PICAT UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of its cost at a
supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket? - ✔✔$3.60
✔✔A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. second press can print 15,000
copies in 60 minutes. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than
the slower press? - ✔✔50
✔✔If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population
was what percent of the old? - ✔✔125%
✔✔Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If lan received $125.000, and Debra
the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive? - ✔✔7/8
✔✔Emphasize most neary means - ✔✔Accentuate
✔✔We will long remember our PERILOUS journey - ✔✔Hazardous
✔✔INEPT most nearly means - ✔✔Bungling
✔✔ADAGE most nearly means - ✔✔Proverb
✔✔ADMONITION most nearly means - ✔✔Warning
✔✔DECRY most nearly means - ✔✔Disparage
✔✔MORATORIUM most nearly means - ✔✔Suspension
✔✔CAJOLE most nearly means - ✔✔Wheedle
✔✔Most companies have a policy against NEPOTISM - ✔✔Hiring Relatives
✔✔CONTENTIOUS most nearly means - ✔✔Quarrelsome
✔✔UNPRETENTIOUS most nearly means - ✔✔Simple
✔✔BROACH most nearly means - ✔✔Mention
✔✔COMMUNIQUE most nearly means - ✔✔Message
✔✔VIRULENT most nearly means - ✔✔Abrasive
, ✔✔LAMBASTE most nearly means - ✔✔Chastise
✔✔What are the two main gases that make up stars? - ✔✔Hydrogen and helium
✔✔Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How
much is the smaller income? - ✔✔$13,000
✔✔Shawn purchased a shirt for $22.05 If this includes a 5% sales tax, what was the
actual price of the shirt? - ✔✔$20.95
✔✔PRESTIGE most nearly means - ✔✔Status
✔✔CONSTRUE most nearly means - ✔✔Interpret
✔✔Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered
the White House. His press conferences served writers, and through them the nation,
about the complex, novel measures he was advocating. It can be inferred from the
passage that Roosevelt - ✔✔was a president who recognized the power of the press.
✔✔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 tourists, 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? - ✔✔copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town
abandoned, tourist attraction
✔✔Physicists seek out those features of nature that are finding answers as it is asking
the right questions. The trick is simple and universal. The secret of their success is not
so much a matter of 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. - ✔✔How fast do stones of a particular size fall?
✔✔system malfunctions and marshals up an army of causes a large amount of
histamine to flood An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially
harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune antibodies to fight these
substances. For many allergies, this malfunction into the bloodstream. It is the
overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes,
and sneezing. The passage states all of the following about allergies EXCEPT -
✔✔medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to
certain substances.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of its cost at a
supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket? - ✔✔$3.60
✔✔A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. second press can print 15,000
copies in 60 minutes. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than
the slower press? - ✔✔50
✔✔If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population
was what percent of the old? - ✔✔125%
✔✔Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If lan received $125.000, and Debra
the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive? - ✔✔7/8
✔✔Emphasize most neary means - ✔✔Accentuate
✔✔We will long remember our PERILOUS journey - ✔✔Hazardous
✔✔INEPT most nearly means - ✔✔Bungling
✔✔ADAGE most nearly means - ✔✔Proverb
✔✔ADMONITION most nearly means - ✔✔Warning
✔✔DECRY most nearly means - ✔✔Disparage
✔✔MORATORIUM most nearly means - ✔✔Suspension
✔✔CAJOLE most nearly means - ✔✔Wheedle
✔✔Most companies have a policy against NEPOTISM - ✔✔Hiring Relatives
✔✔CONTENTIOUS most nearly means - ✔✔Quarrelsome
✔✔UNPRETENTIOUS most nearly means - ✔✔Simple
✔✔BROACH most nearly means - ✔✔Mention
✔✔COMMUNIQUE most nearly means - ✔✔Message
✔✔VIRULENT most nearly means - ✔✔Abrasive
, ✔✔LAMBASTE most nearly means - ✔✔Chastise
✔✔What are the two main gases that make up stars? - ✔✔Hydrogen and helium
✔✔Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How
much is the smaller income? - ✔✔$13,000
✔✔Shawn purchased a shirt for $22.05 If this includes a 5% sales tax, what was the
actual price of the shirt? - ✔✔$20.95
✔✔PRESTIGE most nearly means - ✔✔Status
✔✔CONSTRUE most nearly means - ✔✔Interpret
✔✔Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered
the White House. His press conferences served writers, and through them the nation,
about the complex, novel measures he was advocating. It can be inferred from the
passage that Roosevelt - ✔✔was a president who recognized the power of the press.
✔✔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 tourists, 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? - ✔✔copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town
abandoned, tourist attraction
✔✔Physicists seek out those features of nature that are finding answers as it is asking
the right questions. The trick is simple and universal. The secret of their success is not
so much a matter of 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. - ✔✔How fast do stones of a particular size fall?
✔✔system malfunctions and marshals up an army of causes a large amount of
histamine to flood An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially
harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune antibodies to fight these
substances. For many allergies, this malfunction into the bloodstream. It is the
overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes,
and sneezing. The passage states all of the following about allergies EXCEPT -
✔✔medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to
certain substances.
