Math Questions

1. Which of the following numbers has the greatest value?

a. 1.4378
b. 1.07548
c. 1.43592
d. 0.89409

2. The value of is the same as:

a.
b.
c.
d.

3. This chart indicates how many sales of CDs, vinyl records, and MP3
downloads occurred over the last year. Approximately what percentage of
the total sales was from CDs?

a. 55%
 b. 25%
c. 40%
d. 5%

4. After a 20% sale discount, Frank purchased a new refrigerator for $850.
How much did he save from the original price?
a. $170
b. $212.50
c. $105.75
d. $200
5. Which of the following is largest?
a. 0.45
b. 0.096
c. 0.3
d. 0.313

6. What is the value of b in this equation?

a. 13
b. 24
c. 7
d. 21

7. A school has 15 teachers and 20 teaching assistants. They have 200

students. What is the ratio of faculty to students?
a. 3:20
b. 4:17
c. 3:2
 d. 7:40

8. Express the solution to the following problem in decimal form:

a. 0.042
b. 84%
c. 0.84
d. 0.42

9. A student gets an 85% on a test with 20 questions. How many answers did
the student solve correctly?
a. 15
b. 16
c. 17
d. 18

10. If Sarah reads at an average rate of 21 pages in four nights, how long will
it take her to read 140 pages?
a. 6 nights
b. 26 nights
c. 8 nights
d. 27 nights
11. Alan currently weighs 200 pounds, but he wants to lose weight to get
down to 175 pounds. What is this difference in kilograms? (1 pound is
approximately equal to 0.45 kilograms.)
a. 9 kg
b. 11.25 kg
c. 78.75 kg
 d. 90 kg

12. Johnny earns $2334.50 from his job each month. He pays $1437 for
monthly expenses. Johnny is planning a vacation in 3 months’ time that he
estimates will cost $1750 total. How much will Johnny have left over from
three months’ of saving once he pays for his vacation?
a. $948.50
b. $584.50
c. $852.50
d. $942.50

13. What is rounded to the nearest integer?

a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
14. Solve the following:

a. 512
b. 36
c. 60.5
d. 22
15. The total perimeter of a rectangle is 36 cm. If the length of each side is
12 cm, what is the width?
a. 3 cm
b. 12 cm
c. 6 cm
 d. 8 cm

16. Dwayne has received the following scores on his math tests: 78, 92, 83,
97. What score must Dwayne get on his next math test to have an overall
average of 90?
a. 89
b. 98
c. 95
d. 100

17. What is the overall median of Dwayne’s current scores: 78, 92, 83, 97?
a. 19
b. 85
c. 83
d. 87.5
18. Solve the following:

a. 30
b. 21
c. 15
d. 13

19. In Jim’s school, there are 3 girls for every 2 boys. There are 650 students
in total. Using this information, how many students are girls?
a. 260
b. 130
c. 65
d. 390
20. What is the solution to
a. 512
b. 36
c. 60.5
d. 22
21. Kimberley earns $10 an hour babysitting, and after 10 p.m., she earns
$12 an hour, with the amount paid being rounded to the nearest hour
accordingly. On her last job, she worked from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. In total,
how much did Kimberley earn on her last job?
a. $45
b. $57
c. $62
d. $42
22. Solve this equation:

a. -4
b. 3
c.
d.
23. Arrange the following numbers from least to greatest value:
0.85,
a.

b.

c.
 d.

24. Keith’s bakery had 252 customers go through its doors last week. This
week, that number increased to 378. Express this increase as a percentage.
a. 26%
b. 50%
c. 35%
d. 12%

25. If , then
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

26. Simplify the following fraction:

a.

b.

c.

d.
27. The following graph compares the various test scores of the top three
students in each of these teacher’s classes. Based on the graph, which
teacher’s students had the lowest range of test scores?
 a. Mr. Lennon
b. Mr. O’Shea
c. Mr. Taylor
d. Ms. Daley

28. Bernard can make $80 per day. If he needs to make $300 and only works
full days, how many days will this take?
a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

29. Using the following diagram, calculate the total circumference, rounding
to the nearest decimal place:
 a. 25.0 cm
b. 15.7 cm
c. 78.5 cm
d. 31.4 cm

30. Which measure for the center of a small sample set would be most
affected by outliers?
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. None of the above

31. A line that travels from the bottom-left of a graph to the upper-right of
the graph indicates what kind of relationship between a predictor and a
dependent variable?
a. Positive
b. Negative
c. Exponential
d. Logarithmic
32. How many kilometers is 4382 feet?
a. 1.336 kilometers
b. 14,376 kilometers
c. 1.437 kilometers
d. 13,336 kilometers
33. Which of the following is the best description of the relationship
between Y and X?
a. The data has normal distribution.
b. X and Y have a negative relationship.
c. No relationship
d. X and Y have a positive relationship.

34. What is the slope of this line?

 a. 2

b.

c.

d.

35. What is the perimeter of the figure below? Note that the solid outer line
is the perimeter.
 a. 48.565 in
b. 36.565 in
c. 39.78 in
d. 39.565 in
36. Which of the following equations best represents the problem below?

The width of a rectangle is 2 centimeters less than the length. If the

perimeter of the rectangle is 44 centimeters, then what are the
dimensions of the rectangle?

a.
b.
c.
d. (
37. Which of the following is the result of simplifying the expression:
?
a.

b.

c.

d.

38. What is the product of two irrational numbers?

a. Irrational
b. Rational
c. Irrational or rational
d. Complex and imaginary

39. The graph shows the position of a car over a 10-second time interval.
Which of the following is the correct interpretation of the graph for the
interval 1 to 3 seconds?
 a. The car remains in the same position.
b. The car is traveling at a speed of 5m/s.
c. The car is traveling up a hill.
d. The car is traveling at 5mph.

40. How is the number -4 classified?

a. Real, rational, integer, whole, natural
b. Real, rational, integer, natural
c. Real, rational, integer
d. Real, irrational

41. Solve:
a.

b.

c.
 d.

42. Five of six numbers have a sum of 25. The average of all six numbers is 6.
What is the sixth number?
a. 8
b. 10
c. 11
d. 12

43. 4.67 miles is equivalent to how many kilometers to three significant

digits?
a. 7.514 km
b. 7.51 km
c. 2.90 km
d. 2.902 km

44. If , then n is between:

a. 5 and 7
b. 7 and 9
c. 9 and 11
d. 3 and 5

45. A closet is filled with red, blue, and green shirts. If of the shirts are
green and are red, what fraction of the shirts are blue?
a.

b.

c.
 d.

46. Shawna buys gallons of paint. If she uses of it on the first day, how
much does she have left?
a. gallons

b. gallons

c. gallons

d. gallons

47. How will be written as a percent?

a. 40%
b. 125%
c. 90%
d. 80%
48. What are all the factors of 12?
a. 12, 24, 36
b. 1, 2, 4, 6, 12
c. 12, 24, 36, 48
d. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12

49. At the beginning of the day, Xavier has 20 apples. At lunch, he meets his
sister Emma and gives her half of his apples. After lunch, he stops by his
neighbor Jim’s house and gives him 6 of his apples. He then uses ¾ of his
remaining apples to make an apple pie for dessert at dinner. At the end of
the day, how many apples does Xavier have left?
a. 4
b. 6
 c. 2
d. 1

50. How will the number 847.89632 be written if rounded to the nearest
hundredth?
a. 847.90
b. 900
c. 847.89
d. 847.896

51. What is the value of the sum of and ?

a.

b.

c.

d.
52. Add and express in reduced form .
a.

b.

c.

d.

53. Divide and reduce .

a.

b.
 c.

d.

54. Express as a reduced mixed number .

a.

b.

c.

d.