Patterson arithmetic reasoning AFOQT exam questions and answers.

An athlete jogs 15 laps around a circular track. If the total distance jogged is 3 kilometers, what is the distance around the track? 200 meters The floor area in an Air Force warehouse measures 200 feet by 200 feet. What is the maximum safe floor load if the maximum weight the floor area can hold is 4,000 tons? 200 pounds per square foot A crate containing a tool weighs 12 pounds. If the tool weighs 9 pounds, 9 ounces, how much does the crate weigh? 2 pounds, 7 ounces Assume that the United States Mint produces one million nickels a month. The total value of the nickels produced during a year is: $600,000 In order to check on a shipment of 500 articles, a sampling of 50 articles was carefully inspected. Of the sample, 4 articles were found to be defective. On this basis, what is the probable percentage of defective articles in the original shipment? 8% There are 20 cigarettes in one pack and 10 packs of cigarettes in a carton. A certain brand of cigarette contains 12 mg of tar per cigarette. How many grams of tar are contained in one carton of these cigarettes? (1 gram = 1,000 milligrams) 2.4 grams Assume that it takes an average of 3 man-hours to stack 1 ton of a particular item. In order to stack 36 tons of that item in 6 hours, the number of persons required is: 18 Two office workers have been assigned to address 750 envelopes. One addresses twice as many envelopes per hour as the other. If it takes 5 hours for them to complete the job, what was the rate of the slower worker? 50 envelopes per hour A room measuring 15 feet wide, 25 feet long, and 12 feet high is scheduled to be painted shortly. If there are two windows in the room, each 7 feet by 5 feet, and a glass door, 6 feet by 4 feet, then the area of wall space to be painted measures: 866 square feet A pound carton of margarine contains four equal sticks of margarine. The wrapper of each stick has markings that indicate how to divide the stick into eight sections, each section measuring one tablespoon. If a recipe calls for four tablespoons of margarine, the amount to use is: 1/4 lb The price of a $100 item after successive discounts of 10% and 15% is: $76.50 A certain governmental agency had a budget last year of $1,100,500. Its budget this year was 7% higher than that of last year. The budget for next year is 8% higher than this year's budget. Which of the following is the agency's approximate budget next year? 1,271,700 The length of a rectangle is 4 times its width. If the area of the rectangle is 324 square feet, the dimensions of the rectangle are: 9 feet × 36 feet. On a scaled drawing of an office building floor, 1/2 inch represents 3 feet of actual floor dimension. A floor, which is actually 75 feet wide and 132 feet long, would have which of the following dimensions on the scaled drawing? 12.5 inches wide and 22 inches long If the weight of water is 62.4 pounds per cubic foot, the weight of the water that fills a rectangular container that is 6 inches by 6 inches by 1 foot is: 15.6 pounds. If there are red, green, and yellow marbles in a jar and 20% of these marbles are either red or green, what are the chances of blindly picking a yellow marble out of the jar? 4 out of 5 An Air Force recruiting station enlisted 560 people. Of these, 25% were under 20 years old and 35% were 20 to 22 years old. How many of the recruits were over 22 years old? 224 A passenger airplane can carry two tons of cargo. A freight airplane can carry six tons of cargo. If an equal number of both kinds of airplanes are used to ship 160 tons of cargo and each airplane carries its maximum cargo load, how many tons of cargo are shipped on the passenger airplanes? 40 tons The area of a square is 36 square inches. If the side of this square is doubled, the area of the new square will be: 144 sq in When 550 gallons of oil are added to an oil tank that is 1/8 full, the tank becomes 1/2 full. The capacity of the oil tank is most nearly: 1,470 gallons. If an aircraft is traveling at 630 miles per hour, how many miles does it cover in 1,200 seconds? 210 miles If your watch gains 20 minutes per day, and you set it to the correct time at 7:00 a.m., the correct time when the watch indicates 1:00 p.m. is: 12:55 p.m. It takes a runner 9 seconds to run a distance of 132 feet. What is the runner's speed in miles per hour? (5,280 feet equal 1 mile) 10