Basic Operations
You work as a meter reader. One of the houses you check has a solar panel, so sometimes its meter can fluctuate. The meter started the year at 2,500. In January, it went down 150. In February, it went up 350. What does the meter read now?
A. 2,000 B. 2,650 C. 2,700 D. 3,000 E. 3,300
C. 2,700
Convert 17/50 to a decimal.
A. -33 B. 0.17 C. 0.25 D. 0.34 E. 2.94
D. 0.34
Convert 95/200 to a percentage.
A. 0.475% B. 4.75% C. 47.5% D. 95% E. 200%
C. 47.5%
You work for a furniture company where you build custom bed frames. It takes you 4.5 hours to build a single custom bed frame. At this rate, how many hours will it take you to build 8 custom bed frames?
A. 34 B. 36 C. 38 D. 40 E. 42
B. 36
You are working as a gardener. The perimeter of a garden has sides that are 5 ft, 4 ft, 6 ft, and 7 ft. If you want to build a fence all the way around the garden, how many feet of fencing do you need?
A. 9 B. 15 C. 19 D. 22 E. 26
D. 22
You are on a road trip, and so far you have driven 100 miles. Your friend Kyle has driven twice as many miles as you have. How many miles, in total, have the two of you driven on your road trip?
A. 100 B. 200 C. 300 D. 400 E. 600
C. 300
You work in a men's fashion store. Today you sold 19 ties. Of the ties you sold, 3 of them were blue. What fraction of the ties you sold were blue?
A. 16/21 B. 16/19 C. 3/19 D. 3/21 E. 19/3
C. 3/19
You are opening an ice cream shop. The new equipment and ice cream for the shop will cost $6,000. The supplier requires a down payment of 25% of the total cost at the time of purchase. What is the balance you will owe after making the down payment?
A. $4,500 B. $5,000 C. $5,200 D. $5,300 E. $5,500
A. $4,500
As a baker, you know that you need 9 cups of sugar for every 4 cakes that you bake. How many cups of sugar do you need for baking 20 cakes?
A. 39 B. 41 C. 42 D. 43 E. 45
E. 45
You are swimming laps along the edges of a large rectangular pool. The length of the longer side is 60 ft and the length of the shorter side is 35 ft. What is the distance, in feet, of one lap around the entire pool?
A. 25 B. 95 C. 180 D. 190 E. 200
D. 190
A farmer plants apple trees on a 235-acre farm. There are 47,000 apple trees evenly dispersed throughout the farm. How many apple trees are there on each acre of land?
A. 190 B. 200 C. 210 D. 340 E. 350
B. 200
You are a football coach. Your team needs 11 players on the field to be able to start the game. So far, 7 players have shown up. What fraction of necessary players are present on the field?
A. 7/11 B. 4/11 C. 7/18 D. 4/18 E. 11/7
A. 7/11
You are a runner. You want to run for 180 minutes this morning. So far, you have run for 36 minutes. What percentage of the time that you want to run have you completed today?
A. 2.7% B. 9% C. 12.8% D. 20% E. 54%
D. 20%
On average, a writer produces 80 words per minute. At this rate, how long would it take them to write 3,600 words?
A. 30 mins B. 45 mins C. 55 min D. 1 hr 15 mins E. 1 hr 20 mins
B. 45 mins
You are a carpenter and building a toybox for a customer. The customer requests that the wooden box be 24.3 inches by 36.4 inches. How many inches long must your pieces of wood be to make the sides of the box to these specifications?
A. 118.3 B. 121.4 C. 122.8 D. 128.9 E. 134.5
B. 121.4
Conversion: At a construction site, a stack of bricks weighs 75 kilograms. How much does this stack weigh, in pounds?
A. 2.2 B. 75 C. 165 D. 200 E. 215
C. 165
You work in an electronic store. You earn a commission on every laptop you sell, which is equal to 2/19 the total cost of the laptop. You sell a laptop that costs $980. What is the amount, in dollars, of the commission you receive from selling this item?
A. 95.62 B. 98.83 C. 101.74 D. 103.16 E. 105.11
D. 103.16
You have a new smart phone. The total battery life on the phone is 14 hours. However, you currently have only 48% battery life remaining. How long has it been, in hours, since you charged your new phone?
A. 7.14 B. 7.2 C. 7.24 D. 7.28 E. 7.32
D. 7.28
You are driving your car. You know that you can travel 105 miles with 5 gallons of gas. How many miles can you travel on 8 gallons of gas?
A. 165 B. 168 C. 169 D. 171 E. 174
B. 168
You and Caroline both have rectangular garages, but yours is 3 times the size of Caroline's. If Caroline's garage is 10 ft by 18 ft, what is the area of your garage in square feet?
A. 31 B. 84 C. 168 D. 180 E. 540
E. 540
Conversion: You have a 30-amp power strip. The power source is 110 volts. Based on this, what is the maximum number of watts this system can produce?
A. 3,000 B. 3,1000 C. 3,200 D. 3,300 E. 3,400
D. 3,300
You are an inspector in a machine shop. It is your duty to inspect manufactured parts for precision. You are inspecting a part created from a six linked 1 1/2 inch middle pieces and two 6/7 inch end pieces. What is the total length of the part, in inches?
A. 10 5/7 B. 12 1/3 C. 14 1/7 D. 15 2/7 E. 16 5/7
A. 10 5/7
You are at a mega-buffet. You decide that you will try a bite of each of the 200 items in the buffet. It turns out that you only like 34% of the items you try. How many of the buffet items did you like?
A. 64 B. 66 C. 68 D. 70 E. 72
C. 68
You are in a hotdog-eating contest. In one minute, you can eat 5.9 hotdogs. At this rate, how many hotdogs can you eat in 10 minutes?
A. 0.59 B. 5.9 C. 59 D. 590 E. 5,900
C. 59
You are working for a landscaper. A new customer needs to have a 100-ft by 60-ft area of land seeded with grass. The grass seed you use comes in bags that can cover 250 square feet. How many bags of grass seed will you need to complete the project?
A. 14 B. 16 C. 17 D. 23 E. 24
E. 24