The author, mocked by many for his simple, almost

childlike prose, can at least not be begrudged the

distinction of writing with _________.
geniality
naivety
gusto
anonymity
lucidness
An increase in blood pressure, by itself, does not
indicate that a person is at greater risk for a myocardial
infarction; there must be a(n) ______________ of
symptoms before a doctor comes to such a conclusion.
superfluity
cluster
outbreak
paucity
remission
Fentons motives were clearly ____________ , yet Fenton
tried, in the most ingratiating way, to ____________ his
innocence.
Blank (i)
aboveboard
base

overt
Blank (ii)
maintain
dismiss
hide
Pared down over the years to the point of ____________,
Stocktons prose nevertheless preserves the writers
insights - indeed they are ____________ than ever.
Blank (i)
austerity
abstraction
artlessness
Blank (ii)
keener
more vague
more formal
A school of conservationist thought that continues to
gain traction in academic circles contends that despite
the most noble of intentions, the U.S. National Parks
and Forests Services has, in allowing for the uncurbed
growth of trees within parks, contributed to the
____________ forest fires. While it is true that park
rangers can respond to fires quickly, often such fires
are far fiercer than in areas not so ____________ trees
and underbrush. That is not to say that all fires are

deleterious: indeed forest fires play an appreciable role

in the functioning of the ecosystem; they ____________
the growth of trees so that any given area is less likely
to become densely wooded.
Blank (i)
decrease in
depletion of
outbreak of
Blank (ii)
choked with
devoid of
distant from
Blank (iii)
check
foster
eradicate
Keane argues that the political conditions during the
early years of the United States were, if anything, (i)
___________ to the formation of a nation united by one
document: the Constitution. Rather, had it not been for
a few menKeane invokes the triumvirate of Jefferson,
Hamilton, and Madisonto (ii) ___________ the
Constitution, despite the seemingly implacable
opposition of anti-Federalists, the central government
would have had to (iii) ___________ matters of rule to the
individual states.
Blank (i)

permissive
conducive
inimical
Blank (ii)
challenge
champion
undermine
Blank (iii)
cede
reintroduce
deny
Most educated people of the eighteenth century, such
as the Founding Fathers, subscribed to Natural Rights
Theory, the idea that every human being has a
considerable number of innate rights, simply by virtue
of being a human person. When the US Constitution
was sent to the states for ratification, many at that time
felt that the federal government outlined by the
Constitution would be too strong, and that rights of
individual citizens against the government had to be
clarified. This led to the Bill of Rights, the first ten
amendments, which were ratified at the same time as
the Constitution. The first eight of these amendments
list specific rights of citizens. Some leaders feared that
listing some rights could be interpreted to mean that
citizens didn't have other, unlisted rights. Toward this
end, James Madison and others produced the Ninth

Amendment, which states: the fact that certain rights

are listed in the Constitution shall not be construed to
imply that other rights of the people are denied
Constitutional traditionalists interpret the Ninth
Amendment as a rule for reading the rest of the
constitution. They would argue that "Ninth Amendment
rights" are a misconceived notion: the amendment
does not, by itself, create federally enforceable rights.
In particular, this strict reasoning would be opposed to
the creation of any new rights based on the
amendment. Rather, according to this view, the
amendment merely protects those rights that citizens
already have, whether they are explicitly listed in the
Constitution or simply implicit in people's lives and in
American tradition.
More liberal interpreters of the US Constitution have a
much more expansive view of the Ninth Amendment. In
their view, the Ninth Amendment guarantees to
American citizens a vast universe of potential rights,
some of which we have enjoyed for two centuries, and
others of which the Founding Fathers could not possibly
have conceived. These scholars point out that some
rights, such as voting rights of women or minorities,
were not necessarily viewed as rights by the majority of
citizens in late eighteenth century America, but are
taken as fundamental and unquestionable in modern
America. While those rights cited are protected
specifically by other amendments and laws, the
argument asserts that other unlisted right also could
evolve from unthinkable to perfectly acceptable, and
the Ninth Amendment would protect these as-yetundefined rights.
In the view of James Madison and the other Founding
Fathers, the Ninth Amendment limits the power of the
central federal government by

preventing constitutionally listed rights from being

viewed as exhaustive
giving the citizens rights in every area not explicitly
addressed by the law
codifying a vast universe of federally enforceable rights
guaranteeing, in the text of US Constitution, all rights
held by Natural Rights Theory
ensuring all citizens are able to vote and, thus, choose
the democratic leaders
The primary purpose of the passage is to
clarify the most proper interpretation of an amendment
argue for a broader perspective on human rights and
their legal protection
contrast historical perspectives of an amendment to its
modern legal reading
explain the motivation for an amendment and the
ambiguity this amendment presents
demonstrate how the Founding Fathers' intentions have
been distorted by subsequent legal proceedings.
The passage provides support for which of the
following?
The right to privacy, not mentioned at all in the Bill of
Rights, must have its constitutional basis in the Ninth
Amendment.

Madison would have been in favor of women's right to

vote.
Certain parts of the Bill of Rights are open to divergent
interpretations.
Twentieth-century amendments that explicitly added
new rights weakened the Ninth Amendment.
In the absence of the Ninth Amendment, the American
Federal Government would have interpreted the list of
rights in the Bill of Rights as setting a strict limit on the
possible rights that American citizens could enjoy.
Constitutional scholars of both the traditionalist and
liberal views would agree that "Ninth Amendment
rights"
accommodate shifts in cultural values with respect to
issues affecting human rights
cannot serve as the basis of legal decisions
are directly reflected in our understanding of who can
and can't vote
are not stated explicitly in the Bill of Rights
extend the idea of Natural Rights Theory
The rate of health complications of patients on
intravenous (IV) therapy at a particular hospital were
higher than usual. Government inspectors found that
the typical IV solutions used in this hospital had
somewhat high concentrations of sodium and
potassium, which were raising patients' blood pressure
and taxing their kidneys. The government inspectors

mandated lowering the sodium and potassium in these

IV preparations, and threatened with a possible
government fine. In compliance, the hospital lowered
the sodium and potassium levels in the IV solutions to
the correct levels. Nevertheless, patients on IV therapy
at that hospital continued to have a high rate of health
complications.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to explain
why acting on the government inspectors'
recommendations failed to achieve its goal?
The change in IV solution procedure meant a number of
related legal documents had to be renegotiated and
rewritten, at great cost.
When sodium and potassium levels in the blood fall
below their baseline level, it can damage cells
throughout the body by reverse osmosis.
It is typical for a patient's appetite to increase to
healthy levels once they have completed a course of IV
therapy.
A high proportion of patients at this hospital are older,
and older patients are more vulnerable to infections
that can accompany IVs.
Because the findings were published in the news, some
patients have chosen to use another hospital in the
region.
With university lecture halls rivaling small-concert
venues in terms of the number of those in attendance,
it ______________ incoming freshmen--most long coddled
in an intimate learning environment--to become adept
at navigating the treacherous waters of anonymity.

implicates
is incumbent upon
behooves
removes the onus for
is unfair for
benefits
She had been _____ even in her fundamental duties and
thus her termination was as imminent as it was
justified.
remiss
adamant
tempestuous
stringent
doting
negligent
Not merely curious, the new manager was often
_______, and would only cease to needlessly interfere in
employees work if one of her superiors was present.
evasive
gregarious

intrusive
mettlesome
prying
obstreperous
As we age, our political leanings tend to become less
____; the once dyed-in-wool conservative can betray
liberal leanings, and the staunch progressive may
suddenly embrace conservative policies.
demanding
subtle
pronounced
biased
conspicuous
cohesive
Montaignes pursuit of the character he called Myself
bashful, insolent; chaste, lustful; prating, silent;
laborious, delicate; knowing, ignorantlasted for
twenty years and produced more than a thousand
pages of observation and revision. When he died, he
was still revising and, apparently, not at all surprised,
since Myself was a protean creature, impossible to
anticipate but also, being always at hand, impossible to
ignore.
I like to think of the essays as a kind of thriller; with
Myself, the elusive prey, and Montaigne, the sleuth,
locked in a battle of equals who were too close for

dissimulation and too smart for satisfaction. And it may

be that Montaigne did, too, because he often warned
his readers that nothing he wrote about Myself was
likely to apply for much longer than it took the ink he
used, writing it, to dry.
As used in the passage, the word dissimulation
connotes a sense of
deliberate malice
outright audacity
hidden deception
unfeigned delight
implied criticism
Montaignes relationship to Myself is most similar to
that of
a detective who is finally able to apprehend a criminal
a person who inspires a writer to create well-known
works
an athlete plagued by a nemesis who can always
anticipate the next move
a serial killer who deliberately leaves clues so that the
police will find him
an artist attempting a self-portrait that ends up looking
different from the artist

The problem with treating the five-paragraph essay

form as a relatively benign aid to clarity is that like any
habit it is very hard to break. Students who cannot
break the habit remain handicapped because fiveparagraph form runs counter to virtually all of the
values and attitudes that they need in order to grow as
writers and thinkerssuch as respect for complexity,
tolerance of uncertainty, and the willingness to test and
complicate rather than just assert ideas. The form
actually discourages thinking by conditioning writers to
be afraid of looking closely at evidence. If they look too
closely, they might find something that does not fit, at
which point the prefabricated organizational scheme
falls apart. But it is precisely the something-thatdoesnt-seem-to-fit, the thing writers call a
complication, that triggers good ideas.
In the context in which it appears conditioning most
nearly means
preparing
updating
alerting
trusting
training
The author objects to the five-paragraph essay as a
means of instilling certain positive writing habits on the
grounds that it does which of the following? Select all
that apply
It limits a students ability to engage in sustained
inquiry.

It enforces certain modes of writing that are not able to

tolerate ambiguity.
It fails to provide a coherent structure in which students
can clearly state their ideas.P
Residents of Milatia are known for their longevity.
Nutritionists maintain that the Milatians can attribute
their increased lifespans to their diets. In addition to
consuming a diet full of leafy greens, they also have a
low intake of saturated fats, which have been
implicated in heart disease and atherosclerosis.
Therefore, if one wants to have increased longevity, he
or she should follow a Milatia based diet.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which
the argument depends?
Other aspects of the Militians lifestyle do not affect the
observed trend of longevity in Milatia.
Adopting another peoples eating habits will, in of itself,
not confer the same advantages, unless a person
incorporates exercise into his or her life.
The Milatian lifespan has a relatively uniform
distribution, with very few dying young from natural
causes.
Milatians are the only people in whom there is a
perceived link between diet and longevity.
All Milatians are known to have lifespans that are above
average.
Quants I

The first six terms of an infinite sequence are 2, 4, 4, 3,

7, 5 and these six terms repeat in the same order. (e.g.,
2, 4, 4, 3, 7, 5, 2, 4, 4, 3, 7, 5 . . . )

I
I

Column A

Column B

Term 49

Term 50

DC = AB = 9
DB < 3
Column A

Column B

Perimeter of triangle ABC

36

The decimal r = 2.666666 continues forever in that

repeating decimal pattern. When written as a fraction in
lowest terms, r = a/b, where a and b are positive
numbers.
Column A

Column B

a+b

10

Yesterday, Carl had 40 percent more CDs than Karen

had. Today, Carl gave 20 percent of his CDs to Karen.

Column A

Column B

Number of CDs that

Carl now has

Number of CDs that

Karen now has

Column A

Column B

Area of quadrilateral

56

Column A

Column B

Length of AB

Length of BC

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X = sum of the first 31 positive odd integers

Y = sum of the first 30 positive even integers
Column A

Column B

X-Y

30

Column A

Column B

AB

BC

Which of the following best represents the quotient P/Q?

A
B
C
D
E
If x4 = y16, then y =

x2
x4

x12
If a right triangle has area 28 and hypotenuse 12, what
is its perimeter?
20
24
28
32
36
x and y are positive integers such that x < y. If
then xy could equal
36
48
54
96
108
Which of the following is greater than
Indicate all possible values.

8
9
10
The graph below shows the Body Mass Index (BMI) and
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) of fifteen males between
the ages of 43 and 65.

The individual on this chart with the highest BMI has a

BMR of approximately
1204
1444
1563
1702
1853
The trendline on the graph indicates, for a given BMI,
what the expected BMR would be for that individual. In
this group, how many individuals have a BMR higher
than predicted by this trendline?
Which BMI groups have representatives on this graph
with BMR > 1600 kcal/day? Select all that apply.
Severely underweight

Underweight
Normal
Overweight
Obese
What is the average (arithmetic mean) of all multiples
of 10 from 10 to 400 inclusive?
190
195
200
205
210
The points A(0, 0), B(0, 4a - 5) and C(2a + 1, 2a + 6) form a
triangle. If
, what is the area of triangle ABC?
102
120
132
144
156

The Sargon Corporation, which employs both men and

women, offers an optional stock-option buy-in program
to its employees. If 85% of the men and 77% of the
women choose to participate in this plan, then which of
the following could be the total number of employees?
Indicate all possible values for the number of
employees.
100
200
350
460
525
640
750
880
If 16x = 8, what is the value of x?
Verbal II
Based on a spate of hospitable planets--or Goldilocks
planets, as scientists affectionately dub them--recently
found orbiting the stars of three distinct solar systems,
astronomers have been able to ____________ the number
of earth-like planets in the universe, a figure much
higher than previously estimated.
insinuate

extrapolate
intuit
disprove
indicate
Rather than ____________ the objectives of the recent
reform, the government opted to forgo making any
official announcement to the public.
institute
promulgate
concede
retract
compromise
Presidents who filled their cabinets with (i)
______________ viewpoints tend to have a more storied
legacy than those whose cabinets were made up of
men with a more (ii) ______________ outlook, men who
dissented little with their respective presidents.
Blank (i)
belligerent
dissimilar
educated
Blank (ii)

provincial
uniform
robust
Traditionally (i) _________ in their criticism of the hazards
of nuclear powerwhich are undeniably pressing
many environmental groups failed to cite any viable
energy alternatives; still, these very groups often (ii)
__________ the success of green technologies,
innovations that, until very recently, were able to
provide only a fraction of the power required to sustain
a populace.
Blank (i)
muted
vociferous
misguided
Blank (ii)
derided
trumpeted
condoned
The professors ____________ demeanor not only made
others reluctant to approach her, but also ____________
the intellectual growth that comes from the ____________
of ideas.
Blank (i)
cheerful

meek
disdainful
Blank (ii)
limited
invited
facilitated
Blank (iii)
repudiation
interchange
repression
To the ____________ eye the jungle canopy can seem
little more than a dense latticework of branches and
leaves. For the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, even
a small area can serve as a veritable ____________ of
pharmaceutical cures. The field of ethnobotany, which
relates both to the natural pharmacy offered up by the
jungle and the peoples who serve as a store of such
knowledge, has become increasingly popular in the last
decades as many anthropologists, hoping to take
advantage of this vast bounty, learn the language and
customs of the tribes in order to ____________ them
thousands of years worth of knowledge.
Blank (i)
untutored
sophisticated
veteran

Blank (ii)
cornucopia
invasion
dissemination
Blank (iii)
glean from
allot to
purge from
A coffee manufacturer wants more restaurant chains to
serve its brands of coffee. The manufacturer is
considering a plan to offer its coffee to large chains at a
significantly lower price, at least for a certain period.
This lower price initially will reduce the manufacturer's
profits, but they hope to get into enough nationwide
restaurant chains that their volume increases
significantly. Once they have a much higher volume,
even a small increase in their price would have an
enormous effect on their profits.
In evaluating the plan's chances of success, it would be
most helpful to know which of the following?
Whether their discounted price is lower than the prices
of the coffee manufacturers who currently provide
coffee to these nationwide restaurant chains.
Whether the manufacturer will use the same shipping
system as it has been using to ship coffee to
restaurants across the country.

Whether the prices of some mixes of coffee will be

discounted more than the prices of others.
Whether the coffee manufacturer will be able to cut
costs associated with advertising to maintain a strong
profit margin even with the lower prices.
Whether an alternate plan would allow the coffee
manufacturer to take greater profits from the
restaurant chains to which it currently provides coffee.
In the mid-1970s, Walter Alvarez, a geologist, was
studying Earths polarity. It had recently been learned
that the orientation of the planets magnetic field
reverses, so that every so often, in effect, south
becomes north and vice versa. Alvarez and some
colleagues had found that a certain formation of pinkish
limestone in Italy, known as the scaglia rossa, recorded
these occasional reversals. The limestone also
contained the fossilized remains of millions of tiny sea
creatures called foraminifera. Alvarez became
interested in a thin layer of clay in the limestone that
seemed to have been laid down around the end of the
Cretaceous Period. Below the layer, certain species of
foraminiferaor forams, for shortwere preserved. In
the clay layer, there were no forams. Above the layer,
the earlier species disappeared and new forams
appeared. Having been taught the uniformitarian view,
which held that any apparent extinctions throughout
geological time resulted from the incompleteness of
the fossil record rather than an actual extinction,
Alvarez was not sure what to make of the lacuna in
geological time corresponding to the missing
foraminifera, because the change looked very abrupt.
Had Walter Alvarez not asked his father, the Nobel
Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, how long the clay
had taken to deposit, the younger Alvarez may not

have thought to use iridium, an element rarely found on

earth but more plentiful in meteorites, to answer this
question. Iridium, in the form of microscopic grains of
cosmic dust, is constantly raining down on the planet.
The Alvarezes reasoned that if the clay layer had taken
a significant amount of time to deposit, it would contain
detectable levels of iridium. The results were startling:
far too much iridium had shown up. The Alvarez
hypothesis, as it became known, was that everything
not just the clay layercould be explained by a single
event: a six-mile-wide asteroid had slammed into Earth,
killing off not only the forams but also the dinosaurs
and all the other organisms that went extinct at the end
of the Cretaceous period.
According to the passage, it can most likely be inferred
that iridium
can be used by scientists to determine the duration of
an event
causes mass extinctions in a short period
gathers excessively in clay deposits
helps scientists determine the orientation of the
magnetic field
leads to inaccurate conclusions regarding the
chronology of an event
Proponents of the uniformitarian view would most likely
argue that
the clay layer actually contained foram too small for
Alvarez to detect

the absence of foram suggested a mass extinction

iridium could likely be found in the clay layer
that the lack of forams in the clay reflected a gap in the
fossil record
the orientation of the earths magnetic field is capable
of reversing
The Alvarezes concluded that a meteorite was
responsible for a mass extinction because
dinosaurs were prone to the effects of iridium
it could account for the heightened presence of an
element
cosmic dust in the form of iridium constantly makes its
way to the Earths surface
the scaglia rossa had a sudden gap in traceable iridium
the scientific community was unable to provide a more
valid hypothesis
It can be inferred from the passage that had the scaglia
rossa not exhibited a certain geological property then
which of the following would most likely have been
true?
Walter Alvarez would not have used the distribution of
foraminifera in limestone as the basis for a conjecture.
Scientists would have been unable to determine a shift
in the Earths magnetic fields.

The rocks would not have been of any immediate utility

to scientists.
Iridium still would have been used to substantiate a
hypothesis regarding the extinction of dinosaurs.
The gap in foraminifera fossil record would have served
an immediate purpose.
_____ by a swarm of tabloid reporters, their camera
flashes creating an incessant whir, the celebrity made a
quick escape into a limousine with tinted windows.
Indulged
Harried
Mollified
Besieged
Disbarred
Feted
The two writers were of equal talentindeed Mikhail
may have been the more giftedyet it was his _____
that led him to switch careers, whereas Dimitri was
able to rely on his skills of self-promotion to thrive in a
competitive marketplace.
naivete
persistence
diffidence

complacency
pride
timidity
Notwithstanding her tendency to ______________ when
journalists questions blatantly pried into her personal
life, the senator always spoke directly and candidly on
issues relating to her public role.
cower
bristle
speak evasively
vacillate
prevaricate
elaborate
For triathletes to remain _____ even after a large meal is
unsurprising, given that their training regimens require
them to burn thousands of calories each day.
responsive
sated
voracious
reticent
alert

ravenous
The price of the SuperPixel high definition television, by
Lux Electronics, has typically been out of the range of
most consumers, a few of whom nonetheless save up
for the television. This past July, the SuperPixel reduced
its price by 40%, and sales during that month nearly
tripled. TechWare, a popular electronics magazine,
claims that the SuperPixel television should continue to
see sales grow at this rate till the end of August.
Which of the following suggests that TechWares
forecast is misguided?
Most of the customers who had been saving up for the
SuperPixel bought the television in July.
Sales of the MegaPixel high definition television, an
even more expensive model than the SuperPixel, saw
declining sales in the month of July.
Electronics sales tend to peak in August and December.
The SuperPixel tends to be an unreliable television and
Lux Electronics makes a considerable profit from
repairs.
The SuperPixel is the only model for which Lux
Electronics plans a price reduction.
More capacious than ponderous, the most recent
incarnation in a line of Melville biographies, Philbricks
Moby Dick (a barefaced titular homage to Melvilles
iconic novel on a white whale) has the wild and
unpredictable energy of the great white whale itself,
more than enough to heave its significance out of what
Melville called the universal cannibalism of the sea

and into the light.

According to Philbrick, Melville, in his rightly lionized
novel, Moby Dick, challenged the form of the novel
decades before James Joyce, and a century before
Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace. Calling for
tools befitting the ambition of his task Give me a
condors quill! Give me Vesuviuss crater for an ink
stand! Melville substituted dialogue and stage
direction for a chapters worth of prose. He halted the
action to include a parody of the scientific classification
of whales, a treatise on the whale as represented in art,
a meditation on the complexity of rope, whatever
snagged his attention.
Reporting the exact day and time of his writing in a
parenthetical aside, he pulled back the fictive curtain
and inserted a seemingly irrelevant glimpse of himself
in the act of composition, the moment Philbrick
identifies as his favorite in the novel. Melville may not
have called this playfulness metafiction, but he defied
structures that shaped the work of his contemporaries.
The function of the lines beginning with Melville
substituted dialogue... is to illustrate the way in which
Melville
adhered to the structure of the novel prevalent during
his time
used a variety of different forms in his novel
questioned a particular genre of writing
approached writing in way different from Philbrick
ineffectively subverted a conventional approach to
writing

Which of the following does the passage NOT suggest?

Select all that apply.
Melville was not averse to furnishing points tangential
to the plot
Melville directly inspired Philbricks approach to writing
Melville took liberties with his prose that compromised
the quality of his writing
Which of the following can be supported by the
passage? Select all that apply.
Melville biographies are not uncommon
In terms of scope and ambition, Philbricks work
parallels Melvilles Moby Dick
Melville self-consciously indulged in metafictional
devices
Even today, the meaning of World War II remains
elusive. Beevor, in his latest book, calls it the greatest
man-made disaster in history. That description is very
plausible; less so is his idea that it was part of an
international civil war between left and right. In 1941
the veteran anti-Communist Winston Churchill allied
himself with Joseph Stalin, frustrating the efforts of the
Nazis to turn the war into an anti-Bolshevik crusade.
Nor were the Japanese much concerned that President
Roosevelt was (relatively speaking) a man of the left;
they attacked Pearl Harbor because of American threats
to their interests, not to their ideology. On the other
hand, ideological slogans could be strong motivators.
Men clung to the idea of fighting for the Fhrer, or for
the emperor, to keep them going in the face of certain

defeat. Russians, for their part, were encouraged to

fight for the motherland, rather than for the ideals of
international socialism, in what was labeled the Great
Patriotic War.
The example of Winston Churchill siding with Joseph
Stalin best serves to undermine which of the following
views?
Soldiers involved in World War II were motivated to
fight for their leaders.
Beevors thesis was not entirely plausible.
Any sweeping interpretation of World War II tends to
elude historians.
The war was mostly fought along ideological lines.
The Japanese were less influenced by ideology than
Beevor claims.

Quants II
I
I
I

Half of w is x
Half of y is w
w + x + y = 28
Column A

Column B

Column A

Column B

I
I

The circumference of a circle

The perimeter of a

with diameter

square with side

A certain taxi charges $0.85 for the first mile

and $0.25 for every mile after that.
The total cost of a trip was $8.85
Column A

Column B

The trip's distance in miles

16

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I

The greatest prime factor of 40,002 is x

The greatest prime factor of 80,004 is y
Column A

Column B

Column A

Column B

a2 + b2

c2

The sum of 5 consecutive even integers is 0.

Column A

Column B

The product of the 5 integers

The speed of light is approximately 3 x 105 kilometers

per second.
Column A

Column B

Approximate number of
kilometers that light can
travel in 1 hour.

1.08 x 108

After receiving a 25% discount, Sue paid $180 for a

lawnmower. What is the original price of the
lawnmower before the discount?
$215
$220
$225
$240
$245
In a group of 50 students, 31 are taking French, 17 are
taking Spanish, and 10 are taking neither French nor
Spanish. How many students are taking both French
and Spanish?
4
8
12
14

16
In the xy-coordinate system, line k has slope 1/2 and
passes through point (0, 5). Which of the following
points cannot lie on line k?
(-10, 0)
(8, 9)
(3, 6.5)
(-2, 2)
(-8, 1)
If the average (arithmetic mean) of x, y, and 20 is 11,
then the average of 2x + 3, 2y - 4, and 8 is
11
12
13
14
15
a, b and c are positive integers. If b equals the square
root of a, and if c equals the sum of a and b, which of
the following could be the value of c?
Indicate all such values.
21
30

45
72
100
331

Note: mpg = miles per gallon

If gas costs $4/gallon, and one is going to drive a
compact car on a 200 mile trip, what is the difference in
fuel costs required for this trip between the most fuel
efficient and least fuel efficient compact car?
$64
$80
$160

$200
$800
The range from the least fuel efficient Station Wagon to
the most fuel efficient Station Wagon is what?
20 mpg
28 mpg
36 mpg
42 mpg
50 mpg
In how many different categories is possible to select a
vehicle with a fuel efficiency of 28 mpg?
In a large bucket of screws, the ratio of slot screws to
Phillips screws is 11 to 4. There are no other varieties of
screws in the bucket. If there are 320 Phillips screws in
the bucket, what is the total number of screws in the
bucket?
When 12 marbles are added to a rectangular aquarium,
the water in the aquarium rises 1 inches. In total,
how many marbles must be added to the aquarium to
raise the water 2 inches?
16
18
20

22
24
If w/x = 2/3 and w/y = 8/15, then

(x + y)/y

4 /5
6 /5
7 /5
8 /5
9 /5

Which of the following inequalities is equivalent to 12 3x < -18

x > 10
x < 10
x > -10
x < -10
x>2
Which of the following numbers is divisible by 36?
Indicate all possible values.
1296
2160

3438
4608
5346
6144
7000
8244