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Maths have always been a problem to most students. Yet, some are still smiling brilliantly when ever they come across the subject matter (Mathematics). 

Below are few  mathematics questions you need to get yourself acquainted with for better performance.



MATHS QUESTION/TEST 2

1.    
A hat company ships its hats, individually wrapped, in
8-inch by 10-inch by 12-inch boxes. Each hat is valued at $7.50. If the
company’s latest order required a truck with at least 288,000 cubic inches of
storage space in which to ship the hats in their boxes, what was the minimum
value of the order?
A.   
$960
B.   
$1,350
C.    
$1,725
D.   
$2,050
E.    
$2,250
2.    
Chancy, an English bulldog, receive 1,618 votes in the
Mr. Bulldog competition, giving him approximately 20 percent of the vote
would he have needed to receive in order to win 30 percent of the total
votes?
A.   
10%
B.   
12.5%
C.    
15%
D.   
17.5%
E.    
20%
3.    
Peculiar Taxi Service charges an initial fee of $2.25 at
the beginning of a trip and an additional charge of $0.35 for each 2/5 of a
mile traveled. What is the total charge for a trip of 3.l6 miles?
A.   
$3.15
B.   
$4.45
C.    
$4.80
D.   
$5.05
E.    
$5.40
4.    
If the area of a square with sides of length 8
centimeters is equal to the area of a triangle with awidth of 4 centimeters,
what is the length of the rectangle, in centimeters?
A.   
4
B.   
8
C.    
12
D.   
16
E.    
18
5.    
A certain lab experiments with white and brown mice only.
In one experiment, 2/3 of the mice are white. If there are 13 brown mice in
the experiment, how many mice in total are in the experiment?
A.   
39
B.   
33
C.    
26
D.   
21
E.    
10
6.    
Of 40 applicants for a job, 32 had at least 5 years of prior
work experience, 24 had advanced degrees, and 16 had at least 5 years of
prior work experience and advanced degress. How many of the applicants had
neither 5 years of prior work experience nor advance degrees?
A.   
0
B.   
2
C.    
4
D.   
8
E.    
16
7.    
A shopkeeper is giving 6kg of rice at the price of $5d
per kg. what should be the markup on cost price if he wants to make a profit
of 20 percent?
A.   
25%
B.   
50%
C.    
44%
D.   
20%
8.    
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!If 8a =9b ab=0, what is the ratio of a  to b
9      9
A.   
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81
B.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!8
9
C.    
1
D.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!9
8
E.    
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!81
64
9.    
Two hundred multiples of seven are chosen at random, and
300 multiples of eight are chosen at random. Approximately what percentage of
the 500 selected numbers are odd?
A.   
20%
B.   
25%
C.    
40%
D.   
50%
E.    
80%
10.                      
A coed soccer team has W women and M men on the team. If
4 women and 2 men are to the team roster, and if one person on the team is
selected at random to serve as team captain, then the probability that the
team captain will be a woman can be represented as:
A.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!W + 4
W + M + 6
B.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!W +4
        W + M + 2
C.    
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!W + 4
M + 2
D.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!W + 4
W + W
E.    
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!W
M
11.                      
If a selling price of a mat is five times the discount
offered and if the percentage of discount is equal to the percentage and if
the ratio of the discount offered to the the cost price.
A.   
11 : 30
B.   
1 : 5
C.    
1 : 6
D.   
7 : 30
12.                      
If price have earned x dollars by working 3 days a week
at a constant daily rate for w weeks, which of the following represents his
daily wage?
A.   
3xw
B.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!3w
X
C.    
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!w
3x
D.   
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!xw
3
E.    
Mathematics Questions 2 !!Get prepared!Solved!x
  3w
13.                      
In a certain conservation mutual fund, 70 percent of the
money is invested in bonds, and of that portion, 40 percent is invested in
highly rated corporate bonds. If at least $1.4 million bonds, what is the
smallest possible total value for the mutual fund?
A.   
$4 million
B.   
$5 million
C.    
$6 million
D.   
$7 million
E.    
$8 million
14.                      
In a sample of 800 high school students in which all
students are either freshmen, sophomores, juniors, or seniors, 22 percent are
juniors and 74 percent are not sophomores. If there are 160 seniors, how many
more freshmen than sophomores are there among the sample of students?   
A.   
42
B.   
48
C.    
56
D.   
208
E.    
256
15.                      
The time it took car P to travel 600 miles was 2 hours
less than the time it took car R to travel the same distance. If car P’s
average speed was 10 miles per hour greater than that of car R, what was car
R’s average speed, in miles per hour?                                                                          
A.   
40
B.   
50
C.    
60
D.   
70
E.    
80
16.                      
Stella has 25 pairs of shoes. If she loses 9 individual
shoes, what is the greatest number of matching pairs she could have left
A.   
21
B.   
20
C.    
19
D.   
16
E.    
15
17.                      
If victory was 18 months old one year ago, how old was hw
in months, x months ago?
A.   
X – 30
B.   
X – 12
C.    
18 – x
D.   
24 – x
E.    
30 – x

1.     E

2.     B
3.     E
4.     D
5.     A
6.     A
7.     C
8.     C
9.     A
10.                
A
11.                
D
12.                
E
13.                
B
14.                
B
15.                
B
16.                
B
17.                
E


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