Arithmetic Reasoning
A subway car passes 3 stations every 10 minutes. At this rate, how many stations will it pass in one hour?
18
1/2 divided by 8
What is 1/16?
True or False
If you are optimistic, you don't inspire hope.
What is FALSE?
Should you read the questions before reading the passage.
True or False
What is TRUE?
325 • 94 =
What is 30,550?
After eating 25% of the jelly beans, Brett had 72 left. How many jelly beans did Brett have originally?
96
Terse most nearly means
(a) abrupt
(b) long
(c) unlimited
What is abrupt?
In our solar system, there are four inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. These are relatively small compared to the outer planets, which are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The asteroid belt separates inner planets from outer planets.
What is the purpose of this passage?
a. To describe the inner planets
b. To compare planetary sizes
c. To locate the asteroid belt
d. To describe our solar system
What is D?
True or False:
1 mile =1,760 yds/ 5,280 feet
What is true?
72 people wear prescription glasses out of a total of 216. What fraction of them wear prescription glasses?
What is 1/3?
A bag contains 8 white, 4 red, 7 green, and 5 blue marbles. Eight marbles are withdrawn at random. How many of the withdrawn marbles are white if the chance of drawing a white marble is now 1 in 4?
(Hint: probability question)
4
The ______ rumors about the secret mission created a lot of unnecessary tension among the soldiers.
What is ALLEGATION?
No one has ever traveled to the center of the earth, and yet, because of seismology, we know what lies there. Vibrations travel differently through liquids than solids. This fact led seismologists to deduce that a liquid mass surrounds the earth’s solid core. Except for this molten mass, most of inner earth is solid.
What is this passage’s main idea?
a. Seismology tells us what the
earth is made of.
b. We can’t get to the earth’s core.
c. The earth’s core is solid.
d. Most of the earth is solid.
What is A?
21.792 / .96
What is 22.7?
Over a year, Carol lost 18 earrings, which was 6/7 of all she used to have. How many did she used to have?
What is 21?
3 minus 1 5/12
What is 1 7/12?
Private Lewis was _____ at first, but soon gained confidence in his abilities as training progressed.
What is HESITANT?
The engine of an automobile powers the turning of its wheels. When a mixture of gasoline and air explode inside a compressed space (cylinder), it pushes a piston away. This push begins a chain reaction. The piston pushes a rod, the rod turns a crank, and so on until the axel turns the wheels.
What is the author’s tone?
a. Informational
b. Humorous
c. Dramatic
d. Lively
What is A?
15 times 25 times 2
What is 750?
June's weekly salary is $70 less than Kelly's, which is $50 more than Eileen's. If Eileen earns $280 per week, how much does does June earn per week?
$260
2 hours 20 mins = how many mins?
What is 140 mins?
The instructor can demonstrate her way of algebra but it doesn’t elicit a response from the trainee.
Define the two vocab words and give a synonym for each.
demonstrate- to show or explain how something works: illustrate, exhibit, display, indicate, show
Elicit- evoke or draw out response: induce, draw out, cause, excite, call forth
Weight and mass are related but are not synonyms. Here’s an analogy to illustrate. Imagine you have teleported to the moon. Your mass did not change, but your weight did. On the moon, there is less gravity to pull on your mass, making you weigh less.
What can you infer from this
passage?
a. Mass and weight are the same
thing.
b. A change in gravity changes
your weight.
c. Gravity pulls harder on the
moon.
d. Teleportation is possible.
What is B?
400,020,054
– 72,029,065
What is 327,990,989