Anupam Gupta

1. Five students, Joe, Katy, Lori, Michael, Natasha, must stand in a line together. Natasha could not stand at either front or back of the line, and Lori must stand in the middle. How many more combinations would there be if Lori could stand anywhere on the line? 2. It takes 6 technicians 10 hours to build and program a new server from Direct Computer, with each technicians working at the same rate. If the 6 technicians start work at 11:00 am, and one technician per hour is added beginning at 5:00 pm, at what time will the server be complete?

1. Is R*S divisible by 25? 1). R-S=5 2). R*S is divisible by 5 2.If x=0.rstu, each r, s, t, and u each represent a nonzero digit of x, what is value of x? 1). r=3s=2t=6u 2). the product of r and u is equal to the product of s and t 3. If the average of 5 numbers is 62, what is the range of the numbers? 1). The average of 4 largest numbers is 74. 2). The average of 4 smallest numbers is 40.

OA 1. B I dont know why it is so answer can be E also. 2. A

1. One pervasive theory explains the introduction of breakfast cereals in the early 1900s as a result of the growing number of automobiles, which led to a decline in horse ownership and a subsequent grain glut; by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored. (A) by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, market equilibrium was restored (B) persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium © by persuading people to eat what had previously been horse feed, it restored market equilibrium (D) the persuasion of people to eat what had previously been horse feed restored market equilibrium (E) market equilibrium was restored when people were persuaded to eat former horse feed 2. Originally published in 1950, Some Tame Gazelle was Barbara Pym’s first novel, but it does not read like an apprentice work. (A) does not read like an apprentice work (B) seems not to read as an apprentice work © does not seem to read as an apprentice work would (D) does not read like an apprentice work does (E) reads unlike an apprentice work

1. Advertisers are often criticized for their unscrupulous manipulation of people’s tastes and wants. There is evidence, however, that some advertisers are motivated by moral as well as financial considerations. A particular publication decided to change its image from being a family newspaper to concentrating on sex and violence, thus appealing to a different readership. Some advertisers withdrew their advertisements from the publication, and this must have been because they morally disapproved of publishing salacious material. Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument? (A) The advertisers switched their advertisements to other family newspapers. (B) Some advertisers switched from family newspapers to advertise in the changed publication. © The advertisers expected their product sales to increase if they stayed with the changed publication, but to decrease if they withdrew. (D) People who generally read family newspapers are not likely to buy newspapers that concentrate on sex and violence. (E) It was expected that the changed publication would appeal principally to those in a different income group. 2. If retail stores experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season, then either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford. If attitudes have changed, then we all have something to celebrate this season. If prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford, then it must be that salaries have not kept pace with rising prices during the past year. Assume the premises above to be true. If salaries have kept pace with rising prices during the past year, which one of the following must be true? (A) Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed. (B) Retail stores will not experience a decrease in retail sales during this holiday season. © Prices in retail stores have not risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season. (D) Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have not changed, and stores will not experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season. (E) Either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level that most people can afford during this holiday season.

The advanced technology of ski boots and bindings has brought a dramatic drop in the incidence of injuries that occur on the slopes of ski resorts: from 9 injuries per 1,000 skiers in 1950 to 3 in 1980. As a result, the remainder of ski-related injuries, which includes all injuries occurring on the premises of a ski resort but not on the slopes, rose from 10 percent of all ski-related injuries in 1950 to 25 percent in 1980. The incidence of these injuries, including accidents such as falling down steps, increases with the amount of alcohol consumed per skier. 1. Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the passage? (A) As the number of ski injuries that occur on the slopes decreases, the number of injuries that occur on the premises of ski resorts increases. (B) The amount of alcohol consumed per skier increased between 1950 and 1980. © The technology of ski boots and bindings affects the incidence of each type of ski-related injury. (D) If the technology of ski boots and bindings continues to advance, the incidence of ski-related injuries will continue to decline. (E) Injuries that occurred on the slopes of ski resorts made up a smaller percentage of ski-related injuries in 1980 than in 1950. 2. Which one of the following conflicts with information in the passage? (A) The number of ski injuries that occurred on the slopes was greater in 1980 than in 1950. (B) A skier was less likely to be injured on the slopes in 1950 than in 1980. © The reporting of ski injuries became more accurate between 1950 and 1980. (D) The total number of skiers dropped between 1950 and 1980. (E) Some ski-related injuries occurred in 1980 to people who were not skiing.

PLEASE PROVIDE EXPLANATIONS 1. Some people believe that witnessing violence in movies will discharge aggressive energy. Does watching someone else eat fill one’s own stomach? In which one of the following does the reasoning most closely parallel that employed in the passage? (A) Some people think appropriating supplies at work for their own personal use is morally wrong. Isn’t shoplifting morally wrong? (B) Some people think nationalism is defensible. Hasn’t nationalism been the excuse for committing abominable crimes? © Some people think that boxing is fixed just because wrestling usually is. Are the two sports managed by the same sort of people? (D) Some people think that economists can control inflation. Can meteorologists make the sun shine? (E) Some people think workaholics are compensating for a lack of interpersonal skills. However, aren’t most doctors workaholics? 2. More than a year ago, the city announced that police would crack down on illegally parked cars and that resources would be diverted from writing speeding tickets to ticketing illegally parked cars. But no crackdown has taken place. The police chief claims that resources have had to be diverted from writing speeding tickets to combating the city’s staggering drug problem. Yet the police are still writing as many speeding tickets as ever. Therefore, the excuse about resources being tied up in fighting drug-related crime simply is not true. The conclusion in the passage depends on the assumption that (A) every member of the police force is qualified to work on combating the city’s drug problem (B) drug-related crime is not as serious a problem for the city as the police chief claims it is © writing speeding tickets should be as important a priority for the city as combating drug-related crime (D) the police could be cracking down on illegally parked cars and combating the drug problem without having to reduce writing speeding tickets (E) the police cannot continue writing as many speeding tickets as ever while diverting resources to combating drug-related crime 3. Governments have only one response to public criticism of socially necessary services: regulation of the activity of providing those services. But governments inevitably make the activity more expensive by regulating it, and that is particularly troublesome in these times of strained financial resources. However, since public criticism of child-care services has undermined all confidence in such services, and since such services are socially necessary, the government is certain to respond. Which one of the following statements can be inferred from the passage? (A) The quality of child care will improve. (B) The cost of providing child-care services will increase. © The government will use funding to foster advances in childcare. (D) If public criticism of policy is strongly voiced, the government is certain to respond. (E) If child-care services are not regulated, the cost of providing child care will not increase.

1.Archaeologists have found wheeled ceramic toys made by the Toltec, twelfth-century inhabitants of what is now Veracruz. Although there is no archaeological evidence that the Toltec used wheels for anything but toys, some anthropologists hypothesize that wheeled utility vehicles were used to carry materials needed for the monumental structures the Toltec produced. Which of the following, if true, would most help the anthropologists explain the lack of evidence noted above? (A) The Toltec sometimes incorporated into their toys representations of utensils or other devices that served some practical purpose. (B) Any wheeled utility vehicles used by the Toltec could have been made entirely of wood, and unlike ceramic, wood decays rapidly in the humid climate of Veracruz. © Carvings in monument walls suggest that the Toltec’s wheeled ceramic toys sometimes had ritual uses in addition to being used by both children and adults as decorations and playthings. (D) Wheeled utility vehicles were used during the twelfth century in many areas of the world, but during this time wheeled toys were not very common in areas outside Veracruz. (E) Some of the wheeled ceramic toys were found near the remains of monumental structures 2. Demographers doing research for an international economics newsletter claim that the average per capita income in the country of Kuptala is substantially lower than that in the country of Bahlton. They also claim, however, that whereas poverty is relatively rare in Kuptala, over half the population of Bahlton lives in extreme poverty. At least one of the demographers’ claims must, therefore, be wrong. The argument above is most vulnerable to which of the following criticisms? (A) It rejects an empirical claim about the average per capita incomes in the two countries without making any attempt to discredit that claim by offering additional economic evidence. (B) It treats the vague term “poverty” as though it had a precise and universally accepted meaning. © It overlooks the possibility that the number of people in the two countries who live in poverty could be the same even though the percentages of the two populations that live in poverty differ markedly. (D) It fails to show that wealth and poverty have the same social significance in Kuptala as in Bahlton (E) It does not consider the possibility that incomes in Kuptala, unlike those in Bahlton, might all be very close to the country’s average per capita income. 3. A product that represents a clear technological advance over competing products can generally command a high price. Because technological advances tend to be quickly surpassed and companies want to make large profits while they still can, many companies charge the greatest price the market will bear when they have such a product. But large profits on the mew product will give competitors a strong incentive to quickly match the mew product’s capabilities. Consequently, the strategy to maximize overall profit from a new product is to charge less than the greatest possible price. In the argument above, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles? The first is an assumption that forms the basis for a course of action that the argument criticizes; the second presents the course of action endorsed by the argument. The first is a consideration raised to explain the appeal of a certain strategy; the second is a consideration raised to call into question the wisdom of adopting that strategy. The first is an assumption that has been used to justify a certain strategy; the second is a consideration that is used to cast doubt on that assumption. The first is a consideration raised in support of a strategy the argument endorses; the second presents grounds in support of that consideration. The first is a consideration raised to show that adopting a certain strategy is unlikely to achieve the intended effect; the second is presented to explain the appeal of that strategy.

1. In A.D. 391, resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, later generations lost all but the Iliad and Odyssey among Greek epics, most of the poetry of Pindar and Sappho, and dozens of plays by Aeschylus and Euripides. (A) resulting from the destruction of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria, (B) the destroying of the largest library of the ancient world at Alexandria resulted and © because of the result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world, (D) as a result of the destruction of the library at Alexandria, the largest of the ancient world (E) Alexandria’s largest library of the ancient world was destroyed, and the result was 2. In addition to having more protein than wheat does, the protein in rice is higher quality than that in wheat, with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet. (A) the protein in rice is higher quality than that in (B) rice has protein of higher quality than that in © the protein in rice is higher in quality than it is in (D) rice protein is higher in quality than it is in (E) rice has a protein higher in quality than 3. In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant. (A) In assessing the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant. (B) The question of whether the rural migrant worker is better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant in assessing the problems that they face. © A question that is irrelevant in assessing the problems that rural migrant workers face is whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor. (D) In an assessment of the problems faced by rural migrant workers, the question of whether they are better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant (E) The question of whether the rural migrant worker is better off materially than the urban working poor is irrelevant in an assessment of the problems that they face. 4. In cold-water habitats, certain invertebrates and fish convert starches into complex carbohydrates called glycerols, in effect manufacturing its own antifreeze. (A) in effect manufacturing its own antifreeze (B) effectively manufacturing antifreeze of its own © in effect manufacturing their own antifreeze (D) so that they manufacture their own antifreeze (E) thus the manufacture of its own antifreeze

1. Mary persuaded n friends to donate $500 each to her election campaign, and then each of these n friends persuaded n more people to donate $500 each to Mary’s campaign. If no one donated more than once and if there were no other donations, what was the value of n? (1) The first n people donated 1/16 of the total amount donated. (2) The total amount donated was $120,000. 2. If the units digit of the three-digit positive integer k is nonzero, what is the tens digit of k? (1) The tens digit of k + 9 is 3. (2) The tens digit of k + 4 is 2. 3. If n is a positive integer, what is the remainder when 38n+3 + 2 is divided by 5? A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3 E. 4

1. Two parallel lines, one has 5 points, another has 4 points. How many triangles can formed by linking these points? 2. A probability question: H, L, L, T,W, E,V, A, (letters my own, on the test those letters were not making any recognizable word). It was either L and V or A and V to be in the 2nd and 4th places. How many arrangements could be possible when the letters are arranged in forming and not forming a word? 3. A number plate is in the format of XXYYYY where X can be any of the 26 letters and Y can be any number (0-9). How many combinations are there if the plate starts with the letter N and has at least 1 non-zero digit? 4. Of the science books in a certain supply room, 50 are on botany, 65 are on zoology, 90 are on physics, 50 are on geology, and 110 are on chemistry. If science books are removed randomly from the supply room, how many must be removed to ensure that 80 of the books removed are on the same science?

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1. A bag contains 20 blue, 20 back, 5 red, and 5 green balls. If 2 balls are selected at random, what is the probability that they have the same color? 2.A rectangular solid is 200 by 200 by 300. Each of other solid¡¯s sides is 1 less than that of the large one, respectively. What is the volume difference between two solids?

1. A photographer will arrange 6 people of 6 different heights for photograph by placing them in two rows of three so that each person in the first row is standing in front of someone in the second row. The heights of the people within each row must increase from left to right, and each person in the second row must be taller than the person standing in front of him or her. How many such arrangements of the 6 people are possible? a.5 b.6 c.9 d.24 e.36 2. When a number is divided by 13, quotient is K, remainder is 2; when divided by 17, remainder is 2. What is the remainder when K is divided by 17? 3. Simplest one but couldn't find correct answer (0.4*2)^-5 / 0.4^-4 =?

1. F(n) denotes the remainder when n is divided by k. Is k greater than 1? 1). f(k+32)=9 2). f(k+16) =6 I think ans is B. Plz confirm 2. Is the perimeter of a triangle greater than 1? 1). Two of the heights are less than 1/3 2). One of the heights is greater than 1/2 I think ans is E Is there any trick to correlate the height of a Triangle with its area or perimeter