Math Practice questions for GMAT/GRE/SAT PART 3

1. A project scheduled to be carried out over a single fiscal year has a budget of $12,600, divided into 12 equal monthly allocations. At the end of the fourth month of that fiscal year, the total amount actually spent on the project was $4,580. By how much was the project over its budget? 

  (A) $ 380
  (B) $ 540
  (C) $1,050
  (D) $1,380
  (E) $1,430

2.A rainstorm increased the amount of water stored in State J reservoirs from 124 billion gallons to 138 billion gallons. If the storm increased the amount of water in the reservoirs to 82 percent of total capacity, approximately how many billion gallons of water were the reservoirs short of total capacity prior to the storm? 

  (A) 9
   (B) 14
  (C) 25
  (D) 30
  (E) 44
 

3.When Leo imported a certain item, he paid a 7 percent import tax on the portion of the total value of the item in excess of $1,000. If the amount of the import tax that Leo paid was $87.50, what was the total value of the item? 

 (A) $1,600
 (B) $1,850
 (C) $2,250
 (D) $2,400
 (E) $2,750 

ANSWER JUST FOR PRINTING EDITION(ADAPTED FROM GMAT REVIEW 13th EDITION) 

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