GMAT Focus Practice Questions Practice Test
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- 1. Quantitative Reasoning
A jacket originally priced at $50 is discounted 20%, and then an additional 10% is taken off the reduced price. What is the final price?
- a.$35.00
- b.$34.00
- c.$36.00
- d.$30.00
Answer: c
Explanation: Apply the discounts in sequence, not by adding them. First: 50 x 0.80 = 40. Then: 40 x 0.90 = 36. The final price is $36.00. (Adding 20% + 10% = 30% off would wrongly give $35.)
- 2. Quantitative Reasoning
A car travels 240 miles in 4 hours and then 180 miles in 2 hours. What is its average speed for the entire trip?
- a.70 mph
- b.75 mph
- c.65 mph
- d.60 mph
Answer: a
Explanation: Average speed = total distance / total time. Total distance = 240 + 180 = 420 miles. Total time = 4 + 2 = 6 hours. 420 / 6 = 70 mph. Averaging the two segment speeds (60 and 90) would be incorrect because the times differ.
- 3. Quantitative Reasoning
A rectangle's length is twice its width, and its perimeter is 36. What is its area?
- a.36
- b.48
- c.60
- d.72
Answer: d
Explanation: Let width = w and length = 2w. Perimeter = 2(w + 2w) = 6w = 36, so w = 6 and length = 12. Area = 6 x 12 = 72.
- 4. Quantitative Reasoning
A retailer marks up the cost of an item by 25% and sells it for $60. What was the item's cost?
- a.$40
- b.$45
- c.$48
- d.$50
Answer: c
Explanation: Cost x 1.25 = 60, so cost = 60 / 1.25 = 48. Check: 48 + 25% of 48 = 48 + 12 = 60. The cost was $48.
- 5. Quantitative Reasoning
What is the remainder when 4 cubed is divided by 5?
- a.1
- b.2
- c.4
- d.0
Answer: c
Explanation: 4 cubed = 64. Dividing by 5: 5 x 12 = 60, leaving 64 - 60 = 4. The remainder is 4.
- 6. Quantitative Reasoning
What is the greatest common factor of 24 and 36?
- a.6
- b.12
- c.18
- d.24
Answer: b
Explanation: 24 = 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 and 36 = 2 x 2 x 3 x 3. The shared prime factors are 2 x 2 x 3 = 12. The greatest common factor is 12.
- 7. Verbal Reasoning (Reading Comprehension & Critical Reasoning)
Every plant in the greenhouse that received the new fertilizer grew taller than the greenhouse average, so the researcher concluded the fertilizer causes taller growth. This reasoning depends on which assumption?
- a.The fertilizer is inexpensive to produce.
- b.Taller plants always produce more fruit.
- c.The fertilized plants did not also receive some other growth advantage, such as more sunlight, that the unfertilized plants lacked.
- d.All plants in the greenhouse are the same species.
Answer: c
Explanation: A causal conclusion from a comparison requires that the two groups differ only in the suspected cause. If the fertilized plants also got more sunlight or better placement, that alternative could explain their height. The other choices are irrelevant to establishing that the fertilizer, specifically, caused the growth.
- 8. Verbal Reasoning (Reading Comprehension & Critical Reasoning)
All the members of the debate club are also in the honor society. No one in the honor society is a first-year student. Which conclusion follows logically?
- a.Every honor society member is in the debate club.
- b.Some debate club members are first-year students.
- c.Most first-year students join the honor society later.
- d.No member of the debate club is a first-year student.
Answer: d
Explanation: Debate club members are all honor society members, and no honor society member is a first-year student. Therefore no debate club member can be a first-year student. The other options either reverse the first premise or add unsupported claims.
- 9. Data Insights
Using the same data (Product Y - Jan 80, Feb 120, Mar 160), what was the percent increase in Product Y's sales from January to March?
- a.50%
- b.80%
- c.100%
- d.160%
Answer: c
Explanation: Percent increase = (new - old) / old x 100 = (160 - 80) / 80 x 100 = 80/80 x 100 = 100%. Sales doubled, which is a 100% increase.
- 10. Data Insights
Using the same data (Product Y - Jan 80, Feb 120, Mar 160), what was Product Y's average monthly sales over the three months?
- a.120
- b.130
- c.160
- d.100
Answer: a
Explanation: Average = sum / count = (80 + 120 + 160) / 3 = 360 / 3 = 120 units per month.