GMAT 数学 DATA SUFFICIENCY

GMAT 数学

DATA SUFFICIENCY

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SECTION 1
30 Minutes 25 Questions 7. Is x2 equal to xy?
(1) x2 – y2 = (x + 5)(y - 5)
1. If today the price of an item is $3,600,
(2) x = y
what was the price of the item exactly 2
years ago?
8. Was 70 the average (arithmetic mean)
(1) The price of the item increased by 10 grade on a class test?
per-cent per year during this 2-year
(1) On the test, half of the class had
period.
grades below 70 and half of the class
(2) Today the price of the item is 1.21
had grades above 70.
times its price exactly 2 years ago.
(2) The lowest grade on the test was 45
and the highest grade on the test was
2. By what percent has the price of an
95.
overcoat been reduced?
(1) The original price was $380. 9. What was John’s average driving speed in
(2) The original price was $50 more than miles per hour during a 15-minute
the reduced price. interval?
(1) He drove 10 miles during this
3. If the Longfellow Playground is
interval.
rectangular, what is its width?
(2) His maximum speed was 50 miles per
(1) The ratio of its length to its width is 7 hour and his minimum speed was 35
to 2. miles per hour during this interval.
(2) The perimeter of the playground is
396 meters. 10. Is ΔMNP isosceles?
(1) Exactly two of the angles, ∠M and
4. What is the value of x –1?
∠N, have the same measure
(1) x + 1 =3 (2) ∠N and ∠P do not have the same
(2) x – 1 < 3 measure.

5. Is William taller than Jane? 11. Is n an integer greater than 4?

(1) William is taller than Anna. (1) 3n is a positive integer.
(2) Anna is not as tall as Jane. n
(2) is a positive integer.
3

6. In parallelogram ABCD above, what is

the measure of ∠ADC? 12. In ΔJKL shown above, what is the
(1) The measure of ∠ABC is greater than length of segment JL?
90o. (1) JK = 10
(2) The measure of ∠BCD is 70o (2) KL = 5

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13. A coal company can choose to transport 17. At a certain university, if 50 percent of
coal to one of its customers by railroad the people who inquire about admission
or by truck. If the railroad charges by the policies actually submit applications for
mile and the trucking company charges admission, what percent of those who
by the ton, which means of transporting submit applications for admission enroll
the coal would cost less than the other? in classes at the university?
(1) The railroad charges $5,000 plus (1) Fifteen percent of those who submit
$0.01 per mile per railroad car used, applications for admission are
and the trucking company charges accepted at the university.
$3,000 plus $85 per ton. (2) Eighty percent of those who are
(2) The customer to whom the coal is to accepted send a deposit to the
be sent is 195 miles away from the university.
coal company.
x
14. Is x – y > r – s? 18. If x and y are nonzero integers, is an
y
(1) x > r and y < s? integer?
(2) y = 2, s = 3, r = 5, and x = 6. (1) x is the product of 2 and some other
integer.
15. On a certain day it took Bill three times (2) There is only one pair of positive
as long to drive from home to work as it integers whose product equals y.
took Sue to drive from home to work.
How many kilometers did Bill drive 19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x?
from home to work?
(1) 1  1  1
(1) Sue drove 10 kilometers from home
to work, and the ratio of distance
5 x 1 2
(2) ( x  3)( x  4)  0
driven from home to work time to
drive from home to work was the
same for Bill and Sue that day. 20. Is quadrilateral Q a square?
(2) The ratio of distance driven from
(1) The sides of Q have the same length.
home to work time to drive from
(2) The diagonals of Q have the same
home to work for Sue that day was
length.
64 kilometers per hour.
21. If K is a positive integer less than 10 and
N = 4,321 + K, what is the value of K?
(1) N is divisible by 3.
(2) N is divisible by 7.

22. A jewelry dealer initially offered a

16. The figure above represents the floor of bracelet for sale at an asking price that
a square foyer with a circular rug would give a profit to the dealer of 40
partially covering the floor and percent of the original cost. What was
extending to the outer edges of the floor the original cost of the bracelet?
as shown. What is the area of the foyer
that is not covered by the rug? (1) After reducing this asking price by 10
percent, the jewelry dealer sold the
(1) The area of the foyer is 9 square bracelet at a profit of $403.
meters. (2) The jewelry dealer sold the bracelet
(2) The area of the rug is 2.25π square for $1,953.
meters.

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23. If n is an integer between 2 and 100 and SECTION 2

if n is also the square of an integer, what 30 Minutes 25 Questions
is the value of n?
1. Who types at a faster rate, John or Bob?
(1) n is the cube of an integer.
(2) n is even. (1) The difference between their typing
rates is 10 words per minute.
24. Is x2 – y2 a positive number? (2) Bob types at a constant rate of 80
words per minute.
(1) x – y is a positive number.
(2) x + y is a positive number.
2. What is the average distance that
automobile D travels on one full tank of
25. The surface area of a square tabletop
gasoline?
was changed so that one of the
dimensions was reduced by 1 inch and (1) Automobile D averages 8.5 kilometers
the other dimension was increased by 2 per liter of gasoline.
inches. What was the surface area before (2) The gasoline tank of automobile D
these changes were made? holds exactly 40 liters of gasoline.
(1) After the changes were made, the
3. If l1,l2 and l3 are lines in a plane, is l1
surface area was 70 square inches.
perpendicular to l3?
(2) There was a 25 percent increase in
one of the dimensions. (1) l1 is perpendicular to l2.
(2) l2 is perpendicular to l3

4. In a certain packinghouse, grapefruit are

packed in bags and the bags are packed in
cases. How many grapefruit are in each
case that is packed?
(1) The grapefruit are always packed 5 to
a bag and the bags are always packed
8 to a case.
(2) Each case is always 80 percent full.

5. What is the value of x?

(1) x + y = 7
(2) x – y = 3 – y

6. A rectangular floor that is 4 meters wide

is to be completely covered with
nonoverlapping square tiles, each with
side of length 0.25 meter, with no portion
of any tile remaining. What is the least
number of such tiles that will be
required?
(1) The length of the floor is three times
the width.
(2) The area of the floor is 48 square
meters.

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7. If a rope is cut into three pieces of 12. If J, K, L, M, and N and positive integers
unequal length, what is the length of the in ascending order, what is the value of
shortest of these pieces of rope? L?
(1) The combined length of the longer (1) The value of K is 3.
two pieces of rope is 12 meters. (2) The value of M is 7.
(2) The combined length of the shorter
two pieces of rope is 11 meters. 13. If a, b, and c are integers, is the number
3(a  b)  c divisible by 3?
8. A certain company paid bonuses of $125
to each of its executive employees and (1) a + b is divisible by 3.
$75 to each of its nonexecutive (2) c is divisible by 3.
employees. If 100 of the employees were
nonexecutives, how many were 14. Each M-type memory unit will increase
executives? the base memory capacity of a certain
computer by 3 megabytes. What is the
(1) The company has a total of 120 base memory capacity, in megabytes of
employees. the computer?
(2) The total amount that the company
paid in bonuses to its employees was (1) 2 M-type memory units will increase
$10.000. the computers base memory capacity
by 300 percent
9. What fraction of his salary did Mr. (2) The memory capacity of the
Johnson put into savings last week? computer after 2 M-type memory
units are added to the base memory
(1) Last week Mr. Johnson put $17 into capacity is 1.6 times the memory
savings. capacity of the computer after 1 M-
(2) Last week Mr. Johnson put 5% of his type memory unit is added to the
salary into savings. base memory capacity.

a 15. If xyz≠0, what is the value of

10. For integers a, b, and c,  1,
bc x5 y 4 z 2
?
bc z2 y4x2
What is the value of ?
b
(1) x = 1
a 3 (2) y = 3
(1) 
b 5
(2) a and b have no common factors greater 16. What fractional part of the total surface
than 1. area of cube C is red?
1
11. If the price of a magazine is to be (1) Each of 3 faces of C is exactly
doubled, by what percent will the 2
number of magazines sold decrease? red.
(2) Each of 3 faces of C is entirely white.
(1) The current price of the magazine is
$1.00. 17. If positive integer x is divided by 2, the
(2) For every $0.25 of increase in price, remainder is 1. What is the remainder
the number of magazines sold will when x is divided by 4 ?
decrease by 10 percent of the number
sold at the current price. (1) 31 < x < 35
(2) x is a multiple of 3.

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(2) Candidate H received 14 of the votes.

23. S is a set of integers such that

i) if a is in S, then –a is in S, and
ii) if each of a and b is in S, then ab is in
S.
Is –4 in S?
18. In the figure above, D is a point on side
(1) 1 is in S.
AC of ΔABC. Is ΔABC is isosceles?
(2) 2 is in S.
(1) The area of triangular region ABD is
equal to the area of triangular region 24. If the area of triangular region RST is 25,
DBC. what is the perimeter of RST?
(2) BD┴AC and AD = DC
(1) The length of one side of RST is
19. If x is an integer, what is the value of x? 5 2.
(2) RST is a right isosceles triangle.
(1) –2(x + 5) < -1
(2) – 3x > 9 25. If x and y are consecutive odd integers,
what is the sum of x and y?
Number of Number of
Calories Grams (1) The product of x and y is negative.
Food (2) One of the integers is equal to –1.
per of Protein per
Kilogram Kilogram
S 2,000 150
T 1,500 90

20. The table above gives the number of

calories and grams of protein per
kilogram of foods S and T. If a total of 7
kilograms of S and T are combined to
make a certain food mixture, how many
kilograms of food S are in the mixture?
(1) The mixture has a total of 12,000
calories.
(2) The mixture has a total of 810 grams
of protein.

21. If y≠0 and y≠-1, which is greater,

x x
or ?
y y 1
(1) x≠0
(2) x > y

22. Each person on a committee with 40

members voted for exactly one of 3
candidates, F, G, or H. Did Candidate F
receive the most votes from the 40 votes
cast?
(1) Candidate F received 11 of the votes.

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SECTION 3 integers in ascending order.

30 Minutes 25 Questions
7. In ΔHGM, what is the length of side HM?
(1) HG = 5
1. For a certain bottle and cork, what is the
(2) GM = 8
price of the cork?
(1) The combined price of the bottle and
the cork is 95 cents. 8. Claire paid a total of $1.60 for stamps,
(2) The price of the bottle is 75 cents some of which cost $0.20 each, and the
more than the price of the cork. rest of which cost $0.15 each. How many
20-cent stamps did Claire buy?
2. Last year an employee received a gross
(1) Claire bought exactly 9 stamps.
annual salary of $18,000, which was paid
(2) The number of 20-cent stamps Claire
in equal paychecks throughout the year.
bought was 1 more than the number
What was the gross salary received in
of 15-cent stamps she bought.
each of the paychecks?
(1) The employee received a total of 24 9. If Ruth began a job and worked
paychecks during the year. continuously until she finished, at what
(2) The employee received a paycheck time of day did she finish the job?
twice a month each month during the
(1) She started the job at 8:15 a.m. and at
year.
noon of the same day she had worked
exactly half of the time that it took her
3. What was Bill’s average (arithmetic
to do the whole job.
mean) grade for all of his courses?
1
(1) His grade in social studies was 75, (2) She was finished exactly 7 hours
2
and his grade in science was 75. after she had started.
(2) His grade in mathematics was 95.
10. What is the value of x?
4. If x = 2y, what is the value of xy?
(1) 3 + x + y = 14 and 2x + y = 15
(1) x > y (2) 3x + 2y = 12 + 2y
(2) 3x – 2y = 14
11. Is x an even integer?
5. A rectangular garden that is 10 feet long
and 5 feet wide is to be covered with a (1) x is the square of an integer.
layer of mulch 0.5 foot deep. At which (2) x is the cube of an integer.
store, K or L, will the cost of the
necessary amount of mulch be less? 12. If John is exactly 4 years older than Bill,
how old is John?
(1) Store K sells mulch only in bags, each
of which costs $7 and contains 6.25 (1) Exactly 9 years ago John was 5 times
cubic feet of mulch. as old as bill was then.
(2) Store L sells mulch only in bags, each (2) Bill is more than 9 years old.
of which costs $40 and contains 25
cubic feet of mulch.

6. If S = {2, 3, x, y}, what is the value of x +

y?
(1) x and y are prime numbers.
(2) 3, x, and y are consecutive odd

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13. Before play-offs, a certain team had won 18. Bowls X and Y each contained exactly 2
80 percent of its games. After play-offs, jelly beans, each of which was either red
what percent of all its games had the or black. One of the jelly beans in bowl
team won? X was exchanged with one of the jelly
beans in bowl Y. After the exchange,
(1) The team competed in 4 play-off
were both of the jelly beans in bowl X
games.
black?
(2) The team won all of its play-off
games. (1) Before the exchange, bowl X
contained 2 black jelly beans.
14. If x and y are integers, is xy + 1 divisible (2) After the exchange, bowl Y contained
by 3? 1 jelly bean of each color.
(1) When x is divided by 3, the
19. Does x + y = 0?
remainder is 1.
(2) When y is divided by 9, the (1) xy<0
remainder is 8. (2) x2 = y2

15. If x≠0, is |x| <1?

(1) x2<1
1
(2) |x| <
x
20. In the figure above, line AC represents a
16. The cost to charter a certain airplane is x seesaw that is touching level ground at
dollars. If the 25 members of a club point A. If B is the midpoint of AC, how
chartered the plane and shared the cost far above the ground is point C?
equally, what was the cost per member?
(1) x = 30
(1) If there had been 5 more members (2) Point B is 5 feet above the ground.
and all 30 had shared the cost
equally, the cost per member would 21. If □ represents a digit in the 7-digit
have been $40 less. number 3, 62□, 215, what is the value
(2) The cost per member was 10 percent of □?
less than the cost per person on a
regularly scheduled flight. (1) The sum of the 7 digits is equal to 4
times an integer.
(2) The missing digit is different from
any of the other digits in the number.

22. Last Tuesday a trucker paid $155.76,

including 10 percent state and federal
taxes, for diesel fuel. What was the price
per gallon for the fuel if the taxes are
17. Rectangle ABCD is inscribed in a circle excluded?
as shown above. What is the radius of (1) The trucker paid $0.118 per gallon in
the circle? state and federal taxes on the fuel last
Tuesday.
(1) The length of the rectangle is 3
(2) The trucker purchased 120 gallons of
and the width of the rectangle is 1. the fuel last Tuesday.
1
(2) The length of are AB is of the
3
circumference of the circle.

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23. Is x less than y? SECTION 4

30 Minutes 25 Questions
(1) x-y+1<0
(2) x-y-1<0
1. What is the value of x?
24. Is quadrilateral RSTV a rectangle?
(1) x is negative.
(1) The measure of ∠RST is 90o
(2) 2x = -4
(2) The measure of ∠TVR is 90o
2. Did United States carriers use more than
25. If b is an integer, is a 2  b 2 an 10 billion gallons of jet fuel during 1983?
integer?
(1) United States carriers paid a total of
(1) a2 + b2 is an integer. $9.4 billion for the jet fuel used in
(2) a2 – 3b2 = 0 1983.
(2) United States carriers paid an average
(arithmetic mean) of $0.90 per gallon
for the jet fuel used in 1983.

3. In Country S，if 60 percent of the women

aged 18 and over are in the labor force,
how many million women are in the labor
force?
(1) In Country S, women comprise 45
percent of the labor force.
(2) In Country S, there are no women
under 18 years of age in the labor
force.

4. If x and y are different positive numbers,

is z between x and y?
(1) z > 0
(2) z < y

5. What percent of 16 is m?
(1) m is 5 percent of 10.
(2) 400 percent of m is 2.

6. Kay put 12 cards on a table, some faceup

and the rest facedown. How many were
put facedown?
(1) Kay put an even number of the cards
faceup.
(2) Kay put twice as many of the cards
faceup as she put facedown.

7. Is ΔRST a right triangle?

(1) The degree measure of ∠R is twice
the degree measure of ∠T.
(2) The degree measure of ∠T is 30.

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8. If x is a positive number, is x greater than 13. If a bottle is to be selected at random

1? from a certain collection of bottles, what
1 is the probability that the bottle will be
(1) 1>
x defective?
1 (1) The ratio of the number of bottles in
(2)   1
x the collection that are defective to the
number that are not defective is
3:500.
(2) The collection contains 3,521 bottles.

14. If a grocery shopper received $0.25 off

the original price of a certain product by
using a coupon, what was the original
9. The figure above shows four pieces of tile price of the product?
that have been glued together to form a (1) The shopper received a 20 percent
square tile ABCD. Is PR=QS? discount by using the coupon.
(1) BQ = CR = DS = AP (2) The original price was 25 percent
(2) The perimeter of ABCD is 16. higher than the price the shopper paid
by using the coupon.
10. How old is Jim?
15. What was Casey’s total score for
(1) Eight years ago Jim was half as old eighteen holes of golf?
as he is now.
(2) Four years from now Jim will be (1) Casey’s score for the first nine holes
twice as old as he was six years ago. was 13 less than his score for the last
nine holes.
11. What is the value of x? (2) Twice Casey’s score for the last nine
holes was 58 more than his score for
(1) When x is multiplied by 8, the result the first nine holes.
is between 50 and 60.
(2) When x is doubled, the result is 16. What is the rate, in cubic feet per
between 10 and 15. minute, at which water is flowing into a
certain rectangular tank?
12. At a certain state university last term,
(1) The height of the water in the tank is
there were p students each of whom paid increasing at the rate of 2 feet per
either the full tuition of x dollars or half minute.
the full tuition. What percent of the (2) The capacity of the tank is 216 cubic
tuition paid by the p students last term feet.
was tuition from students who paid the
17. Is the positive integer n equal to the
full tuition? square of an integer?
(1) Of the p students, 20 percent paid the (1) For every prime number p, if p is a
full tuition. divisor of n, then so is p2.
(2) The p students paid a total of $91.2
(2) n is an integer.
million for tuition last term.

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18. What is the volume of a certain cube? 24. If x and y are integers between 10 and
(1) The sum of the areas of the faces of x y
99, inclusive, is an integer?
the cube is 54. 9
(2) The greatest possible distance (1) x and y have the same two digits, but
between two points on the cube is in reverse order.
3 3 (2) The tens’ digit of x is 2 more than the
units digit, and the tens digit of y is 2
19. What is the value of k2-k? less than the units digit.
1
(1) The value of k  is 1. 25. Pam and Ed are in a line to purchase
k tickets. How many people are in the
(2) The value of 2k –1 is 5 line?
(1) There are 20 people behind Pam and
20. In the figure above, what is the product 20 people in front of Ed.
of the lengths of AD and BC? (2) There are 5 people between Pam and
(1) The product of the lengths of AC and Ed.
BE is 60.
(2) The length of BC is 8.

21. At a business association conference, the

registration fee for members of the
association was $20 and the registration
fee for nonmembers was $25. If the total
receipts from registration were $5,500,
did more members than nonmembers
pay the registration fee?
(1) Registration receipts from members
were $500 greater than receipts from
nonmembers.
(2) A total of 250 people paid the
registration fee.

22. If x and y are positive integers and x is a

multiple of y, is y = 2?
(1) y ≠ 1
(2) x + 2 is a multiple of y.

23. What is the value of n?

(1) n(n –1)(n – 2 ) = 0
(2) n2 + n – 6 = 0

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