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Accuplacer Sample Questions

Accuplacer Arithmatic Sample Questions

The accuplacer arithmetic sample questions measures your skills in three primary categories:

1. Operations with whole numbers and fraction. This includes:

   Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
   Recognizing equivalent fractions and mixed numbers

2. Operations with decimals and percents includes:

   Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
   Percent problems decimal recognition, and fractions.
   Percent equivalencies, and estimation problems.

3. Applications and problem solving include:

   Rate, percent, and measurement problems
   Geometry problems
   Distribution of a quantity into its fractional parts

Folowing are some Accuplacer arithmatic sample questions

1. All of the following are ways to write 20 percent of N, EXCEPT
   1. 0.20N
   2. 20/1OON
   3. 1/5N
   4. 20N

   Answer :D

2. 7/20
   1. 0.035
   2. 2.858
   3. 0.35
   4. 3.5

   Answer :C

3. 7.86 X 4.6 =
   1. 36.156
   2. 36.216
   3. 351.56
   4. 361.56

   Answer :A

4. Which of the following is the least?
   1. 0.105
   2. 0.501
   3. 0.015
   4. 0.15

   Answer :C

5. The average weight for a group of 20 women is 130 pounds. If the average weight for 3/4 of these women was 140 pounds, what was the average weight, in pounds, for the rest of the women?.
   1. 100
   2. 110
   3. 120
   4. 135

   Answer :A

6. A soccer team played 160 games and won 65% of them. How many games did they win?
   1. 94
   2. 104
   3. 114
   4. 124

   Answer :B

7. The Number of Employees of Company K Who Were Involved in Accidents

   	Plant X	Plant Y
   Mechanic	11	30
   Power Machine Operators	9	12

   The table above show the results of an industrial health survey of 10,000 people employed at Company K for more than 5 years. If 2,500 employees were surveyed in each of the four categories, which group of employees had the highest accident rate?

   1. Mechanics in Plant X
   2. Mechanics in Plant Y
   3. Power Machine Operators in Plant X
   4. Power Machine Operators in Plant Y

   Answer :B

8. Three people who work full time are to work together on a project, but their total time on the project is to be equivalent to that of only one person working full time. If one of the people is budgeted for 1 /2 of his time to the project and a second person for 1/3 of her time, what part of the third worker's time should be budgeted to this project?
   1. 1/3
   2. 1/4
   3. 1/6
   4. 1/8

   Answer :C

9. Which of the following is closest to the square root of 10.5?
   1. 3
   2. 4
   3. 5
   4. 8

   Answer :A