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1.A large city is hiring painters to create murals around the city. Each painter can
paint 2 large murals a day or 7 small murals a day. If the city needs 24 large murals
and 98 small murals painted in a 2 day time period, how many painters will be
needed? - ANSWER 13
2. Dave has a 30% off coupon for a pair of jeans priced at $78.95. He will also
have to pay 6% sales tax and a 1% local option tax at the register. How much will
he have to pay for the jeans? - ANSWER $59.13
3. Corey is dropping off his dry cleaning. If Corey has 12 lbs of dark clothes & 4
lbs of whites, what is the ratio of pounds of dark clothes to pounds of white? -
ANSWER 3:1
4. A model boat travels at 20 cm per second. How many meters will the boat travel
in 2 minutes? - ANSWER 24 Meters
5. Heather wants to purchase a pet from her local pet store. The pet store is
offering 50% off rare exotic parrots. The original purchase price of a parrot is
$956.50. Heather has a coupon for 10% off her entire purchase. How much will
she pay if she also purchases a birdcage for $47.05? - ANSWER $472.77
6. Rachel's phone company limits her monthly data usage to 3 gigabytes. She has
already used 2,645 megabytes. How many gigabytes of data does she have left this
month? - ANSWER 0.355
7. Tom saves $750 a year. Bill saves $60 a month. How much more does Tom save
a year than Bill? - ANSWER 60
,8. If an airplane flies at an average speed of 7.5 miles per minute, in 1 1/2 hours it
will have flown - ANSWER 675
9. A carpenter uses 12 nails for each board. If there are 48 nails in a pound, how
many pounds would be used for 100 boards? - ANSWER 48
10. A boy has 10 cookies. His sister has 2.5 times as many. How many does the
sister have? - ANSWER 25
11. A used car costs $2,200 cash, or $600 down and $100 a month for 20 months.
How much money do you save by paying cash? - ANSWER 400
12.At 8 AM the temperature was 3 degrees below zero. By 9 AM the temperature
had gone up 6 degrees, but by 10 AM it had gone down again 4 degrees. What was
the temperature at 10 AM? - ANSWER -1
13. A plane left Atlanta at 4:50 and arrived at Boston in 3 hours and 15 minutes.
When did it arrive in Boston? - ANSWER 8:05
14. During a sale, 20-cent candy bars were sold at 3 for 50 cents. How much is
saved on 9 bars? - ANSWER $0.30
15. It is 90 ft from home plate to first base on a baseball diamond. How long will it
take a batter to reach first base if the batter runs at a rate of 15 ft/sec? - ANSWER
6 seconds
16. Mick Jagger is a man who measures up to the role. He is continually in the
center. All questions and answers are conveyed to and through him. If he is not
directly in the heart of a discussion, people automatically fill him in on what is
being said. Without any noticeable ceremony, doors are opened for him. People let
him walk in front of them. Not just because he's a star, but because Jagger has this
notion about himself which has a powerful impact on every moment of his life;
that he is special.
Which of the following statements is true, according to the passage? - ANSWER
Jagger slips in and out of his 'star' role
17. Halfway houses are special community residences in which individuals are
participating, decision-making residents. Most residents of these increasingly
common facilities use them as a transition point between their stay in a mental
hospital and their return home; they usually leave within a year.
,In this way, halfway houses: - ANSWER Save patients the effort and worry of
making decisions.
18. Studies have shown that the amount of income people earn is directly related to
the amount of education they have received, with the higher level of education, the
higher the average annual income. For this reason education, though it cannot
solve the immediate needs of employment, housing, medical care, and legal advice,
is essential in solving the long-range problem of poverty.
According to this paragraph, which one of the following statements is true? -
ANSWER There is a direct relationship between amount of education and income.
19. One of the most important areas of learning is the continual development of
attitudes. Emotional reactions as well as logical thought processes effectively
change the behavior of most people throughout the course of their lives.
The burnt child fears the fire is just one example that points to the fact that
attitudes stem from: - ANSWER Logic
20.Just as two colors will, when carefully mixed, form a third and different color
(yellow and blue, for example, produce green), so too it is sometimes possible to
see in the cooperative efforts of living things a resultant accomplishment that
defies description on the basis of the characteristics of the creatures involved. A
description of the traits and performances of the individual members of a hive of
honeybees or a championship athletic team hardly serves to describe the results of
their joint efforts.
Which of the following sentences best describes this paragraph? - ANSWER The
race goes to the swift.
21. It is easy to distinguish between education and propaganda. The former aims at
independence of judgment the latter supplies ready-made judgments for the
unthinking. Education is a slow process of development, but propaganda aims at
quick responses. One strives to produce individual responsibility and an open mind
while the other, using mass effects, strives to produce a closed one. - ANSWER
education tells people what to think and propaganda teaches them how to think
22. If a doctor gives 100 patients who complain of pain a simple sugar pill, he can
be sure that 33 of them will feel better. Pain experts have known for a long time
that people who respond to placebos also get more relief from narcotics than do
those who don't show the 'placebo effect'. Now research is being done to determine
whether the placebo response is all in the head or whether the inert pills have
, physical effects after all. - ANSWER Placebos may have more than just
psychological effects
23. Irked meaning - ANSWER Annoyed
24. Savory Meaning - ANSWER Tasty
25. Pillar meaning - ANSWER Column
26. Utter meaning - ANSWER Complete
27. Periodic meaning - ANSWER Recurring
28. Inhabit meaning - ANSWER Live in
29. Quartet meaning - ANSWER Group
30. Vouch meaning - ANSWER Uncover
31. Oppose meaning - ANSWER Resist
32. Perimeter meaning - ANSWER Measure of volume
33. Prognosis meaning - ANSWER Disease
34. Sinister meaning - ANSWER Evil
35. Strict meaning - ANSWER Liberal
36. Debris - ANSWER Litter
37.Obliterate meaning - ANSWER Scatter
38. Simulated meaning - ANSWER Imitation
39. Gruff meaning - ANSWER Harsh
40. Hurdle meaning - ANSWER Obstacle
41. Evict meaning - ANSWER Expel