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HESI A2 MATH PRACTICE TEST
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-Guarantee passing score -50 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: A nurse working at a medical clinic earns $17.81 per hour. The nurse works three 8-hour shifts and one 12-hour shift every week, and is paid weekly. Weekly deductions are: federal tax $120.80, state tax $24.58, federal insurance $18.12, and family health insurance $52.15. What is the nurse's take-home pay each week?
Answer:
$443.50
Question 2: Convert the following military time to regular time: 15:17:52 hours
Answer:
3:17:52 PM
Question 3: Convert 26° Celsius to Fahrenheit.
Answer:
78.8 F
Question 4: Add: 1.332 + 0.067
Answer:
1.399
Question 5: An inpatient received a certain dosage of a drug on Wednesday. The dosage was decreased by 20% on Thursday. If the patient received 464 milligrams of the drug on Thursday, what was the dosage received on Wednesday? Round your answer to the nearest milligram.
Answer:
580 mg Question 6: Subtract: 8,674.5-998.9 =
Answer:
7,675.6
Question 7: Express the improper fraction 8/17 as a whole number with decimal. Round to the nearest tenth.
Answer:
11.6 Question 8: There are 6,657 marbles in a jar. Approximately 34% are white, and the rest are black. How many black marbles are there?
Answer:
4,394 Question 9: Add: 2 1/8 + 1 5/9
Answer:
3 49/72
Question 10: Divide: 223 ÷ 65 =
Answer:
3.4
Question 11: What is 70% of 65?
Answer:
45.5 Question 12: At our hospital, 11 out of the 15 nursing staff are LPNs. How could this be represented as a decimal? (If rounding is necessary, round to the nearest hundredth.)
Answer:
0.73
Question 13: Dosing instructions for a prescription oral pain medicine call for 0.4 milligrams per kilogram of body weight 2 times per day. If a patient is taking a total dosage of 44.8 msg/day, what is the patients weight in kilograms?
Answer:
56 kg Question 14: Sandy consumes 13,300 calories over the course of 7 days. How many calories does she consume each day on average?
Answer:
1,900
Question 15: What is the boiling point of water?
Answer:
100°C
Question 16: Subtract: 2/3 - 3/7
Answer:
5/21 Question 17: Multiply: 5/8 x 2/9 =
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5/36 Question 18: At a comic book store, Robert purchased three comics for $2.65 each. If he paid with a $20 bill, how much change did he receive?
Answer:
$12.05
Question 19: What is 3/16 of 8/9?
Answer:
1/6 Question 20: Joe makes $20 an hour and Tim makes $30 an hour. How many hours more than Tim must Joe work to earn the same amount Tim makes in 4 hours?
Answer:
2
Question 21: A rat can finish a maze in about 3 minutes. If a small backpack is put on the rat so it reduces its speed by 50%, how much longer will it take the rat to finish the maze?
Answer:
- minutes
Question 22: A patient is receiving pain relief via a 1000 ml IV bag solution. When the patient has received 300 ml of the IV solution, they have received 2.1 mg of morphine. How many milligrams of morphine were contained in the original 1000 ml IV bag?
Answer:
7.0 mg Question 23: Divide: 4.6 / 0.3 =
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15.3 Question 24: For a recipe, there are 3 eggs needed for every pound of cake needed. How many pounds of cake can be made if there are 40 eggs?
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13 Question 25: A 0.75% NaCl (Sodium Chloride) solution contains 0.75 mg of NaCl per 100 ml of solution. How many milligrams of NaCl would be contained in 3 liters of the solution? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a milligram.
Answer:
22.5 mg Question 26: Subtract: 1001-99=
Answer:
902 Question 27: Subtract: 5 2/7 - 3 5/6