2. A restaurant buys fruits in cans containing 3 1/2 cups of fruit each. If the restaurant uses 1/2 cup of the fruit in each serving of its fruit compote, what is the least number of cans needed to prepare 60 servings of the compote?
a) 7
b) 8
c) 9
d) 10
e) 12

3. A necklace is made by stringing N individual beads together in the repeating pattern red bead, green bead, white bead, blue bead, and yellow bead. If the necklace design begins with a red bead and ends with a white bead, then N could equal
a) 16
b) 32
c) 41
d) 54
e) 68

4. If x > 3,000, then the value of x/(2x+1) is closest to
1/6
1/3
10/21
1/2
3/2

5. Machine A produces 100 parts twice as fast as machine B does. Machine B produces 100 parts in 40 minutes. If each machine produces parts at a constant rate, how many parts does machine A produce in 6 minutes?
30
25
20
15
7.5

6. If 18 is 15 percent of 30 percent of a certain number, what is the number?
9
36
40
81
400

7. If x= (0.08)^2, y= 1/(0.08)^2, and z= (1 - 0.08)^2 - 1, which of the following is true?
x = y = z
y < z < x
z < x < y
y < x and x = z.
x < y and x = z.

8. In 1990 a total of x earthquakes occurred worldwide, some but not all of which occurred in Asia. If m of these earthquakes occurred in Asia, which of the following represents the ratio of the number of earthquakes that occurred in Asia to the number that did not occur in Asia?
x/m
m/x
m/(x-m)
x/(x-m)
1 - (m/x)

9. If (x+y)/xy = 1, then y =
x/(x-1)
x/(x+1)
(x-1)/x
(x+1)/x
x

10. If 1/2 of the air in a tank is removed with each stroke of a vacuum pump, what fraction of the original amount of air has been removed after 4 strokes?
15/16
7/8
1/4
1/8
1/16