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Graduate Management Admission Test Certification Sample Questions and Practice Exam

NEW QUESTION 196
If = 5 × 10k, what is the value of k?

-6

-3

-2

NEW QUESTION 197
No nation can long survive unless its people are united by a common tongue. For proof, we need only consider Canada, which is being torn asunder by conflicts between French-speaking Quebec and the other provinces, which are dominated by English speakers.
Which of the following, if true, most effectively challenges the author’s conclusion?

Conflicts over language have led to violent clashes between the Basque-speaking minority in Spain and the Spanish-speaking majority.

Proposals to declare English the official language of the United States have met with resistance from members of Hispanic and other minority groups.

Economic and political differences, along with linguistic ones, have contributed to the provincial conflicts in Canada.

The public of India, in existence since 1948, has a population that speaks hundreds of different, though related, languages.

Switzerland has survived for nearly a thousand years as a home for speakers of three different languages.

NEW QUESTION 198
A light bulb company produces 2,000 light bulbs per week. The manager wants to ensure that standards of quality remain constant from week to week. The manager, therefore, claims that out of 2,000 light bulbs produced per week, 500 light bulbs are rejected.
Of the following, the best criticism of the manager’s plan is that the plan assumes that

light bulb manufacturers cannot accept all light bulbs that produced

the overall quality of the light bulbs would not be improved if the total number of light bulbs produced were reduced

each light bulb that is reviewed is worthy of being reviewed

it is difficult to judge the quality of a light bulb

the 1,500 light bulbs that are accepted will be of the same quality from week to week

NEW QUESTION 199
The Red Balloon Challenge was an experiment aimed at determining how quickly widely disbursed information could be gathered using social media. Competitors tried to locate 10 red weather balloons that had been tethered above random locations around the world in return for a $40,000 prize. The winning team located all of the balloons in just 9 hours, using an incentive-based strategy to encourage information sharing; The first person to send the correct coordinates of a particular balloon to the team received $2,000, but whoever recruited that person received $1,000, and the recruiter’s recruiter received S500, and that person’s recruiter received $250.
Select for 3 payments per balloon the amount of the prize money that the winning team would have remaining if they had to pay 3 people for each balloon located, and select for 4 payments per balloon the amount of the prize money that the winning team would have remaining if they had to pay 4 people for each balloon located.
Make only two selections, one in each column.

NEW QUESTION 200
Nearly a decade ago, researchers at Brandeis University conducted an interesting experiment with small robots. The robots were programmed to get as many individual points as possible by finding small metal pucks and taking them to a nest in a corner of the lab. Robots were rewarded with points whenever they found a puck. But their excessive self-interest led to poor performance as robots repeatedly interfered with one another and battled over pucks. Researchers then reprogrammed the robots to share information:
Robots would announce when they found a puck and listen to what other robots had to say. The robots were able to gather twice as many pucks as they had before they were reprogrammed.
Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the experiment described in this passage?

Robots can be taught human behaviors.

The robots were poorly programmed in the first experiment.

The researchers were shocked by the difference in results between the two experiments.

Sharing information can dramatically improve the productivity of a group.

Self-interest leads to unproductive behavior.

NEW QUESTION 201
Although its purpose is laudable, the exclusionary rule, which forbids a court to consider evidence seized in violation of the defendant’s constitutional rights, has unduly hampered law-enforcement efforts. Even when the rights violation was a minor or purely technical one, turning on a detail of procedure rather than on the abrogation of some fundamental liberty, and even when it has been clear that the police officers were acting in good faith, the evidence obtained has been considered tainted under this rule and may not even by introduced. In consequence, defendants who were undoubtedly guilty have been set free, perhaps to steal, rape, or murder again.
The author of the passage above assumes all of the following EXCEPT:

The constitutional rights of criminal defendants should be protected.

Most cases in which the exclusionary rule has been invoked have involved purely technical violations of constitutional principles.

The number of cases whose outcome has been affected by the exclusionary rule is significant.

Some of the defendants set free under the exclusionary rule have been guilty of serious criminal offenses.

Merely technical violations of the rules concerning evidence should be treated differently from deliberate assaults upon human rights.

NEW QUESTION 202
A discount retailer of basic household necessities employs thousands of people and pays most of them at the minimum wage rate. Yet following a federally mandated increase of the minimum wage rate that increased the retailer’s operating costs considerably, the retailer’s profits increased markedly.
Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent paradox?

Over half of the retailer’s operating costs consist of payroll expenditures; yet only a small percentage of those expenditures go to pay management salaries.

The retailer’s customer base is made up primarily of people who earn, or who depend on the earnings of others who earn, the minimum wage.

The retailer’s operating costs, other than wages, increased substantially after the increase in the minimum wage rate went into effect.

When the increase in the minimum wage rate went into effect, the retailer also raised the wage rate for employees who had been earning just above minimum wage.

The majority of the retailer’s employees work as cashiers, and most cashiers are paid the minimum wage.

NEW QUESTION 203
Matt and Michelle are at the northwest corner of their school’s football field, which is a rectangle 300 ft long and 160 ft wide. Matt walks in a straight line directly to the southeast corner of the field. If Michelle walks 180 ft down the west side of the field and then walks in a straight line directly to the southeast corner of the field, how many feet farther, to the nearest 10 ft, will Michelle walk than Matt?

120

140

NEW QUESTION 204
Executive: For this year, our firm’s advertising budget for Brand X is four times that for last year, but only half that for the year before last. For each year, for each of our brands, our advertising budget is 10 percent of the average (arithmetic mean) of two amounts: the brand’s projected sales for the year and the brand’s actual sales for the preceding year. Actual sales of Brand X last year were $5.23 million.
Statement A: Given the executive’s statements, a journalist could infer what this year’s advertising budget for Brand X is if she knew what the amount of was.
Statement B: Given the knowledge of this year’s advertising budget for Brand X, if the reporter also knew Brand X’s actual sales for the year before last, she could also infer :
Select for A and for 8 two different options that, if inserted in the blanks, create statements that are supported by the statements attributed to the executive. Make only two selections, one in each column.

NEW QUESTION 205
Store S’s gross profit from a certain product is 40 percent of the store’s revenue from the product- The store’s gross profit from the product is what percent of the store’s cost for the product?

40%

150%

NEW QUESTION 206
If there is an oil-supply disruption resulting in higher international oil prices, domestic oil prices in open- market countries such as the United States will rise as well, whether such countries import all or none of their oil.
If the statement above concerning oil-supply disruptions is true, which of the following policies in an open- market nation is most likely to reduce the long-term economic impact on that nation of sharp and unexpected increases in international oil prices?

Maintaining the quantity of oil imported at constant yearly levels

Increasing the number of oil tankers in its fleet

Suspending diplomatic relations with major oil-producing nations

Decreasing oil consumption through conservation

Decreasing domestic production of oil

NEW QUESTION 207
Although Binofram has been proven to alleviate certain skin rashes associated with some medical conditions, many physicians no longer routinely prescribe this drug for this purpose. A rash can stimulate the activity of the body’s T-cells and also inhibit growth of some strains of virus.
If the statements above are true, which of the following conclusion is most strongly supported by them?

Binofram, an effective rash medication, alleviates the itching and discomfort of many illnesses.

Binofram can prolong a patient’s illness by eliminating certain skin rashes which can be helpful in fighting some diseases.

Binofram inhibits the growth of the body’s T-cells, which are necessary for fighting some illnesses.

The more T-cells a patient’s body produces, the less severe the patient’s illness will be.

The focus of modern medicine is on inhibiting the growth of harmful viruses within the body

NEW QUESTION 208

(1) x= y
(2) x < 1

Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

Statement (2) ALONE Is sufficient, but statement (1) atone Is not sufficient.

BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

EACH statement ALONE is sufficient

Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

NEW QUESTION 209
Welleby’s Plan
The water In the underground water table beneath the town of Welleby is moderately saline-
20,000millkjrarns of salt per liter of water (mg/L), or roughly half as saline as ocean water. To lower the level of the water table and thus prevent agricultural land from being inundated with salt water, the town plans to pump water from the table at a rate of 450kiloliters per day (kL/day) into a large shallow pond, allowing much of the water to evaporate. The town plans to divert 10percent of the water pumped from the water table to supplement Us supply of drinking water, which Is currently piped In from great distances. Due to the water’s supply, the town intends to construct a desalination plant to treat the diverted water for use as drinking water.
Desalination Types

Comparison
Welleby is deciding among the following three desalination methods.
Reverse Osmosis (RO): Water Is pushed through a membrane, leaving salts behind. RO systems can handle a large range of water flow rates and use relatively little energy. However, RO membranes are expensive and must be replaced every 2 to 5 years. There is also a possibility that bacteria can grow on the membrane.
Introducing tastes and odors Into the desalinated water.
Multi-Effect Distillation (MED): Saline water Is heated to produce water vapor, from which Is condensed potable fresh water. This process requires large amounts of energy, regardless of the salinity of the source water. It becomes more cost effective as water volumes increase.
Electrodialysis (ED): Electricity is used to selectively move salts through a membrane. Consumption of energy Is directly proportional to the salinity of the water to be treated, so with higher salinities the process rapidly becomes more costly than other methods. ED membranes need to be replaced every 7 to 10years.

NEW QUESTION 210
The fact that several of the largest senior citizens’ organizations are constituted almost exclusively of middle-class elderly people has led critics to question the seriousness of those organizations’ commitment to speaking out on behalf of the needs of economically disadvantaged elderly people.
Which of the following generalizations, if true, would help to substantiate the criticism implicit in the statement above?

The ideology of an organization tends reflect the traditional political climate of its locale.

The needs of disadvantaged elderly people differ in some ways from those of other disadvantaged groups within contemporary society.

Organized groups are better able to publicize their problems and seek redress than individuals acting alone.

Middle-class elderly people are more likely to join organizations than are economically disadvantaged elderly people.

People usually join organizations whose purpose is to further the economic, political, or social interests of their members.

NEW QUESTION 211
More sports journals are sold in Hornby than in Milston. Therefore, the residents of Hornby are better informed about major sporting events than are the residents of Milston.
Each of the following, if true, weakens the conclusion above EXCEPT:

Hornby has a larger population than Milston.

Most residents of Milston work in Hornby and buy their reading material there.

The average newsstand price of journals sold in Hornby is lower than the average price of journals sold in Milston.

A monthly journal restricted to the coverage of local events is published in Hornby.

The average resident of Hornby spends less time reading sports journals than does the average resident of Milston.

NEW QUESTION 212
It is true that it is against international law to sell plutonium to countries that do not yet have nuclear weapons. But if United States companies do not do so, companies in other countries will.
Which of the following is most like the argument above in its logical structure?

It is true that it is against the police department’s policy to negotiate with kidnappers. But if the police want to prevent loss of life, they must negotiate in some cases.

It is true that it is illegal to refuse to register for military service. But there is a long tradition in the United States of conscientious objection to serving in the armed forces.

It is true that it is illegal for a government official to participate in a transaction in which there is an apparent conflict of interest. But if the facts are examined carefully, it will clearly be seen that there was no actual conflict of interest in the defendant’s case.

It is true that it is against the law to burglarize people’s homes. But someone else certainly would have burglarized that house if the defendant had not done so first.

It is true that company policy forbids supervisors to fire employees without two written warnings. But there have been many supervisors who have disobeyed this policy.

NEW QUESTION 213
Most employees in the computer industry move from company to company, changing jobs several times in their careers. However, Summit Computers is known throughout the industry for retaining its employees.
Summit credits its success in retaining employees to its informal, non hierarchical work environment.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports Summit’s explanation of its success in retaining employees?

Some people employed in the computer industry change jobs if they become bored with their current projects.

A hierarchical work environment hinders the cooperative exchange of ideas that computer industry employees consider necessary for their work.

Many of Summit’s senior employees had previously worked at only one other computer company.

In a non hierarchical work environment, people avoid behavior that might threaten group harmony and thus avoid discussing with their colleagues any dissatisfaction they might have with their jobs.

The cost of living near Summit is relatively low compared to areas in which some other computer companies are located.

NEW QUESTION 214

A scientist collected eight samples (Samples 1-8) from various surfaces in a laboratory to test for the presence of defferent types of bacteria For each of the samples, the graph shows the relative abundance of each of three types of bacteria (Bacteria X, Y, and Z) detected in the sample, as a percentage of all Bacteria X, Y, and Z detected In the sample.
Select the options from each drop-down menu that create the most accurate statement based on the information provided.

NEW QUESTION 215
Contrary to the charges made by some of its opponents, the provisions of the new deficit-reduction law for indiscriminate cuts in the federal budget are justified. Opponents should remember that the New Deal pulled this country out of great economic troubles even though some of its programs were later found to be unconstitutional.
The author’s method of attacking the charges of certain opponents of the new deficit-reduction law is to

attack the character of the opponents rather than their claim

imply an analogy between the law and some New Deal programs

point out that the opponents’ claims imply a dilemma

show that the opponents’ reasoning leads to an absurd conclusion

show that the New Deal also called for indiscriminate cuts in the federal budget

NEW QUESTION 216
Last year a company gave bonuses to a number of employees, but only in the three amounts of $750, $1,500, and $7,350. If the total amount of the bonuses was $64,800 and each of the three amounts was given to at least one employee, what is the fewest number of bonuses that the company could have given to employees last year?

NEW QUESTION 217
A certain nutritional study defined the /V-scorefot one serving of a food to be P- Q, where Pis the sum of 10 times the number of grams of fat and ttt the number of kilocalories of energy provided per serving, and <?is 8 times the square of the number of grams of fiber provided per serving.
If one serving of Food X provides m kilocalorles of energy and n grams of fat and has an N-score of -28, then how many grams of fiber does one serving of Food X provide?
(1) One serving of Food X provides exactly 400 kilocalories of energy.
(2) One serving of a food that provides 120 kilocalories of energy, 3 grams of fiber, and the same number of grams of fat as one serving of Food X has an N-score of 0.

Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.

BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient.

EACH statement ALONE is sufficient

Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

NEW QUESTION 218
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
The computer industry’s estimate that it loses millions of dollars when users illegally copy programs without paying for them is greatly exaggerated. Most of the illegal copying is done by people with no serious interest in the programs. Thus, the loss to the industry is much smaller than estimated because______

many users who illegally copy programs never find any use for them

most of the illegally copied programs would not be purchased even if purchasing them were the only way to obtain them

even if the computer industry received all the revenue it claims to be losing, it would still be experiencing financial difficulties

the total market value of all illegal copies is low in comparison to the total revenue of the computer industry

the number of programs that are frequently copied illegally is low in comparison to the number of programs available for sale