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GRE Arithmetic Practice Questions

Free GRE Quantitative practice questions on arithmetic. Ten audit-passed questions with full explanations, covering fractions, decimals, percentages, ratios, and number properties from easy to hard difficulty.

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Question 1

Quantity A: The number of distinct prime factors of 42 Quantity B: The number of distinct prime factors of 60

Question 2

Quantity A: The number of distinct prime factors of 42 Quantity B: The number of distinct prime factors of 60

Question 3

Quantity A: The number of distinct prime factors of 30 Quantity B: The number of distinct prime factors of 42

Question 4

Quantity A: The number of positive divisors of 36 Quantity B: The number of positive divisors of 48

Question 5

Quantity A: The number of positive divisors of 36 Quantity B: The number of positive divisors of 48

Question 6

Quantity A: The number of distinct prime factors of 36 Quantity B: The number of distinct prime factors of 48

Hard questions

Question 7

A library surveyed 150 users about their borrowing habits. 80 users borrowed fiction books, 70 borrowed non-fiction books, and 20 borrowed neither type. How many users borrowed at least one type of book?

Question 8

A city's annual budget must be allocated to three departments in the exact proportions of 112\frac{1}{12}, 115\frac{1}{15}, and 120\frac{1}{20} of the total budget. If the allocation to each department must be a whole dollar amount, what is the smallest possible total budget that satisfies these conditions?

Question 9

A city's budget must allocate funds in whole dollar amounts. The transportation department requires exactly 34\frac{3}{4} of its allocation to be an integer, while the parks department requires exactly 56\frac{5}{6} of its allocation to be an integer. What is the smallest possible total budget that satisfies both conditions?

Question 10

A budget allocation is a positive integer between 200 and 300 that must be divisible by both 15 and 28. What is the minimum number of distinct prime factors any valid allocation can have?

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