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Question 1143029: It takes 3 cats 3 minutes to catch 3 mice. How many cats are needed to catch 99 mice in 99 minutes?
A)3
B)11
C)33
D)99
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Question 1143029: It takes 3 cats 3 minutes to catch 3 mice. How many cats are needed to catch 99 mice in 99 minutes?
A)3
B)11
C)33
D)99
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Question 1143036: Michelle bought a dress that cost $103, pair of shoes that cost $73 and a bag that cost $111. There is a 7% sales tax on all items priced at $90 and higher. There is no sales tax on items under $90. How much did michells spend on the following items including tax?
A)287
B)295.49
C)300.60
D)301.98
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Question 1143034: Tommy is making a 6 letter password using only the letters A,B,C,D,E and F.How many different codes can Tommy make, if the letter can only be used once in each code?
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Question 1143031: A yellow cab has a base fare of $3.50 per ride plus $0.20 for each 1/4 of mile ridden. If a yellow cab cost $22.50, how many miles long was the ride?
A) 23.75
B)42.5
C)47.5
D)112.5
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Question 1143032: John works 40 hours a week, and his monthly salary in June was 4000, in the month of July John got the 40% raise on his monthly salary . . In the month of July what was John’s hourly rate? (Assume there are four weeks in July)
A) 25
B)26
C)40
D)100
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Question 1143037: How many gallons each of 25% alcohol and 5% alcohol should be mixed to obtain 20 gal of 16% alcohol?
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Question 1143037: How many gallons each of 25% alcohol and 5% alcohol should be mixed to obtain 20 gal of 16% alcohol?
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Question 1143037: How many gallons each of 25% alcohol and 5% alcohol should be mixed to obtain 20 gal of 16% alcohol?
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Question 1143066: There are a total of 5 bicycles and tricycles in a park.There are 12 wheels. How many tricycles are there?
A)2
B)3
C) 6
D)7
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Question 1143066: There are a total of 5 bicycles and tricycles in a park.There are 12 wheels. How many tricycles are there?
A)2
B)3
C) 6
D)7
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Question 1143065: In Mr. Farmers class there are 30 kids. If there are twice as many boys as there are girls in the English club,
then what percentage of the English club are boys?
A) 33.3%
B)30%
C)20%
D) 66.6%
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Question 1143075: There are 45 plastic ducks in a bag, If they are black, green, blue and purple plastic ducks and 1/3 of The plastic ducks are black, 1/5 are blue plastic ducks, one third of the number of black plastic ducks are green then how many purple ducks are there?
A). 6
B)15
C)16
D)21
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Question 1143078: X^2-1/X^2 If x>=1
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Question 1143077: A rectangle is inscribed in a circle. The rectangle is tangent at the point A,B, C and D. If the diagonal of the rectangle is 20 inches long, what is the area of the circle?

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Question 1143076: A painter needs 4 gallons of paint to paint each room.. If a house has eight rooms in total, how many quarts of paint is he going to need?
A)12
B)32
C)128
D)200
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Question 1143085: The larger of 2 consecutive integer is two times the smaller. What is their sum?
A)2
B)3
C)4
D)6
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Question 1143083: What is the least possible value of X^2-1/X^2 If x>=1
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Question 1143084: 3^x=27^a+b and a^2-b^2/(a-b)=5. What is X
A)6
B)9
C)12
D15
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Question 1143123: If 2000/2x =10, then what is √x
A)√10
B)10
C) √1000
D)100

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Question 1143122: In a population of 10,000 geese the growth rate is 4% per year. What is the total increase in population over four years?
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Question 1143125: When d is divided by 7, the remainder is 5. What is the remainder when d+1 is divided by 7?
A)0
B)1
C)5
D)6
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Question 1143124: 1 dollar =0.5 pillets
4 coss =1dollar
Lindsay has $20 to spend. She needs to buy exactly 2 pillet’s. She spend the remaining amount buying coss. How many coss does Lindsay purchase?
A)4
B)5
C)64
D)72
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Question 1143121: Lea’s school is selling tickets for the upcoming choral performance. On The first day of ticket sales, the school sold 10 adult tickets and 10 child tickets for a total of $200. On the second day, the school sold 13 adult tickets And 2 child tickets for a total of $172. How much did each child ticket cost?
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Question 1143128: If Sarah scored an 80,95,75 and an 90 on her first four test , what must she score on her fifth test if she wants An average of 88?
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Question 1143128: If Sarah scored an 80,95,75 and an 90 on her first four test , what must she score on her fifth test if she wants An average of 88?
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Question 1143126: The average of 7 consecutive even integer is 20. What is the median?
A)18
B)20
C)20.5
D)22
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Question 1143183: Question: A company has a standard labour cost of 180.6 this year. The standard labour rate is 86 per hour. Last month 2200 hours were worked and there was an adverse labour efficiency variance of 8600. This variance was caused entirely by new working practices introduced into the company. The full effect of the new working practices is to be incorporated into the new standard cost of the product for next year. In addition a labour rate increase of 10% is to be built into the new cost.
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Question 1143205: If James grows by 20 inches everyday starting Monday, what is the difference in his height between Wednesday and Monday?
A)0
B)20
C)30
D)40
Is the answer 0?
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Question 1143203: James has yard work to finish. He finishes 1/8 of the total work on the first day. What fraction of his work is left?
A)1/8
B) 3/8
C)7/8
D)3/4
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Question 1143201: It takes George 3 minutes to read 300 words. If each page in a book that he is reading has 750 words, how long will it take George to read 6 pages.
A)30min
B)45 min
C)60min
D)90min
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Question 1143200: Five out of 10 marbles in a bag are red. What percentage of the marbles are not red?
A)50%
B)55%
C)60%
D)76%
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Question 1143202: A right cylindrical can is being filled with water. At 1.PM, it is half full. At 2.PM it is 3/4 th full. At this rate, when was it empty?
E)11.00 am
F) 11:30 am
G)12:00 pm
H)12:30 pm
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Question 1143206: If◻(a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i) = (a)(b) — (c)(d) + (ef)^2 (gh)^2 / i
Which cannot be a value of ◻?
A)◻ (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1)
B)◻ (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0)
C)◻(2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2, 10)
D) ◻(2,3,1,4,5,6,7,0,10)
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Question 1143271: Given the arithmetic sequence x,y,30,z,f. Find x+y+z+f?
A)60
B)80
C)120
D)130
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Question 1143274: Sam walks 3m to the west, then 4m south, the 4m north. How far is he from his original location?
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Question 1143275: The perimeter of a square is four times the circumference of a circle with radius of 1m. What is the area of the square?

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Question 1143272: Caroline has two times as many marbles as Jake. Jake has 12 less than 7 times as many marbles James has. James has 14 marbles. How many does Caroline have?
A)54
B)86
C)98
D)172
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Question 1143278: x is 40% of y and y is the square of x. What is the value of x?

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Question 1143277: What is the largest number of digits which the product of a 3 digit number and a
2 digit number can have?
A)4
B)5
C)6
D)7
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