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Arithmetic Reasoning 5. The cost of milk at Jonesy Smith Grocery rose
from $2.50 to $2.80 over the course of several
1. Derek earns $64.00 per day and spends $4.00 per months. What was the percentage increase in the
day on transportation. What fraction of Derek’s cost of milk?
daily earnings does he spend on transportation? a. 12%
1 b. 30%
a. 32
c. 10.7%
1
b. 1 d. 8.3%
8
1
c. 16
1 6. On a state road map, one inch represents 20
d. 8
miles. Denise wants to travel from Garden City
to Marshalltown, which is a distance of 414 inches
2. A bread recipe calls for 612 cups of flour, but
on the map. How many miles will Denise travel?
Leonard has only 513 cups. How much more flour
a. 45
does Leonard need?
b. 82
2
a. 3 cup c. 85
5 d. 90
b. 6 cup
c. 116 cups
7. In the freshman class, the ratio of in-state stu-
d. 114 cups dents to out-of-state students is 15 to 2. If there
are 750 in-state students in the class, how many
3. Over a period of four days, Roberto drove a total out-of-state students are there?
of 956.58 miles. What is the average number of a. 100
miles Roberto drove each day? b. 112
a. 239.145 c. 130
b. 239.250 d. 260
c. 249.045
d. 249.455 8. At the Greene Country Summer Fair, Brad sold
the following pieces of artwork: a sculpture for
4. Finer Fabric International sells a total of $80, an oil painting for $168, an ink drawing for
$880,600.00 in fabrics during the course of the $52, and a photograph for $52. What was the
year. If 32% of the company’s sales went to pay average (mean) price for the pieces of artwork
for labor to make those fabrics, how much he sold?
money did Finer Fabric International spend on a. $52
this labor? b. $80
a. $27,518.75 c. $88
b. $32,000.00 d. $92
c. $275,600.00
d. $281,792.00
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9. A bag contains 105 jellybeans: 23 white, 23 red, 13. Of the 80 employees working on the road-
14 purple, 26 yellow, and 19 green. What is the construction crew, 35% worked overtime this
probability of selecting either a yellow or a green week. How many employees did NOT work
jellybean? overtime?
a. 3
a. 28
7
1
b. 45
b.
6 c. 52
1
c. 12 d. 56
2
d.
9
14. If Lydia’s height is 2a of Francine’s height and
10. A can contains 200 mixed nuts: almonds, Francine is b inches tall, how tall is Lydia?
2
cashews, and peanuts. If the probability of a. a
b
choosing an almond is 110 and the probability of b. 2(ab)
choosing a cashew is 14, how many peanuts are in
the can? c. 2ab
a. 90 d. 2ab
b. 110
c. 130 15. A triangle has an area of 9 square inches. If its
d. 186 base is 3 inches, what is its height in inches?
a. 3
11. Tatum used a $100.00 bill to buy a fax machine b. 4
for her office. The machine cost $60 plus an c. 6
additional 8% tax. How much change did she d. 12
receive after purchasing the fax machine with the
$100.00 bill? 16. What are the dimensions of a rectangular room
a. $32.00 with a perimeter of 42 feet if the long side is
b. $32.50 twice as long as the short side?
c. $35.20 a. 7 feet by 14 feet
d. $64.80 b. 8 feet by 16 feet
c. 12 feet by 24 feet
12. Colleen purchased a large bag of apples. She used d. 14 feet by 28 feet
1
2 of them to make applesauce. Of those she had
left, she used 34 to make an apple pie. When she 17. Celine has a fish tank in the shape of a cube. If
was finished, she had only three apples left. How the volume of her fish tank is 1,000 cubic inches,
many apples were there to begin with? what is the area of one of the sides of Celine’s fish
a. 21 tank?
b. 24 a. 10 square inches
c. 28 b. 100 square inches
d. 36 c. 333 square inches
d. 666 square inches
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Mathematics Knowledge 22. Raise 59 to 36ths.
18
a.
36
18. Name the fraction that indicates the shaded part 20
b.
of the figure below. 36
24
c.
36
30
d.
36
23. 245 ÷ 7 =
a. 25
a. 2
5 b. 985
1 c. 52
b. 5
d. 2345
1
c. 6
d. 1
1 24. 4 – 145 =
0
a. 215
19. Four ounces is what fraction of a pound?
b. 245
(one pound = 16 ounces)
1 c. 3130
a. 3
3 d. 315
b. 8
1
c. 4 25. 5 4
× 15 =
8
1
d. a. 16
6
b. 25
20. Which has the smallest value?
a. –12 c. 195
b. –1 d. 475
c. 0
d. –76 26. 1 3
× 16 × =
2 8
1
a. 4
21. What is the decimal value of 58?
a. 0.56 b. 2156
b. 0.625 c. 3
c. 0.8
d. 414
d. 0.835
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27. A cement truck must distribute 1334 tons of 33. 5 × 0.0063 =
cement evenly to five work sites. How many tons a. 0.0315
should it give to each work site? b. 0.315
a. 214 c. 3.15
b. 212 d. 31.5
c. 238
d. 234 34. 45% is equal to what fraction?
4
a.
5
28. What is 0.7849 rounded to the nearest 5
b.
hundredth? 8
25
a. 0.8 c.
50
b. 0.78 d. 9
20
c. 0.785
d. 0.79 35. 0.925 is equal to what percent?
a. 925%
29. 2.36 + 14 + 0.083 = b. 92.5%
a. 14.059 c. 9.25%
b. 16.443 d. 0.0925%
c. 16.69
d. 17.19 36. What is 12% of 60?
a. 5
30. 1.5 – 0.188 = b. 7.2
a. 0.62 c. 50
b. 1.262 d. 72
c. 1.27
d. 1.312 37. If 600 college freshman are entering Edenford
University and 330 of them are female, what per-
31. 12 – 0.92 + 4.6 = centage of the incoming freshmen are male?
a. 17.52 a. 67%
b. 16.68 b. 40%
c. 15.68 c. 45%
d. 8.4 d. 55%
32. 2.39 × 10,000 = 38. Katherine has written 42 pages of her doctorate
a. 239 thesis. If she has written 28% of her doctorate
b. 2,390 thesis, how many pages will her finished thesis
c. 23,900 be?
d. 239,000 a. 70 pages
b. 150 pages
c. 162 pages
d. 1,175 pages
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39. Which of the following is an obtuse angle? 40. What is the perimeter of the polygon?
a.
5"
2"
b. 5"
c. 6"
4"
d. 2"
a. 24
b. 25
c. 27
d. 32
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