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PREP07 Test 1
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Ellen can purchase a certain computer at a local store at the price of p dollars and pay a 6 percent sales tax. Alternatively, Ellen can purchase the same computer from a catalog for a total of q dollars, including all taxes and shipping costs. Will it cost more for Ellen to purchase the computer from the local store than from the catalog?(1)q-p < 50(2)q=1,150
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PREP07 Test 1
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At a certain college there are twice as many English majors as history majors and three times as many English majors as mathematics majors. What is the ratio of the number of history majors to the number of mathematics majors?
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PREP07 Test 1
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If x, and z are positive integers, what is the remainder when 1OOx + 10y + z is divided by 7 ?(1) y = 6(2)z = 3
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PREP07 Test 1
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An auction house charges a commission of 15 percent on the first $50,000 of the sale price of an item, plus 10 percent on the amount of the sale price in excess of $50,000. What was the sale price of a painting for which the auction house charged a total commission of $24,000 ?
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PREP07 Test 2
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For each hour of production, a certain factory requires 1 assembly line worker for every 25 units to be produced in that hour. The factory also requires 12 managers regardless of the number of units to be produced. Which of the following expressions represents the total number of assembly line workers and managers that this factory requires to produce 50N units in one hour, where N is a positive integer?
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PREP07 Test 2
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The number of years of service of the eight employees in a production department are 15, 10, 9, 17, 6, 4, 14, and 16. What is the range in the number of years of service of the eight employees?
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PREP07 Test 1
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In a certain game, the units of currency of three countries are the crown, the shield, and the pound, respectively. If 2 crowns equal 3 shields and 3 shields equal 4 pounds, how many crowns equal 18 pounds?
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PREP08 Test 2
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Minivans carry as many as seven passengers, and compared with sport utility vehicles, most cost less, get better gas mileage, and make it easy for passengers to get in and out, and have a smoother, more car-like ride.
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PREP08 Test 1
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The author of the passage asserts that "the real GDP is almost always higher than ever before" (see highlighted text) most probably in order to
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PREP07 Test 1
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 On the number line shown, is zero halfway between r and s ?(1) s is to the right of zero.(2) The distance between t and r is the same as the distance between t and -s.
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PREP07 Test 1
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What is the remainder when the positive integer x is divided by 6?(1) When x is divided by 2, the remainder is 1; and when x is divided by 3, the remainder is 0.(2) When x is divided by 12, the remainder is 3.
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PREP07 Test 1
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If x and y are integers and $${3}^{x-4}={3}^{y+2}$$, what is y in terms of x ?
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ProTect Insurance Company has recently been paying out more on car-theft claims than it expected. Cars with special antitheft devices or alarm systems are much less likely to be stolen than are other cars. Consequently ProTect, as part of an effort to reduce its annual payouts, will offer a discount to holders of car-theft policies if their cars have antitheft devices or alarm systems.Which of the following, if true, provides the strongest indication that the plan is likely to achieve its goal?
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PREP07 Test 1 PREP08 Test 1
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The passage suggests that socialists within the Russian women's movement and most bourgeois feminists believed that in Russia
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PREP07 Test 1 PREP08 Test 1
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According to the passage, Russian socialists within the women's movement and most bourgeois feminists disagreed about which of the following?
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Vasquez-Morrell Assurance specializes in insuring manufacturers. Whenever a policyholder makes a claim, a claims adjuster determines the amount that Vasquez-Morrell is obligated to pay. Vasquez-Morrell is cutting its staff of claims adjusters by 15 percent. To ensure that the company's ability to handle claims promptly is affected as little as possible by the staff cuts, consultants recommend that Vasquez-Morrell lay off those adjusters who now take longest, on average, to complete work on claims assigned to them.Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the consultants' criterion for selecting the staff to be laid off?
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Metal rings recently excavated from seventh-century settlements in the western part of Mexico were made using the same metallurgical techniques as those used by Ecuadorian artisans before and during that period. These techniques are sufficiently complex to make their independent development in both areas unlikely. Since the people of these two areas were in cultural contact, archaeologists hypothesize that the metallurgical techniques used to make the rings found in Mexico were learned by Mexican artisans from Ecuadorian counterparts.Which of the following would it be most useful to establish in order to evaluate the archaeologists' hypothesis?
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Motorists in a certain country frequently complain that traffic congestion is much worse now than it was 20 years ago. No real measure of how much traffic congestion there was 20 years ago exists, but the motorists' complaints are almost certainly unwarranted. The country's highway capacity has tripled in the last twenty years, thanks to a vigorous highway construction program, whereas the number of automobiles registered in the country has increased by only 75 percent.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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PREP2012
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A physically active lifestyle has been shown to help increase longevity. In the Wistar region of Bellaria, the average age at death is considerably higher than in any other part of the country. Wistar is the only mountainous part of Bellaria. A mountainous terrain makes even such basic activities as walking relatively strenuous; it essentially imposes a physically active lifestyle on people. Clearly, this circumstance explains the long lives of people in Wistar.Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
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During the 1980s and 1990s, the annual number of people who visited the Sordellian Mountains increased continually, and many new ski resorts were built. Over the same period, however, the number of visitors to ski resorts who were caught in avalanches decreased, even though there was no reduction in the annual number of avalanches in the Sordellian Mountains.Which of the following, if true in the Sordellian Mountains during the 1980s and 1990s, most helps to explain the decrease?
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