If you run for 4 hours at 8 miles an hour and walk 8 hours at 2 miles an hour, how far will you have gone
at the end of 12 hours? - Answers 48 Miles
If a plane can climb at 2,400 feet per minute, how many minutes are needed to climb to 60,000 feet? -
Answers 25
A grocer bought 70 cans of corn. She sold 10 cans that day and 15 cans the next day. How many did she
have left? - Answers 45
It takes 15 minutes to fill a 375-gallon tank with oil. How many gallons are pumped into the tank in 1
minute? - Answers 25
On the average, 1 1/3 bushels of seed are needed to plant 1 acre of wheat. How many bushels of seed
would be required to plant 30 acres? - Answers 40
A plane flies at a speed of 300 miles per hour. How many miles does it fly in 5 hours - Answers 300/5
A restaurant that can hold 300 people is divided into 20 equal parts. How many people can be put in
each section? - Answers 15
Tom saves $750 a year. Bill saves $60 a month. How much more does Tom save a year than Bill? -
Answers 60
If an airplane flies at an average speed of 7.5 miles per minute, in 1 1/2 hours it will have flown -
Answers 675
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? - Answers 48
A boy has 10 cookies. His sister has 2.5 times as many. How many does the sister have? - Answers 25
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? - Answers 400
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? - Answers -1
A plane left Atlanta at 4:50 and arrived at Boston in 3 hours and 15 minutes. When did it arrive in
Boston? - Answers 8:05
During a sale, 20-cent candy bars were sold at 3 for 50 cents. How much is saved on 9 bars? - Answers
$0.30
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? - Answers 6 seconds
, 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? - Answers Jagger slips in and out of
his 'star' role
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: - Answers Save patients the effort and worry of making decisions.
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? - Answers There is a direct
relationship between amount of education and income.
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: -
Answers Logic
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? - Answers The race goes to the swift.
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. - Answers
education tells people what to think and propaganda teaches them how to think