1.  If an athlete’s weight decreased from $160$ pounds to $152$ pounds, what was the percent decrease in the athlete’s weight?

2. Emma spent $75$ buying a used bicycle and $27$ repairing it. Then she sold the bicycle for $40$ percent more than the total amount she spent buying and repairing it.

 Quantity A Quantity B The price at which Emma sold the bicycle $140$

3. In $2009$ the property tax on each home in Town $X$ was $p$ percent of the assessed value of the home, where $p$ is a constant. The property tax in $2009$ on a home in Town $X$ that had an assessed value of $125000$ was $2500$ .

 Quantity A Quantity B The property tax in $2009$ on a home in Town $X$ that had an assessed value of $160000$ $3000$

4. A particular stock is valued at $40$ per share. If the value increases by $20$ percent and then decreases by $25$ percent, what will be the value of the stock per share after the decrease?

5. If the ratio of the number of men to the number of women on a committee of $20$ members is $3$ to $2$ , how many members of the committee are women?

6.   If the ratio of $2x$ to $5y$ is $3$ to $4$ , what is the ratio of $x$ to $y$ ?

7.

In the figure, what is the value of y if $x:y = 2 : 3$ ?

(A) $16$
(B) $32$
(C) $48$
(D) $54$
(E) $72$

8. The ratio of the sum of the reciprocals of $x$ and $y$ to the product of the reciprocals of $x$ and $y$ is $1 : 3$ . What is sum of the numbers $x$ and $y$ ?

(A) $1/3$
(B) $1/2$
(C) $1$
(D) $2$
(E) $4$

9.  The ratio of the number of chickens to the number of pigs to the number of horses on Richard’s farm is $33 : 17 : 21$ . What fraction of the animals are either pigs or horses?

(A) $16/53$
(B) $17/54$
(C) $38/71$
(D) $25/31$
(E) $38/33$

10.   The savings from a person’s income is the difference between his income and his expenditure. The ratio of the incomes of Marc and his boss are in the ratio $3 : 4$ . Their respective expenditures ratio is $1 : 2$ .

 Quantity A Quantity B The savings from income of Marc The savings from income of Marc’s Boss

11.

In the figure, the ratio of the area of parallelogram $ABCD$ to the area of rectangle $AECF$ is $5 : 3$ . What is the area of the rectangle $AECF$ ?

(A) $18$
(B) $24$
(C) $25$
(D) $50$
(E) $54$

12.   $250$ % of $x$ is increased by $250$ % to become $350$ . What is the value of $x$ ?

13. Greta’s salary is $x$ thousand dollars per year, and she receives a $y$ % raise. Annika’s salary is $y$ thousand dollars per year, and she receives an $x$ % raise. $x$ and $y$ are positive integers.

 Quantity A Quantity B The dollar amount of Greta’s raise The dollar amount of Annika’s raise

14.  What is $230$ % of $15$ % of $400$ ?

15. If a number is increased by $20$ %, decreased by $15$ %, and increased by $7$ %, the overall percent change is closest to a:

(A) $2$ % decrease
(B) $2$ % increase
(C) $9$ % increase
(D) $12$ % increase
(E) $14$ % increase

1 5%
2 A
3 A
4 \$36 per share
5 8 women
6 5 to 8
7 D
8 A
9 C
10 D
11 A
12 40
13 C
14 139
15 C