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GRE Data Analysis Practice Questions

Free GRE Quantitative practice questions on data analysis. Ten audit-passed questions with full explanations, covering mean, median, mode, standard deviation, graphs, and distributions from easy to hard difficulty.

Starter questions

Question 1

A farmer has two fields. The first field is 40 acres and produces a yield of 30 bushels per acre. The second field is 60 acres and produces a yield of 50 bushels per acre. What is the overall yield, in bushels per acre, for the entire farm?

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Question 2

Based on the chart showing quarterly revenues of 120, 150, 130, and 180 million dollars for Q1 through Q4 respectively, what is the ratio of Q2 revenue to Q4 revenue expressed in lowest terms?

Question 3

A retail analyst is evaluating monthly performance across product categories. To identify underperforming segments, they need to determine which category generates the second-highest absolute profit when calculated as revenue multiplied by profit margin. Based on the sales data, which category meets this criterion?

Question 4

Based on the table, which region had the highest employee productivity (sales per employee) in Q4 2023?

Question 5

Based on the table, what is the ratio of operating costs to revenue in Q4, expressed in lowest terms?

Question 6

For which product category in the table is the ratio of units sold to revenue uniquely the smallest among all categories?

Question 7

Based on the table, what is the ratio of total annual sales to total number of employees, in thousands of dollars per employee, for all regional offices that met their sales targets in 2023? Express the ratio in lowest terms.

Hard questions

Question 8

Quantity A: The number of points scored by a basketball team in their last game if their average points per game is 85 over 5 games and the sum of their points in the first 4 games is at least 320 but no more than 340 Quantity B: 100

Question 9

Quantity A: The average of the first 100 terms of the sequence defined by an=2na_n = 2n Quantity B: The average of the first 200 terms of the sequence defined by bn=n+50b_n = n + 50

Additional information: All terms are positive integers.

Question 10

Quantity A: The total runs scored by a cricket team in its last 10 matches, if the average runs per match is 25 and the highest score in any single match is 40 Quantity B: 260 Additional information: The team scored at least 5 runs in every match.

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