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Section 3: 6. A boy turned on his radio at 5:30 P.M. on

Quantitative Ability Friday night while he was packing for a
weekend trip. He forgot to switch it off, so it
Use scratch paper if needed to answer the following 50 played the whole time he was gone. The boy
questions. You have 45 minutes to complete this section. finally turned it off on Sunday night at 8:15
P.M. In total, how long was the radio playing?
1. What is the reciprocal of 3ᎏ45ᎏ? a. 1 day, 3 hours
a. ᎏ159ᎏ b. 1 day, 2 hours, 45 minutes
b. 19
ᎏᎏ c. 2 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes
5
d. 2 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes
c. 4ᎏ14ᎏ
35
d. ᎏᎏ
4 7. A patient receives 2ᎏ52ᎏ grams of medication over
24 hours. If she is given 4 equal doses of
2. What is the value of y when 12y + 17 = 161? medication over this time, how many grams
a. 8.76 of medication are in each dose?
b. 12 a. ᎏ11ᎏ0
c. 14.8 3
b. ᎏᎏ
20
d. 14
3
c. ᎏᎏ
5
3. What is the circumference of a circle with a d. 1ᎏ23ᎏ
radius of 5?
a. 5p 8. Sarah went to the mall and spent $25.20 on a
b. 10p shirt, $45.05 on a pair of pants, $3.25 on a
c. 25p smoothie, and $32.75 on a pair of shorts. In
d. 50p total, how much money did Sarah spend on
clothes?
4. A designer buys 180 square feet of wallpaper to a. $102.75
cover a square wall with a length of 12 feet. b. $102.80
How much wallpaper will be left over when c. $103.00
he’s done covering the wall? d. $106.25
a. 6 sq. ft.
b. 12 sq. ft. 9. A clinic has enough flu vaccine this season to
c. 36 sq. ft. vaccinate 80% of its 30-person staff. How
d. 144 sq. ft. many staff members cannot be vaccinated this
season?
5. A man is 6 feet 2 inches and his daughter is 4 a. 2
feet 9 inches. How much taller is the man than b. 6
his daughter? c. 11
a. 1 ft., 3 in. d. 24
b. 1 ft., 5 in.
c. 2 ft., 3 in.
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10. Lara biked 12 miles per hour for the first two 14. If jogging for one mile uses 150 calories and
hours of a long ride through the country and brisk walking for one mile uses 100 calories, a
14 miles per hour for the last hour. What was jogger has to go how many times as far as a
her average speed for the trip in miles per hour? walker to use the same number of calories?
a. 8ᎏ23ᎏ a. ᎏ12ᎏ
b. 12 b. 2
ᎏᎏ
3
c. 12ᎏ23ᎏ 3
c. ᎏᎏ
2
d. 13
d. 2
11. Rosalind measured her temperature for five
15. A dosage of a certain medication is 12 cc per
days and recorded these numbers: 99, 98, 97.9,
100 pounds. What is the dosage for a patient
98.6, and 98.5. What was her average
who weighs 175 pounds?
temperature during this time?
a. 15 cc
a. 97.9
b. 18 cc
b. 98.0
c. 21 cc
c. 98.4
d. 24 cc
d. 99.2

16. A gram of fat contains 9 calories. An 1,800-

12. The perimeter of a rectangle is 148 feet. Its two
calorie diet allows no more than 20% of
longest sides add up to 86 feet. What is the
calories from fat. How many grams of fat are
length of each of its two shortest sides?
allowed in that diet?
a. 31 ft.
a. 40 g
b. 42 ft.
b. 90 g
c. 62 ft.
c. 200 g
d. 74 ft.
d. 360 g
13. A hospital pays $15.50 for every new lab coat
17. If x = −1, y = 4, and z = −2, what is the value of
and $2.15 to wash each dirty one. If 50 new lab
the expression 2x − yz?
coats need to be purchased and 100 lab coats
a. −10
need to be washed, how much will the hospital
b. −4
spend in total?
c. 6
a. $990.00
d. 10
b. $1,215.00
c. $1,657.50
18. A 15 cc dosage must be increased by 20%.
d. $1,730.65
What is the new dosage?
a. 17 cc
b. 18 cc
c. 30 cc
d. 35 cc

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19. What is the area of this triangle? 22. If Javier earns $3,500 a month and cannot
spend more than 30% of his monthly income
on rent, what is the highest monthly rent that
5 cm he can afford?
a. $650
b. $900
c. $1,050
3 cm
d. $1,260
a. 6 sq. cm
b. 7.5 sq. cm 23. If t is 4 more than s, and s is 2 less than r, what
c. 12 sq. cm is t when r = 8?
d. 15 sq. cm a. 2
b. 6
20. The following figure contains both a circle and c. 10
a square. What is the area of the entire shaded d. 14
figure?
24. The percent increase from 8 to 10 is equal to
2 the percent increase from 16 to what number?
8 a. 18
b. 20
c. 22
a. 16 + 4p d. 24
b. 16 + 16p
c. 24+ 2p 25. If (0.0013)x = 13, then x =
d. 24 + 4p a. 0.001
b. 0.01
21. At a carnival, each ride costs $1.50. However, a c. 1,000
dozen ride tickets can be bought for $15.50 at d. 10,000
the park entrance. How much money can be 7
saved by buying a dozen tickets at once rather 26. ᎏ40ᎏ is equal to
than buying each ticket separately? a. 0.0175
a. $2.50 b. 0.175
b. $3.00 c. 1.75
c. $10.30 d. 17.5
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27. A certain water pollutant is unsafe at a level 32. 3ᎏ196ᎏ − 1ᎏ78ᎏ is equal to
above 20 ppm (parts per million). A city’s a. 1ᎏ1116ᎏ
water supply now contains 50 ppm of this
b. 2ᎏ18ᎏ
pollutant. What percentage decrease will make
the water safe? c. 2ᎏ14ᎏ
a. 30% d. 2ᎏ156ᎏ
b. 40%
c. 50% 33. If the average woman burns 8.2 calories per
d. 60% minute while riding a bicycle, how many
calories will she burn if she rides for 35
28. In half of migraine sufferers, a certain drug minutes?
reduces the number of migraines by 50%. a. 286
Assuming all migraine sufferers experience the b. 287
same number of migraines, what percentage of c. 387
all migraines can be eliminated by this drug? d. 980
a. 25%
b. 50% 34. The basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate at
c. 75% which our body uses calories. The BMR for a
d. 100% man in his twenties is about 1,700 calories per
day. If 204 of those calories should come from
29. Nationwide, in one year, there were about protein, about what percentage of this man’s
21,500 fire-related injuries associated with diet should be protein?
furniture. Of these, 11,350 were caused by a. 1.2%
smoking materials. About what percent of the b. 8.3%
fire-related injuries were smoking-related? c. 12%
a. 47% d. 16%
b. 49%
c. 51% 35. Four patients are being transferred from the
d. 53% hospital to a nursing home in an ambulance,
one at a time. If the distance from the hospital
30. 0.08 × 0.27 is equal to to the nursing home is 10ᎏ15ᎏ miles, how many
a. 0.00216 miles total does the ambulance travel after it
b. 0.0216 drops off all the patients and returns to the
c. 2.16 hospital?
d. 21.6 a. 40ᎏ54ᎏ
b. 71ᎏ52ᎏ
2ᎏ14ᎏ
31. ᎏ is equal to
2
ᎏ3ᎏ c. 80ᎏ53ᎏ
8
a. ᎏᎏ
27 d. 81ᎏ53ᎏ
b. 1ᎏ12ᎏ
c. 3ᎏ38ᎏ
d. 3ᎏ12ᎏ

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36. Down’s syndrome occurs in about 1 in 1,500 41. Which of the following numbers is the
children when the mothers are in their smallest?
twenties. About what percentage of all children 8
a. ᎏ15ᎏ
born to mothers in their twenties are likely to 6
b. ᎏ10ᎏ
have Down’s syndrome? 33
a. 0.0067% c. ᎏᎏ
60
11
b. 0.067% d. ᎏᎏ
20
c. 0.67%
d. 6.7% 42. 2ᎏ14ᎏ + 4ᎏ58ᎏ + ᎏ12ᎏ is equal to
a. 6ᎏ78ᎏ
37. If a population of yeast cells grows from ten to b. 7ᎏ14ᎏ
320 in a period of five hours, what is the rate of c. 7ᎏ38ᎏ
growth?
d. 7ᎏ34ᎏ
a. It doubles its numbers every hour.
b. It triples its numbers every hour.
43. What percentage of 600 is 750?
c. It doubles its numbers every two hours.
a. 80%
d. It triples its numbers every two hours.
b. 85%
c. 110%
38. Which value of x will make this number
d. 125%
sentence true? x + 25 £ 13
a. –12
44. Which of the following is the equivalent of ᎏ1235ᎏ?
b. –11
a. 0.38
c. 12
b. 0.4
d. 38
c. 0.48
d. 0.52
39. A square with a side length of 6 has the same
area as a rectangle with a length of 2 and a
45. Dr. Slagle needs 4 m of plaster bandages to
width of
make a cast for a broken wrist. One roll of
a. 3.
bandages is 250 cm long. How many rolls of
b. 6.
bandages will she need?
c. 12.
a. 1
d. 18.
b. 2
c. 3
40. If angle r measures 52° and is supplementary to
d. 4
angle s, what is the measure of angle s?
a. 38°
46. Which of the following statements is true?
b. 52°
a. Parallel lines intersect at right angles.
c. 128°
b. Parallel lines never intersect.
d. 142°
c. Perpendicular lines never intersect.
d. Intersecting lines have two points in
common.

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47. 3.6 – 1.89 is equal to 49. The number of red blood corpuscles in one
a. 1.47 cubic millimeter is about 5 million, and the
b. 1.53 number of white blood corpuscles in one cubic
c. 1.71 millimeter is about 8,000. What, then, is the
d. 2.42 ratio of white blood corpuscles to red blood
corpuscles?
48. If a particular woman’s resting heartbeat is a. 1:625
72 beats per minute and she is at rest for 6ᎏ12ᎏ b. 1:40
hours, about how many times will her heart c. 4:10
beat during that period of time? d. 5:1,250
a. 4,320
5
b. 4,680 50. ᎏ12ᎏ – ᎏ38ᎏ is equal to
c. 28,080 1
a. ᎏ10ᎏ
d. 43,200 1
b. ᎏ24ᎏ
5
c. ᎏᎏ
48
19
d. ᎏᎏ
24

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