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A theater with 600 seats sells tickets at $1.20, $1.80, or $2.40 per seat.

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efore adding to her collection, Laura had 207 antique

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Triathlete Dan runs along a 2-mile stretch of river and then swims back along the same route. If Dan runs at a rate of 1

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Last year, Company X made q dollars in profit. Half of the profit went to the company’s founder. The rest was split even

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Seven pieces of rope have an average (arithmetic mean) length of 68 centimeters

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A total of 22 men and 26 women were at a party, and the average (arithmetic mean)

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The Greek soldier Pheidippides runs the 40 miles from Marathon to Athens

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If \(945 \cdot s\) is a perfect square then \(s\) can be which of the following numbers?

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There are 3 consecutive odd integers. Three times of the sum of the largest and the

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What is the value of (1 - 122)(1 - 132)(1 - 142)….(1 - 1202)?

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Line P has a positive slope and a positive y-intercept. Line Q also has a positive slope and a positive y-intercept. The

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Quadrilaterals ADEB and ACGF are squares with the same sides. What is the measure of the angle

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13(x - 2) + 1x - 2 - 12(x - 2) = -56. What is the value of x?

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a = 12, b = -23, c = -34. What is the value of a - ba + c-ab+bc?

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If x^3 < x^2, which of the following must be negative?

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George baked a total of 125 pizzas for 7 straight days, beginning on Saturday. He baked 3/5 of the pizzas the first day,

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W and X are points on the number line, and W < X < 0

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Sarah's seafood restaurant gets a delivery of fresh seafood every day, 7 days per week, and her delivery company charges

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Probability

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If \(m\) is an integer and \(m=10^{32}-32,\) what is the sum of the digits of \(m ?\)

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If \(ABCD\) is a square, what are the coordinates of \(C?\)

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Consider three straight lines \(A, B\) and \(C\) in a plane. \(4\) unique points are marked on line \(A,\) \(3\) unique

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The figure above shows some of the dimensions of a triangular plaza with an \(L\)-shaped walk along with two of its edge

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In the diagram above, BF is an altitude drawn to the base AC, and AC is the side of square ACDE. If BF = h, and the area

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Five friends - Ross, Phoebe, Chandler, Joey, and Monica

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Nicky and Cristina are running a 1,000 meter race. Since Cristina

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Luke drives the first 300 miles of a trip at 60 miles an hour.

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If C is the temperature in degrees Celsius and F is the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit

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Seven years ago Bob was k times as old as Ann. If Ann is now 11

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Pam and Stanley packed several boxes with reams of paper.

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Hard MGMAT 700-800 level question. Co-ordinate plane

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Interior dimensions of a rectangular box

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