Assignment 2
GMAT Skills Enhancement (Quantitative)
Name:
Registration Number:
Directions
All Kinds of calculators or mobiles are not allowed to be used.
Solve each of the following problems; then indicate the correct answer by filling in the
corresponding oval on the answer sheet in the last page.
Darken no more than one oval for the same problem.
For the data sufficiency problems; each problem consists of a question and two statements,
labeled (1) and (2), in which certain data are given. You have to decide whether the data
given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Using the data given in
the statements plus your knowledge of mathematics, you must indicate in the answer
sheet; whether:
(A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient to
answer the question asked;
(B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient to
answer the question asked;
(C) BOTH statement (1) and (2) TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question
asked, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
(D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question asked;
(E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question
asked, and additional data specific to the problem are needed.
1. What is the value of x ?
(1) x 2 + x = 2
(2) x 2 + 2x − 3 = 0
2. What is the value of x – y?
(1) x + 2y = 6
(2) x = y
3. Jim has 5 pieces of string. He needs to choose the piece that will be able to go around his
36-inch waist. His belt broke, and his pants are falling down. The piece needs to be at least
4 inches longer than his waist so he can tie a knot in it, but it cannot be more that 6 inches
longer so that the ends will not show from under his shirt. Which of the following pieces
of string will work the best?
3 1 1 1
(A) 3 feet (B) 3 feet (C) 3 feet (D) 3 feet (E) 2 feet
4 2 4 2
4. Sarah is twice as old as her youngest brother. If the difference between their ages is
15 years, how old is her youngest brother ?
(A) 10 (B) 15 (C) 20 (D) 25 (E) 30
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5. If r = 5 z and 15 z = 3 y, then r =
(A) y (B) 2 y (C) 5 y (D) 10 y (E) 15 y
6. Susan drove at an average speed of 30 miles per hour for the first 30 miles of a trip,
and then at an average speed of 60 miles per hour for the remaining 30 miles of the
trip. If she made no stops during the trip, what was Susan’s average speed, in
miles per hour, for the entire trip?
(A) 35 (B) 40 (C) 45 (D) 50 (E) 55
7. What is the value of y?
(1) x + 2 y = 6
(2) y2 – 2 y + 1 = 0
8. Two pipes, A and B, empty into a reservoir. Pipe A can fill the reservoir in 30 minutes by
itself. How long will it take for pipe A and pipe B together to fill up the reservoir?
(1) By itself, pipe B can fill the reservoir in 20 minutes.
(2) Pipe B has a larger cross-sectional area than pipe A.
9. If 50 apprentices can finish a job in 4 hours and 30 journeymen can finish the same job
in 4 12 hours, how much of the job should be completed by 10 apprentices and 15
journeymen in only one hour?
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(A) 19 (B) 180 (C) 143
(D) 1
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(E) 121
10. According to the directions on a can of frozen orange juice concentrate, 1 can of
concentrate is to be mixed with 3 cans of water to make orange juice.
How many 12-ounce cans of concentrate are required to prepare 200 6-ounce servings
of orange juice?
(A) 25 (B) 34 (C) 50 (D) 67 (E) 100
11. At a certain company, the average (arithmetic mean) number of years of experience is
9.8 years for the male employees and 9.1 years for the female employees.
What is ratio of the number of the company’s male employees to the number of the
company’s female employees?
(1) There are 52 male employees at the company.
(2) The average number of years of experience for the company’s male and female
employees combined is 9.3 years.
12. What is the value of p8 - q8 ?
(1) p - q = 0
(2) p7 + q7 = 127
13. A conveyer belt moves grain at the rate of 2 tons in 5 minutes and a second conveyer belt
moves grain at the rate of 3 tons in 7 minutes. How many minutes will it take to move 20
tons of grains using both conveyer belts?
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(A) 12 (B) 16 74 (C) 18 26 (D) 21 4
(E) 24 29
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14. If the price of steak is currently $1 a pound, and the price triples every 6 months, how
long will it be until the price of steak is $81 a pound?
(A) 1 year (B) 2 years (C) 2 12 years (D) 13 years (E) 13 12 years
15. A list of measurements in increasing order is 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and x. If the median of
these measurements is 76 times their arithmetic mean, what is the value of x?
(A) 16 (B) 15 (C) 14 (D) 13 (E) 12
16. There are 50 employees in the office of ABC Company. Of these 22 have taken an
accounting course, 15 have taken a course in finance, and 14 have taken a marketing
course. Nine of the employees have taken exactly two of the courses, and one employee
has taken all the three courses. How many of the 50 employees have taken none of the
courses?
(A) 0 (B) 9 (C) 10 (D) 11 (E) 26
17. Does (x + y)2 + (x - y)2 equal 170?
(1) x2 + y2 = 85
(2) x = 7 and y = 6
Brand X Brand Y
Miles Per gallon 40 36
Cost per Gallon $0.80 $0.75
18. The table above gives the gasoline costs and consumption rates for a certain car driven
at 50 miles per hour, using each of two brands of gasoline. How many miles farther
can the car be drive at this speed on $12 worth of brand X gasoline than on $12 worth
of brand Y gasoline?
(A) 20 (B) 24 (C) 84 (D) 100 (E) 104
19. A piece of wood 5 feet long is cut into three pieces. How long is the longest
of the three pieces?
(1) One piece is 2 feet 7 inches long.
(2) One piece is 7 inches longer than another piece and the remaining piece is
5 inches long
20. In a college, some courses contribute more towards an overall GPA than other courses.
For example, a science class is worth 4 points; mathematics is worth 3 points; history is
worth 2 points; and English is worth 3 points. The values of the grade letters are as
follows, A= 4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. What is the GPA of a student who made a “C” in
Trigonometry, a “B” in American History, an “A” in Botany, and a “B” in
Microbiology?
(A) 2.59 (B) 2.86 (C) 3.08 (D) 3.33 (E) 3.67
21. It costs x dollars each to make the first 1000 copies of a compact disk and y
dollars to make each subsequent copy. If z is greater than 1000, how many
dollars will it cost to make z copies of the compact disk?
(A) 1000x (B) zx - zy (C) 1000(z – x) + xy
(D) 1000(z – y) + xz (E) 1000(x – y) + yz
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22. If 15 men working independently and at the same rate can manufacture 27 baskets in
an hour, how many baskets would 45 men working independently and at the same rate
manufacture in 40 minutes?
(A) 27 (B) 35 (C) 40 (D) 54 (E) 81
23. John, Peter, and Allan together have ten marbles. If each has at least one marble, how
many marbles does each boy have?
(1) John has 5 more than Peter.
(2) Allan has half as many as Peter.
24. A worker is paid r dollars for each hour he works up to 8 hours a day. For any time
worked over 8 hours he is paid at the rate of 1.5r dollars an hour. The total amount
of dollars the worker will earn if he works 11 hours in a day is
(A) 4.5r (B) 5.5r (C) 9.25r (D) 11r (E) 12.5r
25. What was the price of a dozen eggs during the 15th week of the year 2008?
(1) During the first week of 2008 the price of a dozen eggs was 75¢.
(2) The price of a dozen eggs rose 10¢ a week every week during the first
four months of 2008.
26. Grace has 16 jellybeans in her pocket. She has 8 red ones, 4 green ones, and 4 blue ones.
What is the minimum number of jellybeans she must take out of her pocket to ensure that
she has one of each color?
(A) 4 (B) 8 (C) 12 (D) 13 (E) 16
27. Seven basketball teams play in a league against each other. At the end of the season,
how many different arrangements are there for the top 3 teams in the ranking?
(A) 6 (B) 42 (C) 210 (D) 5,040 (E) 50,450
28. Three basketball teams play in a league against each other. At the end of the season,
how many different ways could the 3 teams end up ranked against each other?
(A) 1 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 36 (E) 72
29. What is the total weight of four crates?
(1) The average weight of the four crates is 200 pounds.
(2) The total weight of two of the crates is exactly three times the total weight
of the other two crates.
30. Jim can fill a pool carrying buckets of water in 30 minutes. Sue can do the same job
in 45 minutes. Tony can do the same job in 1½ hours. How quickly can all three fill
the pool together?
(A) 12 minutes (B) 15 minutes (C) 21 minutes
(D) 23 minutes (E) 28 minutes
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70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 105, 105, 130, 130, 130
31. The list shown above consists of the times in seconds, that it took each of the 10
school children to run a distance of 400 meters. If the standard deviation of the 10
running times is 22.4 seconds, how many of the 10 running times are more than 1
standard deviation below the mean of the 10 running times?
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4 (E) 5
32. Three machines, individually, can do a certain job in 4, 5, and 6 hours, respectively.
What is the greatest part of the job that can be done in one hour by two of the
machines working together at their respective rates?
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(A) 11
30 (B) 20 (C) 53 11
(D) 15 (E) 56
33. How long will it take machine M to fill an order for x widgets if the machine operates
at a constant rate and operation is not interrupted?
(1) The machine produces 150 widgets per minutes.
(2) At the end of 2 hours, the machine has produced 40% of the widgets needed to
fill the order.
34. There are 8 job applicants sitting in a waiting room, 4 men and 4 women. If 2 of the
applicants are selected at random, what is the probability that both will be women?
(A) 1 (B) 73 (C) 14 3
(D) 14 1
(E) 10
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35. Ann and Bob drive separately to a meeting. Ann's average driving speed is greater than
Bob's average driving speed by one-third of Bob's average driving speed, and Ann drives
twice as many miles as Bob. What is the ratio of the number of hours Ann spends driving
to the meeting to the number of hours Bob spends driving to the meeting?
(A) 8:3 (B) 3:2 (C) 4:3 (D) 2:3 (E) 3:8
36. A sealed tank is constructed so that liquid can be added to the tank only through pipe X
and taken from the tank only through pipe Y. if the tank contains 10,000 gallons of liquid,
how long will it take to reduce the amount of liquid to 1,200 gallons?
(1) Pipe X adds 50 gallons of liquid to the tank per minute, while pipe Y removes
400 gallons of liquid from the tank per minute.
(2) Pipe Y removes liquid from the tank 8 times faster than pipe X adds liquid to
the tank.
37. Fifty students have signed up for at least one of the courses German and
English. How many of the 50 students are taking German but not English?
(1) 16 students are taking German and English.
(2) The number of students taking English but not German is the same as the number
taking German but not English.
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38. When a certain tree was first planted, it was 4 feet tall, and the height of the tree
increased by a constant amount each year for the next 6 years. At the end of the
6th year, the tree was 15 taller than it was at the end of the 4th year. By how many
feet did the height of the tree increase each year?
(A) 103 (B) 52 (C) 12 (D) 23 (E) 65
39. Today Fatma is twice as old as Samy and Samy is three years younger than Noha. If
Fatma, Samy, and Noha are all alive 4 years from today, which of the following must be
true on that day?
I. Fatma is twice as old as Samy
II. Samy is 3 years younger than Noha
III. Fatma is older than Noha
(A) Ι only (B) ΙΙ only (C) ΙIΙ only
(D) Ι and ΙΙ (E) ΙΙ and ΙΙΙ
40. A committee of three people is to be chosen from four married couples. What is the
number of different committees that can be chosen if two people who are married to
each other can not both serve on the committee?
(A) 16 (B) 24 (C) 26 (D) 30 (E) 32
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