Admission Tests GMAT Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

Admission Tests GMAT Online Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  A certain company's yearly revenue was 20% less in 2005 than in 2004 and 10% greater in 2006 than in 2005. If the company's yearly revenue in 2007 was equal to its yearly revenue In 2004, which of the following is closest to the percent increase in the company's yearly revenue from 2006 to 2007 ?

  A. 5%
  B. 10%
  C. 12%
  D. 14%
  E. 15%
  D. 14%

• Question 12:

  Excavation in City Y found ten ships that all sank at the same time in the city's harbor, in one sudden event in approximately A.D. 800. One possible explanation for the sinking is a tsunami, caused by a strong earthquake from a fault under the sea about fifteen miles away. However, it is more likely that a powerful storm sank the ships, since, if an earthquake had been responsible, there would also have been major damage to the city's walls and buildings--but there apparently was no such major damage, otherwise we would have discovered records from that time mentioning major building repairs.

  Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

  A. There is evidence that the fault in question had produced tsunamis earlier in City Y's history.
  B. Some record-keeping practices existed in City Y around A.D. 800.
  C. City Y's harbor offered relatively good protection for ships from the effects of a storm.
  D. City Y was wealthy enough to have carried out repair work fairly quickly after an earthquake.
  E. If a powerful storm had sunk the ships, there would have been major damage to walls and buildings in the city, but not as much as an earthquake would have caused.
  B. Some record-keeping practices existed in City Y around A.D. 800.

• Question 13:

  Allergies are on the rise in industrialized nations because improved hygiene has eliminated the microbes that, upon exposure, prompt infants' allergy-iihWrjng immune-system responses. Any ill effects of the rise in allergies, however, have been more than offset by the reduction in infant mortality caused by the elimination of pathogens. Further, current research suggests that future atergy-prevention therapies will compensate for the absence of beneficial microbes.

  The statements above, 4 true, most strongly support which of the following?

  A. Advances in prenatal care for expectant mothers have contributed to the reduction in the infant mortality rate.
  B. The rise in allergies has been accompanied by the development of effective treatments for the symptoms of those allergies.
  C. Increases In allergy seventy probably will not raise overall death rates unacceptably before therapies to prevent allergies become available.
  D. A family history of allergies does not elevate the risk that a child will develop allergies to food and other allergens.
  E. The prevalence of allergies will not continue to increase while substitutes for the beneficial microbes needed to prevent allergies are stiff being sought
  B. The rise in allergies has been accompanied by the development of effective treatments for the symptoms of those allergies.

• Question 14:

  In a survey in which people were asked what would improve public school education, 76 percent cited higher teacher pay and 65 percent cited using standardized tests. What percent of those surveyed cited higher teacher pay but did not cite using standardized tests?

  (1)

  52 percent of those surveyed cited both higher teacher pay and using standardized tests.

  (2)

  11 percent of those surveyed cited neither higher teacher pay nor using standardized tests.

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE Is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.

• Question 15:

  A major manufacturer of outdoor clothing spends a significant portion of its overhead costs on transportation in its home markets. Everywhere the cost of fuels, including marine and aviation fuels, has been rising steeply for the last six

  months.

  But during this period the profits of the company have tripled.

  Which of the following would, if true, most help explain why the phenomenon described above occurred?

  A. The company owns its own shipping division.
  B. The sales volume of the company is twice as large as that of its largest competitor.
  C. The major competitors of the company in its home markets are companies exporting from overseas.
  D. The company has recently embraced a buy-one-get-one-free policy in its home markets.
  E. The company is implementing a no-returns, no-refunds policy.
  C. The major competitors of the company in its home markets are companies exporting from overseas.

• Question 16:

  Although mistaken in assuming a geocentric universe, the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Ptolemy created works during the first century AD that remain impressive even today for their comprehensive attention to natural phenomena.

  A. in assuming a geocentric universe, the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Ptolemy created works during the first century AD that
  B. about assuming a geocentric universe, Ptolemy, a first-century AD astronomer, mathematician, and geographer, created work that
  C. in assuming in his works that the universe was geocentric, Ptolemy, the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer of the first century AD, in that he assumed a geocentric universe, the work from the first century AD of astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Ptolemy,
  D. about having assumed a geocentric universe, the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Ptolemy created works during the first century AD that
  A. in assuming a geocentric universe, the astronomer, mathematician, and geographer Ptolemy created works during the first century AD that

• Question 17:

  

  A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) atone is not sufficient.
  B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) atone is not sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.
  D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient
  E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.
  C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

• Question 18:

  An intensive effort was made to expand the database of alumni names for a certain high school. The number of names in the database increased by 1,300 percent of the original number of 1,500 names. How many names were in the expanded database?

  A. 1,950
  B. 2,800
  C. 16,300
  D. 19,500
  E. 21,000
  E. 21,000

• Question 19:

  Using computer models, ecologist Werner Kurtz is able both to weigh the effect of the beetle outbreak by indicating the health the forest would most likely be enjoying today had the beetle population not exploded and to predict the consequences for the forest should beetle population increases continue unabated.

  A. the hearth the forest would most likely be enjoying today had the beetle population not exploded
  B. the forest s likely health today if the beetle population did not explode
  C. the health enjoyed by the forest today without the beetle population explosion that occurred
  D. if the beetle population did not explode, the forest of today would most likely be enjoying health
  E. the likely health the forest today would be enjoying if the beetle population had not exploded
  B. the forest s likely health today if the beetle population did not explode

• Question 20:

  

  A. y =x-5
  B. y =x+5
  C. y =2x-1
  D. y =2x+1
  E. y =2x-5
  D. y =2x+1