PICAT AR QUESTIONS EXAM QUESTIONS

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PICAT AR QUESTIONS EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: A pizza is cut into 8 equal pieces. A person who eats 1/2 of one piece eats what fraction of the pizza ?

Answer:

1/2 * 8 = 1/16

Question 2: If a 5-foot post casts an 8-foot shadow at the same time that a nearby tree casts a 48-foot shadow, how tall is the tree ?

Answer:

8ft/5ft = 48ft/x 8x = 240 x = 30 Question 3: How many 5-pound bags of apples can be made from 400 apples, each weighing 1/4 pound ?

Answer:

400 apples * 1/4 pound / 1 apple = 100 pound 100 pound / 5 pound = 20 Question 4: 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 ?

Answer:

30/60 = .5

Percentage (multiply by 100) = .5 * 100 = 50%

Question 5: Terry earns a $250 salary plus $5 per sale. How many sales must Terry make to earn $765 altogether ?

Answer:

$765 - $250 = $515

$515 / 5

Sales = $103 Question 6: Five people, each working 8 hours a day, can assemble 400 toys in a 5-day work week. What is the average number of toys per person ?

Answer:

400/5 = 80

8 * 5 =40

(80/40) Divide by 40 = 2/1 = 2 Question 7: A gas can is filled at the rate of 320 cubic inches per minute. The can is 10 inches long, 8 inches wide, and 12 inches high. How many minutes will it take to fill the can ?

Answer:

• Volume = l

w h ) Volume of a Can = 10 8 12 = 960 cubic inches Volume of the Can & Rate at which gas is filled = 960 / 320 = 3 minutes Question 8: 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 ?

Answer:

• Perimeter = 4a)
• Area = length^2)

4a = 88 Divide 88 by 4 = 22 Area of the current office = A^2 = 22^2 = 484 sq ft.Are of the new office = 2 * 484 = 968 sq ft.

Question 9: Perimeter of a square garden is 84, what is the area ?

Answer:

• Perimeter of a square = 4s )
• Area = length^2)

4s = 84 Divide 84 by 4 = 21 Area of a square = 21^2 = 441 sq ft.Question 10: 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 ?

Answer:

6/60 = x/50 60x = 300 Divide 300 by 60 x = 5 Question 11: A homeowner plans to hang wallpaper on one wall of a bedroom that is 10 feet long. If a strip of wallpaper is 20 INCHES wide and strips are hung vertically, how many strips of wallpaper will the homeowner require ?

Answer:

< Note that 10ft = 10 * 12 = 120 inches > " Convert feet to inches, because 1ft = 12in" 20n = 120 Divide 120 by 20 = 6 stripes