1、工商管理硕士入学考试-文字题及答案解析(总分：575.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：115，分数：575.00)1.A certain truck manufacturer must have sales of $4.5 billion to break even this year. If the manufacturer had sales of $ 1.9 billion for the first half of the year, then, to break even for the year, its sales for the second half mu
2、st be approximately what percent higher than its sales for the first half?（分数：5.00）A.11%B.16%C.27%D.37%E.(E) 58%2.Mary invested $8,400 for 6 months in a certificate of deposit paying percent simple annual interest. How much more interest would Mary have received if the interest rate on this certific
3、ate had been 9 （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.3.On a certain scale of intensity, each increment of 10 in magnitude represents a tenfold increase in intensity. On this scale, an intensity corresponding to a magnitude of 165 is how many times an intensity corresponding to a magnitude of 125?（分数：5.00）A.40B.100C.40
4、0D.1,000E.(E) 10,0004.At a certain university, if 50 percent of the people who inquire about admission policies actually submit applications for admission, what percent of those who submit applications for admission enroll in classes at the university?(1)Fifteen percent of those who submit applicati
5、ons for admission are accepted at the university.(2)Eighty percent of those who are accepted send a deposit to the university.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分5.Company Rs annual profit has
6、 increased by a constant amount each calendar year since 1985. What was Company Rs annual profit in 1991?(1)In 1985 Company Rs annual profit was $212.000; in 1989 Company Rs annual profit was $242,000.(2)Company Rs annual profit has increased by $7,500 each year since 1985.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不
7、充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分6.A wildlife preserve is being planned for 3,000 rhinoceroses. The preserve is to contain a total of 10,000 acres of watering area, plus 100 acres of grazing area for each rhinoceros
8、. If the number of rhinoceroses is expected to increase by 10 percent, how many thousand acres should the preserve have in order to provide for the increased population?（分数：5.00）A.340B.330C.320D.310E.(E) 3007.Two children, Bob and Mary, have piggy banks into which they deposit money earned from doin
9、g odd jobs. In a certain year, both Bob and Mary each deposited $5 on the first of every month into their respective piggy banks. If these were the only deposits made into the piggy banks during the year, on December 31 does Bob have more money in his piggy bank than Mary has in her piggy bank? (Ass
10、ume no withdrawals)(1)On March 15 Bob had three times as much money in his piggy bank as Mary had in hers.(2)On June 15 Bob had twice as much money in his piggy bank as Mary had in hers.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条
11、件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分8.A 5-liter jug contains 4 liters of a saltwater solution that is 15 percent salt. If 1.5 liters of the solution spills out of the jug, and the jug is then filled to capacity with water, approximately what percent of the resulting solution in the jug is salt?（分数：5.00）A.
12、B.C.D.E.9.If 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?（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.10.A merchant paid $300 for a shipment of x identical calculators. The merchant used 2 of the calculators as demonstrators a
13、nd sold each of the others for $5 more than the average (arithmetic mean) cost of the X calculators. If the total revenue from the sale of the calculators was $120 more than the cost of the shipment, how many calculators were in the shipment?（分数：5.00）A.24B.25C.26D.28E.(E) 3011.A store currently char
14、ges the same price for each towel that it sells. If the current price of each towel were to be increased by $1,10 fewer of the towels could be bought for $120, excluding sales tax. What is the current price of each towel?（分数：5.00）A.$1B.$2C.$3D.$4E.(E) $1212.In a certain flower shop, which stocks fou
15、r types of flower there are as many violets as carnation，and （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.13.All of the tickets for two real estate seminars, F and G, were either purchased or given away, and the ratio of F tickets to G tickets was 2 to 1. Of the total number of F tickets and G tickets, what percentage was pu
16、rchased?(1)The total number of F tickets and G tickets is 240.(2)Of the F tickets, exactly 60 percent were purchased, and of the G tickets, exactly 80 percent were purchased.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条
17、件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分14.A car traveled 462 miles per tankful of gasoline on the highway and 336 miles per tankful of gasoline in the city. If the car traveled 6 fewer miles per gallon in the city than on the highway, how many miles per gallon did the car travel in the city?（分数：5.00）A.14B.16C.21D.22E.(E
18、) 2715.If tank X contains only gasoline, how many kiloliters of gasoline are in tank X?(1)If of the gasoline in tank X were pumped out the tank would be filled to （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.16.If money is invested at r percent interest, compounded annually, the amount of the investment will double in approx
19、imately （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.17.A merchant purchased a jacket for $60 and then determined a selling price that equalled the purchase price of the jacket plus a markup that was 25 percent of the selling price. During a sale, the merchant discounted the selling price by 20 percent and sold the jacket. W
20、hat was the merchants gross profit on this sale?（分数：5.00）A.$0B.$3C.$4D.$12E.(E) $1518.Harry started a 6-mile hike with a full 10-cup canteen of water and finished the hike in 2 hours with 1 cup of water remaining in the canteen. If the canteen leaked at the rate of 1 cup per hour and Harry drank 3 c
21、ups of water during the last mile, how many cups did he drink per mil during the first 5 miles of the hike?（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.19. （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.20.A breakfast that consists of 1 ounce of corn puffs and 8 ounces of fruit X provides 257 calories. When 8 ounces of fruit Y is substituted for the 8
22、ounces of fruit X, the total number of calories is reduced to 185. If fruit X provides 1.8 times as many calories as fruit Y, how many calories does 8 ounces of fruit Y alone provide?（分数：5.00）A.11.25B.72C.90D.95E.(E) 129.621.A cashier mentally reversed the digits of one customers correct amount of c
23、hange and thus gave the customer art incorrect amount of change. If the cash register contained 45 cents more than it should have as a result of this error, which of the following could have been the correct amount of change in cents?（分数：5.00）A.14B.45C.54D.65E.(E) 8322.Laura borrowed $240, interest
24、free, from her parents to pay for her college education. If she pays back （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.23.A family made a down payment of $75 and borrowed the balance on a set of encyclopedias that cost $400. The balance with interest was paid in 23 monthly payments of $16 each and a final payment of $9.The a
25、mount of interest paid was what percent of the amount borrowed?（分数：5.00）A.6%B.12%C.14%D.16%E.(E) 20%24.If the ratio of men to women employed by Company S in 1975 was （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.25.A certain clock marks every hour by striking a number of times equal to the hour and the time required for a str
26、oke is exactly equal to the time interval between strokes. At 6:00 the time lapse between the beginning of the first stroke and the end of the last stroke is 22 seconds. At 12:00, how many seconds elapse between the beginning of the first stroke and the end of the last stroke?（分数：5.00）A.72B.50C.48D.
27、46E.(E) 4426. （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.27.Salesperson As compensation for any week is $360 plus 6 percent of the portion of As total sales above $1,000 for that week. Salesperson Bs compensation for any week is 8 percent of Bs total sales for that week. For what amount of total weekly sales would both sal
28、espeople earn the same compensation?（分数：5.00）A.$21,000B.$18,000C.$15,000D.$4,500E.(E) $4,00028.Over the last three years a scientist had an average (arithmetic mean) yearly in come of $45,000. The scientist earned 1 times as much the second year as the first year and （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.29.A decorato
29、r bought a bolt of defective cloth that he judged to be usable, in which ease the cost would be $0.80 per usable yard. If it was later found that only （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.30.After 5 games, a rugby team had an average of 28 points per game. In order to in crease the average by n points, how many point
30、s must be scored in a 6th game?（分数：5.00）A.nB.6nC.28nD.28+nE.(E)28+6n31.During the four years that Mrs. Lopez owned her car, she found that her total car expenses were $18,000. Fuel and maintenance costs accounted for of the total and depreciation accounted for of the remainder. The cost of insurance
31、 was 3 times the cost of financing, and together these two costs accounted for （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.32.A circular rim 28 inches in diameter rotates the same number of inches per second as a circular rim 35 inches in diameter. If the smaller rim makes x revolutions per second, how many revolutions per
32、minute does the larger rim make in terms of x?（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.33.One-fifth of the light switches produced by a certain factory are defective. Four-fifths of the defective switches are rejected and （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.34.Pam and Ed are in a line to purchase tickets. How many people are in the line?
33、(1)There are 20 people behind Pare and 30 people in front of Ed.(2)There are 5 people between Pam and Ed.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分35.A 2-year certificate of deposit is purchased for
34、 k dollars. If the certificate earns interest at an annual rate of 6 percent compounded quarterly, which of the following represents the value, in dollars, of the certificate at the end of the 2 years?（分数：5.00）A.(1.06)2kB.(1.06)8kC.(1.015)2kD.(1.015)8kE.(E) (1.03)4k36.On a certain day it took Bill t
35、hree times as long to drive from home to work as it took Sue to drive from home to work. How many Kilometers did Bill drive from home to work?(1)Sue drove 10 kilometers from home to work, and the ratio of was the same for Bill and Sue that day.(2)The ratio of for Sue that day was 64 kilometers per h
36、our.（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.37.Of the science books in a certain supply room, 50 are on botany, 65 are on zoology, 90 are on physics, 50 are on geology, and 110 are on chemistry. If science books are removed randomly from the supply room, how many must be removed to ensure that 80 of the books removed ar
37、e on the same science?（分数：5.00）A.81B.159C.166D.285E.(E) 32438.A, B, and C each drove 100-mile legs of a 300-mile course at speeds of 40, 50, and 60 miles per hour, respectively. What fraction of the total time did A drive?（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.39.A total of 40 brand X television sets and 80 brand Y tel
38、evision sets were purchased for a motel chain. If the price of each brand Y set was twice the price of each brand X set, what percent of the total bill was the price of a brand Y set?（分数：5.00）A.0.25%B.0.5%C.0.625%D.0.833%E.(E) 1.0%40.A retailer sold an appliance for 30 percent above cost, which repr
39、esented a gross profit of $21.00. For what price did the retailer sell the appliance?（分数：5.00）A.$27.30B.$51.00C.$63.00D.$70.00E.(E) $91.0041.In year X a total of 355 billion dollars was spent for health care in the United States, 30 percent of which was spent by private health insurance companies. W
40、as the amount spent for health care by the federal governments medicare program less than 60 billion dollars?(1)In year X medicare spent more than , but less than （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.42.The ratio，by volume, of soap to alcohol to water in a certain solution is 2:50:100. The solution will be altered so
41、 that the ratio of soap to alcohol is doubled while the ratio of soap to water is halved. If the altered solution will contain 100 cubic centimeters of alcohol, how many cubic centimeters of water will it contain?（分数：5.00）A.50B.200C.400D.625E.(E) 80043. （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.44.A total of 774 doctorate
42、s in mathematics were granted to United States citizens by American universities in the 19721973 school year, and W of these doctorates were granted to women. The total of such doctorates in the 19861987 school year was 362, and of these were granted to women. If the number of doctorates in mathemat
43、ics granted to female citizens of the United States by American universities decreased from the 19721973 school year to the 19861987 school year, was the decrease less than 10 percent?(1) （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.45.Each person on a committee with 40 members voted for exactly one of 3 candidates, F, G, or
44、 H. Did Candidate F receive the most votes from the 40 votes cast?(1)Candidate F received 11 of the votes(2)Candidate H received 14 of the votes.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分46.In a may
45、oral election, Candidate X received more votes than candidate Y, and Candidate Y received （分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.47.Working independently, Tina can do a certain job in 12 hours. Working independently, Ann can do the same job in 9 hours. If Tina works independently at the job for 8 hours and then Ann wor
46、ks independently, how many hours will it take Ann to complete the remainder of the job?（分数：5.00）A.B.C.D.E.48.If the price of potatoes is $0.20 per pound, what is the maximum number of potatoes that can be bought for $1.00?(1)The price of a bag of potatoes is $2.80.(2)There are 15 to 18 potatoes in e
47、very 5 pounds.（分数：5.00）A.条件(1)充分，但条件(2)不充分B.条件(2)充分，但条件(1)不充分C.条件(1)和(2)单独都不充分，但条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来充分D.条件(1)充分，条件(2)也充分E.(E) 条件(1)和条件(2)单独都不充分，条件(1)和条件(2)联合起来也不充分49.Diana bought a stereo for $530, which was the retail price plus a 6 percent sales tax. How much money could she have saved if she had bough
48、t the stereo at the same retail price in a neighboring state where she would have paid a sales tax of 5 percent?（分数：5.00）A.$1.00B.$2.65C.$4.30D.$5.00E.(E) $5.3050.A certain Social Security recipient will receive an annual benefit of $12,000 provided he has annual earnings of $9,360 or less, but the
49、benefit will be reduced by $1 for every $3 of annual earnings over $9,360. What amount of total annual earnings would result in a 50 percent reduction in the recipients annual Social Security benefit? (Assume Social Security benefits are not counted as part of annual earnings.)（分数：5.00）A.$15,360B.$17,360C.$18,000D.$21,360E.(E) $27,36051.A certain ball was dropped from a window 8 meters above a sidewalk. On each bounce it rose straight up exactly one-half the distance of the previous fall. After the third bounce the ball was caught when it r
