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1. You are working for a florist that specializes in weddings. You are preparing the flower arrangement
orders for three weddings this weekend. The three weddings ordered 120 arrangements, 85
arrangements and 46 arrangements. How many flower arrangements must you prepare?
A. 131
B. 159
C. 205
D. 166
E. 251
2. A librarian needs to package up all of the children's books and move them to a different location in
the library. There are 625 books, and she can fit 25 books in one box. How many boxes does she need in
order to move all of the books?
A. 5
B. 25
C. 125
D. 600
E. 650
3. A high school student earns $65 for mowing one customer's lawn. If he mows 13 lawns in one week,
how much money will he earn for that week?
A. $5
B. $52
C. $78
D. $845
E. $1,365
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4. An assembly line can make 150 turbines per day. At this rate, how many turbines can be produced in
a 5-day work week?
A. 30
B. 145
C. 155
D. 750
E. 1, 505
5. A small family-owned business sets aside $2,000 to be used for holiday bonuses. If there are 8
employees and the owners give the same amount of money to each employee, how much does each
employee receive?
A. $25
B. $200
C. $250
D. $1,992
E. $16,000
6. On Monday, Sam has a collection of 88 MP3s on his MP3 player. He downloads another 22 MP3s
throughout the week. How many MP3s does he have by the end of the week?
A. 4
B. 22
C. 66
D. 88
E. 110
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7. As an employee of a summer sports camp, one of your jobs is to prepare the tank of vitamin water
for use throughout the day. The mixture calls for 75% pure water and 25% concentrated vitamin drink.
How many gallons of water should you add to 16 gallons of concentrated vitamin drink?
A. 4
B. 5.3
C. 12
D. 16
E. 48
8. You work as a grounds keeper for a small local elementary school and must fertilize the grass on the
entire campus. You know that 4 containers cover 60 square yards. If the campus has 2,000 square yards
of grass area, how many containers of fertilizer will you need?
A. 15
B. 3313
C. 13313
D. 2,000
E. 8,000
9. You are working as a cashier at a computer supply store. School is starting soon, so the state is
hosting a sales tax-free weekend today and tomorrow. A customer buys one flash drive for $14.90 and a
power strip for $12.50. If the customer hands you two $20 bills, how much will you give him back in
change?
A. $27.50
B. $25.10
C. $12.60
D. $27.40
E. $67.40
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10. You work as a salesperson for a company that makes high-end gym equipment. You just closed a
sale with someone looking to remodel a gym; her order of treadmills, ellipticals, exercise bikes, and
other equipment totaled $33,000. You earn a commission of 20% on every sale you make. How much
commission do you make on this sale?
A. $660
B. $2,000
C. $6,600
D. $8,250
E. $26,400
11. At the end of the day, a local bakery sold 83 cakes and had to throw out 7 cakes due to baking
errors. Each cake cost the bakery $6.25 to make. The bakery, in turn, sold each cake for $12.75. What
was the total profit earned by the bakery today?
A. $406.50
B. $452.00
C. $495.75
D. $539.50
E. $585.00
12. You work as a mechanic in an auto repair shop. The vehicle you are working on needs a new air
brake hose, and the specifications indicate that the hose must have an inner diameter no larger than 12inch. Which of the following inner diameter measurements represents a hose that you can use in this
vehicle?
A. 1332 inch
B. 916 inch
C. 58 inch
D. 34 inch
E. 78 inch
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13. An attic exhaust fan is designed to start when its sensors detect a temperature of 35°C. All of your
thermometers provide readings using the Fahrenheit scale (°F). What is the equivalent Fahrenheit
reading for the point at which the exhaust fan turns on?
A. 95°F
B. 86°F
C. 68.8°F
D. 31°F
E. 1.66°F
14. You work for a pet trainer who has asked you to create a rectangular pen for dog training purposes.
You will use chicken coop wire to construct the sides of the pen. The pen is supposed to be 42.6 feet
long and 28.5 feet wide. How many feet of chicken coop wire are needed to form the pen?
A. 71.1
B. 99.6
C. 113.7
D. 142.2
E. 1,214.1
15. You are the conductor of a freight train. Your overnight route requires you to haul cargo to a depot
264 miles away. If you can travel an average speed of 55 miles per hour, how long will it take the train to
reach the depot?
A. 48 minutes
B. 2 hours 24 minutes
C. 4 hours
D. 4 hours 24 minutes
E. 4 hours 48 minutes
16. You work as an office assistant who does data entry for a large survey company. Data entry is
performed in two-person teams: one person types and the other checks that person's work for errors.
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Each two-person team, on average, can enter the data of 520 surveys per day. A huge collection of 7,540
surveys will arrive tomorrow and must be entered by the end of the day. In order to enter all of the
survey data, how many total employees, working in two-person teams, must work tomorrow?
A. 14
B. 15
C. 28
D. 29
E. 30
17. You are a landscaper working on the design of a parking lot in a new shopping center. You are
measuring the length of a grass median that will be exactly as long as four parking spots and their
dividing lines. One of these spots is a handicapped spot, which is 10116 feet wide and next to the curb.
The other three spots are 838 feet wide. There are four dividing lines between the spots, and each
measures 12 foot. What is the length of the grass median, D?
A. 2718
B. 28316
C. 35316
D. 37316
E. 4714
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18. For your sports equipment store, you purchase a case containing 24 canisters of tennis balls for $60.
You in turn charge $4 for each canister. How much is the price of each case of tennis balls marked up?
A. 37.5%
B. 40%
C. 60%
D. 62.5%
E. 100%
19. You are the head of marketing for a company that is expanding overseas. You have a 210 page
employee manual that must be translated into Chinese for the new offices. The company We Translate
for You charges $2.75 per page for translation. Their competitor, Translationary, charges $2.35 per page
and a $6.25 administrative fee per project. What is the least amount of money you will have to spend to
translate the manual?
A. $493.50
B. $499.75
C. $577.50
D. $583.75
E. $487.25
20. As the head of fulfillment for an electronics factory, you are in charge of organizing the production
schedule to fill orders. An order just came in for 1,525 radio consoles to be delivered in 5 weeks. Your
assembly line can produce 9 consoles per hour. You put aside 15% of the consoles produced to build
inventory for other orders, but the rest are used to fill this large order. Over the next five weeks, what is
the fewest number of hours per week needed to produce enough radio consoles to fill this order?
A. 30
B. 40
C. 50
D. 34
E. 200
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21. You work for a deck and patio contractor and have been contracted to build a 4-foot-wide stone
walkway around a circular pool. See the diagram below.
Diagram of pool with 30 foot diameter:
All estimates are made by rounding material dimensions up to the next full unit. The stone tiles for the
walkway cost $12.00 per square yard. What is the estimated total cost of the stone needed, rounded up
to the nearest dollar? Use 3.14 for π.
A. $58
B. $564
C. $576
D. $948
E. $5,136
22. You work for a carpet cleaning service and must shampoo the carpet in the small banquet room of a
local hotel. The dimensions of the room are 200 feet by 180 feet. Each bottle of carpet shampoo can be
used to shampoo 320 square feet of carpet. How many bottles of shampoo do you need to complete the
job?
A. 3
B. 12
C. 57
D. 112
E. 113
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23. You work as a residential painter. A customer wants two tables and eight chairs painted using one
coat of the same color paint. Each table requires 158 quarts of paint, and each chair requires 23 quarts
of paint. How many total quarts of paint should you bring to paint this furniture?
A. 62324
B. 8712
C. 513
D. 314
E. 3911
24. You are the head seamstress at a boutique that specializes in making prom dresses. You are
supervising the construction of a new style of dress that will take 180 hours of work to complete.
Twenty percent of this time is for beading. Thirty-five percent of this time is for adding ruffles. The
remaining time is divided equally between embroidery and sewing. When pricing this style, hourly labor
and material costs are $40 for beading, $35 for ruffles, $20 for embroidery, and $18 for sewing. The
dress is then sold in the showroom for 25% more than the cost of labor and materials. How much will
this dress sell for in the boutique?
A. $1,296
B. $3,723.75
C. $4,680
D. $5,184
E. $6,480
25. You work for a company that manufactures large tarps used for groundcover. An order was placed
for a rectangular tarp that will be made up of 8 strips of fabric. Each strip is 26 inches wide and 634 feet
long. What is the area of the finished tarp in square yards? Round your answer to the nearest
hundredth.
A. 563.56
C. 0.03
B. 1,221.04
D. 2.52
E. 3.03
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26. You are the owner of a toy store and are preparing to make a donation to a local children's hospital.
You must prepare 320 teddy bears to include in your donation. Your associate can prepare 8 teddy bears
an hour and uses 34 a yard of ribbon in doing so. She needs you to buy the ribbon, but the craft store
only sells ribbon in feet. How many feet of ribbon are needed?
A. 90
B. 10
C. 720
D. 1,080
E. 2,743.2
27. You work for a waste removal company. The trailer of one of your dump trucks is 10 feet wide, 15
feet long, and 6.5 feet high. If a ton of debris equals 200 cubic feet, how many trucks are needed to cart
away 45 tons of debris from a demolition site?
A. 9
B. 10
C. 60
D. 93
E. 139
28. You work at the front desk of a luxury hotel. Guests staying at the hotel have two options for
accessing the hotel's wireless internet. The first involves a charge of $25 a day plus ten cents for every
minute connected to the network. The second is a flat fee of $60 per day with unlimited access. How
many hours would a guest who is staying at the hotel for three days need to spend on the internet
during that time to save money by using the second option?
A. 0.175
B. 1.75
C. 17
D. 17.5
E. 25.83
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29. You have been hired to build a small enclosed garden for a customer. Based on a do-it-yourself
guide from a gardening magazine, you need the following materials:
• Four 8 ft. × 6 in. × 6 in. wooden beams
• Two bags of fertilizer
• Twelve bags of potting soil
• One watering hose
The beams cost $15.00 per cubic foot, one bag of potting soil costs $12.25, one bag of fertilizer costs
$21.50, and the watering hose costs $55.00. Sales tax is 5.5%. What is the total cost, including tax, of the
materials needed to build the garden?
A. $220.23
B. $321.78
C. $327.05
D. $365.00
E. $385.08
30. You work in the shipping department of an organic food company and need to calculate the net
weight of a jar of raspberry preserves. The jar is a cylinder. It has an inside diameter of 1.5 inches and an
inside height of 4.75 inches. The raspberry preserves weigh 0.53 ounces per cubic inch. Diagram of a
cylinder labeled Raspberry Preserves:
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What is the net weight, rounded to the nearest hundredth, of the jar of raspberry preserves?
A. 1.42
B. 4.45
C. 8.39
D. 199.12
E. 44.75
31. You are the manager of a home improvement store and are running a tailgating promotion for the
start of football season. You are creating a display advertising how a football fan can tailgate with a
specific generator that has four 120-volt outlets and total amperage of 20. Which of the following
combinations of items can you advertise using all at once with this generator?
Crock pot: 360 watts
Blender: 600 watts
Television: 240 watts
Food processor: 1,150 watts
Mini fridge: 90 watts
Space heater: 1,500 watts
Coffee maker: 600 watts
A. Crock pot, blender, coffee maker, and food processor
B. Television, coffee maker, food processor, and space heater
C. Food processor, space heater, and blender
D. Crock pot, blender, space heater, and mini fridge
E. Space heater, crock pot, television, and mini fridge
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32. You work in the kitchen at a summer camp and must make a batch of sports drink for the campers
on a hot day. You mix the drink in a container with sides measuring 1 foot by 1.5 feet by 3 feet. After
filling the container with water, you must add two scoops of drink mix for each gallon of water. How
many scoops of drink mix are needed to make a full batch, rounded to the nearest scoop?
A. 9
B. 45
C. 68
D. 15,552
E. 33.66
33. You are comparing prices at two local storage vendors. Rent-A-Space charges a monthly fee of 22
cents per cubic foot, plus 5.5% sales tax. Store-Ur-Stuff charges a monthly fee of 25 cents per cubic foot,
plus 5.5% sales tax, and offers a 4% discount (applied to the pre-tax cost) if the bill is paid prior to the
first of the month. Assuming you pay the bill prior to the first of the month, how many cents per cubic
foot are you going to save by using the less expensive company? Round your answer to the nearest
hundredth of a cent.
A. 3.17 cents
B. 3.00 cents
C. 2.17 cents
D. 2.11 cents
E. 2.00 cents
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