ASVAB MATHEMATICS KNOWLEDGE TEST

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ASVAB MATHEMATICS KNOWLEDGE TEST

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Question 1: What is the value of this expression:

• 60
• 17
• 13
• 11

Answer:

The correct answer is (C) 13. You need to add the 25 and 144 first, and then take the square root. The square root of 169 is 13.Question 2: Line l passes through the point (-1, 2). Which of the following CANNOT be the equation of line l?

• y = 1 - x
• y = x + 1

C .x = -1

• y = x + 3

Answer:

The correct answer is (B) y = x +

• The slope-intercept form of a line is y = mx +
• Since the line passes through (-1,2), there are three possibilities: the line will have a slope (the "m" in

front of the "x" variable), it will be vertical (x = -1), or it will be horizontal (y = 2). Plug x = -1 into all four equations to see which equation is not satisfied. The only answer choice that doesn't give us y = 2 is (B).

Question 3: If 511 = 52 x 5m, what is the value of m?

• 3

B. 5.5

• 9

D. 12.5

Answer:

The correct answer is (C) 9. When multiplying two powers with the same base, you can always add the exponents. This means that 11 = 2 + m, so m = 9.Question 4: There are two pizza ovens in a restaurant. Oven 1 burns three times as many pizzas as oven

• If the restaurant had a total of 12 burnt pizzas on Saturday, how many pizzas did oven 2

burn?

• 3
• 6
• 9
• 12

Answer:

The correct answer is (A)

• Begin by setting up a system of equations to represent the situation, letting x represent oven 1 and y

represent oven 2.x = 3y and x + y = 12

Substituting the first equation into the second:

3y + y = 12 so y = 3.

Question 5: 2 - 8 ÷ (24 ÷

2) =

• -6

B. -¾

• 1
• 2

Answer:

The correct answer is (C)

1. Remember your order of operations:

Complete operations within parentheses first.Calculate exponents.Then multiply and divide in order from left to right.Then add and subtract in order from left to right.

2 - 8 ÷ (24 ÷

2) =

2 - 8 ÷ (16 ÷

2) =

2 - 8 ÷ 8 =

2 - 1 =

1

Question 6: If (3.2 + 3.3 + 3.5)w = w, then what is the value of w?

• 0

B. 1/10

• 1
• 10

Answer:

The correct answer is (A) 0. First add up the three numbers that are in parentheses: 10w = w 10w = w will only be true when w = 0.

Question 7: Blair's average (arithmetic mean) on two physics tests is 7. What should Blair's score be on the next test to have an overall average of 8 for all the tests?

• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10

Answer:

The correct answer is (D) 10. The arithmetic mean is defined as the sum of the terms divided by the number of terms.

• = sum / 2

14 = sum Adding the next test's score will change the average to an 8, and the total terms to 3.

• = (14 + new score) / 3

24 = 14 + new score 10 = new score Question 8: If XY = YZ, and angle Y measures 90 degrees in the figure above, which of the following CANNOT be concluded?

• a = b
• XZ < XY
• a + b = 90

D. XZ2 = XY2 + YZ2

Question 12 Explanation:

Answer:

The correct answer is (B) XZ < XY. Here we are looking for the choice that is NOT true. Since the triangle is isosceles (XY = YZ), then a = b = 45. This means that a + b = 90. (A) and (C) must be true.For all right triangles, the Pythagorean Theorem applies, so (D) is also true. (B) is the correct answer because it is not true that XZ < XY. In a right triangle, the hypotenuse is always the longest side.