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Q1. Which year had the second most difficult exam? A) 2000 B) 2001 C) 2002 D) 2004 E) 2006 Q2.

By approximately what percentage did the number of questions decrease from CEE 2000 to CEE 2006? A) 11 B) 22 C) 27 D) 33 E) 37 Q3. In which year were the test takers given the least time to answer all the questions? A) 2000 B) 2001 C) 2002 D) 2004 E) 2006

Q4. If the pressure factor for the examinees in an exam is defined as Difficulty level divided by the average time (in minutes) given per question, then the pressure factor equals which of the following for CEE 2006? A) 7.5 B) 10 C) 12.5 D) 15 E) 17.5 Q5. If the stress factor for the examinees in an exam is defined as the product of the difficulty level and number of questions divided buy the average time given per question, then the stress factor equals which one of the following in the exam CEE 2005? A) 2 per second B) 3 per second C) 4 per second D) 6 per second E) 9 per second

Q6. BY approximately what percent did the number of questions decrease in CET 1994 over the previous year? A) 16% B) 19% C) 35% D) 40% E) 50%

Q7. The difficulty factor is greatest for which of the following exams? A) CET 1990 B) CET 1991 C) CET 1992 D) CET 1993 E) CET 1994 Q8. Which one of the following exams has been marked as having the highest stress factor? A) CET 1990 B) CET 1991 C) CET 1992 D) CET 1993 E) CET 1994 Q9. Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the table? I. As the stress factor increased, the cut off marls of the top five universities decreased. II. As the difficulty factor of the exam decreased, the cut off marks of the top five universities increased. III. As the difficulty factor increased, the stress factor increased. A) I only B) II only C) III only D) I and II only E) I and III only

Q10. Which one of the following industry groups employs the maximum number of people? A) Utilities B) Information C) State Government D) Natural Resources and Mining E) Transportation and Warehousing Q11. Which one of the following industry groups employs more than 10 employees per establishment? A) Construction B) Manufacturing C) Wholesale Trade D) Retail Trade E) Transportation and Warehousing

Q12. Which one of the following is a valid inference? I. The state government can be inferred as employing the highest number of employees per establishment only because the percentage employment it provides is the highest. The number of establishments is not important. II. The State Government can be inferred as employing the highest number of Employees per Establishment since it has the least number of organizations and offers the highest Employment. III. The State Government can be inferred as employing the highest number of Employees per Establishment since it has the least number of organizations and offers the highest Percentage of Employment. A) I only B) II only C) III only D) I and II E) II and III Q13. A certain salesman's yearly income is determined by a base salary plus a commission on the sales he makes during the year. Did the salesman's base salary account for more than half of the salesman's yearly income last year? 1) If the amount of the commission had been 30 percent higher, the salesman's income would have been 10 percent higher last year. 2) The difference between the amount of the salesman's base salary and the amount of the commission was equal to 50 percent of the salesman's base salary last year. Q14. Three business partners shared all the proceeds from the sale of their privately held company. If the partner with the largest share received exactly 5/8 of the total proceeds, how much money did the partner with the smallest share receive from the sale? 1) The partner with the smallest share received from the sale exactly 1/5 the amount received by the partner with the second largest share. 2) The partner with the second largest share received from the sale exactly half of the two million dollars received by the partner with the largest share. Q15. 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.

Data Analysis Q1. Joe is 6 years younger than Anna and 4 years older than Ricardo. What is the ratio of Annas age to Ricardos age? A) 1:10 B) 4:6 C) 6:4 D) 10:1 E) Cannot be determined Q2. Each team in a certain sport has a team flag. Each flag consists of 3 vertical stripes. On each flag, the colors of the stripes must all be different, and the stripes must be chosen from the following colors: white, orange, blue, red, green, yellow, black, purple, or brown. A team flag could have one of how many possible color arrangements? A) 240 B) 272 C) 504 D) 648 E) 729 Q3. Greg has more marbles than Susan. If the average (arithmetic mean) of their marbles equals the difference of their marbles, what is the ratio of Gregs marbles to Susans marbles? A) 5:4 B) 4:3 C) 2:1 D) 3:1 E) Cannot be determined Q4. Of the 600 students who graduated from Buzz Aldrin High, 1/4 entered the work force, 2/3 went to college, and 1/6 went to trade school. If 1/12 of the students both went to college and entered the workforce, and if no students went to both college and trade school, then how many students both joined the work force and went to trade school? A) 0 B) 50 C) 100 D) 150 E) cannot be determined Q5. If (E2 + A2) (D2 + B2) = 6, then (E2 + D2) (A2 + B2) could equal A) 100 B) 84

C) 36 D) 30 E) 19 Q6. If each of the seven numbers were increased by 2, the resulting average would be 22. If four of the numbers are 6, 7, 8, and 9, and the largest number cannot exceed 37, what could be one of the remaining three? A) 30 B) 31 C) 32 D) 35 E) 36 Q7. If 50% of x is multiplied first by 7% of 4x, then by 5% of x, the result will be what percent of 2x3? A) 15% B) 0.35% C) 0.70% D) 1.35% E) 7% Q8. Among employees at Porpoise World, college graduates outnumber high school graduates by 30%. Likewise, women outnumber men by 40%. What is the smallest possible number of total employees at Porpoise World? A) 120 B) 182 C) 276 D) 390 E) 552 Q9. A chemist is designing a new hair growth formula using this formula: one does chemical A, 2 doses chemical B, 3 doses chemical C, and 4 doses chemical D. If the drug executives, who calculate costs for one complete formula at $22,000, set the price of chemical C at 1/3 that of chemical A, and if 2 doses of chemical C cost $3,000, then how much will a dose of chemical B and 2 doses of chemical D cost? A) $3,000 B) $6,500 C) $11,000 D) $13,000 E) $19,500 Q10. The average of 4 integers is 23 and the sum of the 3 greatest numbers is 84. Which of the following could be false? I. The 3 greatest numbers are each divisible by the least.

II. The least number is 8 III. At least one of the 3 greatest numbers is even. A) I only B) II only C) I and II only D) I and III only E) I, II, and III Q11. At Julies Jewellery Inc., there are necklaces, bracelets, and rings for sale. If $30.00 were to be added to the price of a necklace, the cost would be the same as that of the sum of 90% of the price of a bracelet and 75% of the price of the ring. If $20 were to be added to the price of a bracelet, the price would be the same as that of the sum of 3/5 of the price of a necklace and 3/4 of the price of a ring. If the piece of a ring is the same as that of the sum of 40% of the price of necklace ad 10% of the price of a bracelet, then how much d o two rings cost? A) $25 B) $50 C) $100 D) $150 E) $200 Q12. Which of the following cannot be the median of the three positive integers x, y, and z? A) x B) z C) x + z D) (x + z)/2 E) (x + z)/3 Q13. A certain musical scale has 13 notes, each having a different frequency, measured in cycles per second. In the scale, the notes are ordered by increasing frequency, and the highest frequency is twice the lowest frequency. For each of the 12 lower frequencies, the ratio of a frequency to the next higher frequency is a fixed constant. If the lowest frequency is 440 cycles per second, then the frequency of the 7th note in the scale is how many cycles per second? A) 4402 B) 44027 C) 440212 D) 440 1227 E) 440 7212 Q14. Equal amounts of water were poured into two empty jars of different capacities, which made one jar 1/4 full and the other jar 1/3 full. If the water in the jar with the lesser capacity is then poured into the jar with the greater capacity, what fraction of the larger jar will be filled with water?

A) 1/7 B) 2/7 C) 1/2 D) 7/12 E) 2/3 Q15. The number of passengers on a certain bus at any given time is given by the equation P = -2(S 4)2 + 32, where P is the number of passengers and S is the number of stops the bus has made since beginning its route. If the bus begins its route with no passengers, how many passengers will be on the bus two stops after the stop where it has its greatest number of passengers? A) 32 B) 30 C) 24 D) 14 E) 0

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