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Time: 30 minutes
Calculators are not allowed
There is no penalty for wrong answers

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Exam

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1. If n and k are integers whose product is 400, which of the following statements
must be true?

A) n + k > 0
B) n k
C) Either n or k is a multiple of 10
D) If n is even, then k is odd
E) If n is odd, then k is even

2. If 3y = 6z = 10, how much is: 54yz =

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3. It takes 6 technicians a total of 10 hours to build and program a new server from
Direct Computer, with each technician working at the same rate. If 6 technicians
start to build the server at 11:00 am, and one technician per hour is added
beginning at 5:00 pm, at what time will the server be complete?

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4. The graph on the left shows the average salary per employee for various years
of operation of a company. The graph on the right shows the number of
employed workers each of these years. If, in 2003, 1300 of the companys
employees were paid exactly $40,000, and no employee was paid less than
$39,000, which is the maximum salary that could have been paid by the
company in 2003?

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5. The 31st of December 1994, a TV costs 80,000 pesos. The 31st of December
1995, its price was 50% higher than the previous year. The 31st of December
1996, its price was 33% higher than the previous year. By approximately what
% must the price decrease to return to the initial price?

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6. A juice company owns 2 machines for its production, P and Q, which produce
30 litres and 60 litres per minute respectively at a constant rate. The daily
production is 21,600 l. For daily production, machine P operates alone for half
the time and then both machines are used for the other half. What is the total
daily operating time (in minutes) for machine P?

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7. Catalina wants to record a 1 hour documentary which starts at 10:30 p.m. At

7:00 a.m., she programs the timer to initiate the recording at 10:30 p.m. of the
same day and stop the recording 60 minutes later. Catalinas recorder is 30
seconds late every hour. Her documentary begins on time. What amount of
time (in seconds) of the program will she lose?

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8. The following cube is composed of 27 little cubes. If all six faces of the big cube
are painted green, how many little cubes will have exactly 2 faces painted
green?
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9. Jaime gained 25% of his original weight in a year. During the following year he
intends to regain his original weight and loses half a kilo per month during the
entire year. At the end of the year, he still has 3 kilos left to lose. What was his
original weight?
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10. An office has a ratio of 3 women to 7 men. If the office has a total of 110
employees and intends to hire 15 men, how many women should the office hire
to get a proportion of 50% men- 50% women?
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11. The graph below lists the monthly sales (in $100.000 increments) at a car
dealership from January to June. For January and February, the dealership had
two agents. The dealership added a sales agent in March, and two more in
May. A sales agent then left on June 1st. What was the percentage increase in
sales per agent from January to June?

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12. At the end of the seasons first half, the soccer team won just one third of the 51
points available (3 points per game). Calculations show that 50% of all season
points are required to participate in the playoffs. If the team wins 33 points in the
seasons second half, how many points would they still need to participate in the
playoffs?

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13. A painter needs 5/4 liters of paint A and 3/2 of paint B in order to paint 1 m2; if
he has a total of 110 liters of paint in adequate proportions of paints A and B,
how many m2 can he paint?

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14. In a hairdresser it takes Carolina 24 minutes to complete a cut, while Pamela

takes just 21 minutes. If they both start working at 9am, what is the next time at
which they will start cutting a customer's hair at the same moment?

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QT PR
15. If segments PQ, QR, RS, ST are all the same length and: + = 10
6 4

P Q R S T

What is the value of : PT QS ?

2 2

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16. Elisa has a total of 4 exams for her semester. She had a score of 78 at her first
exam. What should be the average of her next 3 exams to obtain a total
average score of 87?

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17. Of those surveyed in a poll, 60% were Chilean. If 75% of the Chileans polled
were males and 55% of the non-Chileans polled were males, what percent of
those polled were males?

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18. It takes 5 hours for machine A to empty half a pool. Machine B takes 7.5 hours
to do the exact same job. How many hours would it take for the two machines
working together to empty the whole pool?

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19. According to the incomplete table above, if each of the 6 teams in the league
played each of the other teams exactly twice and there were no ties, how many
games did team X win? (Only 2 teams play in a game.)

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20. Data for a certain biology experiment are given in the table below. If the amount
of bacteria present increased by the same factor during each of the two 3-hour
periods shown, how many grams of bacteria were present at 4:00 P.M. ?

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Answers

Question Answer
1 E
2 300
3 8:00pm
4 89.000
5 50%
6 360
7 465
8 12
9 36
10 59
11 100%
12 1
13 40
14 11:48
15 10
16 90
17 67%
18 6
19 6
20 12

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