Logic and Mathematics Mock Exam 1 You have 60 minutes to complete the test 1. 11 15 7 0 = (a) 1 1 (c) 4 15 4 15. If a, b 0 then 1ab 6a b ab = (a) 4b a 4b a (c) 4b a 4b a. I have paid 1000 to buy an appliance. Taking into account that the price had already been discounted by 0%, what was the originale price, prior to the discount? (a) 100 100 (c) 150 150 4. Consider the straight lines whose equations are x y = 4 e x 4y = 5. These lines are: (a) parallel perpendicolar (c) surreptious skew 5. A child eats at first 80% of her candies, then 5% of the remaining ones. What percentage is she left with of the original stock? (a) 19% 0% (c) 15% 1% 6. In my class 15 students swim, 0 ride bikes. If 10 students do both activities, how many will just do only one? (a) 5 10 (c) 15 5 7. A photocopying machine takes 6 minutes to copy a given amount of pages. After been completed, how many more minutes does it take to end the job? of the job has (a) (c),5,5 8. If x xy y = 81 then x y = (a) 7 8 (c) 9 10 9. If x 5 6 = 11, then x = (a) 5 0 (c) 5 0 10. To prepare old granma s porridge you need.5 liters of water for every kilogram of flour. If you pour.8 liters of water in a pot, how much flour do you have to add? (a) 1.5 kg 0.8 kg (c) 0.7 kg 0.75 kg 11. If 8 1 = x, then x = (a) 16 1 (c) 9 10
Logic and Mathematics Mock Exam 1. In a university entrance examination 80% of the candidates passed. How many failed the test, if 80 students took the exam? (a) 16 64 (c) 80 0 1. The table here below shows the answers two samples of women and men respectively gave to the question: Are you in favour of this law? What is the total number of those not in favour of the law? Sample cardinality Percentage in favour Men 50 4 % Women 50 % (a) 7 46 (c) 17 190 14. 5 plus the square of a positive number is 86. The number is (a) 5 81 (c) 86 9 15. In a 7,5 liters mixture of water and vinegar, the percentage of vinegar is 60%. If we add 1.5 liters of water to the mixture, what is now the percentage of vinegar? (a) 60 % 0% (c) 40 % 50% 16. x x can be factorized as (a) (x )(x 1) (x )(x 1) (c) (x )(x 1) (x )(x 1) 17. (x )(x 4) (x )(x 1) = 0 if x = (a) 5/ / (c) 4 18. x = x if (a) x = 0 no x (c) x = 1 x = ln / ln 19. (4 x ) = (a) 4 x x (c) 4 x 4x 0. Let A, B, C be numbers between zero and 9. Consider the following multiplication Then C 4 A = 6 C A B 9 A A A (a) A = 4, B = 5, C = 1 A = 1, B = 4, C = 5 (c) A = 5, B = 4, C = 1 A = 5, B = 1, C = 4
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