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239. What is the value of 10 percent of y ? 246. Is rw = 0 ?

(1) 5 percent of y is 60. (1) −6 < r < 5

(2) y is 80 percent of 1,500. (2) 6 < w < 10

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240. What is the cube root of w ? 247. Is x = ?
y
(1) The 5th root of w is 64. (1) xy = 1
(2) The 15th root of w is 4. 1
(2) =1
xy
241. If sequence S has 120 terms, what is the 105th term
of S ? 248. How many people in a group of 50 own neither a fax
machine nor a laser printer?
(1) The first term of S is –8.
(1) The total number of people in the group who own
(2) Each term of S after the first term is 10 more
a fax machine or a laser printer or both is less
than the preceding term.
than 50.
(2) The total number of people in the group who own
242. The number of seats in the first row of an auditorium
both a fax machine and a laser printer is 15.
is 18 and the number of seats in each row thereafter
is 2 more than in the previous row. What is the total
number of seats in the rows of the auditorium? 249. What is the value of w–2 ?
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(1) The number of rows of seats in the auditorium (1) w–1 =
2
is 27.
(2) w3 = 8
(2) The number of seats in the last row is 70.
250. A certain investment earned a fixed rate of 4 percent
243. If u > 0 and v > 0, which is greater, uv or vu ? interest per year, compounded annually, for five years.
The interest earned for the third year of the investment
(1) u=1
was how many dollars greater than that for the first
(2) v>2 year?

244. What was the range of the selling prices of the (1) The amount of the investment at the beginning of
30 wallets sold by a certain store yesterday? the second year was $4,160.00.
(2) The amount of the investment at the beginning of
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(1) of the wallets had a selling price of $24 each. the third year was $4,326.40.
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(2) The lowest selling price of the wallets was the
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highest selling price of the wallets.
average speed at which she drove the 50 miles?
245. Three houses are being sold through a real estate (1) She drove 30 miles at an average speed of
agent. What is the asking price for the house with the 60 miles per hour and then drove the remaining
second‐largest asking price? 20 miles at an average speed of 50 miles
per hour.
(1) The difference between the greatest and the
least asking price is $130,000. (2) She drove a total of 54 minutes.
(2) The difference between the two greater asking
prices is $85,000. 252. What is the value of t ?

(1) s+t=6+s
(2) t3 = 216

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 6.3 Data Sufficiency Practice Questions

253. For a certain car repair, the total charge consisted of 259. In each of the last five years, Company K donated
a charge for parts, a charge for labor, and a 6 percent p percent of its annual profits to a certain scholarship
sales tax on both the charge for parts and the charge fund. Did Company K donate more than $10,000 to
for labor. If the charge for parts, excluding sales tax, the scholarship fund last year?
was $50.00, what was the total charge for the repair?
(1) Two years ago, Company K had annual profits
(1) The sales tax on the charge for labor was $9.60. of $3 million and donated $15,000 to the
(2) The total sales tax was $12.60. scholarship fund.
(2) Last year, Company K had annual profits of
254. George has a total of B books in his library, 25 of $2.5 million.
which are hardcover fiction books. What is the
value of B ?
z
(1) 40 of the B books are fiction and the rest are x
nonfiction.
y
(2) 60 of the B books are hardcovers and the rest
are paperbacks. 260. Is the area of the triangular region above less than 20 ?

255. Is w + h4 positive? (1) x2 + y2 ≠ z2

(2) x + y < 13
(1) h is positive.
(2) w is positive. 261. A, B, C, and D are points on a line. If C is the midpoint
of line segment AB and if D is the midpoint of line
256. In Mr. Smith’s class, what is the ratio of the number of segment CB, is the length of line segment DB greater
boys to the number of girls? than 5 ?

(1) There are 3 times as many girls as boys in (1) The length of line segment AC is greater than 8.
Mr. Smith’s class. (2) The length of line segment CD is greater than 6.
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(2) The number of boys is of the total number of
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boys and girls in Mr. Smith’s class. 262. The people in a line waiting to buy tickets to a show
are standing one behind the other. Adam and Beth
are among the people in the line, and Beth is standing
257. If the sequence S has 300 terms, what is the 293rd
behind Adam with a number of people between them. If
term of S ?
the number of people in front of Adam plus the number
(1) The 298th term of S is –616, and each of people behind Beth is 18, how many people in the
term of S after the first is 2 less than the line are behind Beth?
preceding term.
(1) There are a total of 32 people in the line.
(2) The first term of S is –22.
(2) 23 people in the line are behind Adam.

258. If a is a 3-digit integer and b is a 3-digit integer, is the

263. Square ABCD is inscribed in circle O. What is the area
units digit of the product of a and b greater than 5 ?
of square region ABCD ?
(1) The units digit of a is 4.
(1) The area of circular region O is 64π.
(2) The units digit of b is 7.
(2) The circumference of circle O is 16π.

264. Lines k and m are parallel to each other. Is the slope of

line k positive?

(1) Line k passes through the point (3,2).

(2) Line m passes through the point (–3,2).
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