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5. At a certain diner, a hamburger and coleslaw cost $3.59, and a hamburger and french fries cost $4.40. If french fries cost twice as much as coleslaw, how much do french fries cost?
(A) $0.30
(B) $0.45
(C) $0.60
(D) $0.75
(E) $0.90

7. In the expression above, a, b, and c are different numbers and each is one of the numbers 2, 3, or 5. What is the least possible value of the expression?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)

8. A certain culture of bacteria quadruples every hour. If a container with these bacteria was half full at 10:00 a.m., at what time was it one-eighth full?
(A) 9:00 a.m.
(B) 7:00 a.m.
(C) 6:00 a.m.
(D) 4:00 a.m.
(E) 2:00 a.m.

13. A certain basketball team that has played of its games has a record of 17 wins and 3 losses. What is the greatest number of the remaining games that the team can lose and still win at least of all of its games?
(A) 7
(B) 6
(C) 5
(D) 4
(E) 3

16. There were 36.000 hardback copies of a certain novel sold before the paperback version was issued. From the time the first paperback copy was sold until the last copy of the novel was sold. 9 times as many paperback copies as hardback copies were sold. If a total of 441.000 copies of the novel were sold in all, how many paperback copies were sold?
(A) 45.000
(B) 360.000
(C) 364.500
(D) 392.000
(E) 396.900

18. Last year Mrs. Long received $160 in dividends on her shares of Company X stock, all of which she had held for the entire year. If she had had 12 more shares of the stock last year, she would have received $15 more in total annual dividends. How many shares of the stock did she have last year?
(A) 128
(B) 140
(C) 172
(D) 175
(E) 200

Month Average Price
per Dozen
April $1.26
May $1.20
June $1.08
19. The table above shows the average (arithmetic mean) price per dozen of the large grade A eggs sold in a certain store during three successive months. If as many dozen were sold in April as in May, and twice as many were sold in June as in April, what was the average price per dozen of the eggs sold over the three-month period?
(A) $1.08
(B) $1.10
(C) $1.14
(D) $1.16
(E) $1.18

givemeanid · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject:

Post each question as a separate thread. It is easy to focus and helpful for people who search. Also, try to elaborate where you are having difficulties while solving these so people can help you better.

beny · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:

The hamburger question seems to have a typo... none of the answer choices work. I believe this was brought up before. It's likely that the burger plus coleslaw is $3.95 and not $3.59.

dabulaila · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 6:53 am Post subject:

I have tried to solve them, either my answer doesn't match with choices, or I can't solve it at all,,
Thanks all for help.

chal0727 · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:25 am Post subject:

is the answer to the bacteria question(number 8), A. 9AM?

dabulaila · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

Yes, according to the answer sheet I have, but I didn't know how to solve it and it's not mentioned how !! so please post the solution u have,
Thanks

Guest · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:10 pm Post subject:

Yeah please post these as separate posts...you'll get better response rates