GMAT_CCEPOA_140412

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Porto Alegre, 14 de Abril de 2012 
 
 
SIMULADO 
GMAT 
 
 Este simulado possui 20 questões para serem realizadas em 30 
minutos, incluindo o preenchimento da grade de respostas. 
 A questões estão divididas em 3 áreas: 
 Critical Reasoning (8 questões) 
Data Sufficiency (8 questões) 
Problem Solving (4 questões) 
 Não utilize calculadora. 
 
Boa sorte! 
Critical Reasoning (8 questões) 
1) To protect certain fledgling industries, the government of Country Z banned imports of the types of 
products those industries were starting to make. As a direct result, the cost of those products to the 
buyers, several export-dependent industries in Z, went up, sharply limiting the ability of those industries 
to compete effectively in their export markets. 
Which of the following conclusions about Country Z’s adversely affected export-dependent industries is 
best supported by the passage? 
 
(A) Profit margins in those industries were not high enough to absorb the rise in costs mentioned above. 
(B) Those industries had to contend with the fact that other countries banned imports from Country Z. 
(C) Those industries succeeded in expanding the domestic market for their products. 
(D) Steps to offset rising materials costs by decreasing labor costs were taken in those industries. 
(E) Those industries started to move into export markets that they had previously judged unprofitable. 
 
 
2) Insurance Company X is considering issuing a new policy to cover services required by elderly people 
who suffer from diseases that afflict the elderly. Premiums for the policy must be low enough to attract 
customers. Therefore, Company X is concerned that the income from the policies would not be 
sufficient to pay for the claims that would be made. 
Which of the following strategies would be most likely to minimize Company X’s losses on the policies? 
 
(A) Attracting middle-aged customers unlikely to submit claims for benefits for many years 
(B) Insuring only those individuals who did not suffer any serious diseases as children 
(C) Including a greater number of services in the policy than are included in other policies of 
lower cost 
(D) Insuring only those individuals who were rejected by other companies for similar policies 
(E) Insuring only those individuals who are wealthy enough to pay for the medical services 
 
 
3) Federal tax evasion is a serious crime that places an unfair tax burden on those members of society 
who pay their fair share. To reduce the incidence of tax evasion, the government needs to prosecute a 
few highprofile individuals whose cases will receive substantial media attention. 
The argument above relies on which of the following assumptions? 
 
(A) The tax system is so complicated that even people who try to comply with it may 
inadvertently not pay some of their taxes. 
(B) The average citizen will be less likely to evade taxes after he or she sees a highprofile individual 
prosecuted for tax evasion. 
(C) Tax revenues collected from high-profile tax evaders will help to alleviate the unfair tax burden on 
honest citizens. 
(D) Although it is difficult to secure a conviction on a charge of tax evasion, if the government focuses its 
efforts on a small number of high-profile individuals, the odds of obtaining a conviction will increase. 
(E) While there is no universal measure for determining whether a taxation system is “fair” or “unfair,” 
the current system was constructed by Congress to represent the societal priorities and values of the 
American people. 
 
4) A sudden increase in the production of elephant ivory artifacts on the Mediterranean coast of North 
Africa occurred in the tenth century. Historians explain this increase as the result of an area opening up 
as a new source of ivory and argue on this basis that the important medieval trade between North Africa 
and East Africa began at this period. 
Each of the following, if true, provides some support for the historians’ account described above 
EXCEPT: 
 
(A) In East Africa gold coins from Mediterranean North Africa have been found at a tenth-century site 
but at no earlier sites. 
(B) The many surviving letters of pre-tenth-century North African merchants include no mention of 
business transactions involving East Africa. 
(C) Excavations in East Africa reveal a tenth-century change in architectural style to reflect North African 
patterns. 
(D) Documents from Mediterranean Europe and North Africa that date back earlier than the tenth 
century show knowledge of East African animals. 
(E) East African carvings in a style characteristic of the tenth century depict seagoing vessels very 
different from those used by local sailors but of a type common in the Mediterranean. 
 
5) The Hanks Manufacturing Company has been receiving complaints about the quality of the products 
in the WWWidget product line. To eliminate these complaints, the operations director has decided to 
adopt a quality assurance program similar to that of WINK, Inc., which has a high customer satisfaction 
rate. 
Which of the following may most reasonably be inferred from the statements above? 
 
(A) Products in the WWWidget line have been breaking shortly after being installed. 
(B) The WWWidget line is a relatively new line of products for The Hanks Manufacturing Company. 
(C). The operations director used to work for WINK, Inc. and is therefore familiar with the quality 
assurance program. 
(D) The WWWidget line is in danger of costing The Hanks Manufacturing Company its profitability. 
(E) The complaints about the WWWidget line indicate a customer satisfaction rate that is lower than 
that of the WINK, Inc.’s customer satisfaction rate. 
 
6) Contrary to earlier predictions, demand for sugarcane has not increased in recent years. Yet, even 
though prices and production amounts have also been stable during the last three years, sugarcane 
growers last year increased their profits by more than 10 percent over the previous year’s level. 
Any of the following statements, if true about last year, helps to explain the rise in profits EXCEPT: 
 
(A) Many countries that are large consumers of sugarcane increased their production of sugarcane-
based ethanol, yet their overall consumption of sugarcane decreased. 
(B) Sugarcane growers have saved money on wages by switching from paying laborers an hourly wage to 
paying them by the amount harvested. 
(C) The price of oil, the major energy source used by sugarcane growers in harvesting their crops, 
dropped by over 20 percent. 
(D) Many small sugarcane growers joined together to form an association of sugarcane producers and 
began to buy supplies at low group rates. 
(E) Rainfall in sugarcane-growing regions was higher than it had been during the previous year, allowing 
the growers to save money on expensive artificial irrigation. 
 
7) In the United States, of the people who moved from one state to another when they retired, the 
percentage who retired to Florida has decreased by three percentage points over the past ten years. 
Since many local businesses in Florida cater to retirees, these declines are likely to have a noticeably 
negative economic effect on these businesses and therefore on the economy of Florida. 
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument given? 
 
(A) People who moved from one state to another when they retired moved a greater distance, on 
average, last year than such people did ten years ago. 
(B) People were more likely to retire to North Carolina from another state last year than people were 
ten years ago. 
(C) The number of people who moved from one state to another when they retired has increased 
significantly over the past ten years. 
(D) The number of people who left Florida when they retired to live in another state was greater last 
year than it was ten years ago. 
(E) Florida attracts more people who move from one state to another when they retire than does any 
other state. 
 
 
8) Covington College has four full-time Classicsprofessors, but only 12 Classics majors. This three-to-one 
student-to-professor ratio is the lowest in the college. Since the college is facing financial difficulties, 
and since the tuition from just 12 students is not sufficient to pay the salaries of 4 full-time professors, 
the college should cancel the Classics program to reduce expenses. 
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the conclusion above? 
 
(A) Professors in the Classics department teach popular language and literature classes that are 
attended by hundreds of students who are not Classics majors. 
(B) Students at Covington College pay, on average, $22,500 per year in tuition and fees, while the 
average professor of humanities receives a salary of $61,500 per year. 
(C) A well-regarded Classics program adds prestige to a college or university. 
(D) The Classics department has already decreased in size from six full-time professors 10 years ago. 
(E) The study of classical literature and languages is increasingly irrelevant to the high-tech workplace of 
today. 
 
 
Data Sufficiency (8 questões) 
 
 
9) The figure above represents a circle graph of Company H’s total expenses broken down by the 
expenses for each of its five divisions. If O is the center of the circle and if Company H’s total expenses 
are $5,400,000, what are the expenses for Division R ? 
 
(1) x = 94 
(2) The total expenses for Divisions S and T are 
twice as much as the expenses for Division R. 
 
10) 112. Machines X and Y produced identical bottles at different constant rates. Machine X, operating 
alone for 4 hours, filled part of a production lot; then Machine Y, operating alone for 3 hours, filled the 
rest of this lot. 
How many hours would it have taken Machine X operating alone to fi ll the entire production lot? 
 
(1) Machine X produced 30 bottles per minute. 
(2) Machine X produced twice as many bottles in 4 hours as Machine Y produced in 3 hours. 
 
11) If ° represents one of the operations +, –, and ×, is k ° (� + m) = (k ° � ) + (k ° m) for all numbers k, � , 
and m ? 
 
(1) k ° 1 is not equal to 1 ° k for some numbers k. 
(2) ° represents subtraction. 
 
 
12) Are all of the numbers in a certain list of 15 numbers equal? 
 
(1) The sum of all the numbers in the list is 60. 
(2) The sum of any 3 numbers in the list is 12. 
 
13) If n is a positive integer and k = 5.1 × 10n, what is the value of k ? 
 
(1) 6,000