A.    1/4

B.     3/8

C.     1/2

D.    5/8

E.     3/4

A Q13:

Company S produces two kinds of stereos:  basic and deluxe.  Of the stereos produced by Company S last month, 2/3 were basic and the rest were deluxe.  If it takes  7/5as many hours to produce a deluxe stereo as it does to produce a basic stereo, then the number of hours it took to produce the deluxe stereos last month was what fraction of the total number of hours it took to produce all the stereos?

A.    7/17

B.     14/31

C.     7/15

D.    17/35

E.     1/2

D Q17:

The number of defects in the first five cars to come through a new production line are 9, 7, 10, 4, and 6, respectively.  If the sixth car through the production line has either 3, 7, or 12 defects, for which of theses values does the mean number of defects per car for the first six cars equal the median?

 
I.               3

II.              7

III.             12

A.   I only

B.   II only

C.   III only

D.   I and III only

E.    I, II, and III

B Q29:

The annual rent collected by a corporation from a certain building was x percent more in 1998 than in 1997 and y percent less in 1999 than in 1998.  Was the annual rent collected by the corporation from the building more in 1999 than in 1997?

(1)     x > y