ASVAB Arithmetic Reasoning Practice Test 480827 Results

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1

How many hours does it take a car to travel 390 miles at an average speed of 65 miles per hour?

85% Answer Correctly
8 hours
7 hours
6 hours
3 hours

Solution

Average speed in miles per hour is the number of miles traveled divided by the number of hours:

speed = \( \frac{\text{distance}}{\text{time}} \)

Solving for time:

time = \( \frac{\text{distance}}{\text{speed}} \)
time = \( \frac{390mi}{65mph} \)
6 hours


2

How many 14-passenger vans will it take to drive all 76 members of the football team to an away game?

80% Answer Correctly
14 vans
11 vans
4 vans
6 vans

Solution

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

vans = \( \frac{76}{14} \) = 5\(\frac{3}{7}\)

So, it will take 5 full vans and one partially full van to transport the entire team making a total of 6 vans.


3

If all of a roofing company's 8 workers are required to staff 4 roofing crews, how many workers need to be added during the busy season in order to send 9 complete crews out on jobs?

55% Answer Correctly
2
12
10
7

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 4 crews so there are \( \frac{8}{4} \) = 2 workers on a crew. 9 crews are needed for the busy season which, at 2 workers per crew, means that the roofing company will need 9 x 2 = 18 total workers to staff the crews during the busy season. The company already employs 8 workers so they need to add 18 - 8 = 10 new staff for the busy season.


4

What is 5c6 x 3c7?

75% Answer Correctly
15c42
15c13
15c
15c6

Solution

To multiply terms with exponents, the base of both exponents must be the same. In this case they are so multiply the coefficients and add the exponents:

5c6 x 3c7
(5 x 3)c(6 + 7)
15c13


5

The total water usage for a city is 50,000 gallons each day. Of that total, 29% is for personal use and 44% is for industrial use. How many more gallons of water each day is consumed for industrial use over personal use?

58% Answer Correctly
12,000
9,600
1,550
7,500

Solution

44% of the water consumption is industrial use and 29% is personal use so (44% - 29%) = 15% more water is used for industrial purposes. 50,000 gallons are consumed daily so industry consumes \( \frac{15}{100} \) x 50,000 gallons = 7,500 gallons.