question: How much is 35% of 40 is greater than 4/5 of 25?
Options:
(A) 29
(B) 776
(C) 66
(D) 14
(E) 99
answer: Stream of consciousness: (80/100) * 40 (4/5) * 25
35 - 20 = 14 The answer is (D).

q: Wednesday occurred on 15th September 2010. What was the day of the week on 15th September 2009?
Options:
(A) Monday
(B) Friday
(C) Wednesday
(D) Tuesday
(E) Sunday
a: Stream of consciousness: 1 odd day in the year 2009
So, the day on 15th September 2010 will be one day beyond the day on 15th September 2009
But, 15th September 2010 is Wednesday
On 15th September 2009, it was Tuesday The answer is (D).

question: If 4 women can color 48 m long cloth in 2 days, then 6 women can color 36 m long cloth in
Options:
(A) 2 days
(B) 1 day
(C) 4 days
(D) 3 days
(E) 2 1/5 days
answer: Stream of consciousness: The length of cloth painted by one woman in one day = 48 / 4 2 = 6 m
No. of days required to paint 36 m cloth by 6 women = 36/ 6 6 = 1 day. The answer is (B).

q: An analyst will recommend a combination of 4 industrial stocks, 3 transportation stocks, and 4 utility stocks. If the analyst can choose from 5 industrial stocks, 4 transportation stocks, and 5 utility stocks, how many different combinations of 11 stocks are possible?
Options:
(A) 12
(B) 19
(C) 60
(D) 100
(E) 720
a: Stream of consciousness: 5C4 * 4C3 * 5C4 = 5*4*5 = 100. The answer is (D).

question: A girl is organizing her jellybean collection in which each color has its own row. In each row, there are as many jellybeans as the number of jellybean colors. Her little brother chops each jellybean into the same number of peices as the number of jellybean colors. If the final number of jellybean pieces is m, then:
Options:
(A) m is a perfect square
(B) m is an odd number
(C) m is an even number
(D) m is a perfect cube.
(E) None
answer: Stream of consciousness: For example, if there were 4 jellybean colors, the girl would have made a 4x4 arrangement. The boy chopped up each jellybean into 4, the number of pieces would be (4*4)*4 = 64 pieces, which is a cube of 4. The answer is (D).

question: A number is said to be prime saturated if the product of all the different positive prime factors of n is less than the square root of n. What is the greatest two digit prime saturated integer ?
Options:
(A) 99
(B) 98
(C) 97
(D) 96
(E) 95
answer:
Stream of consciousness: A prime factors are 3 and 11. 33<sqrt(99)? no
B prime factors are 2 and 7. 14<sqrt(98)? no
C prime number. its sqrt is never greater than itself
D A prime factors are 2 and 6. 6<sqrt(96)? yes
E prime factors are 5 and 19. 45<sqrt(95)? no The answer is (D).