Arithmetic Questions 1 .

If a, a + 2 and a + 4 are prime numbers, then the number of possible solutions for a is (A) One (B) Two (C) Three (D) More than three (E) None of these. 2. The average age of a class of 40 boys is 16.95 years, but by the admission of a new boy the average age is raised to 17 years. The age of the new boy will be (A) 18 years (B) 16.95 years (C) 19.0 years (D) 41 years (E) 21.25 years 3. If 20 chairs are bought at $ 5 each, and 15 at $ 4.50 each, and 15 more at $ 4 each and then sold so as to gain 1/5 of the cost price, what is the average selling price of a chair? (A) 4.55 (B) 5.46 (C) 4.60 (D) 6.24 (E) 5.64 4. The average attendance of a class for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was 38. The average for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 42. The attendance on Thursday being 40, the attendance on Monday is (A) 14 (B) 22 (C) 28 (D) 26 (E) 24 5. The average expenditure of a man for 5 months is $ 120 and for the next 4 months $ 80. His monthly income if he had saved $ 25 will be (A) 120 (B) 92.5 (C) 95 (D) 100 (E) 105 6. If a, b, c, d, e are five consecutive odd numbers, then the average in terms of a will be (A) a + 2 (B) a + 3 (C) a + 4 (D) a (E) a + 5 7. The average temperature for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday was 55; the average for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was 60; that for Thursday being 56; what was the temperature on Monday? (A) 39 (B) 41 (C) 45 (D) 44 (E) 42 8. The average monthly rainfall for a year in Guntur district is 2.7 inches; the average for the first 7 months is 1.1 inches less than the annual average. If the total rainfall for the next 4 months is 20.8 inches, then the rainfall in the last month will be (A) 0.3 inch (B) 0.2 inch (C) 0.4 inch (D) 0.6 inch (E) 0.5 inch 9. The average marks scored by 60 pupils in a class were 32.5.The marks of the first pupil were altered from 88 to 78; the marks of the last pupil were altered from 13 to 43. Then the new average will be (A) 32.83 (B) 33.97 (C) 34.12 (D) 36.23 (E) 35.42 10. The average of m numbers is X; the average of n of those numbers is Y. The average of the remaining numbers is (A) (mX + nY)/(m + n) (B) (mX nY)/(m + n) (C) (mX nY)/(m n) (D) (mX + Y)/(m n) (E) None of the above 11. The population of a country doubled every 10 years from 1960 to 1990. What was the percent increase in population during this time? (A) 200% (B) 300% (C) 700% (D) 800% (E) 1000% 12. If $10,000 is invested at 8 percent annual interest, compounded semi annually then, what is the balance after 1year?

(A) $10000 (B) $10816 (C) $10672 (D) $10848(E) $11000 13. $6700 is deposited in the bank at 4% interest for 3 months,How much interest is earned? (A) $67 (B) $70(C) $64 (D) $74(E) $80.4 14. The original price P of a certain item is first discounted by 20 percent, and then 5 percent of the discount price is added for sales tax. If the final price, including the sales tax, is $71.40, what was the original price P? (A) $59.98 (B) $81.40 (C) $84.00 (D) $85.00 (E) $86.40 15. School bus fares rose from $25 per month to $30 per month. The percent of increase is (A) 30% (B) 25% (C) 15% (D) 20% (E) 18% 16. A dress originally priced at $90 is marked down 35%, then discounted a further 10%. What is the new, reduced price? (A) $55.64 (B) $62.50 (C) $50.75 (D) $45.55 (E) $52.65 17. Dave delivers flowers for a salary of $45 a day, plus a 12% commission on all sales. One day his sales amounted to $220.How much money did he earn that day? (A) $71.40 (B) $62.40 (C) $45 (D) $55 (E) $60.25 18. By selling a watch at a profit of 10 percent, a man got $ 15 more than half its price. What is the price of the watch? (A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 25 (D) 5 (E) 20 19. If the population of a town at the beginning of a year was 1530000, and the birth rate was 53.2, while the death rate was 31.2 per 1000 of the population, then the net increase in the population at the end of the year was (A) 33660 (B) 36360 (C) 36630 (D) 33000 (E) 36730 20. If the ratio of large to super to jumbo bags of popcorn sold at Cinema City was 8 : 17 : 15, what percent of the bags sold were super? (A) 20% (B) 25% (C) 33 1/3% (D) 37.5% (E) 42.5% 21. The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is 22 : 7. The circumference of a circle 2 cm 1 mm in diameter is (A) 66 cm (B) 6.6 cm (C) 21 cm (D) 22 cm (E) None of the above 22. If 3/7 = x / 84 what is the value of x? (A) 12 (B) 24 (C) 36 (D) 42 (E) 48 23. If (x + 2)/17= x /16 what is the value of x 6)/19 ? (A) 1//2 (B) 1 (C) 3/2 (D) 2 (E) 24. A state law requires that on any field trip the ratio of the number of leader to the number of students must be at least 1 : 12. If 100 students are going on a field trip, what is the minimum number of leader required? (A) 6 (B) 8 (C) 813(D) 9(E) 12

25. Brigitte solved 24 math problems in 15 minutes. At this rate, how many problems can she solve in 40 minutes? (A) 25 (B) 40 (C) 48 (D) 60 (E) 64 26. If a : b = 3 : 5 and a : c = 5 : 7, what is the value of b : c? (A) 3: 7 (B) 21: 35 (C) 21: 25 (D) 25: 21 (E) 7: 3 27. A student took 7 tests. The students average score on first 5 tests was 73. The students average score on the final 5 of these 7 tests was 79. How much greater than the students average score on the first 2 of these tests was the students average score on the final 2 of these tests? 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Ans. D 28. A team scored an average of a points for first x games of the season, and it scored an average of b points for all y games of the season, where a, x, b, and y are integers and y > x > 0. What was the teams average score for the games played after the first x games? A) B) C) D) E) 6 7 10 15 18

29. If the average of a b, b c, and 3 is 17, and the average of a and c is 50, what is the value of a? A) B) C) D) E) 26 33 48 74 It cannot be determined from the information given.

30. If x pounds of pears that cost 2 dollars per pound are combined with y pounds of apples that cost 3 dollars per pound, how many dollars does one pound of mixture cost? A) B) C) D) E) ( 2x + 3y ) ( x + y )

31. The average number of points per game scored by a football team during first x games of a season was 17. The average number of points scored by the team in the remaining y games of the season was 29. If the average number of points scored by the team over the entire season was 21, what is the ratio of x to y? A) 1: 2 B) 17: 21 C) 17: 29 D) 2: 1 E) 5: 2

32. There are x numbers in list L , where x is a positive integer, and there are y numbers in list M, where y is a positive integer. The average of the numbers in list L is p, and the average of all the numbers in both list L and M is q. which of the following expressions is the average of the numbers in list M? A) B) C) D) E)
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33. The average of a list of 8 different positive integers is 23. Which of the following is the greatest possible range of this list of numbers? A) B) C) D) E) 149 155 156 168 183

34. The integer n is greater than 7. The average of a group of n numbers is a.

when 3 of the numbers are removed, the average of the remaining numbers is b. which of the following expressions is the average of the 3 numbers removed?

A) B) C) D) E)
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35. In 2001, there were t tornadoes in the United States, of which some, but not all, occurred in Missouri. If m tornadoes occurred in Missouri in 2001, which of the following represents the ratio of the number of tornadoes that occurred in Missouri in 2001 to the number of tornadoes that occurred elsewhere in the united states in 2001? A) B) C) D) E) 36. If a = b and b = c, then what percent of a is c? A) 150 B) 125 C) 66 D) 40 E) 50

37. Each employee of company x works in exactly one of the department G and H. Currently there are 1500 employees at company x and 60% of the employees at company x work in department G. If every employee at company x remains at company x and remains in the department they are in, then what is the number of new employees who must be hired to work in department G so that 85 percent of the employees working in the company x work in department G? A) 1275

B) 1700 C) 2500 D) 3750 E) 4000 38. Originally, the only people in the auditorium were sophomore, juniors, and seniors, and the ratio of sophomore to juniors to seniors was 12 to 18 to 25. After half of the sophomore left the auditorium, a number of juniors equal to the number of juniors originally in the auditorium interred the auditorium, and no one else interred or left the auditorium, the total number of students in the auditorium was 60 more than the original number of students in the auditorium. What was the original number of students in the auditorium? A) B) C) D) E) 275 300 335 350 375

39. The integers a, b, and c are positive, = , and = .what is the smallest possible value of 2a+b? A) B) C) D) E) 63 70 84 95 105

40. Alice has x stamps and Thomas has y stamps, where x and y are positive integers. The ratio of x to y is 7 to 3. If Alice gives Thomas z stamps, where z is a positive integer and z < x, and no other changes take place in the number of stamps that Alice and Thomas have, then the ratio of the number of the stamps that Alice has to the number of stamps that Thomas has will become 7 to 8. Which of the following equations correctly describes z in terms of x? A) B) C) D) E) Z=X/3 Z=X/2 Z=2X/3 Z=3X/2 Z=3X

DATA SUFFICIENCY 41. The alphabets A , B, and C each represent a positive digit. If A < B < C, and A B C = 24, what is the value of B? 1) C = 8 2) A = 1

42. A gamma sequence is defined as an infinite sequence of positive integers where no integer appears more than once and there is finite number of prime number in that sequence. The sequence H is an infinite sequence of positive integers, where no integer appears more than once. Is H a gamma sequence? 1) There are infinite many multiples of 4 in H. 2) Only the first thirty integers in the sequence H are odd, and there is at least one prime integer in sequence H.

43. What is the value of 1) a = and = 2) = and =

44. Is k

l > 0?

1) k is positive. 2) l is negative. 45. Which is greater, x or

2 1) 4x = 1

2) ( x- ) ( x + 2 ) = 0 46. Jennie purchased several paperback books. If each book cost either $ 1.50 or $ 2.50, how many $ 1.50 books did Jennie buy? 1) Jennie spent a total of $ 29.50 on books. 2) Jennie bought a total of 17 books. 47. How many Gold coins does Sherlin have? 1) Sherlin has 4 times as many silver coins as gold coins. 2) If Sherlin had 72 more gold coins, she would have 5 times as many gold coins as she now has. 48. A soccer team won or lost each game it played. If the soccer team won 25 percent of the first 16 games it played and won 75 percent of all the remaining games, how many games did the soccer team lose? 1) The team won exactly half of the game it played. 2) The team played a total of 32 games.

49. For a College examination, each question is considered to be answered correctly or incorrectly. How many questions are on this examination? 1) Charlie answered 30 percent of the questions incorrectly. 2) Charlie answered 35 questions correctly. 50. Joy answered 40 percent of the first 30 question correctly. If he answered all the remaining questions on the test correctly, how many questions did he answer correctly? 1) Joy correctly answered 80 percent of the questions on the test. 2) There were a total of 90 questions on the test.