Quantitative ReasoningGMAT Focus Edition

GMAT Ratios & Proportions practice questions

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Practice Question 1easyProblem Solving

A shipping company transports cargo using two types of containers: standard and oversized. The standard container can hold 800 kg of freight, while the oversized container can hold 1,200 kg. In a recent shipment, the company used 3 standard containers and 2 oversized containers. What was the average weight capacity per container used in this shipment?

840 kg

900 kg

920 kg

960 kg

1,000 kg

Practice Question 2easyProblem Solving

A hospital's emergency department has a ratio of doctors to nurses of 3:7. If there are 420 nurses working in the department, and the hospital plans to hire additional doctors to change the ratio to 1:1, how many additional doctors must be hired?

120

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360

Practice Question 3mediumProblem Solving

A telecom company offers two pricing plans for mobile data usage. Plan A costs $20 per month plus $0.15 for each megabyte $MB$ used. Plan B costs $30 per month plus $0.10 for each MB used. If a customer uses exactly x MB of data in a month, for how many integer values of x between 100 and 300 (inclusive) does Plan A cost the same as or less than Plan B?

100

101

150

200

201

Practice Question 4mediumProblem Solving

A telecommunications company offers two data plans: Plan A charges a flat rate of $15 per month plus $0.12 per megabyte of data used, and Plan B charges a flat rate of $25 per month plus $0.08 per megabyte of data used. For what amount of data usage (in megabytes) do the two plans cost exactly the same?

200

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250

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300

Practice Question 5mediumProblem Solving

A telecom company reports that its customer base increased by 15% last year, and this year it increased by an additional 20%. If the current customer base is 10,350, how many customers did the company have two years ago?

7,000

7,500

8,000

8,500

9,000

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