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1: If a car is towed 12 miles to the repair shop, and the tow charge is $3.50 per mile, how much did the tow cost? A. $12.00 B. $3.50 C. $42.00 D. $100.00 - ANSWER - 42 2: The sum of two numbers is 70. One number is 8 more than the other. What's the smaller number? A. 31 B. 33 C. 35 D. 36 - ANSWER - 31 3: A sales manager buys antacid in bottles by the gross. If he goes through 3 bottles of antacid every day, how long will the gross last? A. 144 days B. 3 days C. 20 days...

If a car travels 1/100 of a kilometer each second, how many kilometers does it travel in an hour? (a) 36 (b) 60 (c) 72 (d) 100 - ANSWER - (a) 36 Find the number of seconds in an hour and then multiply this by the distance the car is traveling each second. There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minute in one hour; therefore, there are 60 x 60, or 3,600, seconds in an hour. In one second the car travels 1/100 kilometers; in one hour the car will travel 3,600 x 1/100 or 36 kilometers. ...

From 1980 through 1990, the population of country X increased by 100%. From 1990 to 2000, the population increased by 50%. What was the combined increase for the period ? - ANSWER - 200% If a worker earns $200 for the first 40 hours of work in a week and then is paid one-and-one half times her regular rate for any additional hours, how many hours must she work to make $230 in a week? - ANSWER - 44 If 50% of x is 150, what is 75% of x? - ANSWER - 225 The total fare for two adults and thr...

The shaded region of the design shown is to be painted red. what is the area, in square units, of the shaded region? A. 121.5 B. 80 C. 120 D. 50 - ANSWER - A. 121.5 sales tax of 5% of $22.05 - ANSWER - $21 without sales tax If the ratio of the sides of two squares is 3:1, what is the ratio of their perimeters? A. 3:1 B. 4:1 C. 9:1 D. 12:1 - ANSWER - B. 4:1 What is the cost of mailing a package that weighs 2 pounds 3 ounces, if the cost is $1.50 plus 0.05 for each ounce over 6 ou...

A student finishes the first half of an exam in 2/3 the time it takes him to finish the second half. If the entire exam takes him an hour, how many minutes does he spend on the first half of the exam? (a) 20 (b) s4 (c) 27 (d) 36 - ANSWER - (b) 24 The time it takes to complete the entire exam is the sum of the time spent on the first half of the exam and the time spent on the second half. The time spent on the first half is 2/3 of the time spent on he second half. If (S) represents the t...

A person who has a heart attack can be saved 90% of the time if a defibrillator is used within 5 minutes of the heart attack. Of the people that have heart attacks, defibrillators are within the vicinity 40% of the time; however, they are only used 60% of the time even when they are in the surrounding area. How many people who suffer a heart attack are saved because of the use of a defibrillator? - ANSWER - .9*.4; .6*.36 = .216 A paint company mixes it's paint with water to create more pai...

A treasure map is drawn to a scale of 2 inches = 3 miles. On the map, the distance between Point A and X-marks-the-spot is 9 1/2 inches. How many actual miles does this represent. - ANSWER - A. 281/2 miles B. 141/4 miles C. 61/3 miles D. 19 miles (B) If 2 inches = 3 miles, then 1 inch equals 11⁄2 miles: 3 ÷ 2 = 1.5. Multiply 11⁄2 miles × 91⁄2 inches to determine the actual distance: 1.5 × 9.5 = 14.25 or 141⁄4 miles. Miguel passed seven of his history-class quizzes and failed ...

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? A. 10 units B. 12 units C. 16 units D. 18 units - ANSWER - Solve for x 50x = 2(400) 50x = 800 x = 16 The height for Box2 is 16 units. The area of a triangle is 32 square centimeters and its height...

Terri has a jar of orange, blue, green, and red chocolate candies. In the jar are 75 orange candies, 62 blue candies, and 52 green candies. If there is a total of 252 candies in the jar, what is the probability that Terri will pick a red candy? - ANSWER - To solve this problem, first find the number of red candies in the jar by adding the numbers of all the other candies together, then subtracting from the total. 75 orange + 62 blue + 52 green = 189 candies 252 - 189 = 63 red candies Probabili...

Essential Parts of any Contract - ANSWER - - Scope of project - Start and completion dates, milestones - Type of payment, amount of payment, and how often - Waiving of consequential damage - indirect problems caused by architect negligence - Cap on how much the architect can owe the owner for damages (Owner may try to get architect to pay for damages) Agency relationships - ANSWER - Architect may act as agent to the owner Employees may act for a firm Architect's independent consultan...