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6. If x is a positive number and 1/2 the square root of x is the cube root of x, then x A. 64 B. 32 C. 16 D. 4 E. 1 If a cube has a volume of 125, what is the surface area of one side? A. 5 B. 25 C. 50 D. 150 E. 625 8. What is the value of 5x2 1.9x 3.7 for x 0.3? A. 4.72 B. 3.82 C. 3.58 D. 2.68 E. 0.57 9. Last years receipts from the sale of greeting cards during the week before Mothers Day totaled $189 million, which represented 9 percent of total greeting card sales for the year. Total greeting card sales for the year totaled how many million dollars? A. 17,010 B. 2,100 C. 1,890 D. 1,701 10. Of 40 applicants for a job, 32 had at least 5 years of prior work experience, 24 had advanced degrees, and 16 had at least 5 years of prior work experience and advanced degrees. How many of the applicants had neither 5 years of prior work experience nor advanced degrees? A. 0 B. 2 C. 4 D. 8

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A certain prosthodontist specializes in implanting gold and silver teeth in his patients mouths. He charges N650 for a gold tooth and N325 for a silver tooth. If his total fees for implanting gold and silver teeth last week were N15,925 in total, and he implanted five more gold teeth than silver teeth, how many teeth in total did he implant over the week? A. 31 B. 32 C. 33 D. 34 E. 35

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What is the ratio of 3/7 to the product 3(7/3)? A. 3:7 B. 1:3 C. 3:21 D. 1:7 E. 3:49

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If the average (arithmetic mean) of a and b is 110, and the average of b and c is 160, what is the value of a c? A. 220 B. 100 C. 100 D. 135 E. It cannot be determined from the information given A travel company wants to charter a plane to the Bahamas. Chartering the plane costs N8,000. So far, 18 people have signed up for the trip. If the company charges N300 per ticket, how many more passengers must sign up for the trip before the company can make any profit on the charter? A. 7 B. 8 C. 13 D. 27 E. 45

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14. If Josh, Doug, and Brad have a total of $72 between them, and Josh has three times as much money as Brad but only threefourths as much as Doug, how much money does Doug have? A. $8 B. $9 C. $27 D. $32 E. $36 15. The pilot of a small aircraft with a 40gallon fuel tank wants to fly to Lagos, which is 480 miles away. The pilot recognizes that the current engine, which can fly only 8 miles per gallon, will not get him there. By how many miles per gallon must the aircrafts fuel efficiency be improved to make the flight to Lagos possible? A. 2 B. 4 C. 12 D. 40 E. 160 16. The table above shows the one-way driving distance, in miles, between four cities: P, Q, R, and S. For example, the distance between P and Q is 144 miles. If the round trip between S and Q is 16 miles further than the round trip between S and R, and the round trip between S and R is 24 miles less than the round trip between S and P, what is the value of X? A. 174 B. 182 C. 186 D. 348 E. 364 17. If a three-digit number is selected at random from the integers 100 to 999, inclusive, what is the probability that the first digit and the last digit of the integer will both be exactly two less than the middle digit? A. 1:900

E. 16 11. Two dogsled teams raced across a 300mile course in Abakaliki. Team A finished the course in 3 fewer hours than did team B. If team As average speed was 5 miles per hour greater than that of team B, what was team Bs average speed, in miles per hour? A. 12 B. 15 C. 18 D. 20 E. 25 In a certain growth fund, 3/5 of the investment capital is invested in stocks, and of that portion, 1/3 is invested in preferred stocks. If the mutual fund has N846,000 invested in preferred stocks, what is the total amount of money invested in the fund? A. N 1,974,000 B. N 2,538,000 C. N 3,264,000 D. N 3,826,000 E. N 4,230,000 12. Three hundred multiples of three are picked at random, and three hundred multiples of four are picked at random. Approximately what percentage of the six hundred selected numbers are even? A. 100% B. 75% C. 66% D. 50% E. 33% 13. There are 450 birds at a small zoo. The number of birds is 5 times the number of all the other animals combined. How many more birds are there than non bird animals at the zoo? A. 400 B. 360 C. 270 D. 180 E. 90

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mass of the first 20 pumpkins is 6.5 kg. What must be the minimum average mass of the remaining 3 pumpkins to fill the order? A. 5.5 kg B. 5.67 kg C. 6.67 kg D. 7 kg E. 11.5 kg 23. If the diameter of a circle is 14, then the area of the circle is? A. 7 B. 14 C. 28 D. 49 E. 196

B. 7:900 C. 9:1,000 D. 1:100 E. 7:100 18. One day a car rental agency rented 2/3 of its cars, including 3/5 of its cars with CD players. If 3/4 of its cars have CD players, what percent of the cars that were not rented had CD players? A. 10% B. 35% C. 45% D. 66.7% E. 90% 19. A type of extra-large SUV averages 12.2 miles per gallon (mpg) on the highway, but only 7.6 mpg in the city. What is the maximum distance, in miles, that this SUV could be driven on 25 gallons of gasoline? A. 190 B. 284.6 C. 300 D. 305 E. 312 20. Amaka has 25 pairs of shoes. If she loses 9 individual shoes, what is the greatest number of matching pairs she could have left? A. 21 B. 20 C. 19 D. 16 E. 15 21. If Finn was 18 months old one year ago, how old was he in months, x months ago? A. x 30 B. x 12 C. 18 x D. 24 x E. 30 x 22. A restaurant orders 150 kg of pumpkins from the farmers market. The farmer fills the order with 23 pumpkins. The average