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Quantitative Section of GMAT

A little less than a half of the multiple choice questions on the GMAT appear in the Quantitative section. You'll have 75 minutes to answer 37 math questions in two formats: Problem Solving and Data Sufficiency. These two formats are mingled throughaout the quantitative section, so you never know what's coming next.

Quantitative Question Type	Approximate Number of Questions
Problem Solving	22
Data Sufficiency	15
	Total : 37 Questions in 75 minutes

The range of math topics tested on the GMAT is actually fairly limited. The same concepts are tested again and again in remarkably similar ways.

Problem Solving Practice Question

1. A family pays $800 per year for an insurance plan that pays 80 percent of the first $1,000 in expenses and 100 percent of all medical expenses thereafter. In any given year, the total amount paid by the family will equal the amount paid by the plan when the family's medical expenses total

A. $1,000
B. $1,200
C. $1,400
D. $1,800
E. $2,200

2. Cheese, bologna, and peanut butter sandwiches were made for a picnic in a ratio of 5 to 7 to 8. If a total of 120 sandwiches were made, how many bologna sandwiches were made?

A. 15
B. 30
C. 38
D. 42
E. 48

3. A sink contains exactly 12 liters of water. If water is drained from the sink until it holds exactly 6 liters of water less than the quantity drained away, how many liters of water were drained away?

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4.5
D. 6
E. 9

4. Company C sells a line of 25 products with an average retail price of $1,200. If none of these products sells for less than $420, and exactly 10 of the products sell for less than $1,000, what is the greatest possible selling price of the most expensive product?

A. $2,600
B. $3,900
C. $7,800
D. $11,800
E. $18,200

5. In a certain game, each player scores either 2 points or 5 points. If n players score 2 points and m players score 5 points, and the total number of points scored is 50, what is the least possible positive difference between n and m?

A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
E. 9