Test-2
Test-2
1. You need to purchase a textbook for nursing school. The book cost $80.00, and the sales tax where you
are purchasing the book is 8.25%. You have $100. How much change will you receive back?
2. The city council has decided to add a 0.3% tax on motel and hotel rooms. If a traveler spends the night
in a motel room that costs $55 before taxes, how much will the city receive in taxes from him?
3. Employees of a discount appliance store receive an additional 20% off of the lowest price on an item. If
an employee purchases a dishwasher during a 15% off sale, how much will he pay if the dishwasher
originally cost $450?
4. You got 70 questions on a test right. You received a score of 80%. How many total questions were on
the test?
5. If 300 of 500 voters surveyed said that they would vote for the incumbent, then how many votes could
the incumbent expect out of 843,000 votes?
6. The sales price of a car is $12,590, which is 20% off the original price. What is the original price?
7. If a discount of 20% off the retail price of a desk saves Mark $45, how much did he pay for the desk?
a. 30 b. 32 c. 36 d. 38 e. 41
10. The average of four numbers is 9. What is the fourth number of three of the numbers are 5, 9, 12?
a. 6 b. 8 c. 10 d. other, specify…..
17 x 0.3 x 2016
11. Which of the following numbers is the closest to the result of
999
a. 0,01 c. 0.1 c.1 d. 10 e. 100
12. On a test consisting of 30 questions, Ruth had 50% more right answers than she had wrong answers.
Each answer was either right or wrong. How many right answers did Ruth have, assuming she answered
all questions?
a. 10 b. 12 c. 15 d. other, specify…..
13. Four cousins Ema, Iva, Rita and Zina are 3, 8, 12, 14 years old, although not necessarily in that order.
The sum of the ages of Zina and Ema is divisible by 5. The sum of the ages of Zina and Rita is also
divisible by 5. How old is Iva?
a, 14 b, 12 c, 8 d, Impossible to answer
14. This year in the test exactly 35% of the runners were women and there were 252 more men than
woman. How many runners were there in total?
15. Leo is 38 years older than Adam. Five times Adam`s age, when decreased by 5 is 1 more than Leo`s
age. How old is each.
16. In 16 years Dana will be five times older than she was four years ago. In how many years will Danan
celebrate her 16th birthday?
a, 4 b, 5 c, 6 d. Other, specify………..
a. A b. Y c. D d. R
a. R b. S c. T d. U
19. In a class, no two boys were born on the same day of the week and no two girls were born in the same
month. Were a new oy or a new girl to join this class, one of these two conditions would no longer be
true. How many children are there in the class?
a. 18 b. 19 c. 20 d. 21 e. 22
20. Peter went hiking in the mountains for 5 days. He started on Monday and his last trip was on Friday.
Each day he walked 2km more than the day before. The total distance he walked during the five days was
70km. What distance did Peter walk on Thursday?