QUANT

MOCK

TEST --2

1.In the figure

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above, line k is parallel to line m. What is the value of y ?

2. The numbers in data set S have a standard deviation of 5. If a new data set isformed by adding 3 to each
number in S, what is the standard deviation of the numbers in the new data set?

A. 2

B. 3

C .5

D. 8

E.

15

3. Aishas income in 2004 was 20 percent greater than her income in 2003. What is the ratio of Aishas income
in 2004 to her income in 2003 ?
A. 1 to 5 B. 5 to 6
C. 6 to 5
D. 5 to 1
E. 20 to 1
4. What is the length of a diagonal of a

5.

rectangle that has width 5 and perimeter 34 ?

Quantity A
The length of line segment
AC

Quantity B
3

6. Emma spent $75 buying a used bicycle and $27 repairing it. Then she sold the bicycle for 40 percent more
than the total amount she spent buying and repairing it.
Quantity A
The price at which Emma
sold the bicycle
7.

Quantity B
$140

r, s, and t are three consecutive odd integers such that r<s<t.

Quantity A

r+s+1

Quantity B

s+t1

8. The daily temperatures, in degrees Fahrenheit, for 10 days in May were 61,62, 65, 65, 65, 68, 74, 74, 75, and
77.
(a) Find the mean, median, mode, and range of the temperatures.
(b) If each day had been 7 degrees warmer, what would have been the mean,median, mode, and range of
those 10 temperatures?
9. Of the 20 light bulbs in a box, 2 are defective. An inspector will select 2 light bulbs simultaneously and at
random from the box. What is the probability that neither of the light bulbs selected will be defective?

10. In the coordinate system below, find the following. (a) Coordinates of point Q.
(b) Lengths of PQ, QR, and PR.
(c) Perimeter of PQR.
(d) Area of PQR.
(e) Slope, y-intercept, and equation of the line passing through points P and R.
11. Leah wants to shrink her photos to fit a computer screen. Her photos currently have a width of 1,024 pixels
and a height of 768 pixels. If she reduces the width to 800 pixels, then to what height, in pixels, must she
reduce the photos to preserve the same ratio of width to height?
12. The selling price of a house was decreased by 12 percent to $220,000. What was the original selling price
of the house?
a. $193,600 b. $196,429
c.$221,200
d. $246,400
e.
$250,000
13. Carmen wants to open a special savings account through her work. If Carmen invests $7,000 at 6 percent
simple annual interest in January, and no other money is added to or removed from the account, which of the
following is true?
Indicate all possible values.
a. At the end of April, Carmen will have earned $105 in interest.
b. At the end of the year, Carmen will have earned $420 in interest.
c. At the end of six months, Carmen will have earned $35 in interest.
d. At the end of three months, Carmen will have $7,105 in the account.
14. If a high schools varsity tennis team is made up of 24 juniors and seniors, which of the following could be
the ratio of juniors to seniors on the team?
Indicate all such ratios.
a. 1:2

b. 1:3

c.

1:4

d. 1:5

e. 3:5

f. 3:8

15. An empty, cube-shaped swimming pool is filled part way with x cubic feet of water. It is then filled the
rest of the way with y cubic feet of chlorine. Which of the following, in feet, expresses the depth of the
swimming pool?
a.

x+y

b.

(x + y)

c.

d.

16. A circle is inscribed in a square of area 36. What is the area of the circle?

17. If b= 4a/c ,

a is halved, and c is doubled, by what percentage will b decrease?

e.

a.
100%

4%

b.

25%

c. 50%

d.

75%

e.

PERCENT OF FEMALE FACULTY AND PERCENT OF MALE FACULTY AT UNIVERSITY X, BY

FIELD
Total female faculty: 200
Total male faculty: 250

18. There are 275 students in the field of engineering at University X. Approximately what is the ratio of the
number of students in engineering to the number of faculty in engineering?
_A. 8 to 1
_B. 10 to 1
_C.. 12 to 1
_D 14 to 1
_E. 20 to 1
19. Approximately what percent of the faculty in humanities are male?
_A. 35%
_B. 38%
_C. 41%
_D. 45%
_E. 51%
20. For the biological sciences and health sciences faculty combined, 1/3 of the female and 2/9 of the male
faculty members are tenured professors. What fraction of all the faculty members in those two fields combined
are tenured professors?