Analysis of an Argument ✁ answer sheet Practice Test 6 603 www.petersons.com ✁ 604 PART VI: Five Practice Tests www.petersons.com QUANTITATIVE SECTION 1. O A O B O C O D O E 2. O A O B O C O D O E 3. O A O B O C O D O E 4. O A O B O C O D O E 5. O A O B O C O D O E 6. O A O B O C O D O E 7. O A O B O C O D O E 8. O A O B O C O D O E 9. O A O B O C O D O E 10. O A O B O C O D O E 11. O A O B O C O D O E 12. O A O B O C O D O E 13. O A O B O C O D O E 14. O A O B O C O D O E 15. O A O B O C O D O E 16. O A O B O C O D O E 17. O A O B O C O D O E 18. O A O B O C O D O E 19. O A O B O C O D O E 20. O A O B O C O D O E 21. O A O B O C O D O E 22. O A O B O C O D O E 23. O A O B O C O D O E 24. O A O B O C O D O E 25. O A O B O C O D O E 26. O A O B O C O D O E 27. O A O B O C O D O E 28. O A O B O C O D O E 29. O A O B O C O D O E 30. O A O B O C O D O E 31. O A O B O C O D O E 32. O A O B O C O D O E 33. O A O B O C O D O E 34. O A O B O C O D O E 35. O A O B O C O D O E 36. 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O A O B O C O D O E 41. O A O B O C O D O E ✁ answer sheet Practice Test 6 605 www.petersons.com Practice Test 6 ANALYTICAL WRITING ASSESSMENT Analysis of an Issue 1 QUESTION • 30 MINUTES Directions: Using a word processor, compose a response to the following statement and directive. Do not use any spell-checking or grammar-checking functions. “In any field of endeavor, an individual’s best critics are the individual’s own colleagues or other peers in that field.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the foregoing statement. Support your perspective using reasons and/or examples from your experience, observation, reading, or academic studies. practice test 6 607 Analysis of an Argument 1 QUESTION • 30 MINUTES Directions: Using a word processor, compose an essay for the following argument and directive. Do not use any spell-checking or grammar-checking functions. The following appeared in a memorandum from the vice president of a music-recording company to the company’s publicity department: “The rock band Excess has not had a hit record in more than a decade and is no longer in demand for concerts at major venues. Excess is planning to spend the next year writing and recording new songs. Instead, however, the band should replace its current manager with Jason Stribling, who manages some of today’s most popular touring bands. Once Excess re-establishes its popularity as a live concert band, music fans will begin to rediscover the band, and sales of Excess recordings will increase sharply.” Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of evidence in the argument. For example, you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking and what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion. You can also discuss what sort of evidence would strengthen or refute the argument, what changes in the argument would make it more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion. 608 PART VI: Five Practice Tests www.petersons.com QUANTITATIVE SECTION 37 QUESTIONS • 75 MINUTES Directions for Problem Solving Questions: (These directions will appear on your screen before your first Problem Solving question.) Solve this problem and indicate the best of the answer choices given. Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers. Figures: A figure accompanying a Problem Solving question is intended to provide infor- mation useful in solving the problem. Figures are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific problem that its figure is not drawn to scale. Straight lines may sometimes appear jagged. All figures lie on a plane unless otherwise indicated. To review these directions for subsequent questions of this type, click on HELP. Directions for Data Sufficiency Questions: (These directions will appear on your screen before your first Data Sufficiency question.) This Data Sufficiency problem consists of a question and two statements, labeled (1) and (2), in which certain data are given. You have to decide whether the data given in the statements are sufficient for answering the question. Using the data given in the statements plus your knowledge of mathematics and everyday facts (such as the number of days in July or the meaning of counterclockwise), you must indicate whether: (A) Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked; (B) Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient to answer the question asked; (C) BOTH statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question asked, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient; (D) EACH statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question asked; (E) Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question asked, and additional data specific to the problem are needed. Numbers: All numbers used are real numbers. Figures: A figure accompanying a Data Sufficiency problem will conform to the information given in the question, but will not necessarily conform to the additional information in statements (1) and (2). Lines shown as straight can be assumed to be straight and lines that appear jagged can also be assumed to be straight. You may assume that positions of points, angles, regions, etc., exist in the order shown and that angle measures are greater than zero. All figures lie in a plane unless otherwise indicated. Note: In Data Sufficiency problems that ask you for the value of a quantity, the data given in the statements are sufficient only when it is possible to determine exactly one numerical value for the quantity. To review these directions for subsequent questions of this type, click on HELP. practice test Practice Test 6 609 www.petersons.com 1. How long would it take 5 typists to type thirty pages if all 5 typists type at the same speed? (1) One typist can type four pages in 30 minutes. (2) Three typists can type eight pages in 20 minutes. 2. If x 1 y 5 8, if x 1 z 5 7, and if y 1 z 5 6, then x 5 (A) 3.5 (B) 4 (C) 4.5 (D) 5 (E) 5.5 3. Code letters X, Y, and Z each repre- sent one digit in the three-digit prime number XYZ. If both X and Y are even integers, and if the sum of the three digits is 7, how many different three-digit numbers could XYZ represent? (A) one (B) two (C) three (D) four (E) five 4. Which of the following fractions is equal to 1 4 %? (A) 1 400 (B) 4 40 (C) 1 25 (D) 4 25 (E) 1 4 5. In the figure above, if AB is parallel to CD, then x 5 (A) 60 (B) 65 (C) 70 (D) 75 (E) 80 6. Which of the following is a factor of x 2 2 x 2 20? (A) x 2 10 (B) x 2 2 (C) x 2 4 (D) x 1 4 (E) x 1 5 7. If x Þ 0, what is the value of S x m x n D p ? (1) p 5 1 (2) m 5 n 8. A group of students, no two of whom are the same height, are lined up next to one another. What is the probability that they are lined up in order from shortest to tallest, from left to right? (1) There are four students in the group. (2) Three of the students in the group are females. 9. What is the numerical ratio P:Q:R ? (1) The ratio P:Q is 1:2. (2) R 5 5 610 PART VI: Five Practice Tests www.petersons.com 10. x˚ y˚ A B C 2 If a semicircle and triangle are pieced together to form the figure shown above, what is the total unit area of the figure? (1) The length of AB is 2 units. (2) x 5 y 11. What is the arithmetic mean (simple average) of a sequence of consecutive odd integers? (1) The median of all integers in the sequence is 36. (2) The sum of the first and last integers in the sequence is 72. 12. If x 521, then x 23 1 x 22 1 x 2 1 x 3 5 (A) 22 (B) 21 (C) 0 (D) 1 (E) 2 13. Three salespeople—A, B, and C—sold a total of 500 products among them during a particular month. During the month, did A sell more products than B sold as well as more products than C sold? (1) A sold 166 products during the month. (2) C sold 249 products during the month. 14. On the xy-plane, if the point (4,t)is equidistant from the points (1,1) and (5,3), then t 5 (A) 3 2 (B) 1 (C) 0 (D) 2 1 4 (E) 24 15. In its initial “trip” starting at point X in the circuit pictured above, a glip jumps to A to B and back to X, then to D and back to X. Each successive trip follows the same pattern of jumps, starting with a jump to the next point clockwise (in this case, B) around the circuit. After jump 472, the glip will be at point (A) X (B) A (C) C (D) D (E) E 16. What value of x satisfies the equa- tion = 4x 2 4 2 4 5 8? (A) 26 (B) 37 (C) 42 (D) 47 (E) 51 practice test Practice Test 6 611 www.petersons.com 17. What is the arithmetic mean (simple average) of three numbers? (1) The absolute value of one number equals the value of one of the other two numbers. (2) The value of one, and only one, of the three numbers is 0. 18. If x is a non-zero integer, what is the value of x ? (1) 24x 2 7 .214 (2) 5x 1 3 .22(x 1 1) 19. How many boxes, each of which contains 64 cubic inches, will fit into a larger rectangular box? (1) Each of the small boxes is a cube. (2) The larger box contains 1440 cubic inches. 20. It takes Paul m minutes to mow the lawn. Assuming he mows at a constant rate, after Paul mows for k minutes, what part of the lawn remains to be mowed? (A) m 2 k m (B) m k (C) k 2 2 k m (D) k 2 m k (E) k 1 1 m 21. Two pairs of socks are randomly removed from a drawer containing five pairs: two black, two white, and one blue. What is the probability of removing a black pair and a white pair from the drawer? (A) 1 10 (B) 1 5 (C) 1 4 (D) 1 3 (E) 2 5 22. What is the total profit on sales of seven dozen washers? (1) Washers are bought at 45 cents per dozen and are sold at four washers for 18 cents. (2) Washers are sold for 20% more than their cost, which is $3.75 for 100 washers. 23. In the figure above, is l 1 parallel to l 2 ? (1) x 1 90 5 280 2 y (2) w 1 y 5 x 1 z 612 PART VI: Five Practice Tests www.petersons.com . Analysis of an Argument ✁ answer sheet Practice Test 6 603 www.petersons.com ✁ 604 PART VI: Five Practice Tests www.petersons.com QUANTITATIVE SECTION 1. O A O B O C O D O E 2 a memorandum from the vice president of a music-recording company to the company’s publicity department: “The rock band Excess has not had a hit record in more than a decade and is no longer. more logically sound, and what, if anything, would help you better evaluate its conclusion. 608 PART VI: Five Practice Tests www.petersons.com QUANTITATIVE SECTION 37 QUESTIONS • 75 MINUTES Directions