PICAT VERIFICATION REAL: ARITHMETIC REASONING

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PICAT VERIFICATION REAL: ARITHMETIC REASONING

PRACTICE AND DEFINITIONS EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: A music concert is 3 hours long. During the concert there is one 27-minute intermission.Approximately what percentage of the concert is the intermission?5% 10% 12% 15%

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15% Question 2: Sherlyn has a small rectangular garden plot that has a 24-foot perimeter.The width of the garden is exactly 1/2 of its length. What is the area of Sherlyn's garden in square feet?

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32 Question 3: A technician uses 12 (1/2) yards of copper wire to make coils for an experiment. If (5/6) of a yard of wire is needed for each soil, how many complete coils can the technician make?

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15

Question 4: a person walked the dog 2/3 of a mile on Thursday and 5/7 of a mile on Friday what total number of miles did the person walk the dog

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1 (8/21)

Question 5: A sweater design calls for the following balls of yarn: 10 white, 3 green, and 2 yellow. What percentage of the yarn is green?

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20% Question 6: A sold-out concert hall seated a total of 8,000 people. If there were 1,400 children and 5,000 men seated , what percentage of seats were occupied by women?

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20% Question 7: Bonus* : Two tanks each partially filled with 96 gallons of water. Tank A is 4 (5/4) and tank b is (2/3) full. What is the maximum amount of water that can be held in both tanks together?

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264 Question 8: If the perimeter of a small square garden is 120 inches, what is the length of each side?

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2.5ft Question 9: If an employee invest 5% of his pre-tax salary into a retirement plan, the compnay will macth 25% of that amount. How much will the company contribute to the plan if the employee earns $50,000 before taxes?

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625 Question 10: A friend gives a neighbor 13 2/3 feet of twine from a brand new spool, leaving 38 2/5 feet of twine on the spool. How many total feet of twine were originally on the spool?

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52 (1/15)

Question 11: At an airport, 25% of the flights arrive from within the state, 35% from out of state, and the rest from other countries. How many flights arrived from out of state, if a total of 240 flights arrived.

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84 Question 12: Of 1,240 people pulled 30% of them preferred wood rather than carpet for their home's interior flooring. Of the people who preferred carpet, 50% preferred the color beige, About how many people pulled preferred beige colored carpet?

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434 Question 13: Two brothers plan to mow lawns together. If one brother can mow 6 lawns in 1 hour, and the other brother can mow 12 lawns in 1 hour and 30 minutes, how many lawns can they mow altogether in 2 hours?

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18 Question 14: A poster is 18inches high and 24 inches long. It was made by enlarging a photograph that was 3 inches high. If the photo was proportionally enlarged how long was the original photograph?

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• inches