Arithmetic Reasoning Flashcards
(31 cards)
Terry earns a $250 salary plus $5 per sale. How many sales must Terry make to earn $765 altogether?
103
Jerry walked a dog from 6:40 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. one day. If he was paid at the rate of $6 per hour, how much did he earn that day?
5
How many feet of chain fence are necessary to enclose a dog pen that is square and has an area of 64 square feet?
32
A woman is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office twice the area of her current office. If the perimeter of her current office is 88 feet, how many square feet is the new office?
968
A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level ground. If it goes 120 miles per hour downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land?
1/2 hour
Each August, a restaurant’s rent is adjusted to the cost-of-living index. The rent has been $1,550 a month, and the cost of-living index for this August was 3.7%. What is the new rent per month?
1607.35
There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and randomly takes one marble. What is the probability of that child getting a green marble?
40%
The pet store had 6 puppies selling for $104 each and 12 kittens selling for $24 each. Today, only 2 puppies and 8 kittens were left. In dollar terms, what was the ratio of sales of puppies to kittens?
13:3
Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, with each side measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5 units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box?
16 units
If the ratio of the sides of two squares is 3:1, what is the ratio of their perimeters?
4:1
If the perimeter of a square garden 84 feet, what is the area of the garden?
441
The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of its cost at a supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket?
$3.60
A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. second press can print 15,000 copies in 60 minutes. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press?
50 more per minute
or 3,000 more in an hour
If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old?
125%
Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If lan received $125.000, and Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive?
7/8
An artist once wrote, “I draw material from the history of the past, wherein we see how nations have risen from savage state to that of power and glory, and then have fallen and become extinct.”
A perpetual of unresolved turmoil
If 35 of the 140 cars delivered to a dealer were blue, what percent of the cars were blue?
25%
An electronics store had a 20% off sale. If a steroid originally costs $125, how much did the stereo cost during the sale?
100
Five people working 8-hour days assemble 400 toys in a 5-day work week. What is the average number of toys assembled per hour, per person?
2
A homeowner plans to hang wallpaper on one wall of a bedroom that is 10 feet long. If a strip of wallpaper is 20 inches wide and strips are hung vertically, how many strips of wallpaper will the homeowner require?
6
A sweater originally priced at 80 was marked down by 25%. what was the sale price?
60
A radar is designed to report the track of an aircraft every second. if this radar reports 30 tracks in one minute, what percentage of the time did the radar track the aircraft?
50
Together, two people earn 28,000. One earns 2,000 more than the other. How much is the smaller income?
13,000
A student bought a sandwich for 80 cents, milk for 20 cents, and pie for 30 cents. How much does the Meal cost?
1.30
