ASVAB 2 - Math

Dinner at a nice restaurant cost $35.98. If Joan gave the cashier $40.00, how much change should she get back?. $5.02. $4.02. $3.92. $1.02.

A balloonist circumnavigated the globe in 13 days, 12 hours, 16 minutes, and 13 seconds. A plane circumnavigates the globe in 4 days, 10 hours, 15 minutes, and 7 seconds. How much longer did it take for the balloon to go around the world?. 12 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, and 35 seconds. 9 days, 2 hours, 1 minute, and 6 seconds. 8 days, 14 hours, 16 minutes, and 6 seconds. 9 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes, and 20 seconds.

Darlene bought 12 boxes of cookies for $48.00. What was the cost of each box of cookies?. $4.00. $0.48. $0.40. $4.80.

A tune-up increases a car's fuel efficiency by 5%. If a car averaged 20 miles per gallon before the tune-up, how many miles per gallon will it average after the tune-up?. 25. 22. 20. 21.

If you pay $22.90 for a DVD that includes a 7% sales tax, what is the price of the DVD before the sales tax?. $21.40. $21.30. $21.50. $20.95.

A bin of hard candy holds 1012 pounds. How many 34 pound boxes of candy can be filled from the bin. 30 boxes. 1514 boxes. 778 boxes. 14 boxes.

A patio measures 12 feet by 14 feet. How many 8-inch-square paving stones are needed to pave the patio?. 21. 252. 32. 168.

A computer programmer is making $25,000 per year. 28% of her salary is withheld for federal and state deductions. How much is the computer programmer's net pay?. $20,000. $7,000. $18,750. $18,000.

Pam cuts a pie in half in a straight line. She then cuts a line from the center to the edge, creating a 55-degree angle. What's the supplement of that angle?. 55 degrees. 125 degrees. 70 degrees. 130 degrees.

A stack of lumber is 6-feet high. If each piece of lumber is 4-inches thick, how many pieces of lumber are in the stack?. 72. 12. 18. 10.

A baker sells a dozen donuts for $3.99. The cost to make three donuts is $0.45. How much is the total profit on 5-dozen donuts?. $17.70. $13.20. $2.19. $10.95.

Your piggy bank contains $19.75 in dimes and quarters. There are 100 coins in all. How many dimes are there?. 25. 30. 35. 40.

A bricklayer charges $8 per square foot to lay a patio. How much would it cost for the bricklayer to lay a 12-foot ֳ— 16-foot patio?. $960. $192. $224. $1,536.

Terry earns three times more per hour than Tim. Tim earns $2 more per hour than Angie. As a group they earn $43 per hour. What's Angie's hourly wage?. $7.00. $8.00. $9.00. $10.00.

If 4 people can run 8 machines, how many machines can 2 people run?. 2. 4. 1. 3.

The price of daily admission at an amusement park is $36. The park sells an unlimited season pass for $240. How many trips would you need to make with the season ticket in order for it to cost less than paying the daily admission rate?. 6. 7. 8. 9.

A plumber needs four lengths of pipe, each 3-feet, 6-inches long. Pipes are sold by the foot. How many feet does he need to buy?. 15. 16. 14. 12.

The product of two consecutive odd numbers is 399. What are the numbers?. 17 and 19. 19 and 21. 21 and 23. 25 and 27.

A personal trainer earns a 65% commission on her training sales. If she sells $530.00 worth of training, how much commission does she make?. $874.50. $34.45. $344.50. $185.50.

A rectangle is one inch longer than it is wide. Its diameter is five inches. What's the width of the rectangle?. 2 inches. 3 inches. 4 inches. 5 inches.

A treasure map is drawn to a scale of 2 inches = 3 miles. On the map, the distance between Point A and X-marks-the-spot is 9 / inches. How many actual miles does this represent?. 28 / miles. 14 / miles. 6 / miles. 19 miles.

A painter has painted a picture on a piece of canvas that measures 10 ֳ— 14 inches. In order to accommodate a frame, he has left an unpainted margin of 1 inch all the way around. What part of the canvas has been painted?. 80%. 75%. 25%. 66%.

A dog trainer is building a dog run that measures 9 ֳ— 16 feet. If she wants to fence the perimeter of the run, how many feet of chain link fence will she need?. 144 feet. 25 feet. 32 feet. 50 feet.

A rectangle is 1 - times as long as it is wide. The perimeter of the rectangle is 100 inches. What's the length of the rectangle?. 20 inches. 30 inches. 40 inches. 45 inches.

Miguel passed seven of his history class quizzes and failed three. The fraction of quizzes he passed is correctly expressed as __________. 73. 37. 710. 35.

A 3-yard-long ribbon was used to trim four dresses. Each dress used the same amount of ribbon. How much ribbon was used for each dress?. 1 yard. 23 yard. 12 yard. 34 yard.

Sarah found a wallet containing $500 in the street. She returned the wallet to its owner, who gave her a $30 reward. What percentage of the $500 was the reward?. 5%. 6%. 7%. 4%.

A bin of bolts at the hardware store contains 7-dozen bolts when full. The stock clerk is supposed to reorder bolts when the bin is 1ג„6 full. How many bolts are in the bin when it's time to reorder?. 14 bolts. 1 bolt. 84 bolts. 12 bolts.

Two bicyclists head toward each other from the opposite ends of Main Street, which is six miles long. The first biker started at 2:05 going 12 mph. The second biker began peddling 4 minutes later at a rate of 14 mph. What time will they meet?. 2:13. 2:24. 2:29. 2:34.

A recipe calls for 8 ounces of black beans or red beans. The cheapest option to buy and use would be __________. two 4-ounce cans of black beans at $0.79 each. one 8-ounce can of red beans at $1.49. two 3-ounce cans of black beans at $0.59 each. three 3-ounce cans of red beans at $0.65 each.

A street vendor sells $25.70 worth of pretzels on Friday, $32.30 on Saturday, and $31.80 on Sunday. He spends a fourth of the money over the weekend. How much money does he have left?. $89.80. $22.45. $44.90. $67.35.

A recruit has $30.00. He saw some camouflage socks for $3.95 a pair. How many pairs of socks can he buy?. 9. 7. 6. 4.

A crate containing a puppy weighs 60 pounds, 5 ounces. The puppy weighs 43 pounds, 7 ounces. How much does the crate alone weigh?. 16 pounds, 8 ounces. 16 pounds, 2 ounces. 17 pounds. 16 pounds, 14 ounces.

In a manufacturing plant that produces new computers, a 0.15 probability exists that a computer will be defective. If five computers are manufactured, what's the probability that all of them will be defective?. 7.6. 0.60. 0.00042. 0.000076.

A house contains one 12-foot ֳ— 14-foot bedroom, one 12-foot ֳ— 10-foot bedroom, and one 8-foot ֳ— 12-foot bedroom. What's the total amount of carpeting needed to carpet all three bedrooms?. 384 square yards. 128 square yards. 216 square yards. 88 square yards.

Rafael can type 9 pages an hour. How long will it take him to type 126 pages?. 14 hours. 9 hours. 7 hours. 16 hours.

In a 60-minute gym class, 40 girls want to play volleyball, but only 10 can play at a time. For each player to get the same amount of playing time, how many minutes should each person play?. 1 / minutes. 6 minutes. 30 minutes. 15 minutes.

The video-rental store charges $2.00 for the first day a rented video is overdue and $1.25 for each day after that. If a person paid $8.25 in late fees, how many days was the video overdue?. 7 days. 6 days. 4 days. 5 days.

Janet is trying to watch her weight. A 1ג„2 cup of pudding has 150 calories. The same amount of broccoli has 60 calories. How much broccoli can Janet eat to equal the same number of calories in the 1ג„2 cup of pudding?. 2 cups. 3 cups. 1 cup. 4 cups.

The neighbor's dog barks at a squirrel every 15 minutes at night. If he first barks at 10 p.m., when you're trying to fall asleep, how many times will he bark by 2 a.m., when you give up trying to sleep and decide to read a book instead?. 16 times. 132 times. 17 times. 15 times.

If a barber is capable of cutting the hair of 35 people per day, and he works 7 days per week, how many haircuts could he give during the months of April, May, and June?. 3185. 3150. 2545. 2555.

If you typed 45 words per minute, how many words would you be able to type in 12 minutes?. 490. 540. 605. 615.

Tom is flying a kite at the end of a 500-foot string. His friend Kathy is standing directly under the kite 300 feet away from Tom. How high is the kite flying?. 300 feet. 350 feet. 400 feet. 450 feet.

Amy wants to fence in a yard using 400 feet of fencing. If she wants the yard to be 30-feet wide, how long will it be?. 170 feet. 175 feet. 180 feet. 185 feet.

A three-digit code must be used to access a computer file. The first digit must be an A or a B. The second digit must be a number between 0 and 9. The final digit is a single letter from the alphabet from A to Z. How many possible access codes can there be?. 38. 468. 520. 640.

The sun is 93 million miles from Earth and light travels at a rate of 186,000 miles per second. How long does it take for light from the sun to reach the Earth?. 5 minutes. 6 minutes. 7 minutes. 8 minutes.

A tanning-bed pass for unlimited tanning costs $53 per month this year, but it was only $50 per month last year. What was the percentage of increase?. 5%. 5.5%. 6%. 6.5%.

Eleven plus forty-one is divided by a number. If the result is 13, what's the number?. 2. 4. 6. 8.

Mark received an hourly wage of $9.25. His boss gave him a 4% raise. How much does Mark make per hour now?. $9.29. $9.62. $9.89. $9.99.

How many pounds of nails costing $7 per pound must be mixed with 6 pounds of nails costing $3 per pound to yield a mixture costing $4 per pound?. 2 pounds. 2.5 pounds. 3 pounds. 3.5 pounds.