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Saturday, September 15, 2007

GRE UPDATE - SEPT '07 QUANTS

Hi people,

I must first apologize for the delay in producing the GRE Quants questions for the month of september 2007. I sincerely regret the inconvenience caused. I was off to Bombay for two days on personal grounds. I have consolidated the Quants questions that have appeared in September 2007 so far from over 70 and odd students who have actually given the GRE. I will be adding more questions shortly. I am continuously working on producing quality and reliable GRE Verbal and Quant preparation material. I hope this database helps you perform better.

QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS :

Comparison questions :

1. Quantity A: (-6)^4
Quantity B: (-6)^5
Ans: A

2. Quantity A: Time to travel 95 miles at 50 miles per hour
Quantity B: Time to travel 125 miles at 60 miles per hour
Ans: C

3. Quantity A: (9/13)^2
Quantity B: (9/13)^1/2
Ans: C

4. x + 2y > 8
Quantity A: 2x + 4y
Quantity B: 20
Ans: D

5. Quantity A: The number of months in 7 years
Quantity B: The number of days in 12 weeks
Ans: C

6. Quantity A: 1-1/27
Quantity B: 8/9 + 1/81
Ans: A

7. r>s>0
Quantity A: rs/r
Quantity B: rs/s
Ans: B

8. Quantity A: (0.82)^2*(0.82)^3
Quantity B:(0.82)^6
Ans: A

9. For all real numbers a, let a* = 1 - a.
Quantity A: ((-1)*)*
Quantity B: 2*
Ans: C

10. Quantity A: (x - 1)(x)(x + 1)
Quantity B:(x)(x)(x)
Ans: D

11. Consider a triangle PQR
Quantity A: length of PQ + length of QR
Quantity B: length of PR
Ans: A

12. y2 + z2 = 34 and yz = 15
Quantity A: y2 + 2yz + z2
Quantity B: (y + z)2
Ans: D

13. yz < p =" 6" q =" 15" q =" ?"> y > z, which of the following must be a positive odd integer?
Ans: (x-y) (y-z)
The other choices were xyz, x+y+z, ans x-yz.

More questions will be put up shortly. Kindly put up with the delay. I hope you do understand that it is a consequence of my intention to produce reliable content. Questions involving diagrams will be put up in the next post. I am still working on them.

All the Best.
Thank You.

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http://www.sparklingswami.blogspot.com/


sincerely,
Praveen Chandar.

2 comments:

--YL said...

Your answers on Questions 2, 3 and 12 are wrong.
2. Time to travel 95 miles at 50 miles per hour =1 hour 54 minutes
Time to travel 125 miles at 60 miles per hour = 2 hours 5 minutes
Answer B

3. (9/13)^2=81/169
(9/13)^1/2=3/(13^1/2)=3/3.5
Answer B

12.y^2 + 2yz + z^2 =(y+z)^2 by default
Answer C

--YL said...

Thanks for posting the questions though, as well as all the verbal section. This is great and very useful.