ASVAB - Arithmetic Reasoning Questions & Answers Solved 100%

A radar is designed to report the track of an aircraft every second. If this radar reports 30 tracks in one minute, what percentage of the time did the radar track the aircraft? A. 3% B. 30% C. 40% D. 50% - Answer 50% *A woman is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office twice the area of her current office. If the perimeter of her current office is 88 feet, how many square feet is the new office? A. 176 sq ft. B. 352 sq. ft. C. 968 sq. ft. D. 1,200 sq. ft. - Answer 88ft/4 22ft x 22=484 484ft is the current office twice the size of her current office 484ft x 2= 968 ft *if the perimeter of a square garden is 84 feet, what is the area of the garden A. 21 sq ft B. 84 sq ft C. 336 sq ft D. 441 sq ft - Answer - square has 4 sides - 84/4= 21 - Area of a square= a^2 - 21^2= 441 sq ft if the ratio of sides of two square is 3:1, what is the ratio of their perimeters A. 3:1 B. 4:1 C. 9:1 D. 12:1 - Answer 3:1 The price of salmon at a fish market is 5.40 per pound. This is 150% its cost at a supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket? A. $3.20 B. $3.60 C. $4.20 D. $4.40 - Answer $3.60 A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level ground. If it goes 120 mph downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land? A. 1/2 hour B. 2/3 hour C. 1-1/2 hours D 2 hours - Answer speed uphill=120/2=60 speed level=3/2 * uphill=90 speed downhill=120 on flat land, d=45=90*t t=1/2 hr Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, with each side measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5 units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box? A. 10 units B. 12 units C. 16 units D. 18 units - Answer Solve for x 50x = 2(400) 50x = 800 x = 16 The height for Box2 is 16 units. The area of a triangle is 32 square centimeters and its height is 8 centimeters. Find its base. a. 8 b. 5 c. 6 d. 2 - Answer The formula for the area of a triangle is A = 1/2 bh. Plug the known values into the formula and solve for the base: 32 = 1/2 b(8) 32 = 8b/2 32 = 4b 32/4 = 4b/4 8 = b *Before being painted, a concrete play area was marked off into squares and then into triangles. For the square shown, what is the area of the triangular part labeled XYZ? A. 16 sq ft B. 24 sq ft C. 32 sq ft D. 64 sq ft - Answer 32 sq ft There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and randomly takes one marble. What is the probability pf that child getting a green marble? a. .40 b. .66 c. .25 d. 30 - Answer .40 If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old? a. 1.25% b. 125% c. 25% - Answer 125% A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. A second press can print 15,000 copies in 60 mins. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press print? a. 3000 b. 50 c. 100 d. 40 - Answer 50 copies per min Debra and Ian shared in a 1,000,000$ estate. If Ian received 125,000, and Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive? A. 1/8 B. 5/8 C. 3/4 D. 4/5 E. 7/8 - Answer 7/8 *Jerry walked a dog from 6:40am to 7:30am one day. If he was paid at the rate of 6$ per hour, how much did he earn that day? A. $4.50 B. $5.00 C. $5.40 D. $5.90 E. $6.60 - Answer $5 6:40 am to 7:30am 50minutes 60 mintes in an hour 60x= 50. $6 60x=300 x= $5 How many feet of chain fence are necessary to enclose a dog pen that is square and has an area of 64 square feet? A. 256 B. 64 C. 32 D. 16 - Answer 32 64 square feet√64= 88x4= 32