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ASVAB/PICAT ARITHMETIC REASONING EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: Jerry walked a dog from 6:40am to 7:30pm one day. If he was paid at the rate of 6$ per hour, how much did he earn that day?
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$5 Question 2: Debra and Ian shared in a 1,000,000$ estate. If Ian received 125,000, and Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive?
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7/8 Question 3: 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?
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1/2 hrs
Question 4: Perimeter of a garden is 84, what is the area?
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441
Question 5: A women 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?
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968 sq ft Question 6: 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?
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16 Question 7: 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?
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50 Question 8: Each August, a restaurant's rent is adjusted to the cost of living index. The rent has been 1,550 a month, and the cost of living index for this August was 3.7%. What is the new rent per month?
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1,607.35
Question 9: 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?
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.66 Question 10: 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?
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3.60
Question 11: How many feet of chain fence are necessary to enclose a dog pen that is square an has an area of 64 square feet?
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32 Question 12: The pet store had six puppies selling for 104 each and twelve kittens selling for 24 each. Today, only two puppies and eight kittens were left. In dollar terms, what was the ratio of sales of puppies to kittens?
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13:3
Question 13: 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?
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50% Question 14: 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?
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32 sq ft Question 15: If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old?
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125%