List of top Quantitative Aptitude Questions asked in GRE

Amusement rides at permanent fairgrounds are dismantled once a year for safety
inspections by independent consultants. Traveling fairs, which relocate each month,
can slip past the net of safety inspections and escape independent inspection for
several years. Therefore, the rides at traveling fairs are less safe than the rides at
permanent fairs. Which of the following, if true about traveling fairs, most seriously weakens
the argument?

Which of the following is an acceptable order in which the institutions can be visited?

If the university is visited on the second day, then the mall must be visited on the

If the factory is not visited on the day immediately preceding the visit to the
university, then the police station can be visited on the

If the mall is visited either on the day immediately preceding or on the day immediately following the visit to the shelter, which of the following must be true?

If the hospital is visited on the day immediately preceding the visit to the mall, which of the following can be true?

At the Shadybrook dog kennel, all adult dogs received a new medication to reduce infection risk. Days later, most puppies had elevated temperatures, a known side effect. The owner hypothesized the medication passed via milk caused this. Which supports this best?

Which of the following most logically completes the argument? Alivia’s government has approved funds for an electricity-generation project
based on a pipeline from Lake Cylus to Lake Tifele. The electricity generated
won’t justify the cost, even with rising oil prices. Nonetheless, the project is
worth it, because — —

If green flags are flown on poles 2 and 6, which of the following can be true?

If the yellow flags are flown on poles 1 and 6, which of the following must be true?

If the yellow flags are flown on poles 2 and 4, which of the following must be true?

If a green flag is flown on pole 5, which of the following must be true?

Which of the following, CANNOT be true?

In a group of 80 students, 24 are enrolled in geometry, 40 in biology, and 20 in both. If a student were randomly selected from the 80 students, what is the probability that the student selected would not be enrolled in either course?

A political poll showed that 80 percent of those polled said they would vote for proposition P. Of those who said they would vote for proposition P, 70 percent actually voted for P, and of those who did not say they would vote for P, 20 percent actually voted for P. What percent of those polled voted for P?

If the white flags are flown on poles 2 and 3, which of the following must be true?

If the two yellow flags are flown on poles that are next to each other and the two white flags are flown on poles that are next to each other, then the flags flown on poles 2 and 6 must be

If \( x \neq 1 \) and \( x \neq 0 \), then \( \frac{1 - \frac{1}{x}}{x - 1} \) is equivalent to

For which country was the ratio of its savings rate to its real GNP growth rate greatest?

The savings rate for Canada was approximately how many times that of the United States?

For how many of the countries shown was the savings rate more than 5 times the real GNP growth rate?

Which of the following statement can be inferred from the graph? 1. On the average, people in the United States saved about the same amount as people in the United Kingdom. 2. The median of the savings rates for the eight countries was greater than 11 percent. 3. Only two of the countries had a higher savings rate than Italy.

In the figure above, if PQRS is a parallelogram, then \( x = \)

A certain doctor suggests that an individual’s daily water intake be \( \frac{1}{2} \) ounce per pound of body weight plus 8 ounces for every 25 pounds by which the individual exceeds his or her ideal weight. If this doctor suggests a daily water intake of 136 ounces for a particular 240-pound individual, how many pounds above his or her ideal weight is that individual?

What was the savings rate for the country that had the greatest real GNP growth rate?