ASVAB Arithmetic Reasoning Practice Test 433534 Results

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Questions 5 5
Correct 0 3.16
Score 0% 63%

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1

Solve for \( \frac{2!}{3!} \)

67% Answer Correctly
210
\( \frac{1}{20} \)
7
\( \frac{1}{3} \)

Solution

A factorial is the product of an integer and all the positive integers below it. To solve a fraction featuring factorials, expand the factorials and cancel out like numbers:

\( \frac{2!}{3!} \)
\( \frac{2 \times 1}{3 \times 2 \times 1} \)
\( \frac{1}{3} \)
\( \frac{1}{3} \)


2

On average, the center for a basketball team hits 30% of his shots while a guard on the same team hits 40% of his shots. If the guard takes 20 shots during a game, how many shots will the center have to take to score as many points as the guard assuming each shot is worth the same number of points?

42% Answer Correctly
27
32
16
19

Solution
If the guard hits 40% of his shots and takes 20 shots he'll make:

guard shots made = shots taken x \( \frac{\text{% made}}{100} \) = 20 x \( \frac{40}{100} \) = \( \frac{40 x 20}{100} \) = \( \frac{800}{100} \) = 8 shots

The center makes 30% of his shots so he'll have to take:

shots made = shots taken x \( \frac{\text{% made}}{100} \)
shots taken = \( \frac{\text{shots taken}}{\frac{\text{% made}}{100}} \)

to make as many shots as the guard. Plugging in values for the center gives us:

center shots taken = \( \frac{8}{\frac{30}{100}} \) = 8 x \( \frac{100}{30} \) = \( \frac{8 x 100}{30} \) = \( \frac{800}{30} \) = 27 shots

to make the same number of shots as the guard and thus score the same number of points.


3

How many 8-passenger vans will it take to drive all 76 members of the football team to an away game?

81% Answer Correctly
5 vans
4 vans
10 vans
12 vans

Solution

Calculate the number of vans needed by dividing the number of people that need transported by the capacity of one van:

vans = \( \frac{76}{8} \) = 9\(\frac{1}{2}\)

So, it will take 9 full vans and one partially full van to transport the entire team making a total of 10 vans.


4

What is \( \frac{3}{5} \) ÷ \( \frac{2}{8} \)?

68% Answer Correctly
2\(\frac{2}{5}\)
\(\frac{9}{64}\)
\(\frac{4}{63}\)
12

Solution

To divide fractions, invert the second fraction and then multiply:

\( \frac{3}{5} \) ÷ \( \frac{2}{8} \) = \( \frac{3}{5} \) x \( \frac{8}{2} \)

To multiply fractions, multiply the numerators together and then multiply the denominators together:

\( \frac{3}{5} \) x \( \frac{8}{2} \) = \( \frac{3 x 8}{5 x 2} \) = \( \frac{24}{10} \) = 2\(\frac{2}{5}\)


5

If all of a roofing company's 8 workers are required to staff 2 roofing crews, how many workers need to be added during the busy season in order to send 7 complete crews out on jobs?

55% Answer Correctly
13
19
1
20

Solution

In order to find how many additional workers are needed to staff the extra crews you first need to calculate how many workers are on a crew. There are 8 workers at the company now and that's enough to staff 2 crews so there are \( \frac{8}{2} \) = 4 workers on a crew. 7 crews are needed for the busy season which, at 4 workers per crew, means that the roofing company will need 7 x 4 = 28 total workers to staff the crews during the busy season. The company already employs 8 workers so they need to add 28 - 8 = 20 new staff for the busy season.