ASVAB

1. 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: 50%

2. A certain bag of potting soil is 1/4 peat moss, and the rest is dirt. What part is dirt

Answer: ¾

3. An airplane is at 32,000 feet above sea level and descend at an average rate of 1,000 feet per minute. How many minutes will it take for the airplane to land at an airport 3000 feet above sea level?

Answer: 29

4. A child is 2-1/2 feet tall. The child's mother is twice as tall as the child. How tall is the child's mother?

Answer: 5 feet

5. If postage costs are 22 cents for the first ounce and 17 cents for each additional ounce, what is the cost of postage for a letter weighing 3 ounces?

Answer: $0.56

6. If a cyclist travels at an average rate of 24 miles per day, how many days will it take the cyclist to travel 600 miles?

Answer: 25

7. A sweater originally priced at $80 was marked down by 25%. What was the sale price of the sweater?

Answer: $60

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

Answer: 103

9. Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How much is the smaller income?

Answer: $13,000

10. If a baker doubles a recipe that calls for 6-2/3 cups of flour, how many cups of flour will be needed in all?

Answer: 13-1/3

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

Answer: 1/16

12. 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: 6

13. An electronic store had a 20% off sale. If a stereo originally cost $125, how much did the stereo cost during the sale?

Answer: $100

14. 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 assembling per hour per person?

Answer: 2

15. One-eighth of the class graduated with an average of an A, 1/2 got a B, and the rest of the class had a C average. In a class of 800, how many had a C average?

Answer: 300

16. Jerry walked a dog from 6:40 am to 7:30 am one day. If he was paid at the rate of $6 per hour, how much did he earn that day?

Answer: $5

18. A woman is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office wice 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: 968 sq ft

19. How many feet of chain fence are necessary to enclose a dog pen that is square and has an area of 64 square feet?

Answer: 32

20. If the perimeter of a square garden is 84 feet, what is the area of the garden?

Answer: 441 sq ft

21. The pet store had 6 puppies selling for $104 each and 12 kittens selling for $24 each. Today, only 2 puppies and 8 kittens were left. In dollar terms, what was the ratio of sales of puppies to kittens?

Answer: 13 to 3

22. Before being painter, 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

Answer: 32 sq ft

24. A pie was cut into two equal pieces. Each of the pieces of pie was cut into halves again, and each of those smaller pieces was cut into two equal pieces. If two of the pieces of the pie are eaten, what portion of the pie remains?

Answer: 3/4

25. The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of its cost at a supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket?

Answer: $3.60

26. How many monthly payments must be made to repay an interest-free loan of $1,540 if monthly payments are $55 each?

Answer: 28

27. 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?

Answer: 16 units

28. 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 of that child getting green marble?

Answer: .40

29. If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old?

Answer: 125%

30. If a package of corn chips weighs 1.2 ounces, what is the weight, in ounces, of 48 packages?

Answer: 57.6

31. 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 miles per hour downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land?

Answer: ½ hour

32. 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: 30 feet

33. A stereo can be purchased on the installment plan with a down payment of $35.00 and then 15 payments of $22.50 each. If there is no sales tax, how much will the stereo cost if purchased on the installment plan?

Answer: $372.50

WORD KNOWLEDGE

1. MISSING QUESTION ONE (SORRY)

2. We will long remember our perilous journey.

Answer: HAZARDOUS

3. Complexity most nearly means.

Answer: INTRICACY

4. Prestige most nearly means.

Answer: STATUS

5. Oppressive most nearly means.

Answer: TYRANNICAL

6. Fervently most nearly means.

Answer: PASSIONATELY

7. Inept most nearly means.

Answer: BUNGLING

8. Devout most nearly means.

Answer: PIOUS

9. Void most nearly means.

Answer: EMPTY

10. They consoled each other after the incident.

Answer: SOLACED

11. Erratically most nearly means.

Answer: IRREGULARLY

12. Nurture most nearly means

Answer: CULTIVATE

13. I’m pleased you want to condemn his behavior.

Answer: DISAPPROVE STRONGLY

14. Projectile most nearly means.

Answer: MISSILE

15. inaugurate most nearly means.

Answer: INDUCT

16. Quarantine most nearly means

Answer: Isolate

17. Blemish most nearly means

Answer: Defect

18. Fervently most nearly means

Answer: Passionately

PARAGRAPH COMPREHENSION

1. Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered the White House. His press conferences served to educate newspaper writers, and through them the nation, about the complex, novel measures he was advocating.