Prep-PS-Medium

Questions

1).A certain cake has two layers with pieces of fruit on top of each layer. Of all the pieces
of fruit on the cake, 25 percent are strawberries. How many pieces of fruit are on the first
layer of the cake?

I. Of the pieces of fruit on the first layer, 6 are strawberries.

II. 20 percent of the 20 pieces of fruit on the second layer are strawberries.

2).If r is an integer, what is the value of 3^(2r)/ 27^(r-1) ?

I. 2^r = 32
II. r^2 – 4r = 5

3).What is the value of 6^x*6^y ?

I. 2^(x+y) = 32
II. 3^(x+y) = 243

4).

In the triangle above, is x > 90?

I. a^2 + b^2 <15

II. c>4

5).

The figure above shows a construction plan for the intersection of three straight roads,
each having parallel edges and each having the same width. What is the value of t?

I. r = 140
II. s = 160

6).a is a nonzero integer. Is a^a greater than 1?

I. a < -1

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 II. a is even

7). Color X ink is created by blending red, blue, green and yellow inks in the ratio 6:5:2:2.
What is the number of liters of green ink that was used to create a certain batch of color X
ink?

I. The amount of red ink used to create the batch is 2 liters more than the amount of
blue ink used to create the batch.
II. The batch consists of 30 liters of color X ink.

8). If two copying machines work simultaneously at their respective constant rates, how
many copies do they produce in 5 minutes?

I. One of the machines produces copies at the constant rate of 250 copies per
minute.
II. One of the machines produces copies at twice the constant rate of the other
machine.

9).The ratio of R to S is 3 to 5, what is the value of the ratio (R + K)/(S + K)?

I. R = 12
II. K=7

10).What is the circumference of circular region R?

I. The area of R is 36 pi.

II. The area of a square region inscribed in R is 72.

11).Is quadrilateral MNOP a square?

I. MN = NO = OP
II. Angle N and angle O are right angles.

12). If 0<x<y, is y-x < 0.00005?

I. x>1/60,000
II. y<1/15,000

13). Maria can either buy a basket that contains P pounds of apples for $16.50 or buy p
pounds of apples at $0.95 per pound. Does it cost Maria more to buy the basket of apples
than to buy p pounds of apples at $0.95 per pound?

I. The basket contains less than 20 pounds of apples

II. It would cost Maria a total of $18.05 to buy p+4 pounds of apples at $0.95 per
pound.

14). Is the product of a positive integer and a negative integer is less than -10 ?

I. The positive integer is greater than 3

II. The negative integer is less than -2

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15).At a sale all books were priced equally and all magazines were priced equally. What
was the price of 3 books and 4 magazines at the sale?

I. At sale the price of a book was $1.45 more than the price of a magazine.
II. At sale the price of 6 books and 8 magazines was $43.70.

16). If each customer at the outdoor movie last night came in a car, what was the number
of cars in which the customers came to the outdoor movie last night?

I. The average (arithmetic mean) number of customers per car coming to the outdoor
movie last night was 2.
II. Total receipts at the outdoor movie last night were $4,500 at $5 per customer.

17). Sofia will attend a sequence of daily training sessions for her job. On the last day of
her training sessions she will attend either 1 session or 2 sessions. On each of the other
days of her training sessions she will attend exactly 2 sessions. At the end of her third day
of attending training sessions, how many sessions will Sofia have left to attend?

I. The sequence of training sessions Sofia will attend will last 6 days
II. There are a total of 11 training sessions in the sequence of training sessions Sofia
will attend

18). If there are B boys and G girls in a club, can the girls be divided equally among 6 teams
with no girls left over?

I. If there were 4 fewer girls then the number of girls would be twice the number of
boys
II. If the number of boys were 2 less than twice the actual number of boys, then the
boys could be divided equally among 6 teams with no boys left over.

19). Of the N candies in a bag, some are peppermint and the rest are spearmint. What is the
value of N?

I. If 1 peppermint candy were removed from the N candies,1/5 of the remaining

candies would be peppermint.
II. If 2 spearmint candies were removed from the N candies, 1/4 of the remaining
candies would be peppermint.

20). Last month Grace worked, and was paid for, a total of x hours. Some of the hours were
on day shift and the remainders were on the night shift. Her hourly pay is 20% higher for
the night shift than for the day shift. How many hours did Grace work on the day shift last
month?

I. x = 55
II. Grace's gross pay for the hours she worked on day shift last month was exactly
50% of her total gross pay for last month.

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21).Is |XY| > X^2Y^2?

I. 0< X^2< 1/4

II. 0 < Y^2 < 1/9

22).In 1997 there were 300 female employees at Company C. If the number of female
employees at Company C increased by 60 percent from 1977 to 1987, by what percent did
the number of female employees at Company C increase from 1987 to 1997?

I. From 1977 to 1997 the number of female employees increased by 200 percent at
Company C.
II. In 1977 there were 100 female employees at Company C.

23).In a sequence k, each term after the second term is the sum of the two previous terms.
What is the first term of sequence K?

I. one term of sequence K is 29

II. The 4th and 5th terms of K are 11 and 18, respectively

24). Both Betty and Wilma earn annual salaries of more than $50000. Is Wilma's annual
salary greater than Betty's?

I. Betty's annual salary is closer to $50,000 than is Wilma's.

II. Betty's annual salary is closer to $35,000 than it is to Wilma's annual salary.

25).In the decimal 3.1de, d and e each represent a digit. If x represents the decimal 3.1de
rounded to the nearest tenth, what is the value of x?

I. d=4
II. e=8

26).

In the xy-plane shown, is the slope of line l negative?

I. Line l passes through a point that is in Quadrant III.

II. Line l passes through a point that is in Quadrant IV.

27).Is x positive?

I. 1/(x+1) < 1

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 II. (x-1) is a perfect square.

28).At a certain high school, there are 20 more female sophomores than male sophomores.
How many of the female sophomores are studying geometry?

I. 20 percent of all the sophomores are studying geometry

II. 15 percent of the male sophomores are studying geometry

29).For what percent of those tested for a certain infection was the test accurate; that is,
positive for those who had the infection and negative for those who did not have the
infection?

I. Of those who tested positive for the infection,1/8 did not have the infection.
II. Of those tested for the infection, 90 percent tested negative.

30). If a certain store purchased a computer game and then sold it for $50, was the store's
gross profit from the purchase and sale of the game less than $8?

I. The store 's gross profit from the purchase and sale of the game was less than 25
percent of the amount for which the store purchased the game
II. The store 's gross profit from the purchase and sale of the game was greater than
10 percent of the amount for which the store purchased the game

31). If x y and z are positive is xz = 7xy?

I. z/y = 7
II. x/y = 1

32).For each order, a certain company charges a delivery fee d that depends on the total
price x of the merchandise in the order, where d and x are in dollars and

d = 3, if 0<x<=100

d = 3 + (x-100)/100, if 100<x<=500

d = 7, if x>500

If George placed two separate orders with the company, was the total price of the
merchandise in the two orders greater than $499?

I. The delivery fee for one of the two orders was $3.
II. The sum of the delivery fees for the two orders was $10.

33). If the probability that a certain event will occur is p, what is the value of p ?

I. The probability that the event will occur is twice the probability that the event will
not occur.
II. The probability that the event will not occur is less than 0.4.

34). If p is an integer greater than 1, is p a prime number?

I. p is a factor of 13

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 II. p is a factor of 78

35). 3.2XY6

If X and Y each represent single digits in the decimal above, what digit does X represent?

I. When the decimal is rounded to the nearest tenth, 3.2 is the result.
II. When the decimal is rounded to the nearest hundredth, 3.24 is the result.

36).Is x < 0?

I. -2x > 0
II. x^3 < 0

37). If x and y are positive integers, is (2 + x)/(3 + y) greater than (2 + y)/(3 + x)?

I. x+y=3
II. x>y

38). If n is an integer, is n even?

I. 2n is divisible by 4
II. n^2 is even

39).How many sides does polygon P have?

I. All sides of P equal lengths.

II. The sum of the measures of the interior angles of P is 1440.

40).

A supermarket sells a certain brand of jelly in two jars of different sizes, as shown above.
Jar A is a right circular cylinder with inside diameter D and inside Height h; Jar B is a right
circular cylinder with inside diameter T and inside height 2h. Assuming each jar is filled to
capacity, which jar of jelly will cost less per unit volume?

I. The relationship between the diameters of Jar A and Jar B is 3T = 2D.

II. Jar A costs $1.59 and Jar B costs 1.39.

41). During a 10-week summer vacation, was the average (arithmetic mean) number of
books that Carolyn read per week greater than the average number of books that Jacob
read per week?

I. Twice the average number of books that Carolyn read per week was greater than 5
less than twice the average number of books that Jacob read per week

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 II. During the last 5 weeks of the vacation, Carolyn read a total of 3 books more than
Jacob.

42). The results of a certain experiment included 6 data values that were all multiples of
the same number c, namely, c, 8c, 2c, 5c, 4c, and 4c. Was the average (arithmetic mean) of
the 6 data values greater than 8?

I. c<4
II. c>2

43). Is n > 6?

I. √n>2.5
II. n>√37

44).The sequence of four numbers a1, a2, a3 and a4 is such that each number after the first
is a1−1 greater than preceding number. What is the value of a1?

I. a2=15
II. a4=29

45). When the lengths of two opposite sides of a square garden were increased by x
meters each and the lengths of the other two sides were decreased by x meters each, the
area of the new garden was 64 square meters. What was the area of the original square
garden?

I. The area of the new garden was 80 percent of the area of the original square
garden
II. x=4

46). If n is a member of the set {33, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42}, What is the value of n?

I. n is even.
II. n is a multiple of 3.

47). Is the standard deviation of the numbers X, Y and Z equal to the standard deviation of
10,15 and 20?

I. Z - X = 10
II. Z-Y=5

48). A box contains 10 light bulbs, fewer than half of which are defective. Two bulbs are to
be drawn simultaneously from the box. If n of the bulbs in box are defective, what is the
value of n?

I. The probability that the two bulbs to be drawn will be defective is 1/15.
II. The probability that one of the bulbs to be drawn will be defective and the other
will not be defective is 7/15.

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49). There were 2 apples and 5 bananas in a basket. After additional apples and bananas
were placed in the basket, the ratio of the number of apples to the number of bananas was
1/2. How many apples were added?

I. The number of apples added was 2/3 the number of bananas added.
II. A total of 5 apples and bananas were added.

50). From Leland's gross pay of p dollars last week, t percent was deducted for taxes and
then s dollars was deducted for savings. What amount of Leland's gross pay last week
remained after these two deductions?

I. p - s = 244
II. pt = 7,552

51).What is the remainder when the two-digit, positive integer x is divided by 3?

I. The sum of the digits of x is 5

II. The remainder when x is divided by 9 is 5

52). If a loan of P dollars, at an interest rate of r percent per year compounded monthly, is
payable in n monthly instalments of m dollars each, then m is determined by the formula

John and Sue took out loans whose monthly instalments were determined by using the
formula above. Both loans had the same interest rate and the same number of monthly
instalments. John's monthly instalment was what percent of Sue's monthly installment?

I. The amount of Sue's loan was 4 times the amount of John's loan.
II. Sue's monthly instalment was 4 times John's monthly instalment.

53).

In the figure shown, what is the area of the triangular region PRT?

I. The area of rectangular region PQST is 24.

II. The length of line segment RT is 5.

54).Each of the 45 boxes on shelf J weighs less than each of the 44 boxes on shelf K. What
is the median weight of the 89 boxes on these shelves?

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 I. The heaviest box on shelf J weighs 15 pounds.
II. The lightest box on shelf K weighs 20 pounds.

55).The ratio of the number of women to the number of men to the number of children in a
room is 5:2:7, respectively. What is the total number of people in the room?

I. The total number of women and children in the room is 12.

II. There are fewer than 4 men in the room.

56).What is the probability that a student randomly selected from a class of 60 students
will be a male who has brown hair?

I. One-half of the students have brown hair.

II. One-third of the students are males.