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2. Assume the first two statements are true. The boy plays baseball. All baseball players wear
hats. Is the final one: The boy wears a hat.
1. true
2. false
3. not certain?
3. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost?
4. How many of the five pairs of items listed below are exact duplicates?
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5. RESENT RESERVE Do these words
1. have similar meanings
6. One of the numbered figures in the following drawing is most different from the others.
What is the number in that figure?
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7. A train travels 20 feet in 1/5 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in
three seconds?
8. When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for sixty cents?
10. Which number in the following group of numbers represents the smallest amount?
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.8
31
.33
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11. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the
larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400
words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller
type?
12. The hours of daylight and darkness in SEPTEMBER are nearest equal to the hours of daylight
and darkness in:
1. June
2. March
3. May
4. November
13. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests
$9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X
receive than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?
15. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will
be the age of his sister?
16. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball
game, the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person.
How many points does each boy score on average?
17. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly
go without wearing the same combination of these three items?
18. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he
performs. Last week he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did
he make?
19. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed.
What is the height of the box?
20. Arnold is about to go on a 500-mile car trip. His mechanic recommends that he buy a
special highway engine oil that will save him 50 cents in gas for every 25 miles of the trip. This
new oil, however, will cost $20. Is it worthwhile for Arnold to buy the oil if he has a coupon for
$4 dollars off the price?
22.) If a cup of pancake mix makes 2 pancakes, how many pancakes can be made with 3 cups
of pancake mix?
23.) An airplane travels 100 miles per hour. How long will the airplane take to travel 300
miles?
24.) A gallon of gas costs $2.50. How many gallons of gas can be purchased with $5?
25.) A 10 year old Ford truck has 100,000 miles on the engine when the transmission fails on
the truck. There are two replacements available- one transmission will last for 20 years, or
50,000 miles, and the other transmission will last for 8 years, or 75,000 miles. Given the
current average yearly mileage on this truck, which transmission would last the longest?
26.) A rocket engine that takes off from earth burns 10,000 pounds of fuel in 15 minutes, and
is able to lift 20,000 pounds total for that time period (including the rocket fuel itself). If a
payload that weighs 20,000 pounds is needed to be transported for one hour, and unused
rocket engines are dropped in stages after their fuel has been exhausted, how many rocket
engines must be used to transport the payload for that time period?
27.) How many of the five pairs listed below are exact duplicates?
Bologna AND Balogna
Malicious AND Malicious
Firearm AND Fiream
Space Shuttle AND Space Huttle
Gray AND Green
28.) 7 months of the year have 31 days, and 4 have 30 days. What month has only 28 days?
29.) Do the words retire and inspire have opposite meanings, similar meanings, or no relation?
30.) Do the words hypothesis and theory have opposite meanings, similar meanings, or no
relation?
31.) Choose the verb that correctly completes the sentence:
Have you ________ the painting yet?
A) Finish
B) Finishes
C) Finishing
D) Finished
32.) 56/4=
A) 16
B) 9
C) 14
D) 23
33) The 5:15 train takes 2 hours and 10 minutes to get to Graystone. Today the train will be
late. What time will it get to Graystone?
A) 7:15
B) 7:05
C) 7:25
D) 7:40
34.) Choose the answer that most nearly means the same as the underlined
word: An inaccuracyis a:
A) Mistake
B) Type of Medicine
C) Prison
D) Chance Happening
36) Find two words, one from each group, that are closest in meaning.
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A. raise and elevate
B. raise and top
C. floor and basement
D. stairs and top
E. floor and elevate
37) The day before the day before yesterday is three days after Saturday. What day is it today?
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Wednesday
D. Thursday
E. Friday
38) Which number should come next in the series? 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,
A. 8
B. 11
C. 24
D. 21
E. 27
41.) Tim Tebow threw for 1,126 yards in his first four games. At this rate, how many yards will
he throw for in sixteen games?
A) 5, 204
B) 4,504
C) 4,204
D) 4, 704
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43.) Select the number that best completes the analogy: 10 : 6 :: 3 : ?
A. 2
B. 1
C. -1
D. 12
E. 4
44.) Last year, 12 out of 600 employees at a service organization were rewarded for their
excellence in customer service, which was ____ of the employees.
A) 1%
B) 2%
C) 3%
D) 4%
E) 6%
45) Joses monthly parking fee for April was $150; for May it was $10 more than April; and for
June $40 more than May. His average monthly parking fee was ____ for these 3 months?
A) $66
B) $160
C) $166
D) $170
E) $200
46) A featured product from an Internet retailer generated 27, 99, 80, 115 and 213 orders over
a 5-hour period. Which graph below best represents this trend?
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47) One word below appears in bold. What is the OPPOSITE of that word?
She gave a complex answer to the question and we all agreed with her.
A) long
B) better
C) simple
D) wrong
E) kind
48) If the first two statements are true, is the final statement true?
Sandra is responsible for ordering all office supplies.
Notebooks are office supplies.
Sandra is responsible for ordering notebooks.
A) yes
B) no
C) uncertain
49) Some months have 30 days, others have 31 days. How many months have 28 days in them?
50) Divide 30 by half. Add 10. Multiply by 3. Add 6. What is does this equal?
Answers
1. 1/8
2. true
3. 84 cents
4. 1
5. 3
6. 4
7. 300 feet
8. 6 feet
9. September
10. .33
11. 17
12. March
13. $560
14. not certain
15. 40 years old
16. 14
17. 192 days
18. $357
19. 9 cm
20. No. Arnold will only save $10 by using the oil
21.) 200
22.) 6 pancakes
23.) 3 hours
24.) 2 gallons
25.) The 8 year lifespan transmission will last the longest, assuming that the mileage per year
rate does not change.
26.) 30 rocket engines are required. The first stage consists of 16 rockets, the second stage is 8
rockets, the third stage is 4 rockets, and the final stage is 2 rockets.
27.) There is only one match- malicious.
28.) February.
29.) No relationship
30.) Similar meanings
31.) D
32.) C
33.) D
34.) A
35.) C
36.) A
37) E
38) D
39)78
40) 65
41) B
42) 17; its the only odd number.
43) C
44) B
45) D
46) D
47) C
48) A
49) 12
50) 81
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