1. The questions 1-7 are followed by five answer choices. Choose the best answer.

2.5 times the product of 20 and 30 is: 1600 1200 1150 1500 (correct answer, your response) 900 2. Feedback: The expression becomes 2.5 x 20 x 30 = 1500. Hence, (D) is the answer.

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2. If p > 4 and q > 2 then p q > 8 (your response) p < 2q pq>6 p + q > 2 (correct answer) p > 2q 3. Feedback: Since p > 4 and q > 2 , just by adding these two inequalities, we get, p + q > 2. Choice (A) is false if p = 9 and q = 1. For Choice (E), p > 4 => p < 4. q > 2 => 2q > 4.Therefore, p > 2q is false.Thus, the correct answer is (D).

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3. What is the value of x if 54 27 (correct answer, your response) 30 15 25

4. Feedback:

and

Therefore,

Since this is equal to x : 45, Thus, (B) is the correct answer.

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4. The lengths of the three sides AB, BC and AC of triangle ABC are in the ratio 3:5:7. If the length of side BC is 25 units, what is the perimeter of the triangle? 12 48 60 75 (correct answer, your response) 15 5. Feedback: Perimeter P of the triangle is equal to sum of its sides. As the sides are in the ratio 3: 5 : 7, the lengths of the sides are 3P/15, 5P/15 and 7P/15 respectively. Since 5P/15= 25, we get P = 75 units. Thus, the correct answer is (D).

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5. In a city, there are 40 men and 60 women who are considering contesting a local election. If they all contest the election and no one else does, what is the percentage of contestants that will be male? 10 20

 30 40 (correct answer, your response) 60 6. Feedback: If they all contest, men will constitute 40/100 = 40% of the contestants. Hence, the answer is (D).

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6.

+2 -2 1 7. Feedback: (correct answer, your response)

and

Therefore,

Further,

This implies, Thus, (B) is the correct answer.

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7. The average of 12 numbers is 16. When one number is discarded and 15 is added, the average becomes 17. What is the number that is discarded? 12 5 3 (correct answer, your response) 6 10 8. Feedback: Since 16 is the average of 12 numbers, their sum is 12 X 16 = 192. Similarly, since 17 is the average of 12 numbers after discarding one number and adding 15, the sum of these 12 numbers = 12 X 17 = 204. Since 204 = 192 discarded number + 15, the discarded number = 207 204 = 3. Hence, (C) is the correct answer.

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8. Directions for questions 8 9

Following each of the questions below you are given two statements. To answer the question, you can use one or both statements. Choose

A. If statement (1) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) alone is not. B. If statement (2) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) alone is not. C. If both, statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement is independently sufficient to answer the question. D. If both statements are INDEPENDENTLY sufficient to answer the question. E. If both statements taken either independently or together are INSUFFICIENT to answer the question.

If x is an integer, is x/2 an even number?

1. x is a multiple of 4. 2. x is a multiple of 8. A B C D (correct answer, your response) E 9. Feedback: Statement (1) tells us that x is a multiple of 4. Thus the number can be 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24... So, it is quite obvious that the number x/2 is also an even number. Hence, the probable answer choices are (A) and (D). The second statement tells us that the number is a multiple of 8. This data can also be used to answer the question independently. The correct answer is (D).

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9. Sir Connery has a passion for original paintings. He has a collection of 1600 paintings, which include only Rembrandts, Picassos and Van Goughs. How many of his paintings are by Rembrandt? 1. All Rembrandts cost more than $25000 each. 2. The Picasso and Van Gough paintings are worth less than $15000 each and make up 60% of his collection. A B (correct answer, your response) C D E 10. Feedback: Statement (1) gives the cost of the Rembrandts, which is of no use to solve the problem. The second statement is sufficient to solve the problem as it gives the percentage of the paintings other than those made by Rembrandt, enabling us to reach the answer directly.

The question provides us with the exact number of paintings which when used with the second statement gives the answer: 40/100 x 1600 = 640. The correct answer is (B).

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10. The questions below are followed by five answer choices. Choose the best answer

What is the solution to the inequality 2x + 35 >= 20? x=0 x >= 7.5 (your response) x <= -7.5 x <= 7.5 x >= -7.5 (correct answer) 11. Feedback: The inequality simplifies as 2x > = 15. x > = 7.5. Thus, (E) is the answer.

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11. If x > 0, then what is the value of x if (x + 5) (x 4) = 0? 3 -5 4 (correct answer, your response) 5 6 12. Feedback: Since the product is zero, one of the two values has to be zero. Hence, either x + 5 = 0, or x 4 = 0. Hence x = 5 or 4. Since x > 0, x = 4. Therefore, the answer is (C).

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12. A certain gun can fire 7 bullets every 3 seconds. If the gun fires without interruption, how many bullets will it fire in 3 minutes? 140 420 (correct answer, your response) 400 1000 280 13. Feedback: The total time is 3 x 60 = 180 seconds. The number of bullets fired will be = 7 x 180/3 = 420. Hence the answer is (B)

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13. Additional directions for questions 13 15 You are provided information for these questions in the pie-chart. It shows allocation of expenditure to various items. The numbers refer to the angle made by the slice of the pie (in degrees). What percent of income is allocated for Revenue Expenditure?

(correct answer, your response)

 45% None of these 14. Feedback: The angle from the diagram for Revenue Expenditure is 130 degrees. So, the percentage is 130/360 x 100 = . Hence (A) is the correct answer.

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14. The excess percent allocation of expenditure on Welfare over Infrastructure is 5% 4% 10% None of these 15. Feedback: The difference in the angles from the diagram = 90 60 = 30 degrees. So, the excess percentage 30/360 x 100 = . Hence (B) is the correct answer. (correct answer, your response)

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15. The ratio of expenditures on Welfare to Education is 5:2 5:3 9:4 (correct answer, your response) 3:2 None of these 16. Feedback: The ratio will be the same as proportion of angles that is 90:40 = 9/4, Thus, (C) is the correct answer.

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16. 160 men can dig 3200 m of a canal in 12 days. How many men are required to dig 3600 m more of canal in 8 days? 213 (your response) 144 270 (correct answer) 225 175 17. Feedback: The number of men required is in direct proportion to the length of the canal and is inversely proportional to the number of days in which to complete the task. Because, longer the canal, larger is the number of people required and larger the number of people fewer is the number of days taken to complete the task. Let x be the number of men required. We then have x/160 = (3600/3200) x (12/8) = 270. Hence, (C) is the correct answer.

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17. What is Bobs age today, if he will be twice Steves age next year? Steve is 12 years old today. 23 24 25 (correct answer, your response) 26 27 18. Feedback: Steve will be 13 next year. Hence, Bob will be 26 next year. So Bob is 25 this year. The correct answer is (C).

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18. Directions for questions 18 19

Following each of the questions below you are given two statements. To answer the question, you can use one or both statements. Choose

A. If statement (1) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) alone is not. B. If statement (2) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) alone is not. C. If both, statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement is independently sufficient to answer the question. D. If both statements are INDEPENDENTLY sufficient to answer the question. E. If both statements taken either independently or together are INSUFFICIENT to answer the question.

Find the height of the highest mountain in the Himalayan mountain range above sea level. 1. In the Himalayan range, the difference between the height of the tallest peak and sea level is 8200 meters. 2. The average height of all 62 recognized peaks in the Himalayan range is 7520 meters. A (correct answer) B C (your response) D E 19. Feedback: The first statement directly gives the desired answer. The second statement gives the average height of all the 62 peaks but is of no use to answer the question. The correct answer is (A).

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19. How many movies did we see in 24 hours? 1. The first movie shown was The Goal. 2. We saw movies air the entire duration without any break, and the average length of the Stories was 1 hour 30 minutes. A B (correct answer, your response)

 C D E 20. Feedback: The first statement gives the name of the first movie shown which is irrelevant. The second statement gives the average length of each movie making it possible to obtain the number of movies; 24/1.5 =16 movies. The answer is (B).

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20. A lake has a rare breed of lotuses that triple in number every minute. If one third of the lake is full of flowers in 30 minutes, what is the total time taken for the whole lake to be full? 1 minute 31 minutes (correct answer) 90 minutes (your response) 60 minutes 30 minutes 21. Feedback: Normally, if 1/3rd of an activity takes 30 minutes, the whole activity takes 3 x 30 = 90 minutes to complete. Here, the number of flowers triples every minute. So, from the time the lake is 1/3 full it only takes a minute more for the whole lake to be full. So, (C) is NOT the correct answer. (A) is also not the right choice since we need the total time taken and not the additional time. The total time taken is the time taken for the lake to be 1/3rd full + 1 minute = 30 + 1 = 31 minutes. Thus, (B) is the correct answer.

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21. Directions for questions 21 23

Following each of the questions below you are given two statements. To answer the question, you can use one or both statements. Choose

A. If statement (1) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) alone is not. B. If statement (2) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) alone is not. C. If both, statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement is independently sufficient to answer the question. D. If both statements are INDEPENDENTLY sufficient to answer the question. E. If both statements taken either independently or together are INSUFFICIENT to answer the question.

What is the remainder when the positive integer z is divided by 3? 1. z is an even integer. 2. z is a multiple of 6.

A B (correct answer, your response) C D E 22. Feedback: Statement (1) is not sufficient to answer the question. For example, 4/3 leaves a remainder of 1 while 6/3 leaves no remainder. However, statement (2) is sufficient. If a number is a multiple of 6 then it has to be a multiple of 3. Thus the remainder when the number is divided by 3 is 0. The correct answer is (B).

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22. What was Asterixs score in the last 5 exams : 1. His average for the last 6 exams was 73%. 2. He scored 79% in his first test. A B C

 D E (correct answer, your response) 23. Feedback: It is apparent that both statements contain incomplete data. Both statements speak about Asterixs performance in term of percentage. However, unless his actual marks in the first test or total marks are known, the answer cannot be determined. Hence the correct answer is (E).

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23. Is 2010 the average (arithmetic mean) score on the MTE test? 1. The highest MTE score is 2350 and the lowest score is 850. 2. Half of those who take the MTE score above 2000 and the other half score below 2000 A B C (your response) D E (correct answer) 24. Feedback: Knowing the highest and the lowest scores tells us nothing about the other scores, statement (1) is not enough. Statement (2) is tempting but suppose two people take the MTE, one scores 2300 and the other scores 1000, surely the average is not 2010. So, statement (2) cannot give us the answer. The statements taken together also cannot answer our question. The correct answer is (E).

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24. The questions below are followed by five answer choices. Choose the best answer.

If I.

is odd which of the following is true? is even

II.

is even

III. (n 1)(n + 1) is even IV. n is odd Only I Only IV III and IV (correct answer, your response) Only II I and II 25. Feedback: Since = n x n x n is odd, it implies that n is odd. This is because any number

when multiplied by an even number gives an even number, while the product of two odd numbers is odd. By the same logic, both and are odd. Now, (n 1)(n + 1) = 1 is

even, since the square of odd numbers is always odd and taking 1 away will make it even. Thus, both III and IV are true. Hence (C) is the correct answer.

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25. Which of the following equations has roots that are equal in magnitude but opposite in sign to the roots of the equation 26. Feedback: So, -3 and -2 are the roots of this (correct answer, your response)

equation. Therefore, we need to find an equation whose roots are 3 and 2. We can substitute these in the equations given (OR), just by examining the constant term and the coefficient of x in the equations, we can conclude that (D) is the correct answer.

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26. Directions for questions 26 30

Following each of the questions below you are given two statements. To answer the question, you can use one or both statements. Choose

A. If statement (1) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) alone is not. B. If statement (2) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) alone is not. C. If both, statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement is independently sufficient to answer the question. D. If both statements are INDEPENDENTLY sufficient to answer the question. E. If both statements taken either independently or together are INSUFFICIENT to answer the question.

What is the volume of the cylindrical ice-cream dispenser vessel? 1. The vessel contains enough ice-cream to fill 50 small cups made of card paper. 2. The vessel dispenses butterscotch flavored ice-cream. A B C D E (correct answer, your response) 27. Feedback: Statement (2) gives us the flavor of the ice-cream dispensed, which is irrelevant to the problem. Statement (1) gives the quantity of ice-cream the vessel-can dispense but in cup. measurements, dimensions of which are not specified. Thus the correct answer is (E).

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27. What is the capacity of the fuel tank of my motorcycle? 1. When I started at 9.00 am to travel from New York to Washington my fuel tank was filled to

the brim. 2. When I stopped halfway at 1.00 pm for my lunch-break, my fuel tank was half-empty. A B C D E (correct answer, your response) 28. Feedback: We can easily make out that both the statements give us information in terms of fractions of the fuel tanks but no specific figures. Thus the answer is (E).

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28. What is the average age of the members of the Quidditch team? 1. The oldest player is 35 years old, whereas the youngest player is 18 years old. 2. Out of the total of 11 players in the team, the average of the 9, other than the oldest and the youngest player is 23. A B (your response) C (correct answer) D E 29. Feedback: The first statement gives the age of the youngest and the oldest player of the team. However, no clue is provided about the ages of the remaining players. Hence, this statement is of no use to us. The probable answers are (B), (C), and (E). The second statement gives the average age of the remaining players. Using both the statements, the average age can be found out as [(9 x 23) + 35 + 18]/11. Hence, the answer is (C).

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29. J, P, G, and R form a rock band. What was their total earning at the end of the first year?

1. For the first year, their average earning per member per month was 60,000 USD. 2. J received twice the amount that R received and P received three times the amount that G received. A (correct answer, your response) B C D E 30. Feedback: The first statement gives sufficient information to solve the problem. The required answer can be found by using the data given by the first statement as follows 60000 x 4 x 12 = 28,80,000. The second statement gives a ratio of earnings, which by itself does not help us to arrive at actual numbers. Hence, the correct answer is (A).

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30. The number of people who can vote for an election is 78% of the population. How many of them actually cast their vote? 1. The population of the town is 89,000. 2. 64% of the eligible men and 56% of the eligible women voted A B C (your response) D E (correct answer) 31. Feedback: The data is not sufficient to answer the question, since the total number of men and women is unknown. The first statement gives the total population of the town, which by itself provides insufficient data. The next statement gives the percentage of men and women who voted but gives no indication about the actual number of men and women in the village. The correct answer is (E).

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31. The questions below are followed by five answer choices Choose the best answer

The age of two friends today is x and y years respectively. 12 years ago, the sum of their ages was? x + y 24 (correct answer, your response) x + y 12 x+y xy x y + 12 32. Feedback: Their ages 12 years ago would have been x 12 and y 12 respectively. Therefore, the sum of their ages would have been x 12 + y 12 = x + y 24. Hence, the answer is (A).

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32. If the cab charge for the first one mile is $1 and every subsequent 1/5th of a mile or fraction thereof is charged at 'a' cents, what is the total charge payable in cents for a distance of 'b' miles where 'b' is a whole number? 1 + (b 1)5a 5ab 100 + (b 1)5a (correct answer, your response) 100+ab 100 + (b 1)a 33. Feedback: The first mile gets charged at $1 = 100 cents. The balance (b 1) miles are charged at a cent for every 1/5 of the mile. So, the charge applicable for the (b 1) miles = (b 1) x 5a cents since b is a whole number. Thus, the total charge applicable = 100 + (b 1) 5a. Thus, (C) is the correct answer.

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33. The length of a rectangular plot is increased by 25%. To keep its area unchanged, the width of the plot should be: kept unchanged. increased by 25%. reduced by 25%. increased by 20%. reduced by 20%. (correct answer, your response) 34. Feedback: Let L and W be the original length and width of the rectangular plot. Its area is LW. When the length is increased by 25%, it changes to 1.25L. If W is the new width, to keep the area unchanged, we will have 1 .25LW = LW. Therefore, W = 0.8 W which implies a 20% reduction. Hence, (E) is the correct answer. Note that, a 25% rise in length will not be nullified by 25% reduction in width since 1.25 x 0.75 is not equal to 1. So, (C) is not the correct answer.

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34. Directions for questions 34 37

Following each of the questions below you are given two statements. To answer the question, you can use one or both statements. Choose

A. If statement (1) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) alone is not. B. If statement (2) ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) alone is not. C. If both, statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but neither statement is independently sufficient to answer the question. D. If both statements are INDEPENDENTLY sufficient to answer the question. E. If both statements taken either independently or together are INSUFFICIENT to answer the

question.

Is Kenny shorter than Garry? 1. Garry is much taller than Vinny. 2. Vinny is much shorter than Kenny. A B C (your response) D E (correct answer) 35. Feedback: The first statement tells us that Garry is much taller then Vinny. The next statement tells us that Vinny is shorter than Kenny. But these statements when used simultaneously tell us that Vinny is the shortest but do not give us a comparison of the heights of Kenny and Garry. Hence it is not possible to reach a solution with the data given. The correct answer is (E).

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35. How many minutes will the clock lose in 504 hours? 1. The clock loses 0.4 minutes in g hours. 2. Ever 6 hours, the clock loses 2.5 minutes. A B (correct answer, your response) C D E 36. Feedback: Statement (1) is not enough, as it provides no value of g. Statement (2) easily answers our question. The correct answer is (B).

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36. G is a sequence such that each term is 3 more than the preceding term. What is the third term of G? 1. The middle term of G is 15. 2. The first term of G is 0. A B (correct answer) C (your response) D E 37. Feedback: Statement (1) is not sufficient as we do not know how many terms there are. For example: 12, 15, 18 and 9, 12, 15, 18, 21. Statement (2) is sufficient to answer the question. Since the first term is 0, the third term will be 6. The correct answer is (B).

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37. If after 9 years a man gets a simple interest of $9576 on his investment, what is the rate at which the simple interest is given? 1. The principle + interest after 9 years is $22475. 2. Had he invested $5908 more, the bank would have offered him compound interest. A (correct answer, your response) B C D E 38. Feedback: The first statement gives us all the required data to get to the solution as follows: rate = (9576)/(22475 9576) 9 = 8.2%. Statement (2) is irrelevant. The correct answer is (A).

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