SECTIION 5 (1) The selling price minus the real estate

30 minutes 25 questions agent’s commission was $84,600.

(2) The selling price was 250 percent of the
1. At a certain picnic, each of the guests was original purchase price of $36,000.
served either a single scoop or a double
scoop of ice cream. How many of the guests 7. What is the value of |x|?
were served a double scoop of ice cream?
(1) x = -|x|
(1) At the picnic, 60 percent of the guests (2) x2 = 4
were served a double scoop of ice cream.
(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?
8. What is the value of z in the triangle above?
(1) The price of the candy bar was increased
by 5 cents. (1) x + y = 139
(2) The price of the candy bar after the (2) y + z = 108
increase was 45 cents.
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 24-ounce
loaf of rye bread in this bakery?
3. A circular tub has a band painted around its (1) The total price of a 16-ounce loaf and a
circumference, as shown above. What is the 24-ounce loaf of this bread is $2.40.
surface area of this painted band? (2) The total price of two 16-ounce loaves and
(1) x = 0.5 one 24-ounce loaf of this bread is $3.40.
(2) The height of the tub is 1 meter.

4. Is it true that a > b?

(1) 2a > 2b 10. If , what is the value of x?
(2) a + c > b + c (1) yn = 10

5. A thoroughly blended biscuit mix includes

only flour and baking powder. What is the (2) y = 40 and n =
ratio of the number of grams of baking
powder to the number of grams of flour in 11. If m and n are consecutive positive
the mix? integers, is m greater than n?
(1) Exactly 9.9 grams of flour is contained in (1) m – 1 and n +1 are consecutive positive
10 grams of the mix. integers.
(2) Exactly 0.3 gram of baking powder is (2) m is an even integer.
contained in 30 grams of the mix.
12. Paula and Sandy were among those people
6. If a real estate agent received a commission who sold raffle tickets to raise money for
of 6 percent of the selling price of a certain Club X. If Paula and Sandy sold a total of
house, what was the selling price of the 100 of the tickets, how many of the tickets
house? did Paula sell?
 (1) y2 = 9
(2) y = 3
(1) Sandy sold as many of the raffle
tickets as Paula did. 19. If n is an integer, then n is divisible by how
(2) Sandy sold 8 percent of all the raffle many positive integers?
tickets sold for Club X.
(1) n is the product of two different prime
13. Is the integer n odd? numbers.
(2) n and 23 are each divisible by the same
(1) n is divisible by 3. number of positive integers.
(2) n is divisible by 5.
20. How many miles long is the route from
3.2□△6 Houghton to Callahan?

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

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 by above?
the company and 3 of the present (1) The length of arc XYZ is 18.
employees resign, there will be fewer (2) r = s
than 15 employees in the company.
22. If p,q,r, and s are nonzero numbers, is ​
16. If x is equal to one of the numbers (p – 1)(q - 2)2(r – 3)3(s – 4)4 ≧ 0?
(1) q > 2 and s > 4
what is the value of x? (2) p > 1 and r > 3

​ (1)

​ (2)

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

greater than a + b – c ?
(1) b is negative.
(2) c is positive.

18. If x + 2y + 1 = y – x, what is the value of

x?
23. If ☉ denotes a mathematical operation, SECTION 6
does ​ 30 minutes 25 questions
x☉y=y☉x for all x and y?
1. If x and y are positive, what’s the value of x
(1) For all x and y, x☉y = 2(x2 + y2).
?
(2) For all y, 0☉y = 2 y2
(1) x = 3.927y
24. All trainees in a certain aviator training (2) y = 2.279
program must take both a written test and a
flight test. If 70 percent of the trainees 2. John and David each received a salary
passed the written test, and 80 percent of increase. Which one received the greater
the trainees passed the flight test, what salary increase?
percent of the trainees passed both tests?
(1) John’s salary increased 8 percent.
(1) 10 percent of the trainees did not pass (2) David’s salary increased 5 percent.
either test.
(2) 20 percent of the trainees passed only 3. Carlotta can drive from her home to her
the flight test. office by one of two possible routes. If she
must also return by one of these routes,
what is the distance of the shorter route?
25. If n is an integer, is an integer? (1) When she drives from her home to her
office by the shorter route and returns by
the longer route, she drives a total of 42
(1) is an integer. kilometers.
(2) when she drives both ways from her home
to her office and back, by the longer route,
(2) is an integer. she drives a total of 46 kilometers.

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

percent of s?

(1) r =

(2) r ÷ s =

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.
7. What is the value of the sum of a list of n (2) The total weight of 1 of the photographs
odd integers?
(1) n = 8 and 2 of the negatives is ounce.
(2) The square of the number of integers 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 at respectively, of the rectangle above, what
the rate of 24 frames per second. is the perimeter?
(2) It takes 6 times as long to run the cartoon (1) 2l + w = 40
as it takes to rewind the film, and it takes a (2) l + w = 25
total of 14 minutes to do both.
15. What is the ratio of x to y?
9. What was the average number of miles per
gallon of gasoline for a car during a certain (1) x is 4 more than twice y.
trip? (2) The ratio of 0.5x to 2y is 3 to 5.

(1) The total cost of the gasoline used by the 16. If x, y, and z are three integers, are they
car for the 180-mile trip was $12.00. consecutive integers?
(2) The cost of the gasoline used by the car
for the trip was $1.20 per gallon. (1) z – x = 2
(2) x < y < z

17. What is the value of x?

10. If x and y are positive, is greater than 1? (1) – (x + y) = x - y
(1) xy >1 (2) x + y = 2
(2) x – y > 0
18. A sum of $200,000 from a certain estate
11. In ΔPQR, if PQ = x, QR = x + 2, and PR = was divided among a spouse and three
y, which of the three angles of ΔPQR has children. How much of the estate did the
the greatest degree measure? youngest child receive?
(1) y = x + 3 (1) The spouse received 1/2 of the sum from
(2) x = 2 the estate, and the oldest child received
1/4 of the remainder.
12. Is the prime number p equal to 37? (2) Each of the two younger children
received $12,500 more than the oldest
(1) p = n2 +1, where n is an integer. child and $62,500 less than the spouse.
(2) p2 is greater than 200.
19. If the Lincoln Library’s total expenditure
13. The only contents of a parcel are 25 for books, periodicals, and newspapers last
photographs and 30 negatives. What is the year was $35,000, how much of the
total weight, in ounces, of the parcel’s expenditure was for books?
contents?
(1) The expenditure for newspapers was 40
(1) The weight of each photograph is 3 percent greater than the expenditure for
times the weight of each negative. periodicals.
(2) The total of the expenditure for
periodicals and newspapers was 25
 percent less than the expenditure for SECTION 7
books. 30 minutes 25 questions

20. The symbol ▽ represents one of the 1. The regular price for canned soup was
following operations: addition, subtraction, reduced during a sale. How much money
multiplication, or division. What is the could one have saved by purchasing a dozen
value of 3 ▽ 2? 7-ounce cans of soup at the reduced price
rather than at the regular price?
(1) 0▽1 = 1
(2) 1▽0 = 1 (1) The regular price for the 7-ounce cans was
3 for a dollar.
(2) The reduced price for the 7-ounce cans
was 4 for a dollar.
21. Are the numbers and in
increasing order? 2. If on a fishing trip Jim and Tom each caught
(1) 3 < z < 4 some fish, which one caught more fish?
(2) r < z < k

22. In a certain group of people, the average (1) Jim caught as many fish as Tom.
(arithmetic mean) weight of the males is (2) After Tom stopped fishing, Jim continued
180 pounds and of the females, 120 fishing until he had caught 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 positive first hour than for each additional hour. If
integers and n is odd, does p equal 2? Nan’s total parking charge at the garage
yesterday was $3.75, for how many hours of
(1) p and r are prime numbers. parking was she charged?
(2) r ≠ 2
(1) Parking charges at the garage are $0.75 for
x+1
24. If y = 2 , what is the value of y – x? the first hour and $0.50 for each additional
hour or fraction of an hour.
(1) 22x+2 = 64 (2) If the charge for the first hour had been
(2) y = 22x –1 $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?
(1) s is divisible by 3.
(1)
(2) r is divisible by 3.
(2) y2 = (x + 1)2
 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
13. If p and q are positive integers and pq =24,
center O?
what is the value of p?
(1) The ratio of OP to PQ is 1 to 2.
(2) P is the midpoint of chord AB.

7. A certain 4-liter solution of vinegar and ​ (1)

water consists of x liters of vinegar and y
liters of water. How many liters of vinegar
does the solution contain?
​ (2)
​ (1)

​ (2) 14. If x≠0, what is the value of

(1) p = q
8. Is x < 0? (2) x = 3
(1) –2x > 0 15. From May 1,1960 to May 1,1975, the
(2) x3 < 0 closing price of a share of stock X doubled.
what was the closing price of a share of
9. Of the 230 single-family homes built in City stock X on May 1, 1960?
X last year, how many were occupied at the
end of the year? (1) From May 1,1975, to May 1,1984, the
closing price of a share of stock X
(1) Of all single-family homes in City X, 90 doubled.
percent were occupied at the end of last (2) From May 1,1975, to May 1,1984, the
year. closing price of a share of stock X
(2) A total of 7,200 single-family homes in increased by $4.50.
City X were occupied at the end of last
year.
16. If d is a positive integer, is an integer?
10. Does the product jkmn equal 1?
(1) d is the square of an integer.
​ (1) (2) is the square of an integer.
​ (2) 17. If Q is an integer between 10 and 100,
what is the value of Q?
11. How many of the boys in a group of 100
children have brown hair? (1) One of Q’s digits is 3 more than the
other, and the sum of its digits is 9.
(1) Of the children in the group, 60 percent (2) Q < 50
have brown hair.
(2) Of the children in the group, 40 are 18. If digit h is the hundredths’ digit in the
boys. decimal d=0.2h6, what is the value of d,
rounded to the nearest tenth?
 (1) d <
(2) h < 5

19. What is the value of x2 – y2?

(1) x – y = y + 2

24. The figure above shows the dimensions of

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

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.