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(1)  The circle that is inscribed in the square below has a radius of 2. What is the length of diagonal of the square ?

(A)  2  (B)  4  (C)  16  (D)  4√2  (E)  2√2

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(2)  What is the absolute value of the difference between the number of integers between 0 and 5 inclusive and the number of integers between 1 and 6 exclusive ?

(A)  0  (B)  1  (C)  2  (D)  3  (E)  5

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(3)  Corey is walking on a path. Every three steps he take, he makes a 30 degree rotation to counterclockwise, if he took 18 steps in total, how many full revolutions was he able to make altogether ?

(A)  0.25  (B)  0.5  (C)  1  (D)  2  (E)  5

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(4)  What is 20% of 20% of 20 ?

(A)  0.2  (B)  0.8  (C)  2  (D)  8  (E)  8000.

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(5)  What is the difference between the largest and lowest integer in the sequence of consecutive odd integers whose sum is 15 ?

(A)  2  (B)  4  (C)  5  (D)  9  (E)  12

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(6)  The half life of a substance is the time it takes for a substance to decrease to half its initial amount. John has a pile of goo that decreases in amount at a constant rate. If John initially had 100 pounds of goo, and ten days later, he only had 25 pounds of goo, what is the half of the goo ?

(A)  10 days  (B)  5 days   (C)  7.5 days 

(D)  20 days   (E)  25 days

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(7)  What is the value of (9⁴ - 8⁴)/(9² + 8²) ?

(A)  1  (B)  16  (C)  17  (D)  18  (E)  155

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(8)  Jackie fills a jug with water continuously. It takes her 2 minutes to fill up 50% of the empty space in the jug with water. After every 2 minutes, she puts a penny into a jar to celebrate. How many pennies will she have in the jar at the instant the jug has less tan 30% empty space left ?

(A)  0  (B)  1  (C)  2  (D)  3  (E)  4

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(9) 

In the figure above, there are two balance beams that have triangles, circles and squares on them. Both beams are fully balanced. How many circles are needed to balance 70 squares ?

(A)  10  (B)  12  (C)  35  (D)  70  (E)  140

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(10)  0.7 bar + (2/9)  = 0.6 bar + ____

(A)  1/2  (B)  1/3  (C)  2/9  (D)  4/9  (E) 1

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(11)  The distinct prime factors of 232 are

(A)  2, 2, 2, 29  (B)  116, 2  (C)  2, 29 

(D)  2, 2, 58  (E)  2, 58 

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(12)  If the pattern continues, what will be the 438th symbol ?

(13)  Find the value of t. 

t/32  =  x/p

(A)  32p/x (B)  xp/32  (C)  32/px  (D)  32x/p  (E)  32px

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(14)  What is the largest integer greater than 52/3 ?

(A)  16   (B)  17  (C)  18  (D)  19  (E)  20

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(15)  IF 5⁵ + 5⁵ + 5⁵ + 5⁵ + 5⁵  =  5^{a + 1}, what is a ?

(A)  3  (B)  4  (C)  5  (D)  6  (E)  7

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(16)  If (x + y)²  =  x² + y², then what condition must be true?

(A)  x  =  y  =  0  (B)  x + y  =  0  (C)  2x  =  0

(D)  2y  =  0  (E)  xy  =  0

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(17)  What is the maximum number of points that two distinct circles intersect at ?

(A)  1  (B)  2  (C)  3  (D)  4  (E) Undefined

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(18)  A cumulative product of a set {a, b, c, ............} is the sequence a, ab, abc,.............. What is the mean of the terms in cumulative product of {1, 2, 3, 0} ?

(A)  0  (B)  2  (C)  2.25  (D)  3.5  (E)  6

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(19)  How many integers are in the set of non positive, non negative  integers?

(A)  0  (B)  1  (C)  2  (D)  3  (E)  Undefined

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(20)  How many chords are in the circle below ?

(A)  0  (B)  1  (C)  2  (D)  3  (E)  7

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