Statistics and Set Theory many students will need to answer the extra credit

question correctly in order to bring the class

1. Quantity A: The mean of 4 numbers, each less average 86% correct?
than 6 and greater than 5 A. 15
Quantity B: The median of 6 numbers, each less B. 16
than 5 and greater than 4. C. 17
D. All the students
2. For which of the following values of x, is the E. It will not be possible for the class to reach an
mode 2x, 2x + 5, 3x – 2, 5x – 7, and 4x equals to average of 86% correct.
4? 9. a, b and c are positive integers.
A. 2 Quantity A: The standard deviation of a, b and c
B. 3 Quantity B: The standard deviation of 2a, 2b and
C. 4 2c.
D. 5
E. 7 10. b > a > 0
Quantity A: The average of the reciprocals of a
3. The average number of passengers on a subway and b
car is 60. If the number of passengers on a car has Quantity B: (b + a)/ab
a normal distribution with a standard deviation of
20, approximately what percent of subway cars 11. The average of five positive integers is 20.
carry more than 80 passengers? Quantity A: The greatest possible range of the five
A. 16% integers.
B. 48% Quantity B: 99
C. 68%
D. 88% 12. a > b
E. 98% Quantity A: The average of a, a, and b
Quantity B: The average of a, a, a, b and b
4. x, x2, xy, xy – 1 , x4, x6
Quantity A: The mode of the numbers above 13. A student’s average score for 10 tests was x.
when y = 4 The grader then discovered that there was an error
Quantity B: The median of the numbers above on two of the tests. On one of the tests, the
when y = 5 student’s score should have been 10 points lower.
On another test, the student’s score should have
5. Five numbers in a set are arranged from least to been 20 points higher. After the grader corrects
greatest. If the median of the first two numbers is these mistakes, what is the student’s new average,
13 and mean of the remaining numbers is 23, what in terms of x? 

is the mean of the entire set? A. x – 1
B. x
6. If the mean of 31, 41 and p is between 29 and C. x + 1
47, inclusive, what is the least possible value of (p D. x + 10
– 7)2? E. x + 20

7. In both rural and urban areas of USA, the 14.

average annual number of holidays taken by Amount $100 $120 $130 $170 $200
citizens is 8, and the annual number of holidays spent
follows a normal distribution. In rural areas, 2% per day
of the citizens take more than 12 holidays per Number 5 4 3 7 6
year. In urban areas, 2% of the citizens take more of days
than 16 holidays per year. How much greater is
the standard deviation of the annual number of The preceding table shows a business’ spending
holidays taken by urban citizens than that of rural over a 25 day period, in thousands of dollar. For
citizens? each amount earned in the first row, the second
row gives the number of days that the business
8. There are 32 students in Jamie’s eighth-grade spent that amount. What was the median amount
class. Each student took a 50 point test; the class of money that the business spent during 25 day
average was 82% correct. The teacher has period?
assigned one 4 point extra credit question. How A. $100,000

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B. $120,000 commission is $400, how many sales has Matt
C. $130,000 made?
D. $170,000 A. 1
E. $200,000 B. 2
C. 3
15. A real estate agent is selling 5 homes priced at D. 4
$200,000, $240,000, $300,000, $320,000 and E. 5
$350,000. If the price of the $200,000 home
increases by $20,000, which of the following 22. The class mean score on a test was 60, and the
must be true? Indicate all that apply. standard deviation was 15. If Elena’s score was
A. The median price will increase within 2 standard deviation of the mean, what is
B. The median price will decrease the lowest score she could have received?
C. The average price will increase A. 15
D. The standard deviation will decrease B. 30
E. The range of the prices will decrease. C. 45
D. 60
16. The average age of the boys and girls at a E. 75
certain school is 16.3 and 16.8 respectively.
Quantity A: The ratio of boys to girls at the school 23. Grace’s average bowling score over the past 6
Quantity B: ½ games is 150. If she wants to raise her average
score by 10%, and she has two games left in the
17. Three crates have an average weight of 70 season, what must be her average score on the last
pounds and a median weight of 90 pounds. What two games?
is the maximum possible weight, in pounds, of the A. 150
lightest box? B. 180
C. 210
18. At a certain company, the average annual D. 240
salary of the college graduates is $73,000, and the E. None of the above
average annual salary of the people who did not
graduate from college is $52,000. 24. If x > 0, and the range of 1, 2, x, 5 and x2 is
Quantity A: The average annual salary for all the equal to 7, what is the approximate mean of the
employees of the company. set?
Quantity B: $52,000 A. 3.64
B. 3.68
19. Which of the following sets has the greatest C. 3.72
standard deviation? D. 3.76
A. 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 E. 3.8
B. 3, 4, 4, 4, 5
C. 3, 4, 4, 4, 8 25. A college class is attended by poets and bards
D. 0, 2, 4, 4, 12 in the ration of three poets for every two bards. On
E. 1, 4, 4, 4, 7 a midterm, the average score of the poets is 60 and
the average score of the bards is 80.
20. In 2012, a store’s average monthly revenue Quantity A: The overall average score for the
was $20,000. For the first 10 months of the year, class.
the store’s average monthly revenue was $18,000. Quantity B: 70
If the revenue in December was 50% greater than
the revenue in November, what was the store’s 26. If x equals all prime numbers that satisfy the
revenue in November? inequality: 1/(|10 – x|) ≤ 5/x2, what is the average
A. 24,000 value of x?
B. 30,000
C. 36,000 27. Set A: { - 7, - 4, - 1, 0, 5, 8, 10, 10, 13, 21}. In
D. 48,000 this set, if a positive integer x is subtracted from
E. 56,000 the 3 largest numbers in the list, and x is added to
the 3 smallest even numbers in the list, which of
21. Matt gets a $1000 commission on a big sale. the following will be true? Indicate all that apply.
This commission alone raises his average A. The average of the set will increase by x.
commission by $150. If Matt’s new average B. The average of the set will decrease by x.

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C. The average of the set will not change.
D. There will be no mode in the new set.
E. The standard deviation of the set will not
change.
F. The median of the set will not change.
G. The median of the set will increase by x.
28. Which of the following could be the median
for a set of integers {97, 98, 56, x, 86}, given that
20 < x < 80?
A. 71
B. 86
C. 91.5
D. 97
E. 397.5
29. x > 2
Quantity A: The median of x – 4, x + 1, and 4x
Quantity B: The mean of x -4, x + 1 and 4x
30. During a sales contest at a local electronics
store, 65 employees sold a total of $91,000 worth
of merchandise. If the standard deviation of the
sales among those employees was $130, and the
sales were normally distributed, what percentage
of employees sold $1270 or more worth of
merchandise?
A. 28%
B. 50%
C. 65%
D. 84%
E. 98%
31. On the most recent test in History class, Jamie
scored x points and Ryan scored 73 points. If the
average of Cliff and Ryan’s scores is 79 points,
and the average of Jamie and Cliff’s score is 89,
then what is the value of x?
A. 99
B. 96
C. 93
D. 90
E. 87
32. A is a set of the first five positive odd integers.
B is the set of the first five positive even integers.
Quantity A: The standard deviation of A
Quantity B: The standard deviation of B
33. After preparing the results of their
measurement of the weight of children that
participated in their pediatric study, Steph’s
graduate assistant spilled coffee on their papers. If
Steph is able to read that 50 lbs is the third
standard deviation to the left of the mean, and 110
lbs also falls on a standard deviation, then which
of the following could be the mean weight of the
children in the study, assuming normal
distribution? Indicate all possible values.
A. 80
B. 85
C. 86
D. 95
E. 100
34. In a set of five consecutive integers, which of
the following must change the average of the set
without changing its median? Indicate all possible
values.
A. Multiplying each of the numbers in the set by
6.

B. Adding 10 to each of the numbers in the set.

C. Subtracting 3.5 from each of the numbers in the
set.

D. Adding 8.2 to the 2 largest numbers and
subtracting 8.2 from the 3 smallest numbers in the
set.
E. Adding 0.5 to the 2 largest and to the 2 smallest
numbers in the set.
F. Dividing each of the numbers in the set by 2.
G. It’s not possible to change the average of the
set without changing its median.
35. Set A: All the non-negative even integers till
15.
Set B: All the positive integers that are the
multiple of 3 till 20.
Quantity A: Number of elements in A∪B
Quantity B: 12
36. Given two sets, A: {15,16,17,18,19} and B:
{8,9,10,11,12,13,14}. If C = A + B, then how
many distinct values are possible for C?
37. If x < 1 then,
Quantity A: Standard Deviation of 1,2,x
Quantity B: Standard Deviation of 1,2,1
38. If X and Y are sets of integers, X @ Y denotes
the set of integers that belong to Set X or set Y,
but not both. If X consists of 10 integers, Y
consists of 18 integers and 6 of the integers are in
both X and Y, then X @ Y consists of how many
integers?
A. 6
B. 12
C. 22
D. 30
E. 174
39. Of the 65 cars on a car lot, 45 have air-
conditioning, 30 have power windows, and 12
have both air-conditioning and power windows.
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How many of the cars on the lot have neither air- C. 40%
conditioning nor power windows? D. 50%
A. 2 E. 60%
B. 8
C. 10 44. In a group of 60 people, 27 like cold drinks
D. 15 and 42 like hot drinks and each person likes at
E. 18 least one of the two drinks. How many like both
coffee and tea?
40. The table below shows the number of students A. 3
in three clubs at McAuliffe School. Although no B. 6
students is in all three clubs, 10 students are in C. 9
both chess and drama, 5 students are in both chess D. 12
and math, and 6 students are in both drama and E. 15
math. How many different students are in the
three clubs? 44. In a group of 100 persons, 72 people can speak
Club No. of Students English and 43 can speak French. How many can
Chess 40 speak English only? How many can speak French
Drama 30 only and how many can speak both English and
Math 25 French?
A. 68 A. 7
B. 69 B. 14
C. 74 C. 21
D. 79 D. 28
E. 84 E. 35
41. If 75% of a class answered the first question
on a certain test correctly, 55% answered the 45. In a competition, a school awarded medals in
second question on the test correctly, and 20% different categories. 36 medals in dance, 12
answered neither of the questions correctly, what medals in dramatics and 18 medals in music. If
percent answered both correctly? these medals went to a total of 45 persons and
A. 10% only 4 persons got medals in all the three
B. 20% categories, how many received medals in exactly
C. 30% two of these categories?
D. 50% A. 2
E. 65% B. 3
C. 4
42. In a class of 120 students numbered 1 to 120, D. 5
all even numbered students opt for Physics, whose E. 6
numbers are divisible by 5 opt for Chemistry and
those whose numbers are divisible by 7 opt for 46. Each student in a class of 40 plays at least one
Math. How many opt for none of the three indoor game chess, carom and scrabble. 18 play
subjects? chess, 20 play scrabble and 27 play carom. 7 play
A. 21 chess and scrabble, 12 play scrabble and carom
B. 31 and 4 play chess, carom and scrabble.
C. 41 Quantity A: Number of Students who play Chess
D. 51 and Carom
E. 61 Quantity B: Number of Students who play Chess
and Carom but not Scrabble
43.The schedule of 200 first year students was
inspected. It was found that 60 were taking a 47. In a group, there were 115 people whose
Mathematics course, 75 were taking a Language proofs of identity were being verified. Some had
course and 35 were taking both Mathematics and passport, some had voter id and some had both. If
Language course. What is the percentage of the 65 had passport and 30 had both, how many had
students whose schedule was inspected who were voter id only and not passport?
taking neither a Mathematics course nor a A. 30
Language course? B. 40
A. 20% C. 50
B. 30% D. 80

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E. None of the above
48. Among a group of people, 40% liked red, 30%
liked blue and 30% liked green. 7% liked both red
and green, 5% liked both red and blue, 10% liked
both green and blue. If 86% of them liked at least
one color, what percentage of people liked all
three?
A. 4
B. 6
C. 8
D. 10
E. None of the above
49. Among a group of students, 50 played cricket,
50 played hockey and 40 played volley ball. 5
played both cricket and hockey, 10 played both
hockey and volley ball, 5 played cricket and
volley ball and 10 played all three. Every student
played at least one game.
Quantity A: Number of students who played only
cricket
Quantity B: Number of students who played only
hockey
50. There are 30 students in a class. Among them,
8 students are learning both English and French.
A total of 18 students are learning English. If
every student is learning at least one language,
how many students are learning French in total?
A. 10
B. 20
C. 30
D. 40
E. 50
51. Of the 200 candidates who were interviewed
for a position at a call center, 100 had a two-
wheeler, 70 had a credit card and 140 had a mobile
phone. 40 of them had both, a two-wheeler and a
credit card, 30 had both, a credit card and a mobile
phone and 60 had both, a two wheeler and mobile
phone and 10 had all three. How many candidates
had none of the three?
A. None
B. 10
C. 18
D. 20
E. 25
52. If the average of 5 positive integers is 40 and
the difference between the largest and the smallest
of these 5 numbers is 10, what is the maximum
value possible for the largest of these 5 integers?
A. 52
B. 50
C. 49
D. 48
E. 44
53. An analysis of the monthly incentives
received by 5 salesmen : The mean and median of
the incentives is $7000. The only mode among the
observations is $12,000. Incentives paid to each
salesman were in full thousands. What is the
difference between the highest and the lowest
incentive received by the 5 salesmen in the
month?
A. $4000
B. $5000
C. $9000
D. $11,000
E. $13,000
54. An automated manufacturing unit employs N
experts such that the range of their monthly
salaries is $10,000. Their average monthly salary
is $7000 above the lowest salary while the median
monthly salary is only $5000 above the lowest
salary. What is the minimum value of N?
A. 10
B. 12
C. 14
D. 15
E. 20
55. In a certain apartment building, there are one-
bedroom and two-bedroom apartments. The
rental prices of the apartment depend on a number
of factors, but on average, two-bedroom
apartments have higher rental prices than do one-
bedroom apartments. Let R be the average rental
price for all apartments in the building. If R is
$5,600 higher than the average rental price for all
one-bedroom apartments, and if the average rental
price for all two-bedroom apartments is $10,400
higher that R, then what percentage of apartments
in the building are two-bedroom apartments?
A. 26%
B. 35%
C. 39%
D. 42%
E. 52%
56. At a certain upscale restaurant, there just two
kinds of food items: entrees and appetizers. Each
entrée item costs $30, and each appetizer item
costs $12. Last year, it had a total of 15 food items
on the menu, and the average price of a food item
on its menu was $18. This year, it added more
appetizer items, and the average price of a food
item on its menu dropped to $15. How many
appetizer items did it add this year?
A. 3
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B. 6 Yesterday each of the 35 members of a certain
C. 9 task force spent some time working on project P.
D. 12 The graph shows the number of hours and the
E. 15 number of members who spent that number of
hours working on project P yesterday. What was
57. In a class of 40 students, 12 enrolled for both the median number of hours that the members of
English and German. 22 enrolled for German. If the task force spent working on project P
the students of the class enrolled for at least one yesterday?
of the two subjects, then how many students A. 2
enrolled for only English and not German? B. 3
A. 10 C. 4
B. 18 D. 5
C. 28 E. 6
D. 30
E. 32 61. On a ferry, there are 50 cars and 10
trucks. The cars have an average mass of 1200 kg
58. In a company of only 20 employees, 10 and the trucks have an average mass of 3000
employees make $80,000/yr, 6 employees make kg. What is the average mass of all 60 vehicles
$150,000/yr, and the 4 highest-paid employees all on the ferry?
make the same amount. If the average annual A. 1200kg
salary for the 20 employees is $175,000/yr, then B. 1500kg
what is the annual salary of each highest-paid C. 1800kg
employee? D. 2100kg
A. $250,000 E. 2400kg
B. $300,000
C. $350,000 62. In a class 40% of the students enrolled for
D. $400,000 Math and 70% enrolled for Economics. If 15% of
E. $450,000 the students enrolled for both Math and
Economics, what % of the students of the class did
59. At Didymus Corporation, there are just two not enroll for either of the two subjects?
classes of employees: silver and gold. The A. None
average salary of gold employees is $56,000 B. 5%
higher than that of silver employees. If there are C. 15%
120 silver employees and 160 gold employees, D. 25%
then the average salary for the company is how E. 30%
much higher than the average salary for the silver
employees? 63. In Plutarch Enterprises, 70% of the employees
A. $24,000 are marketers, 20% are engineers, and the rest are
B. $28,000 managers. Marketers make an average salary of
C. $32,000 $50,000 a year, and engineers make an average of
D. $36,000 $80,000. What is the average salary for managers
E. $40,000 if the average for all employees is also $80,000?
A. $80,000
60. B. $130,000
C. $240,000
D. $290,000
E. $320,000

64. Distribution A: m, 2m, 3m

Distribution B: m, m+2, m+3
5 ≤ m < 10
Quantity A: Arithmetic mean of Distribution A
Quantity B: Arithmetic mean of Distribution B

65. Quantity A: Standard Deviation of 5, 6, 6, 7,

8, 10

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Quantity B: Standard Deviation of 1, 2, 3, 7, 15, Jane scored exactly two standard deviations above
24 the mean, while John, sadly, scored only at the 5th
percentile with a verbal score of 350. Based on
66. The standard deviation on a test was 12 points, this information only, which of the following
and the mean was 70. If the scores fell along a must be true? Select all that apply.
normal distribution and student X scored 95 A. Fewer than 380 people scored higher than John
points, then student X scored higher than but lower than Jane.
approximately what percent of students? B. More than 8 people earned a score higher than
A. 2% Jane’s.
B. 13% C. Jane scored closer to the mean than John did.
C. 48% D. More than one person earned the same score as
D. 96% John.
E. 98% E. Jane scored higher than a 600.

67. Stats-R-Us laboratories has conducted a

survey to determine how many strawberries are
eaten by 100,000 people during a one year period.
The data indicate that the number of strawberries
eaten is approximately normally distributed with
a mean of 29 strawberries, and a standard
deviation of 4 strawberries eaten by each person.
According to this data, approximately how many
of the surveyed people ate more than 25
strawberries during the course of the year?
A. 16,000
B. 48,000
C. 50,000
D. 68,000
E. 84,000

68. For the set {2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, x}, which of

the following values of x will most increase the
standard deviation?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5

69. The reaction time of 1000 Rhesus monkeys

was measured. The average time it took the
monkeys to respond to a quickly moving object in
their visual fields was .135 seconds, with a
standard deviation of 0.021 seconds (assume a
normal distribution). If one of the geriatric
monkeys had a reaction time of 0.205 seconds,
then that monkey’s reaction time is how many
standard deviations from the mean?
A. 0 – 1 standard deviations
B. 1 – 2 standard deviations
C. 2 – 3 standard deviations
D. 3 – 4 standard deviations
E. 4 – 5 standard deviations

70. Researchers collected 400 observations of

GRE verbal scores and found them to be
approximately normally distributed. Suppose