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Lesson - 4: Additional Practice Questions

RATIO
1. The ratio of boys to girls in Class A is 3 to 4. The ratio of boys to girls in Class B is 4 to 5. If
the two classes were combined, the ratio of boys to girls in the combined class would be
17 to 22. If the number of boys in Class B is one less than the number of boys in Class A,
and if the number of girls in Class B is two less than the number of girls in Class A, how
many girls are in Class A?
(A) 8 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 12

2. In a certain solution consisting of only two chemicals, for every 3 millilitres of Chemical
A, there are 7 millilitres of Chemical B. After 10 millilitres of Chemical C are added to this
solution, what is the ratio of the quantities of Chemical A to Chemical C?
(1) Before Chemical C was added, there were 50 millilitres of solution.
(2) After Chemical C was added, there were 60 millilitres of solution.

3. At the beginning of the year, the ratio of juniors to seniors in high school X was 3 to 4.
During the year, 10 juniors and twice as many seniors transferred to another high school,
while no new students joined high school X. If, at the end of the year, the ratio of juniors
to seniors was 4 to 5, how many seniors were there in high school X at the beginning of
the year?
(A) 80 (B) 90 (C) 100 (D) 110 (E) 120

4. In 2003, Acme Computer priced its computers five times higher than its printers. What is
the ratio of its gross revenue for computers and printers respectively in the year 2003?
(1) In the first half of 2003, it sold computers and printers in the ratio of 3:2,
respectively, and in the second half in the ratio of 2:1.
(2) It sold each computer for $1000.

5. On a certain sightseeing tour, the ratio of the women to the number of children was 5 to
2. What was the number of men on the sight-seeing tour?
(1) On the sight-seeing tour, the ratio of the number of children to the number of men
was 5 to 11.
(2) The number of women on the sightseeing tour was less than 30.

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AVERAGES, MEDIAN, MODE, AND RANGE
6. The average weight of the women in a room is 120 lbs, and the average weight of the
men in the room is 150 lbs. What is the average weight of the people in the room?
(1) There are twice as many men as women in the room.
(2) There are a total of 120 people in the room.

7. A convenience store currently stocks 48 bottles of mineral water. The bottles have two
sizes of either 20 or 40 ounces each. The average volume per bottle the store currently
has in stock is 35 ounces. How many 40 ounce bottles must be sold for the average
volume per bottle to be reduced to 25 ounces if no 20 ounce bottles are sold?
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 30 (D) 32 (E) 34

8. On Jane’s credit card account, the average daily balance for a 30-day billing cycle is
average (arithmetic mean) of the daily balances at the end of the 30-days. At the
beginning of a certain 30-day billing cycle, Jane’s credit card account had a balance of
$600. Jane made a payment of $300 on the account during the billing cycle. If no other
amounts were added to or subtracted from the account during the billing cycle, what
was average daily balance on Jane’s account for the billing cycle?
(1) Jane’s payment was credited on the 21st day of the billing cycle.
(2) The average daily balance through the 25th day of the billing cycle was $540.

9. Set A consists of 8 distinct prime numbers. If x is equal to the range of set A and y is
equal to the median of set A, is the product xy even?
(1) The smallest integer in the set is 5.
(2) The largest integer in the set is 101.

10. The mode of a list of integers is x. What is the difference between the median of the
integers in the list and x?
(1) The difference between any two integers in the list is less than 3.
(2) The average of the integers in the list is x.

11. Peter, Paul, and Mary each received a passing score on his/her history mid-term. The
average (arithmetic mean) of the three scores was 78. What was the median of the three
scores?
(1) Peter scored a 73 on his exam.
(2) Mary scored a 78 on her exam.

12. Three baseball teams, A, B, and C, play in a seasonal league. The ratio of the number of
players on the three teams is 2:5:3, respectively. Is the average number of runs scored
per player across all three teams collectively greater than 22?
(1) The average number of runs scored per player for each of the three teams A, B and C
is 30, 17, and 25, respectively.
(2) The total number of runs scored across all three teams collectively is at least 220.

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RATES
13. Reserve tank 1 is capable of holding z gallons of water. Water is pumped into tank 1,
which starts off empty at a rate of x gallons per minute. Tank 1 simultaneously leaks
water at a rate of y gallons per minute (x > y).The water that leaks out of tank 1 drips
into tank 2,which also starts off empty. If the total capacity of tank 2 is twice the number
of gallons that remains in tank 1 after 1 minute, does tank 1 fill up before tank 2?
(1) zy < 2x2 – 4xy + 2y2
(2) Total capacity of tank 2 is less than one half that of tank 1.

14. The ‘moving walkway’ is a 300-foot long conveyor belt that moves continuously at 3 feet
per second. When Bill steps on the walkway, a group of people that are also on the
walkway stands 120 feet in front of him. He walks toward the group at a combined rate
(including both walkway and foot speed of 6 feet per second, reaches the group of
people, and then remains stationary until the walkway ends. What is Bill’s average rate
of movement for his trip along the moving walkway?
(A)2 ft/sec (B) 2.5 ft/sec (C) 3 ft/sec (D) 4 ft/sec (E) 5 ft/sec

15. Tom, working alone, can paint a room in 6 hours. Peter and John, working
independently, can paint the same room in 3 hours and 2 hours, respectively. Tom
starts painting the room and works on his own for one hour. He is then joined by Peter
and they work together for an hour. Finally, John joins them and the three of them
work together to finish the room, each one working at their respective rate. What
fraction of the whole job was done by Peter?
(A) 1/9 (B) 1/6 (C) 1/3 (D) 7/18 (E) 4/9

16. Train A leaves New York for Boston at 3 PM and travels at the constant speed of 100
mph. An hour later, it passes Train B, which is making the trip from Boston to New York
at a constant speed. If Train B left Boston at 3:50 PM and if the combined travel time of
the two trains is 2 hours, what time did Train B arrive in New York?
(1) Train B arrived in New York before Train A arrived in Boston.
(2) The distance between New York and Boston is greater than 140 miles.

PROBABILITY
17. The waiter at an expensive restaurant has noticed that 60% of the couples order dessert
and coffee. However, 20% of the couple who order dessert don’t order coffee. What is
the probability that the next couple the waiter seats will not order dessert?
(A) 20% (B) 25% (C) 40% (D) 60% (E) 75%

18. If p2 – 13p + 40 = q, and p is a positive integer between 1 and 10, inclusive, what is the
probability that q < 0?
1 1 2 3 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
10 5 5 5 10

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 19. Eight cities, including Memphis, compete in a national contest to host a political
convention. Exactly one city wins the competition. What is the probability that Memphis
does not win the competition?
7
(1) The probability that any one of the 8 cities does not win the competitions is .
8
1
(2) The probability that Memphis wins the competition is .
8

20. A license plate in the country Kerrania consists of four digits followed by two letters. The
letters A, B, and C are used only by government vehicles while the letters D through Z are
used by non-government vehicles. Kerrania’s intelligence agency has recently captured a
message from the country Gonzalia indicating that an electronic transmitter has been
installed in a Kerrania government vehicle with a license plate starting with 79. If it takes
the police 10 minutes to inspect each vehicle, what is the probability that the police will
find the transmitter within three hours?

18 1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
79 6 25 50 900

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