8. Apples cost $7 per bag of 25. Pears cost $28 per bag of 100. Column A Column B At the average price of an individual piece of fruit, the total price of 178 apples and 461 pears At the average price of an individual piece of fruit, the total price of 461 apples and 178 pears (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. 9. p, q, and r are positive integers such that p , q , r , 5. Column A Column B p + q + rqr (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. 10. According to the chart above, during which year were annual sales of oral medication for disease X less than during the previous year? (A) 2004 (B) 2006 (C) 2007 (D) 2008 (E) 2009 practicetest Practice Test 6 553 . www.petersons.com 11. The length of Cassie’s family room is exactly two thirds the length of her master bedroom. Both rooms are rectangular, and the area of the two rooms is the same. If Cassie’s family room has a length of L and a width of W, which of the following represents the perimeter of her master bedroom? (A) 2L + 4 3 W (B) 3L + 2 3 W (C) 3L + 1 3 W (D) 3 2 L+W (E) 3L + 4 3 W 12. The number 40.5 is 500 times larger than which of the following numbers? (A) .810 (B) .2025 (C) .0810 (D) .02025 (E) .00810 13. A pail holds 1.5 gallons of water. Column A Column B The number of pails of water needed to fill a 30-gallon fish tank The number of gallons of water needed to fill a fish tank of a 20-pail capacity (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. PART VI: Five Practice Tests554 . www.petersons.com W RG B 14. In the simple light show pictured above, a light starts at the center (white) at time zero and moves once every second in the following pattern: from white (W) to blue (B), back to white, then to green (G), back to white, then to red (R), and back to white—in a counter-clockwise direction. If the light continues to move in this way, what will be the color sequence from the 208th second to the 209th second? (A) white to green (B) white to blue (C) white to red (D) red to white (E) green to white 15. A solution of 60 ounces of sugar and water is 20% sugar. If you add x ounces of water to make a solution that is 5% sugar, which of the following represents the amount of sugar in the solution after adding water? (A) 60 2 40x (B) .05(60x 2 20) (C) 60(.05 + x) (D) .20(60 + x) (E) .05(60 + x) 16. If p = (3)(5)(6)(9)(q), where q is a positive integer, then p must be divisible, with no remainder, by all the following EXCEPT for (A) 27 (B) 36 (C) 45 (D) 54 (E) 90 17. a L b = ab ba − − Column A Column B 2 L 21 22 L 4 (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. practicetest Practice Test 6 555 . www.petersons.com 18. y 2 + y 2 6=0 Column A Column B y 2 (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. Column A Column B 19. The perimeter of a triangle with vertices (0,1), (4,1), and (4,4) on the xy-plane The perimeter of a triangle with vertices (2,0), (5,0), and (5,3) on the xy-plane (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. 20. Column A Column B ad bc (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. PART VI: Five Practice Tests556 . www.petersons.com Questions 21–23 refer to the following table. ELECTRICITY USAGE AT HOUSES A, B, C, and D (Month of June) House Interior Area (Square Area) Interior Volume (Cubic Feet) Electricity Usage in Kilowatt Hours (kWh) A 1,300 10,400 960 B 1,500 12,000 1044 C 2,000 16,200 1,125 D 2,300 18,400 1,205 21. The month of June contains 30 days. During June, how much more electricity was used at house C per day than at house A per day, on average? (A) 2.7 kWh (B) 2.8 kWh (C) 4.0 kWh (D) 4.8 kWh (E) 5.5 kWh 22. During June, which of the four houses used between 0.5 and 0.7 kWh of elec- tricity per square foot of interior area? I. House A II. House B III. House C IV. House D (A) II and III only (B) II and IV only (C) I, II, and III only (D) II, III, and IV only (E) I, II, III, and IV 23. Assuming each house has a uniform ceiling height, which house has the greatest ceiling height? (A) House A (B) House B (C) House C (D) House D (E) All four houses have the same ceiling height. practicetest Practice Test 6 557 . www.petersons.com 24. Referring to the figure above, for what value of x would it be true that AB \ CD? (A) 60 (B) 65 (C) 70 (D) 75 (E) 80 Column A Column B 25. 8 17 + 9 14 7 16 + 8 13 (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. 26. Two of a triangle’s sides are congruent. The triangle is inscribed in a circle such that each vertex of the triangle lies along the circle’s circumference. Column A Column B The longest side of the triangle The circle’s diameter (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. 27. xy Þ 0 Column A Column B 8 66 3 xy 4 4 ()xy (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. PART VI: Five Practice Tests558 . www.petersons.com 28. The total weight of m bricks, all of which are equal in weight, is n pounds. Column A Column B n m 1 (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. practicetest Practice Test 6 559 . www.petersons.com ANSWER KEY AND EXPLANATIONS Analytical Writing ISSUE TASK: EVALUATION AND SCORING Evaluate your Issue task essay on a scale of 0 to 6 (6 being the highest score) according to the following five criteria: Does your essay develop a position on the issue through the use of incisive reasons and persuasive examples? Are your essay’s ideas conveyed clearly and articulately? Does your essay maintain proper focus on the issue, and is it well organized? Does your essay demonstrate proficiency, fluency, and maturity in its use of sentence structure, vocabulary, and idiom? Does your essay demonstrate command of the elements of Standard Written English, including grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation? ARGUMENT TASK: EVALUATION AND SCORING Evaluate your Argument task essay on a scale of 0 to 6 (6 being the highest score) according to the following five criteria: Does your essay identify and articulate the argument’s key unstated assump- tions? Does your essay explain how the argument relies on these unstated assumptions, and what the implications are if these assumptions are unwarranted? Does your essay develop its ideas in a clear, organized manner, with appropriate transitions to help connect ideas together? Does your essay demonstrate proficiency, fluency, and maturity in its use of sentence structure, vocabulary, and idiom? Does your essay demonstrate command of the elements of Standard Written English, including grammar, word usage, spelling, and punctuation? To help you evaluate your essay in terms of criteria 1 and 2, the following is a series of questions that identify five distinct unstated assumptions upon which the argument relies. To earn a score of 4 or higher, your essay should identify and explain at least three of these assumptions. Identifying and explaining at least four of the unstated assumptions would help earn you an even higher score. • Does the recommendation assume that Back to Basics is necessary to improve the students’ reading skills to the desired level? (Perhaps some other reading program or, for that matter, some other alternative, such as encouraging parents to read with their children or simply devoting more time during school to reading, would be as effective as Back to Basics—or possibly even more effective.) PART VI: Five Practice Tests560 . www.petersons.com • Would adopting the Back to Basics program in itself be sufficient to improve the students’ reading skills to the desired extent? (Unless the students are suffi- ciently attentive and motivated, and unless the teachers are sufficiently com- petent, the program might not be effective.) • Was the Back to Basics program the true reason for the improved reading skills that the company cites? (Perhaps the improved reading skills observed among children nationwide are attributable instead to a general increase in teacher salaries or to a new national children’s literacy campaign, to name just a few possibilities.) • Is Harper representative of the elementary schools throughout the nation that have adopted the program? (Perhaps this school’s students would not respond as well to the program’s methods as most students, for whatever reason.) • Is the evidence of the program’s effectiveness credible and unbiased? (The nationwide results of the Back to Basics program were reported by the program’s provider, who probably stands to profit by overstating the program’s effec- tiveness.) answers practicetest6 Practice Test 6 561 . www.petersons.com Verbal Reasoning 1. E 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. A 6. C 7. (i) lend credence (ii) Specifically 8. D 9. E 10. C 11. E 12. C 13. E 14. B 15. A 16. D 17. B 18. A 19. C 20. C 21. A 22. B 23. E 24. D 25. A 26. D 27. A 28. E 29. A 30. B 1. The correct answer is (E). This is a “sign or manifestation of” analogy. To TREMBLE is to exhibit a certain physiological symptom, or manifes- tation, of FEAR; similarly, to weep is to exhibit a physiological manifes- tation of grief. Choice (D) is the sec- ond-best choice: an adoring person might follow the object of his or her adoration. But this manifestation is not physiological, nor is it as inexo- rable as trembling or weeping (as manifestations of fear and grief, respectively). 2. The correct answer is (D). This is a “function or purpose” analogy. A WATERMARK is a faint design embedded in PAPER in order to identify the paper’s maker. A badge is worn by an employee to identify both that employee and the employer—the “maker” of the employee. 3. The correct answer is (B). A key word in this sentence is “because,” which requires that what follows it must explain what precedes it. Profit potential would explain why drug companies persist in developing new drugs despite onerous (burdensome) government regulations. Choice (B) is the only one that expresses this idea. (The word dissuade means “dis- courage or persuade not to.”) 4. The correct answer is (B). PRO- PRIETY and decorum both mean “conformity to established standards of proper behavior or manners”; accordingly, lack of decorum is the opposite of propriety. 5. The correct answer is (A). SCI- ENTIAL means “of or having knowledge,” just the opposite of ignorant. 6. The correct answer is (C). CLOIS- TERED means “secluded or hidden away from the world.” A good antonym is gregarious, which means “living in a community.” 7. The correct answers are (i) lend credence and (ii) Specifically. Let’s start with the second blank. The second sentence tells us that “physical forces” (mentioned in the first sentence) include our own genetic makeup. In other words, the second sentence is bringing a general statement down to something more specific. So, the word Specifically provides a logical transition from the first (general) idea to the second (specific) one. Now consider the first blank. The new research seems con- sistent with the idea that human behavior is determined by physical forces beyond our control. The idi- omatic phrase lends credence to means “provides credibility or PART VI: Five Practice Tests562 . www.petersons.com . and (5,3) on the xy-plane (A) The quantity in Column A is greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship. greater. (B) The quantity in Column B is greater. (C) The quantities are equal. (D) The relationship cannot be determined from the information given. PART