gmat
gmat
a. 7
b. 8
c. 12
d. 15
e. 20
Answer - 3:4 = b/g. There 5 more girls than guys: if guys = x → girls = x + 5
Then, according to the ratio: ¾ = x/(x+5) → 3x + 15 = 4x → x = 15
2. In the rectangular coordinate plane, what is the distance between the points (-3,0) and (3,8)?
a. 5
b. 8
c. 10
d. 11
e. 14
2 2 2
Answer: ℎ = 3 + 8 → ℎ = 100 = 10
3. A certain company expects quarterly earnings of 0.80$ per share of stock, half of which will be distributed as
dividends to shareholders while the rest will be used for research and development. If earnings are greater than
expected, shareholders will receive an additional $0.04 per share for each additional $0.10 of per share earnings. If
quarterly earnings are $1.10 per share, what will be the dividend paid to a person who owns 200 shares of the
company’s stock?
a. $92
b. $96
c. $104
d. $120
e. $240
Answer: [(0. 80/2) + 0. 04 * (1. 10 − 0. 80)] * 200 = [0. 4 + 0. 04 * 0. 3] * 200 = 0. 52 * 200 = 104
4. Henry purchased 3 items during a sale. He received a 20 percent discount on the regular price of the most expensive
of the 3 items and a 10 percent discount on the regular price of each of the other two items. What was the total
amount of the 3 discounts?
(1) The average (arithmetic mean) of the regular prices of the 3 items was $30.
(2) The regular price of the most expensive of the 3 items was $50.
5. On a store counter are exactly two boxes containing only purple marbles and yellow marbles. Box A has 30 purple
marbles and 20 yellow marbles; box B has 15 purple marbles and 35 yellow marbles. If Melanie randomly selects one
of the boxes and then randomly selects one marble from that box, what is the probability that the marble selected will
be purple?
a. 3/20
b. 3/10
c. 9/20
d. ⅗
e. 9/10
6. Last year, 36 houses in a certain development had roof repairs and 48 houses were repainted. If 20 houses in the
development had roof repairs but were not repainted last year, how many houses were repainted but did not have
roof repairs?
a. 12
b. 16
c. 20
d. 28
e. 32
7. A certain clay cube has a volume of 64 cubic inches. If a smaller day cube is formed and has half the volume of the
original cube, how many inches long is an edge of the smaller cube?
a. 2
b. 4
c. 8
3
d. 4
3
e. 2 4
8. A certain liquid leaks out of a container at the rate of k liters for every x hours. If the liquid costs $6 per liter, what is
the cost, in dollars, of the amount of the liquid that will leak out in y hours?
a. ky/6x
b. 6x/ky
c. 6k/xy
d. 6ky/x
e. 6xy/k
Answer: d
9. Professor Vásquez gave a quiz to two classes. Was the range of scores for the first class equal to the range of
scores for the second class?
(1) In each class, the number of students taking the quiz was 26, and the lowest score in each class was 70.
(2) In each class, the average (arithmetic mean) score on the quiz was 25.
10. One gram of a certain health food contains 7 percent of the minimum daily requirement of vitamin E and 3 percent of
the minimum daily requirement of vitamin A. If vitamins E and A are to be obtained from no other source,
approximately how many grams of the healthy food must be eaten daily to provide at least the minimum daily
requirement of both vitamins?
a. 3
b. 7
c. 10
d. 14
e. 33
Answer:
11. A certain bag contains only red balls, blue balls, and green balls. What percent of all the balls in the bag are red?
(1) The ratio of the number of red balls to the number of blue balls in the bag is 1:3
(2) There are 2 green balls in the bag.
12. What is the average of the first 90 measurements in a certain list of 92 measurements?
Answer: Together.
1
a. 8+8𝑘
2
b. 1+𝑘
1
c. 8+𝑘
4
d. 8+𝑘
4
e. 1+𝑘
1 4 2
Answer: 4 * 2+2𝑘
= 2(1+𝑘)
= 1+𝑘
14. In this figure it is shown the present position on a radar screen of a sweeping beam that is rotating at a constant rate
in a dockwise direction. in which of the four quadrants will the beam lie 30 seconds from now?
Answer: (1)
15. In the xy-plane, the vertices of a triangle have coordinate (0,0), (3,3) and (7,0). What is the perimeter of the triangle?
a. 13
b. 34
c. 43
d. 7+6 2
e. 12 + 3 2
Answer: e
16. A marketing firm determined that, of 200 households surveyed, 80 bought neither frozen nor canned vegetables, 60
bought frozen vegetables but not canned ones, and for every household that bought both frozen and canned
vegetables, 3 bought canned vegetables but not frozen ones. How many of the 200 households surveyed bought
both frozen and canned vegetables?
a. 15
b. 20
c. 30
d. 40
e. 45
METHOD 1 . ………..
METHOD 2 . .
F NF TOTAL
C X 3X 60 (step 2)
NC 60 80 140 (step
1)
TOTAL 200
17. How many positive integers less than 250 are neither perfect squares (squares of integers) not multiples of 5 ??
Answer: perfect squares until 250 – 15 integers (from 1x1 til 15x15)
multiples of 5 less than 250? → 49
249 = 15 + 49 - 3 + x → x = 188
I subtract 3 because within the perfect squares there are also multiples of 5 less than 250, more exactly 3 (5x5, 15x15 and
10x10) that’s why I take them out so we don’t count them twice.
And I put 249 instead of 250 because the problem says LESS than 250, and not less or equal
18. 40 people admitted to a certain graduate program had taken the TOEFL and 35 had taken the GRE. Were more than
65 people admitted to the graduate program?
(1) 30% of the people admitted to the program had taken both the TOEFL and the GRE.
(2) For every person admitted who had not taken either exam, 6 had taken both.
19. In a certain club, 100 members speak Cantonese, 150 speak Mandarin, and 200 speak Japanese. 120 speak exactly
two of these three languages. How many members does the club have?
(1) There are twice as many members who speak none of the languages as there are who speak all three
languages.
(2) Half of the members who speak Japanese and Cantonese also speak Mandarin.
20. I have a bowl with 5 milk chocolate ounces, 5 of dark and 5 of white. Give me the probability that:
- The first is milk
- the last is milk
- the 2º is milk
- The firt two are milk
3𝑦
21. If x is a positive integer and x is not equal to 3, which of the following is true if 𝑥 = 𝑦−1
?
a. y>0
b. y is an integer.
c. y<1
d. y not equal to ⅘
e. |𝑦| < 2
Answer: if y = ⅘, the result is negative x and the questions says it is a positive integer, thus letter “d” is correct.
the rest are incorrect. For instance, imagine x =1, then y = -1/2. I can delete a and b.
And imagine x =4. I can delete c and e.
3𝑦
Option 2: x must be a positive integer, thus: 𝑦−1
> 0. With that you get that y > 0 and y >1, thus y must be greater than 1.
Letter d is the only option
(1) k < 3m
2
(2) 𝑘𝑚 > 0
Answer: EACH
(1) 2m + 1 < k < 3m. m must be positive in order to hold this.
2
(2) 𝑘𝑚 > 0 = k > 0. Sufficient.
23. Is x + y > 0?
(1) 4x = 3y
(2) 2x - 2y < 0
24. Danila’s suitcase contains 12 books. If each book in Kay’s suitcase weighs 2¼ pounds and costs at least $7.50, does
Danila’s suitcase contain more books than Kay’s?
25. Fabio bought several pairs of socks, some woolen and the others cotton. The price of the each pair of woolen socks
was $3 higher than the price of each pair of cotton socks. What was the average price of the pairs of socks that Fabio
bought?
(1) He bought three times as many pairs of cotton socks as woolen socks.
(2) He spent twice as much money on cotton socks as he did on woolen socks.
Answer: (T)
C = Q of cotton socks W = Q of woolen socks
Pc = price one pair of cottons socks Pw = price of one pair of woolen socks
—-------------
Pw = 3 + Pc
—------------
𝑃𝑤*𝑊 + 𝑃𝑐*𝐶 (3 + 𝑃𝑐)*𝑊 + 𝑃𝑐*𝐶
𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 = 𝑊+𝐶
= 𝑊+𝐶
(3 + 𝑃𝑐)*𝑊 + 3𝑊𝑃𝑐
Statement 1: C = 3W → a𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 = 𝑊 + 3𝑊
not sufficient. we still need to know Pc
Statement 2: Pc*C=2*Pw*W → Pc*C = 2*(3 + Pc)*W not sufficient, we still don’t know Pc
Together: if in stat.1 it said that C =3W, then 3W*Pc = 6W + 2W*Pc → W*Pc = 6W → Pc = 6
(1) 4x + 3y = 24
(2) 9x - 2y = 19
Answer: (1)
Because in statement 1 if you try numbers you can see how with different options you
would get 24 but not with x=3 and y = 4 and vice versa so you could answer the question.
While with statement 2 you can see that with x=3 and y=4 you would get 19 but you
would also get 19 with x=5 and y=13 so it is not sufficient.
a. 8
b. 9
c. 10
d. 11
e. not enough information is provided
Answer: b → symmetry !!
3x + 2y + z = 10
+ x + 2y + 3z = 26
—----------------------------
4x + 4y + 4z = 36
—----------------------------
x+y+z=9
Answer: (T)
29. Each of 80 sweaters costs either $55 or $45. If the sweaters cost a total of $4,150, how many of the sweaters cost
$45?
a. 20
b. 25
c. 30
d. 35
e. 45
Answer: b
55x + 45y = 4,150
x + y = 80
—----------------------
55 (80 - y) + 45y = 4,150 → y = 25
(1) p(p + 3) = 0
(2) |𝑝 − 1| < 2
31. Janet can run 100 meters in 15 seconds. If she could run at this average speed indefinitely, how many minutes would
it take her to finish a 26 mile marathon? (1 mile = 1.6 km)
a. 2x/5
b. 3x/5
c. 15x/8
d. 8x/15
e. 3x/2
15 meters/second to km/hour
34. If G is a set of 7 distinct positive integers whose average is 12 and whose median is 9, what is the greatest integer
that could be a member of G?
Answer: 48
7 integers. that means that the median falls in X4 = 9
Thus:
1 2 3 9 10 11 ¿?
1 2 3 9 10 11 48
35. Irene is of the five members of a swimming team who each weigh at least 100 pounds. If on average, the team
members weigh 117 pounds, does Irene weigh less than 150 pounds?
Answer: EACH
SUM = 585
Satem. 1
100 100 120 120 145
Statem. 2
3
(1) y = 𝑥
(2) x - w = 5
Answer: EACH
State 1 is sufficient. Let’s first assume that 6 is the highest and 3 the smallest. The range is < 4. The range is 3 . But actually
that is the lowest range we could get. Because any other smaller value is going to give a higher range. if the lowest would be 1
→ range = 6 - 1 = 5. If the lowest was -3 → range = 6 - - 3 = 9. Statement 1 is sufficient because even if you might be thinking
that you can plug any number, the thing is that any number you plug in is gonna give you a set whose range is always gonna be
higher than 4. For instance, if x = 1 → y = 1, then the range is 6 - 1 = 4. Another example, if x = 10 → y = 1000, then the range
is 1000 - lowest…. Which one could give us the lowest value? w = 1. Assuming that, 1000 - 1 = 999.
Statement 2 is sufficient. Pay attention, if you look carefully, you will notice that x - w = 5 is like a range. What they are telling
you is that assuming that range is 5, the overall range is always >= 5
Answer: 1665
Okay relax, relax. It looks difficult but it is not, you’ve been in a similar situation before. Step by step:
- Two-digit positive: that means numbers between 10 and 99, including these two.
- And from all of this, they have to be multiple of 3!!!! How do I get there ?!?!
Listen to me, listen to me. You have done a similar exercise in the past. There is a way to know how many integers
below x number are multiples of some other nº. I put here the recall.
Nice, and now we have to add them all, but… Do I have to guess all those 30 multiples of 3 ?!?!?! There is another trick. You
just need to know some at the beginning and some at the end.
SUM = 12 + 15 + 18 + …… + 93 + 96 + 99
+ SUM = 99 + 96 + 93 + …… + 18 + 15 + 12
—---—-----------------------------------------------------
2*SUM = 111 + 111 + 111 + …… + 111 + 111 + 111
You have the incognite SUM, but how many 111 do I have? → 30 my friend hahaha, because you guessed it before.
2*SUM = 30 * 111 → SUM = 15 * 111 = 1665
1º → 10 + 11 + 12 + …… + 19 + 20 2º → 20 + 19 + 18 + ……… + 11 + 10 3º → SUM 1º + 2º
10 + 11 + 12 + …… + 19 + 20
+ 20 + 19 + 18 + …… + 11 + 10
—-------------------------------------------------
30 + 30 + 30 + …… + 30 + 30
3
39. If p (x) = 𝑥 − 7 and g(x) = 2𝑥 − 6, what is the value of g(alpha) if p(alpha) = 57 ?
Answer: g(alpha) = 2
3
57 = 𝑥 − 7
1/3 6) 1/3 2
x = 64 = (2 =2 = 4
40. $$$ represents one of the following operations: addition, multiplication, division, and subtraction. Is 10 $$$ 2 < 11 ?
𝑛
41. 𝑘1, 𝑘2,𝑘3,…..𝑘50, 𝑘51 is a sequence such that 𝑘𝑛 = (− 1) * 𝑛 for all positive integers n from 1 to 51. What is the sum
of the 51 terms of this sequence?
a. -26
b. -1
c. 0
d. 1
e. 51
Answer: a
Remember the theory about sum sequences. Below this exercise you can check the recall.
k1 = -1
k2 = 2
k3 = -3
…
…
k51 = -51
—
-1 + 2 - 3 + 4 - ………. + 50 - 51
+ (-51) + 50 - …… + 4 - 3 + 2 - 1
—-----------------------------------------------
-52 + 52 - 52 + 52 - ….. + 52 - 52
2* SUM = - 52 → SUM = -26
1º → 10 + 11 + 12 + …… + 19 + 20 2º → 20 + 19 + 18 + ……… + 11 + 10 3º → SUM 1º + 2º
10 + 11 + 12 + …… + 19 + 20
+ 20 + 19 + 18 + …… + 11 + 10
—-------------------------------------------------
30 + 30 + 30 + …… + 30 + 30
42. A sequence of number 𝑘1, 𝑘2,𝑘3,… is such that K1 = 160, and kn = (𝑘𝑛−1)/2 for all positive integers n greater than 1.
What is the sum of the first “a” terms of this sequence?
Answer: EACH
we need to guess k
State 1. sufficient. 𝑘1, 𝑘2,𝑘3,… = 160, 80, 40, 20, 10, 5, 2.5
if 𝑘𝑎−2 − 𝑘𝑎 is between 20 and 10, we can do tries, if k = 5 → 40-10 = 30, wrong. if k = 7 → 10 - 2.5 = 7.5. wrong. if k = 6 → 20 -
5 = 15. yes, and it is the only possible, so with statem. 1 is sufficient to know k.
43. If for every positive number z, //z// represents the greatest multiple of 5 less than or equal to z + 5/2, which of the
following are equal to //22.74// ?
Answer: b
17 19
44. What is the units digit of 17 − 19 ?
a. 0
b. 2
c. 4
d. 6
e. 8
Answer: e
unit digit pattern of 7 → 7, 9, 3, 1, 7, 9, 3…. → a group of 4 possibili. so 17/4 = 4.2 which means it ends up in digit 7
unit digit pattern of 9 → 9, 1, 9, 1… → a group of 2, so 19/2 = 9.5, which means it ends up in 9
???7 - ???9 = 8
14 15
What are the units digit of x? → given that x = 3 −9
1 2 3 4 5 6
3 = 3 3 = 9 3 = 27 3 = 81 3 = 243 3 = 729…….
The same happens with 9. the units when taking nine to the powers give us the following pattern: 9, 1, 9, 1, 9,....
15
if you want to know 9 , then 15/2 = 7.5, 7 rounds and a half, thus ending up in 9.
(1) k > 7 3
2 2 2
(2) k = + 8 +7 +5 + 4
Answer: EACH
in order to know if k > m, k must be <=11 or >=12
sate. 1 sufficient because 7 3= 49 3 = 147 and you don’t know the result but you know that 144 = 12, thus k > 147 >12
state. 2 is also sufficient. k = 154 that you don’t know the result but you know that 169 = 13 thus k = 169 > 12
a. 10pq
b. pq
c. pq/10
d. pq/100
e. pq/1000
Answer: c
p/100 * q/100 * 1,000 = 1,000pq/10000 = pq/10
47. Ten years ago, Benton and Chaco each had a population of 60,000. Since then, Benton’s population has risen by 50
percent, and it is now 80% higher than Chaco’s. What is the sum of their current populations?
Answer: 140,000
48. During the first month of hibernation, a bear lost 30 percent of its body weight and during the first two months of
hibernation, it lost 50 percent of its body weight. By approximately what percent did its body weight decrease during
the second month of hibernation?
Answer: 28.57%
imagine total weight is 100. During first month it ended up with 70 kg [0.70*100]. And during the first two months half, that is 50
kg [0.5*100]. Then the difference is 20 kg, which is 20/70*100 = 28.57%
49. If Leah’s electricity bill was g percent higher than her gas bill but t percent lower than her telephone bill, her telephone
bill was what percent higher than her gas bill (t<100)?
100(𝑔+𝑡)
a. 100−𝑡
%
100(𝑔𝑡)
b. 100+𝑡
%
100(𝑔𝑡)
c. 100−𝑡
%
100(𝑔𝑡)
d. 100+𝑔−𝑡
%
100(𝑔−𝑡)
e. 100+𝑡
%
Answer: A
the order is: T>E>G. So let’s imagine number: 200 > 100 > 50 → t = 100 and g = 50
200 − 50
So what is the answer to the question? 50
% = 300%
Now you just have to try with that t and g you know, which of the responses give you 300%, in this case, option a.
50. A meal consists of one dish from the first course selections, one from the main course selections, and one dessert.
Two meals are different if and only if at least one dish present in one meal is absent from the other. How many
different meals can be formed from the menu below?
salad pie
ice cream
Fruit salad
Answer: 4*3*6=72
3 2 1
2 3 5
2 1 0
2 3 5
1 0
2 3
0
2
4*3*2=24 divisors
51. How many positive integers are divisors of 600?
Answer:
PERMUTATION VS COMBINATION!
Imagine you have to create a word with 2 letter, A and B, how many possibilities do you see? → 2 right? AB or BA. That is a
permutation because order is important, AB mean a different thing than BA.
But if I tell you to create a meal with two ingredients, eggs and oil, how many possibilities? → only 1. That is a combination
because order is not important, in the sense that a meal with eggs and oil is the same as oil and eggs.
52.
53. d
54. d
55. d
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