1) What is the average (arithmetic mean) of 4x + 5, 7x-6,and -8x+2? x+1 x + 1 /3 3x + 1 3x + 1/3 3x + 3 1/3 2) In a classroom of 35 students, 14 our male.

What percent of the classroom is male? 14% 20% 30% 40% 50% 3) If the area of a triangle is 24 and its base is 6, what is the length of the altitude to that base? 3 6 8 10 unknown 4) Lenny's average score after 3 tests is 88. What score on the 4th test would bring Lenny's average up to exactly 90? 92 93 94 95 96 5) If an integer is divisible by 6 and by 9, then the integer must be divisible by which of the following? 12

18 24 36 54 6) The equation x2 = 5x 4 has how many distinct real solutions? 0 1 2 3 unknown 7) A certain machine can make 3 widgets every 2 seconds. At this rate, how many widgets will be made in 1 minute? 90 110 150 180 220 8) If x + y < 10, and x - y > 12, which of the following pairs could be the values of x and y? (2, 6) (6, -4) (8, -4) (8, -6) (10, -2) 9) If the positive integer x leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 8, what will the remainder be when x + 9 is divided by 8? 0 1 2

3 4 10)

In the triangle above, if the measure of angle B is 52 degrees, then what is the value of y? 20 22 24 28 30 11) If 6% of x is 7.5, then 36% of x equals 36 42 45 48 54 12) In a downtown building, there are 6 floors and the number of rooms on each floor is R. If each room has exactly C chairs, which of the following gives the total number of chairs in the building? 6R+C 6R + 6C
6

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6RC

.6RC 13)

In pentagon ABCDE shown above, each side is 1 centimeter. If a particle starts at point A and travels clockwise 183 centimeters along ABCDE, the particle will stop on which point? A B C D E 14) What is the greatest prime factor of 77? 7 11 27 43 77 15) A business is owned by 9 women and 1 man, each of whom owns an equal share. If one of the women sells 1/2 of her share to the man, and another woman keeps 1/5 of her share and sells the rest to the man, what fraction of the business will the man own?

1 1

/2 /3 /32

11 7

/8 /100

23

16)

At a bedding convention, 400 dealers sold either blankets or sheets or both. If 163 dealers sold both blankets and sheets, and 117 dealers sold only blankets, how many dealers sold only sheets?

86 97 104 120 145 17) For all values of x, (3x + 4) (4x - 3) = 7x+1 7x-12 12x2+7x-12 12x2-25x-12 12x2-12 18) Steve types at an average rate of 8 pages per hour. At that rate, how many hours will it take Jan to type 100 pages? 81/3 9 121/2 142/5 191/3

Complete the sentence below with the word or pair of words that best fits the sentence. SAMPLE: The abandoned house was dilapidated and ____________. A) glossy B) decrepit C) renovated D) modern E) baroque The correct answer is B, decrepit. An abandoned, dilapidated house is likely to be decrepit, and not glossy, renovated, modern, or baroque. 1. He had a/an _________imagination owing to years of work in a dull, unchallenging job. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) vivid elaborate ornate impoverished nondescript

2. Because the boat had been _________to the dock with a thin piece of string, it came unattached in the face of strong night-time winds. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) bound attached tethered plastered roped

3. The sedative _________his capacity to construct and articulate elaborate, logical arguments. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) sharpened eliminated augmented thwarted eviscerated

4. The parking cones blocking the exit to the school parking lot _________her_________. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) facilitated...exit enabled...entry obviated...egress simplified...departure prevented...flight

5. The ball _________around the wall in a _________that resembled the path of a boomerang. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) moved...graph swung...line travelled...ellipse swerved...trajectory levitated...path

6. As a result of his teacher's_________ he began to apply himself _________to his studies. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) recriminations...intensely praise...half-heartedly admonitions...assiduously brilliance...carelessly criticism...hard

7. While Jim's tastes in art were variegated and_________, his brother_________ collected only Impressionist paintings and prints. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) uniform...obstinately polyvalent...half-heartedly monochrome...insouciantly disciplined...resolutely eclectic...stubbornly

8. The _________sound of the dripping faucet _________his hypersensitive temperament. (A) inexorable...exasperated

(B) (C) (D) (E)

timorous...soothed erratic...placated strident...stimulated sonorous...frayed

9. Her perceptive, _________analysis unravelled the problem by means of sharp reasoning and observation. (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) crude trenchant efficacious laborious acute

Choose the pair of words that best matches the relationship between the original pair of words. SQUARE: FOUR A) TRIANGLE: THREE B) PENTAGON: SIX C) HEXAGON: FIVE D) OCTAGON: TEN E) NONAGON: SEVEN The correct answer is A. Four is the number of sides in a square. Three is the number of sides in a triangle. 10. SAD: DEJECTED (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) HAPPY: ELATED ANGRY: INDIFERRENT FLIGHTY: WHIMSICAL MOROSE: UNHAPPY SEDATED: CALM

11. PHILATELIST: STAMPS (A) (B) (C) BIBLIOPHILE: BIBLES LAPIDOPTERIST: BUTTERFLIES KLEPTOMANIAC: THIEVES

(D) (E)

PEDOPHILE: BIKES NARCISSIST: NARCOTICS

12. TENNIS: BALL (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) RUGBY: COWL CROQUET: PUCK CRICKET: DISC GOLF: IRON BADMINTON: SHUTTLECOCK

13. BADMINTON: SHUTTLECOCK (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) EMOTIONAL: FEELINGS NERVOUS: FEAR RETICENT: SPEECH LOQUACIOUS: SPEECH SOLICITOUS: CONCERN

14. CIRCLE: SPHERE (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) TRAINGLE: RHOMBUS SQARE: CUBE ELLIPSE: CONE LINE: PLANE POINT: CIRCLE

15. CODA: SYMPHONY (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) SUMMARY: REPORT ABSTRACT: ARTICLE EPILOGUE: BOOK INTRODUCTION: DISSERTATION BIBLIOGRAPHY: ESSAY

The following passage reflects on slavery and America in the mid-19th century. During the campaign when Lincoln was first a candidate for the Presidency, the slaves on our far-off plantation, miles from any railroad or large city or daily newspaper, knew what the issues involved were. When war was begun between the North and the South, every slave on our plantation felt and knew that, though other issues were discussed, the primal one was that of slavery. Even the most ignorant members of my race on the remote plantations felt in their hearts, with a certainty that admitted of no doubt, that the freedom of the slaves would be the one great result of the war, if the Northern armies conquered. Every success of the Federal armies and every defeat of the Confederate forces was watched with the keenest and most intense interest. Often the slaves got knowledge of the results of great battles before the white people received it. This news was usually gotten from the coloured man who was sent to the post-office for the mail. In our case the post-office was about three miles from the plantation and the mail came once or twice a week. The man who was sent to the office would linger about the place long enough to get the drift of the conversation from the group of white people who naturally congregated there, after receiving their mail, to discuss the latest news. The mail-carrier on his way back to our master's house would as naturally retail the news that he had secured among the slaves, and in this way they often heard of important events before the white people at the "big house," as the master's house was called. I cannot remember a single instance during my childhood or early boyhood when our entire family sat down to the table together, and God's blessing was asked, and the family ate a meal in a civilized manner. On the plantation in Virginia, and even later, meals were gotten by the children very much as dumb animals get theirs. It was a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there. It was a cup of milk at one time and some potatoes at another. Sometimes a portion of our family would eat out of the skillet or pot, while some one else would eat from a tin plate held on the knees, and often using nothing but the hands with which to hold the food. When I had grown to sufficient size, I was required to go to the "big house" at meal-times to fan the flies from the table by means of a large set of paper fans operated by a pully. Naturally much of the conversation of the white people turned upon the subject of freedom and the war, and I absorbed a good deal of it. I remember that at one time I saw two of my young mistresses and some lady visitors eating ginger-cakes, in the yard. At that time those cakes seemed to me to be absolutely the most tempting and desirable things that I had ever seen; and I then and there resolved that, if I ever got free, the height of my ambition would be reached if I could get to the point where I could secure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing. Of course as the war was prolonged the white people, in many cases, often found it difficult to secure food for themselves. I think the slaves felt the deprivation less than the whites, because the usual diet for the slaves was corn bread and pork, and these could be raised on the plantation; but coffee, tea, sugar, and other articles which the whites had been accustomed to use could not be raised on the plantation, and the conditions brought about by the war frequently made it impossible to secure these things. The whites were often in great straits. Parched corn was used for coffee, and a kind of black molasses was used instead of sugar. Many times nothing was used to sweeten the so-called tea and coffee.

16. Who is the author of this passage? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) A slaveowner A slave Lincoln A white farmowner A mail-carrier

17. According to the author, what is the main issue of the war? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) wages terrorism women slavery the post-office

18. How do the slaves get news about the war? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) newspaper speeches by politicians mistresses television word of mouth

19. What is the author's reaction to the sight of 'visitors eating gingercakes?' (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) disgust anger desire fear laughter

20. How often can the author recall eating dinner at a table with his family? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) once twice on a daily basis never on several occasions

21. As the war continued, who felt more deprived by the lack of food? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) slaves slave-owners mistresses children whites

22. What was used for coffee during the wartime shortage of food? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) molasses sugar cane parched corn ginger ginseng

23. What is the tone of the passage? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) mournful nostalgic informative phantasmagorical bitter

Questions 24-30 refer to the following passage.View Passage The following passage discusses the significance of the late 18th century in the history of Japan. In his book Japan and Its World, Marius Jansen claims that Tokugawa Japan experienced, in the 1770s, an intellectual and cultural revolution so profound that it marked Japan's entry into a new, modern age saliently characterized by a preference for Western intellectual paradigms in contradistinction to those that were Chinese. "The products of this [revolution]," Jansen writes, "included a work on electricity, and another expressing pointed preference for Western approaches to physics over the explanations in traditional Chinese learning. But the shift is perhaps most appropriately symbolized by the celebrated decision of the doctor Sugita Gempaku to be present at the execution of a criminal in 1771." (8) In what follows I shall discuss Sugita Gempaku and the dissection of 1771 in some detail, but for now I want to turn my attention to a different topic and to venture some preliminary remarks about Jansen's essay in the context of periodization. The classical periodization of Japan in the last 4 hundred years divides it into 3 periods: Edo or Tokugawa Japan, from 1600-1868; Meiji Japan from 1868-1912; and post Meiji

Japan, from 1912 until the present, this last being a somewhat incongruous category insofar as it spans imperial Japan, Japan under American occupation, and the Democratic republic of Japan we have today. When considered in light of this chronology, Jansen's essay offers a refreshing alternative to the classical periodization that tends to suggest that Japan was closed off from foreign contact until 1868 and the Meiji restoration. This reperiodization of Edo Japan-putatively understood as a thematic unity from 1600-1868divides it into two periods separated by the historical rupture epitomized by the dissection of 1771, and it leads Jansen to three important conclusions: (1) In the 1770s we encounter the birth of Japanese modernity characterized by accession to Western models of inquiry and critical reflection; (2) The subsequent years are marked by a wave of translations of Dutch texts into Japanese; and (3) Chinese intellectual and spiritual authority is coming to an end.

24. What is the main topic of the passage? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) The Meiji Period The Edo Period Imperial Japan Sugita Gempaku Marius Jansen's interpretation of modern Japanese history

25. The passage is primarily concerned with the role of which of following? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) Physics Medicine Art Archaeology Chemistry

26. Jansen claims 1771 is famous in Japanese history for what reason? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) the invention of the telescope the discovery of the periodic table the translation of the Bible the dissection of a corpse the death of the emperor

27. Which of the following is exemplary of the intellectual and cultural revolution of Japan in the 1770s? (A) a renaissance in Chinese learning

(B) (C) (D) (E)

the decline of Dutch studies the popularity of Dutch studies the birth of feudalism in Japan the invention of Kanji

28. What does the author mean by 'periodization?' (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) the practice of defining historical periods claiming that a historical event occurs periodically the writing of history theories of temporality understanding a country's history through the sequence of its rulers

29. What does the author plan to discuss in detail later? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) the Meiji restoration theories of modernity Sugita Gempaku and the dissection of 1771 Japanese colonialism The annexation of Hokkaido

30. This passage is most likely which of the following? (A) (B) (C) (D) (E) the introduction to an essay on Chinese learning the introduction to an essay on Western medicine in late 18th century Japan the conclusion to an essay on Dutch studies in Japan the conclusion to an essay on modernity in Japan the introduction to an essay on the history of science in 18th century China