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GRE Math: Common Errors

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What percent of 40 is 22?






2. 200 <_ x <_ 300. How many values of x are divisible by 5 & 8?






3. What is the absolute value function?






4. What is the formula for computing simple interest?






5. What are the irrational numbers?

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6. A cylinder has surface area 22pi. If the cylinder has a height of 10 - what is its radius?






7. Legs 5 - 12. Hypotenuse?






8. From a box of 12 candles - you are to remove 5. How many different sets of 5 candles could you remove?






9. What is the name for a grouping of the members within a set based on a shared characteristic?






10. What is the common monomial factor in the expression 4(c^3)d - (c^2)(d^2) + 2cd?






11. Can you subtract 3sqrt4 from sqrt4?






12. What is the percent formula?






13. What is the formula for compounded interest?






14. What is an arc of a circle?






15. What is an isoceles triangle?






16. What are the roots of the quadrinomial x^2 + 2x + 1?






17. What are the members or elements of a set?






18. Length of an arc of a circle?






19. Factor a^2 + 2ab + b^2






20. What is the intersection of A and B?






21. Simplify 9^(1/2) X 4^3 X 2^(-6)?






22. Surface area for a cylinder?






23. A triangle is inscribed in a semi circle with legs 5 and 12. What is the circumfermence of the semicircle?






24. Write 10 -843 X 10^7 in scientific notation






25. If 4500 is invested at a simple interest rate of 6% - what is the value of the investment after 10 months?






26. x^4 + x^7 =






27. 5/8 in percent?






28. How to determine percent increase?






29. In a triangle where the two legs are 4 and 3 - what is the value of a line directly intersecting the middle coming from the meeting point of the two legs?






30. The slope of a line perpendicular to (a/b)?






31. For similar triangles - the ratio of their corresponding sides is 2:3. What is the ratio of their areas?






32. What is the graph of f(x) shifted downward c units or spaces?






33. Evaluate and write as a mixed number: 2/7 - 3/21 + 2 & 4/14






34. Which quadrant is the upper left hand?






35. 40 < all primes<50






36. A company places a 6-symbol code on each product. The code consists of the letter T - followed by 3 numerical digits - and then 2 consonants (Y is a conson). How many codes are possible?






37. What is the ratio of the sides of a 30-60-90 triangle?






38. Simplify 4sqrt21 X 5sqrt2 / 10sqrt7






39. 50 < all primes< 60






40. Define a 'Term' -






41. Simplify the expression (p^2 - q^2)/ -5(q - p)






42. How many sides does a hexagon have?






43. What number between 70 & 75 - inclusive - has the greatest number of factors?






44. How to find the diagonal of a rectangular solid?






45. When the 'a' in the parabola is negative...






46. 70 < all primes< 80






47. Can the input value of a function have more than one output value (i.e. x: y - y1)?






48. Evaluate 4/11 + 11/12






49. Formula to find a circle'S circumference from its diameter?






50. In a triangle inscribed inside a circle - where the diameter is one side of the triangle - which angle is largest?