 1 < x < 2 ?

(2) The perimeter of the rectangular
(1) 0 < x
surface is 5 feet.
(2) x < 3
25. What is the greatest common divisor of

2. Water is pumped into a partially filled
positive integers m and n ?
tank at a constant rate through an inlet
pipe. At the same time, water is pumped
(1) m is a prime number.
out of the tank at a constant rate through
(2) m and n are consecutive integers.
an outlet pipe. At what rate, in gallons per
minute, is the amount of water in the tank
increasing?
(1) The amount of water initially in the

tank is 200 gallons.
(2) Water is pumped into the tank at a rate
of 10 gallons per minute and out of
the tank at a rate of 10 gallons every
1
2 minutes.
2
3. If P, Q, and R are three distinct points, do

line segments PQ and PR have the same
length ?
(1) P is the midpoint of line segment QR.

(2) Q and R lie on the same circle with
center P.
4. What distance did Jane travel?
(1) Bill traveled 40 miles in 40 minutes.

(2) Jane traveled at the same average rate
as Bill.
5. The profit from the sale of a certain

appliance increases, though not
proportionally, with the number of units
sold. Did the profit exceed $4 million on
sales of 380,000 units ?
(1) The profit exceeded $2 million on
sales of 200,000 units.
(2) The profit exceeded $5 million on
sales of 350,000 units.

75.
(2) None of the six numbers is greater
than 75.
11. An employee is 1.5 times the regular

hourly rate for each hour worked in
excess of 40 hours per week, excluding
Sunday, and 2 times the regular hourly
rate for each hour worked on Sunday.
How much was the employee paid last
week?
6. Each number in the arrangement above is
obtained from the two nearest numbers in (1) The employee’s regular hourly rate is
the column imme-diately to the left by $10.
subtracting the upper number from the (2) Last week the employee worked a
lower number. What is the value of z ? total of 54 hours but did not work
more than 8 hours on any day.
(1) x = 7
(2) t = 5 n
12. If n and k are greater than zero, is an
7. How many people are directors of both k
Company K and Company R ? integer ?
(1) n and k are both integers.
(1) There were 17 directors present at a (2) n 2 and k 2 are both integers.
joint meeting of the directors of
Company K and Company R, and no
13. At Larry’s Auto Supply Store, Brand X
directors were absent.
(2) Company K has 12 directors and antifreeze is sold by the gallon and
Brand Y motor oil is sold by the quart.
Company R has 8 directors.
Excluding sales tax, what is the total
cost for 1 gallon of Brand X antifreeze
8. What is the value of xy –yz ?
and 1 quart of Brand Y motor oil?
(1) y = 2
(1) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
(2) x – z = 5
6 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
10 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is
$58. (There is no quantity discount.)
9.The length of the edging that surrounds
(2) Excluding sales tax, the total cost for
1 4 gallons of Brand X antifreeze and
circular garden K is the length of the
2 12 quarts of Brand Y motor oil is
edging that surrounds circular garden G. $44. (There is no quantity discount.)
What is the area of garden K ? (Assume
that the edging has negligible width.)
14. If x is an integer, is x | x | < 2x
(1) The area of G is 25π square meters.
(2) The edging around G is 10π meters (1) x < 0
long. (2) x = - 10
10. If the average (arithmetic mean) of six 15. By what percent did the median
numbers is 75, how many of the household income in Country Y decrease
numbers are equal to 75 ? from 1970 to 1980 ?
(1) None of the six numbers is less than (1) In 1970 the median household
2
income in Country Y was of 18. If x, y, and z are positive integers, is x –
3
median household income in Country y odd ?
X. (1) x = z 2
(2) In 1980 the median household
(2) y = ( z −1) 2
1
income in Country Y was of the
2 19. What is the tens digit of positive integer
median household income in Country x?
X.
(1) x divided by 100 has a remainder of
16. If n is a positive integer, is 30.
n (2) x divided by 110 has a remainder of
1 
  < 0.01 ? 30.
 10 
20. If x and y are positive, is the ratio of x to
(1) n > 2
n −1
y greater than 3 ?
1 
(2)   < 0.1
10  (1) x is 2 more than 3 times y.
(2) The ratio of 2x to 3y is greater than 2.
17. If x < 0, is y > 0 ?
x
(1) <0
y
(2) y - x > 0

Section 15
1. The regular price per eight-ounce can of

brand X soup is $0.37, regardless of the
number of cans purchased. What amount
will be saved on the purchase of 3 eight-
ounce cans of brand X soup if the regular
price is reduced ? 6. Point (x, y) has in which quadrant of the
rectangular coordinate system shown
(1) At the reduced price, 3 eight-ounce above ?
cans of brand X soup will cost $0.99
(2) The amount that will be saved on each (1) x + y < 0
eight-ounce can of brand X soup (2) x = 1 and y = -7
purchased at the reduced price is
$0.04. 7. What is the average (arithmetric mean ) of
x, y and z
2. Does Joe weigh more than Tim?
(1) x + y = 5
(1) Tim’s weight is 80 percent of Joe’s (2) y + z = 7
weight.
(2) Joe’s weight is 125 percent of Tim’s 8. Chan and Micko drove separate cars
weight. along the entire length of a certain route.
If Chan made the trip in 15 minutes, how
3. Not scored many minutes did it take Micko to make
the same trip ?
4. What is the value of xy ?
(1) Micko’s average speed for the trip
(1) x + y = 10
3
(2) x – y = 6 was of Chan’s average speed.
4
5. Elena receives a salary plus a commission (2) The route is 14 miles long.
that is equal to a fixed percentage of her x
9. If xy ≠ 0, is <0 ?
sales revenue. What was the total of y
Elena’s salary and commission last month (1) x = y
? (2) –x = - ( - y )
(1) Elena’s monthly salary is $1,000. 10. What is the value of the two-digit integer
(2) Elena’s commission is 5 percent of x?
her sales revenue.
(1) The sum of the two digits is 3
(2) x is divisible by 3
11. Is the number x between 0.2 and 0.7 ?
(1) 560x < 280

(2) 700x > 280
12.Is x an integer ?
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 individual membership. If the
club’s total revenue from memberships 18. The figure above represents the floor
was $480,000, what was the charge plan of an art gallery that has a lobby
and 18 rooms. If Lisa goes from the
for a family membership ?
lobby into room A at the same time that
(1) The revenue from individual Paul goes from the lobby into room R,
1 and each goes through all of the rooms
memberships was of the total in succession, entering by one door and
4
exiting by the other, which room will they
revenue from memberships.
be in at the same time ?
(2) The club sold 1.5 times as many
family memberships as individual
memberships. (1) Lisa spends 2x minutes in each room
and Paul spends 3x minutes in each
room.
14. If x, y, and z are positive numbers, is x >
(2) Lisa spends 10 minutes less time in
y>z?
each room than Paul does.
(1) xz > yz
(2) yx > yz
15.Can the positive integer p be expressed

19. Quadrilateral RSTU shown above is a
as the product of two integers, each of
site plan for a parking lot in which side
which is greater than 1 ?
RU is parallel to side ST and RU is
longer than ST. What is the area of the
(1) 31 < p < 37
parking lot ?
(2) p is odd
(1) RU = 80 meters
16. Currently there are 50 picture books
each shelf in the children’s section of a (2) TU= 20 10 meters
library. If these books were to be placed
on smaller shelves with 30 picture books 20. If xy = -6 , what is the value of
on each shelf, how many of the smaller xy(x+y ) ?
shelves would be needed to hold all of (1) x – y = 5
these books ? (2) xy 2 =18
(1) The number of smaller shelves needed
is 6 more than the current number of
shelves.
(2) Currently there are 9 shelves in the
children’s section.
17. Is y = 6 ?
(1) y 2 = 36
(2) y 2 − 7 y + 6 = 0

6. Is the integer P odd ?

Section 16
‍(1) The sum of P, P + 4, and P + 11 is
even.
‍(2) The sum of P – 3, P, and P + 11 is
1. Is x greater than 75 percent of y ?
odd.
‍(1) x = 40
‍(2) y = 50 7. If a certain grove consists of 36 pecan
trees, what was the yield per tree last
year?
2. The integer x is how much greater than
‍(1) The yield per tree for the 18 trees in
3?
the northern half of the grove was 60
‍(1) 10 x
= 100,000 kilograms last year.
‍(2) The yield per tree for the 18 trees in
1
‍(2) = 0.00001 the eastern half of the grove was 55
10 x kilograms last year.
3. A citrus fruit grower receives $15 for each 8. What was the percent increase in the
crate of oranges shipped and $18 for each value of a certain antique from January 1,
crate of grapefruit shipped. How many 1981, to December 31, 1981?
crates of oranges did the grower ship last
week? ‍(1) The value of the antique on January 1,
1981, was $3,000.
‍(1) Last week the number of crates of ‍(2) The value of the antique on December
oranges that the grower shipped was 31, 1981, was double the value of the
20 more than twice the number of antique on January 1,1981.
crates of grapefruit shipped.
‍(2) Last week the grower received a total 9. In the xy-plane, is point (2, -3) on line 
of $38,700 from the crates of oranges ?
and grapefruit slipped.
‍(1) Point (-2, 3) is on  .
‍(2)  is not perpendicular to the x-axis.
10. If r is represented by the decimal 0.t5,

4. In the figure above, what is the length of what is the digit t ?
AC ?
1
‍(1) x + y = 13 (1) r <
3
‍(2) xy = 36
1
(2) r <
5. The charge for a telephone call between 10
City R and City S is $0.42 for each of the
first 3 minutes and $0.18 for each 11. Is 7 < n < 8 ?
additional minute. A certain call between
these two cities lasted for x minutes, ‍(1) n > 50
where x is an integer. How many minutes ‍(2) n < 60
long was the call?
12. If a total of 84 students are enrolled in
‍(1) The charge for the first 3 minutes of two sections of a calculus course, how
the call was $0.36 less than the charge many of the 84 students are female?
for the remainder of the call.
‍(2) The total charge for the call was 2
(1) of the students in Section 1 are
$2.88. 3

female. 10 feet long.

1
(2) of the students in Section 2 are 18. If 4x = 5y = 10z, what is the value of x +
2
male. y+z?
(1) x – y = 6
13. What is the value of the greater of two (2) y + z = 36
numbers if one of the numbers is twice
the other number? 19. Committee X and Committee Y, which
(1) One number is 5. have no common members, will
(2) The sum of the two numbers is 15. combine to form Committee Z. Does
Committee X have more members than
Committee Y ?
r s
14. If r > 0 and s > 0, is < ? (1) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
s r
the members of Committee X is 25.7
r 1 years and the average age of the
(1) = members of Committee Y is 29.3
3s 4
(2) s = r + 4 years.
(2) The average (arithmetic mean) age of
15. Company R's annual profit has increased the members of Committee Z will be
by a constant amount each calendar year 26.6 years.
since 1985. What was Company R's
annual profit in 1991 ? 20. What is the value of y ?
(1) In 1985 Company R's annual profit (1) y 2 − 7 y +12 = 0
was $212,000; in 1989 Company (2) y > 0
R's annual profit was $242,000.
(2) Company R's annual profit has
increased by $7,500 each year since
1985.
54 + 27
16. If x is an integer, is an
x
integer ?
(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

Section 17 7. A retailer purchased a television set for x

25 Minutes 20 Questions percent less than its list price, and then
sold it for y percent less than its list price.
1. If the list price of a new car was $12,300, What was the list price of the television
what was the cost of the car to the set ?
dealer ?
‍(1) x = 15
(1) The cost to the dealer was equal to 80 ‍(2) x – y = 6
percent of the list price.
(2) The car was sold for $11,070, which 8. Is x 2 greater than x ?
was 12.5 percent more than the cost
to the dealer. (1) x 2 is greater than 1.
(2) x is greater than –1.
2. If p, q, x, y, and z are different positive
integers, which of the five integers is the r s
median? 9. What is the value of + ?
2 2
‍(1) p + x < q
‍(2) y < z r +s
‍(1) =5
2
3. A certain employee is paid $6 per hour for (‍ 2) r + s = 10
an 8-hour workday. If the employee is
1 10. If x, y, and z are numbers, is z = 18
paid 1 times this rate for time worked
2 (1) The average (arithmetic mean) of x,
in excess of 8 hours during a single day, y, and z is 6
how many hours did the employee work (2) x = -y
today?
(1) The employee was paid $18 more for
hours worked today than for hours
worked yesterday.
(2) Yesterday the employee worked 8
hours.
4. If n is a member of the set (33, 36, 38, 39, 11. The circular base of an above-ground
41, 42), what is the value of n ? swimming pool lies in a level yard and
‍(1) n is even. just touches two straight sides of a fence
‍(2) n is a multiple of 3. at points A and B, as shown in the figure
above. Point C is on the ground where
5. What is the value of x ? the two sides of the fence meet.
‍(1) 2x + 1 = 0 How far from the center of the pool's
‍(2) ( x +1) 2 = x 2 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

6. In the figure above, what is the length of shares of stock X and Mrs. Jackson
AD? bought a total of 300 shares of stock X.
If the couple held all of their respective
‍(1) AC = 6
shares throughout 1980, and Mr.
‍(2) BD = 6
Jackson's 1980 dividends on his n shares
totaled $150, what was the total amount

of Mrs. Jackson's 1980 dividends on her 18. □
300 shares ? +△
(1) In 1980 the annual dividend on each ★
share of stock X was $0.75. In the addition problem above, each of the
(2) In 1979 Mr. Jackson bought a total of symbols □, △, and ★ represents a positive
200 shares of stock X. digit. If □ < △,what is the value of △ ?
(1) ★ = 4
13. If Sara's age is exactly twice Bill's age, (2) □ = 1
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.
x
14. What is the value of ?
yz
y 2x
(1) x = and z =
2 5
19. The table above shows the cancelation
x 5 1 1
(2) = and = fee schedule that a travel agency uses to
z 2 y 10 determine the fee charged to a tourist
who cancels a trip prior to departure. If a
15. An infinite sequence of positive integers tourist canceled a trip with a package
is called an “alpha sequence” if the price of $1,700 and a departure date of
number of even integers in the sequence September 4, on what day was the trip
is finite. If S is an infinite sequence of canceled ?
positive integers, is S an alpha sequence?
(1) The cancelation fee was $595
(1) The first ten integers in S are even. (2) If the trip had been canceled one day
(2) An infinite number of integers in S later, the cancelation fee would have
are odd. been $255 more.
16. if xy > 0, does (x - 1)(y - 1) = 1 ? 20. Is 5 k less than 1,000 ?

(1) x + y = xy
(1) 5 k −1 > 3,000
(2) x = y
(2) 5 k −1 = 5 k − 500
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.

Section 18 (1) x is 50 percent of y.

25 Minutes 20 Questions (2) 0.1x = 0.05y
1. How many numbers do the sets S and T 7. If n is an integer, is n even ?

have in common?
(1) n 2 −1 is an odd integer.
(1) S is a set of 10 numbers. (2) 3n + 4 is an even integer.
(2) T is a set of 100 numbers.
8. If x, y, p, and q are positive, is x ≥ y ?
px p
‍(1) =
qy q
‍(2) xy = p
9. If p1 and p2 are the populations and r1 and

2. In the figure above, if line 1 is parallel r2 are the numbers of representatives of
District 1 and District 2, respectively, the
to line  2 , what is the value of x ? ratio of the population to the number of
(1) y = 50 representatives is greater for which of the
(2) z = 130 two districts ?
‍(1) p1 > p2
3. NOT SCORED ‍(2) r2 > r1
4. If Pat saved $600 of his earnings last 10. What digit does t represent in the
month, how much did Pat earn last decimal 0.t73 ?
month? (1) t < 5
1 1
(1) Pat spent of his earnings last (2) 0.t73 <
2 t
month for living expenses and saved
1
of the remainder.
3
(2) Of his earnings last month, Pat paid 11. On the number line above, p, q, r, s, and
twice as much in taxes as he saved. t are five consecutive even integers in
increasing order. What is the average
5. The purchase price of Beth's new car, (arithmetic mean) of these five integers ?
including the sales tax, is $8,000. If she ‍(1) q + s = 24
finances the car, making a down payment ‍(2) The average (arithmetic mean) of q
of $2,000 and paying off the rest in equal and r is 11.
monthly installments, what will be the
total cost of the car, including the sales 12. What is the length in meters of a certain
tax and financing ? rectangular garden ?
(1) The installments are to be $200 per ‍(1) The length of the garden is 6 meters
month. more than twice the width.
(2) The installments will extend over a ‍(2) The length of the garden is 4 times
period of exactly 3 years. the width.
x 1 13. If x < y, is x 2 < y 2

6. If y ≠ 0, is =
y 2
(1) y > 0

(2) x > 0
14. If Fran jumps straight up off the floor

and lands on her feet T seconds later, her
feet will reach a max-imum height of
1.22T2 meters above the floor. On one
such jump, was Fran off the floor for
less than 1 second ?
(1) On her jump Fran’s feet reached a
maximum height of 1 meter above 19. The table above shows the morning
the floor. schedule for train X. If Juan took train X
(2) On her jump Fran spent more than on Monday morning, did he arrive at
1 station T on schedule?
second ascending.
4
(1) Juan arrived at station T on Monday
morning 1 hour and 2 minutes after
15. If [x] denotes the greatest integer less he left station S.
than or equal to x, is [x] = 0 ? (2) Juan arrived at his office at 8:30
(1) 5x + 1 = 3 + 2x (EST) on Monday morning, which
(2) 0 < x < 1 was 20 minutes after he arrived at
station T.
16. During a 6-day local trade show, the
least number of people registered in a 20. If n and k are positive integers, is
single day was 80. Was the average n +k > 2 n ?
(arithmetic mean) number of people
registered per day for the 6 days greater (1) k > 3n
than 90? (2) n + k > 3n
(1) For the 4 days with the greatest
number of people registered, the
average (arithmetic mean) number
registered per day was 100.
(2) For the 3 days with the smallest
number of people registered, the
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.

Section 19 7. What was Jean's insurance premium in

25 Minutes 20 Questions 1995?
‍(1) The ratio of Jean's insurance premium
in 1995 to her insurance premium in
1. What is the value of y ?
6
(1) y is an odd integer between 28 and 34 1994 was .
5
‍(2) 31 < y < 36 ‍(2) Jean's insurance premium in 1995 was
20 percent more than her insurance
2. The price of a television set was reduced premium in 1994.
by 25 percent. What was its original
price? 8. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of
(1) The reduced price was $187.50. x and y ?
(2) The original price exceeded the ‍(1) The average of x and 2y is 10.
reduced price by more than $60.00. ‍(2) The average of 2x and 7y is 32.
3. What is the remainder when the positive
integer n is divided by 6 ?
‍(1) n is a multiple of 5.
‍(2) n is a multiple of 12.
4. Three friends rented a car for a week and

divided the cost equally. What was the
total cost of renting the car ?
‍(1) If the three friends had kept the car for 9. The figure above shows the present
a second week, they could have position on a radar screen of a sweeping
obtained the two-week rate, which beam that is rotating at a constant rate in
was 1.5 times the cost of a one-week a clockwise direction. In which of the
rental. four quadrants will the beam lie 30
‍(2) If a fourth friend had joined the three seconds from now ?
friends and the cost had been divided ‍(1) In each 30-second period, the beam
equally among the four friends, the sweeps through 3.690°
cost to each of the original three ‍(2) r = 40
would have been reduced by $15 ?
10. The number of seats in the first row of
5. Is x > y ? an auditorium is 18 and the number of
‍(1) x = y + 2 seats in each row thereafter is 2 morn
x than in the previous row. What is the
‍(2) = y −1 total number of seats in the auditorium?
2
(1) The number of rows of seats in the
6. Sally gave some of her candy to her auditorium is 27.
friends. How many pieces of candy did (2) The number of seats in the last row is
she have before giving any to her friends? 70.
‍(1) Sally gave each friend 8 pieces of 11. How many books did a librarian
candy. purchase ?
‍(2) Sally had 7 pieces of candy left after
giving candy to her friends. (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.
p
12. Is the integer n a multiple of 15 ? 17. If n = where p and q are nonzero
q
(1) n is a multiple of 20. integers, is n an integer ?
(2) n + 6 is a multiple of 3.
(1) n 2 is an integer.
13. What is the area of rectangular region 2n + 4
R? (2) is an integer.
2
(1) Each diagonal of R has length 5.
(2) The perimeter of R is 14. 18. In the rectangular coordinate system, are
the points (r, s) and (u, v) equidistant
14. In a certain coding scheme, each word is from the origin ?
encoded by replacing each letter in the
word with another letter. The same code (1) r + s = 1
is used for all words, so that the same (2) u = 1 – r and v = 1 – s
letter replaces a given letter each time
the given letter occurs. What code will 19. Is ab = 1 ?
result when the word TAME is encoded (1) aba = a
by this scheme? (2) bab = b
(1) When the word MAT is encoded, the
result is DLX. 20. Is ( x −3) 2 = 3 − x ?
(2) When the word TEA is encoded, the
result is XRL. (1) x ≠ 3
(2) – x | x | > 0
15. A certain high school with a total
enrollment of 900 students held a
science fair for three days last week.
How many 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
attended on all three days.
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.

Section 20 1 1
25 Minutes 20 Questions 6. What is the value of + ?
k r
1. How much is 20 percent of a certain (1) k + r = 20
number ? (2) kr = 64
‍(1) 10 percent of the number is 5. 7. A number of people each wrote down one
‍(2) 40 percent of twice the number is 40. of the first 30 positive integers. Were any
of the integers written down by more than
2. Is r greater than 0.27 ? one of the people?
1 ‍(1) The number of people who wrote
‍(1) r is greater than
4 down an integer was greater than 40.
3 ‍(2) The number of people who wrote
‍(2) r is equal to down an integer was less than 70.
10
3. What percent of a group of people are
women with red hair ? 8. If d denotes a decimal, is d ≥ 0.5 ?
‍(1) Of the women in the group, 5 percent (1) When d is rounded to the nearest
have red hair. tenth, the result is 0.5.
‍(2) Of the men in the group, 10 percent (2) When d is rounded to the nearest
have red hair. integer, the result is 1.
4. If i and j are integers, is i + j an even 9. How many of the 60 cars sold last month
integer ? by a certain dealer had neither power
‍(1) i < 10 windows nor a stereo?
‍(2) i = j (1) Of the 60 cars sold, 20 had a stereo
but not power windows.
(2) Of the 60 cars sold, 30 had both
power windows and a stereo.
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
5. The figure above represents a circle graph 400 tickets, some of which were sold at
of Company H's total expenses broken x percent of full price and the rest of
down by the expenses for each of its five which were sold at full price?
divisions. If O is the center of the circle (1) x = 50
and if Company H's total expenses are (2) Full-price tickets sold for $20 each.
$5,400,000, what are the expenses for
division R ? 12. If x, y, and z are nonzero numbers, is xz
‍(1) x = 94 = 12 ?
‍(2) The total expenses for divisions S and
(1) x 2 yz =12 xy
T are twice as much as the expenses
for division R. z 3
(2) =
4 x

13. When a player in a certain game tossed a (1) Each member's contribution is to be
coin a number of times, 4 more heads $4.
than tails resulted. Heads or tails resulted (2) If 5 club members fail to contribute,
each time the player tossed the coin. the share of each contributing
How many times did heads result? member will increase by $2.
(1) The player tossed the coin 24 times.
18. While driving on the expressway, did
(2) The player received 3 points each
Robin ever exceed the 55-miles-per-hour
time heads resulted and 1 point each
speed limit ?
time tails resulted, for a total of 52
points. (1) Robin drove 100 miles on the
expressway.
(2) Robin drove for 2 hours on the
expressway.
19. Is n an integer ?
(1) n 2 is an integer.
(2) n is an integer.
20. Is x negative ?
14. What is the area of triangular region (1) n 3 (1 − x 2 ) < 0

ABC above? (2) x 2 − 1 < 0
‍(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
16. The inflation index for the year 1989

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?
Section 21 8. Carmen currently works 30 hours per

25 Minutes 20 Questions week at her part-time job. If her gross
hourly wage were to increase by $1.50,
1. What is 5 percent of x ? how many fewer hours could she work
per week and still earn the same gross
(1) x = 200
weekly pay as before the increase ?
(2) 10 percent of x is 20.
(1) Her gross weekly pay is currently
2. For which type of investment, J or K, is $225.00.
the annual rate of return greater ? (2) An increase of $1.50 would represent
an increase of 20 percent of her
(1) Type J returns $115 per $1,000 current gross hourly wage.
invested for any one-year period and
type K returns $300 per $2,500
9. In a serving of a breakfast cereal that
invested for any one-year period.
contains only oats, raisins, and nuts, the
(2) The annual rate of return for an
ratio of oats to raisins to nuts by weight is
investment of type K is 12 percent.
3 to 2 to 1, respectively.
n
How many ounces of raisins are in the
a  serving ?
3. What is the value of  
b  ‍(1) The serving weighs 4 ounces.
‍(2) The serving contains 2 ounces of oats.
(1) a n = 32
(2) b n = 243 10. Is x > 0
4. What is the tenths digit of the decimal d ? (1) x 2 > 0

(2) x 3 > 0
7
(1) d =
25 11. A taxi company charges f cents for the
(‍ 2) d is 28 percent of 1. first mile of a taxi ride and m cents for
each additional mile. How much does
5. Is a = 0 ? the company charge for a 10-mile taxi
‍(1) ab = 0 ride ?
‍(2) a2 = 0 (1) The company charges $0.90 for a 2-
mile ride.
6. What percent of the drama club members (2) The company charges $1.20 for a 4-
enrolled at a certain school are female mile ride.
students ?
‍(1) Of the female students enrolled at the 12. What was the discounted price of a
school,40 percent are members of the certain television set ?
drama club. (1) The original price of the television
‍(2) Of the male students enrolled at the set was $50 more than the discounted
school, 25percent are members of the price.
drama club. (2) The original price of the television
set was 110 percent of the
7. What is the perimeter of rectangle R ? discounted price.
‍(1) R is a square. x
13. If x > 0, is >x ?
‍(2) The area of R is 36. y
(1) 0 < y < 1
(2) x > 1

Section 22
14. Is n an integer?
1. What is the capacity, in liters, of a certain
(1) 2n is an integer. aquarium ?
n
(2) is an integer. 1
2 (1) Three liters is of the capacity of
2
the aquarium.
15. At what speed was a train traveling on a
trip when it had completed half of the
1
(2) One-half liter is of the capacity
total distance of the trip? 12
of the aquarium.
(1) The trip was 460 miles long and took
4 hours to complete. 2. What is the value of n ?
(2) The train traveled at an average rate
of 115 miles per hour on the trip. ‍(1) n =2
‍(2) 4n = 4
16. If r and s are integers, is r2 + s even ?
(1) The product rs is odd. 3. In △PQR, what is the measure of angle P?
(2) r is odd. (1) Angle Q is a right angle.
(2) The measure of angle R is 17°
17. What is the volume of a certain
rectangular solid?
4. What amount did Jean earn from the
(1) Two adjacent faces of the solid have commission on her sales in the first half
areas 15 and 24, respectively. of 1988 ?
(2) Each of two opposite faces of the
(1) In 1988 Jean's commission was 5
solid has area 40.
percent of the total amount of her
sales.
18. Is x > y ? (2) The amount of Jean's sales in the
(1) ax > ay second half of 1988 averaged
(2) a 2 x > a 2 y $10,000 per month more than in the
first half.
19. If n is a positive integer and
5. A certain car traveled from one town to
k = 5.1×10 n , what is the value of k ? another without stopping. What was the
(1) 6,000 < k < 500,000 car's average speed for the trip ?
(2) k 2 = 2.601 × 10 9 ‍(1) The car traveled the 90-mile trip in 2
hours.
20. What is the average (arithmetic mean) of ‍(2) The car traveled the first 40 miles of
3x and 6y ? the trip in 1 hour.
(1) x + 2y = 7
6. What is the value of x ?
(2) x + y = 5
‍(1) 2x + 3y = 12
‍(2) 5x + 7y = 29
7. Does x = y ?
(1) | x | = | y |
(2) x 2 = y 2

8. Dan took a 20-question multiple-choice (1) n is divisible by 5.

test in psychology. If Dan answered every (2) n is divisible by 6.
question, did he answer at least 12
questions correctly? 15. If Mark saved an average (arithmetic
mean) of $80 per week for 3 consecutive
(1) Dan answered fewer than 40 percent
weeks, how much did he save the second
of the questions incorrectly.
week?
(2) Dan answered at least 25 percent of
the questions incorrectly. (1) The average amount that Mark saved
per week for the first 2 weeks was
$60.
(2) The amount that Mark saved the first
1
week was the amount he saved
2
1
the second week and the amount
9. The figure above shows the circular cross 3
section of a concrete water pipe. If the he saved the third week.
inside radius of the pipe is r feet and the
outside radius of the pipe is t feet, what is 16. If p and q are positive integers, what is
the value of r ? the value of q ?
‍(1) The ratio of t - r to r is 0.15 and t - r is (1) q p −1 =1
equal to 0.3 foot.
(2) p=1
‍(2) The area of the concrete in the cross
section is 1.29π square feet.
1
17. If x ≠ -1, which is greater, or
10. If a < x < b and c < y < d. is x < y ? x +1
x
(1) a < c ？
(2) b < c 2
(1) x ≥ 0
3x + 8 (2) x < 3
11. Is an integer ?
x +2
18. In a certain two-digit integer, the ratio of
(1) x is an integer. the units digit to the tens digit is 2 to 3,
(2) x = 0 What is the integer ?
12. How many people did Apex Company (1) The tens digit is 3 more than the units
employ in 1990 ? digit.
(2) The product of the two digits is 54.
(1) The company employed 538 more
people in 1991 than in 1990. 19. If Carmen had 12 more tapes, she would
(2) The company employed 20 percent have twice as many tapes as Rafael.
more people in 1991 than in 1990. Does Carmen have fewer tapes than
Rafael?
(1) Rafael has more than 5 tapes.
13. Of the four numbers represented on the (2) Carmen has fewer than 12 tapes.
number line above, is r closest to zero?
(1) q = -s 2t + t − x
(2) -t < q 20. What is the value of ?
t −x
14. Is the integer n divisible by 20 ?

2t Section 11: EDCCD

(1) =3
t −x EBADC BABAC
(2) t – x = 5 ECDAE CDAAE
Section 12: CCDCA
Answers: DATA SUFFICIENCY EDBEA CADAD
CBBED CBAEB
Section 1: DCCAE Section 13: EADDC
BBEAA EDEDA DEECC BAAED DDBCE
BAACD EBCDC BEAAB
Section 2: ECCAB Section 14: EBDEB
DEDBA CEBDA CABCD DCCDD EECDE
EABBA DACAD
Section 3: CDEBC Section 15: DDDCE
BEDAD EAECD AAECB BEADE CACEA
CDAEB DCADB
Section 4: BCEED
BCDAD EAADC Section 16: CDCAD
EBDDA DCCAE DEBEB CEBDA
Section 5: CCEDD Section 17: DECED
DBACD AAEEC EEADC ADDBE
ECBDD CBADB Section 18: ED□AC
DDACE DCBAD
Section 6: CECDD Section 19: CABBA
AEDCB AECBB CABBA EECAD ECCCE
EACDA Section 20: DBEBA
Section 7: CABAC CABEC EDDAC
EDDEB EAEAC DCDBD
BDEDC Section 21: DACDB
Section 8: CEDAE ECDDB CCABE
EBDBA EABAC DEDDC Section 22: DDCEA
CBABC CEAAB BCAEB
Section 9: DBCDC
CAECB CCDBA EDEBB
CEDEA
Section 10: CACDE
CABCE AADDE CADBE
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6. In parallelogram ABCD above, what is

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22. A jewelry dealer initially offered a

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23. If n is an integer between 2 and 100 and SECTION 2

4. In a certain packinghouse, grapefruit are

5. What is the value of x?

6. A rectangular floor that is 4 meters wide

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a 15. If xyz≠0, what is the value of

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(2) Candidate H received 14 of the votes.

23. S is a set of integers such that

20. The table above gives the number of

21. If y≠0 and y≠-1, which is greater,

22. Each person on a committee with 40

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SECTION 3 integers in ascending order.

6. If S = {2, 3, x, y}, what is the value of x +

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15. If x≠0, is |x| <1?

22. Last Tuesday a trucker paid $155.76,

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23. Is x less than y? SECTION 4

3. In Country S，if 60 percent of the women

4. If x and y are different positive numbers,

6. Kay put 12 cards on a table, some faceup

7. Is ΔRST a right triangle?

8. If x is a positive number, is x greater than 13. If a bottle is to be selected at random

14. If a grocery shopper received $0.25 off

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21. At a business association conference, the

22. If x and y are positive integers and x is a

23. What is the value of n?

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commission of 6 percent of the selling

2. By what percent was the price of a certain

9. A certain bakery sells rye bread in 16-

5. A thoroughly blended biscuit mix (1) yn = 10

people who sold raffle tickets to raise (2) c is positive.

3.2□△6 20. How many miles long is the route from

15. A certain company currently has how

17. If a,b, and c are integers, is a – b + c

4. If r and s are positive integers, r is what

5. A shirt and a pair of gloves cost total of

6. What is the number of 360-degree

rotations per minute. (1) The weight of each photograph is 3

8. If a certain animated cartoon consists of a

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expenditure for periodicals. SECTION 7

25. If x ≠ 1, is y equal to x + 1? 5. If r and s are integers, is r + s divisible by

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12. Is the perimeter of Square S greater than

7. A certain 4-liter solution of vinegar and q

(1) jk = 1 16. If d is a positive integer, is d an

18. If digit h is the hundredths’ digit in the

23. If x is an integer, is (x + p)(x + q) an

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