ASVAB EXAM NEWEST EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS

ASVAB EXAM NEWEST EXAM COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level ground. If it goes 120 mph downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land? - ANSWER -1/2 hour speed uphill=120/2=60 speed level=3/2 * uphill=90 speed downhill=120 on flat land, d=45=90*t t=1/2 hr Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, with each side measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5 units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box? - ANSWER -16 units There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and randomly takes one marble. What is the probability of that child getting a green marble? - ANSWER -1/15 or .66 of a chance If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old? - ANSWER -125% A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. A second press can print 15,000 in 60 minutes, How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press? - ANSWER -3,000 Before being painted, a concrete play area was marked off into squares and then into triangles. For the square shown, what is the area of the triangular part labeled XYZ? - ANSWER -32 square feet Five people, each working 8 hours a day can assemble 400 toys in a 5 day work week. what is the average number of toys assembled per hour per person? - ANSWER -16 (used choices to determine that 5*16= 80, and 80 toys per day for 5 days= 400) If a 5-foot post casts an 8-foot shadow at the same time that a nearby tree casts a 48 foot shadow, how tall is the tree? - ANSWER -30 feet Emphasize most nearly means - ANSWER -accentuate Inept most nearly means - ANSWER -bungling Adage most nearly means - ANSWER -proverb Admonition most nearly means - ANSWER -approval Embody most nearly means - ANSWER -exemplify Peruse most nearly means - ANSWER -study Contentious most nearly means - ANSWER -quarrelsome Cajole most nearly means - ANSWER -wheedle Decry most nearly means - ANSWER -disparage Unpretentious most nearly means - ANSWER -Simple Construe most nearly means - ANSWER -Interpret Erratically most nearly means - ANSWER -outrageously "Devout" most nearly means? - ANSWER -Pious your heart's mitral valve does an awfully big job. letting blood from the left atrium of the heart into the left ventricle without loosing a drop is one of the toughest tasks in the circulatory system. in fact, if the system was suddenly opened at that point. the force of the valve closing would send blood five feet in the air. in the passage the author purpose is to: - ANSWER -Convince readers of the stress on the mitral valve Riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to visit America's largest national park -- Wrangell-St. Elias -- 13 million acres of scenic beauty. Copper first drew prospectors to this part of Alaska. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennicott mine produced 200 million tons of it. Now a mecca for tourist, the town of Kennicott was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out. According to the passage, which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of events? - ANSWER -copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourist attraction Physicists seek out those features of nature that are simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of finding ANSWERs as it is asking the right questions. The trick is keeping the questions simple and sticking to universal phenomena. Simple questions can be ANSWERed unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by logical thinking. Water droplets forming on the inside of a cold windshield is an example of - ANSWER Condensation Any astronomical body that revolves around a larger body is called? - ANSWER -a satellite In chemistry, to be classified as an organic substance, a substance my contain - ANSWER -carbon atoms Which element does NOT contain any neutrons? A. Iron B. Carbon C. Oxygen D. Hydrogen - ANSWER -Hydrogen The chemical formula of a compound describes the elements the compound contains and the - ANSWER -ratio of elements in the compound Which of the following questions is most clearly an example of the kind discussed in the paragraph? - ANSWER -How fast do stones of particular size fall? An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune system malfunctions and marshals up an army of antibodies to fight these substances. For many allergies, this malfunction causes a large amount of histamine to flood into the bloodstream. It is overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing.