Deck 1: GED: Mathematics

Question 1

What is 1/11?

A)0.095
B)0.0909
C)0.0888
D)0.9414
E)0.142857

Answer 1

0.0909

Question 2

Mary has 2 quarts of ice cream. She shares a half of a quart with her friend, Bill. How many pints does she have left?

A)1
B)2
C)3
D)4

Answer 2

3

Question 3

A car that regularly sells for $29,600 has been marked down to $22,100. What is the approximate percentage of the discount?

A)20%
B)22%
C)25%
D)30%
E)33%

Answer 3

25%

Question 4

What is 5/6?

A)0.8
B)0.8444
C)0.8333
D)0.825
E)0.875

Question 5

Is 40÷5>, =, or < 49÷7?

A)>
B)=
C)<
D)None of the above

Question 6

It is sunny on 83% of the 120 days Silver Slides Waterpark is open on average. How many days will Silver Slides be open this summer?

A)100
B)102
C)98
D)99
E)92

Question 7

What is the mean for the following expenditures? $79.84, $278.99, $342.16, $466.25, $111.39, $502.47, $98.12

A)$278.99
B)$268.46
C)$354.22
D)$317.54

Question 8

People who score in the 95th percentile on an exam:

A)Earned a score of 95 on the test
B)Scored as well or better than 95% of the people who took the same exam
C)Scored in the top 95% of test takers
D)Answered 95% of the questions correctly

Question 9

On a trip to the Netherlands you spend €275 per night in a hotel, €37.58 per day on meals and €50 per day on transportation. If you were there for four days and three nights, and the exchange rate from U.S. dollars to euros was $1.00 : €0.7515, about how much did you spend altogether, in U.S. dollars?

A)$1,564
B)$1,175
C)$1,702
D)$1,398

Question 10

Which of the following uses the doubling method of informal counting to solve the following:3+4=

A)(1+1+1) + (1+1+1+1) = 7
B)(3+4) + (3+4) - (3+4) = 7
C)3+4 = (3+3) +1 = 6+1 = 7
D)2+2+2+1=7

Question 11

Which type of chart or graph would be the best graphic organizer to demonstrate the relationship between foreign aid to a nation and the decrease in child mortality rates among its citizens?

A)Bar graph
B)Line graph
C)Pie chart
D)Histogram

Question 12

A: {3, 6, 7}B: {2, 8}What is the union of Set A and Set B?

A){2, 3, 6, 7, 8}
B){3, 6, 7}
C){2, 8}
D)None of the above

Question 13

What kind of triangle has 1 angle that is 90°?

A)A right triangle
B)An acute triangle
C)An obtuse triangle
D)A scalene triangle

Question 14

What percentage is ¼?

A)20%
B)25%
C)50%
D)4%

Question 15

Seven/Twelve has $4 million in sales over the past week. What were the approximate sales per day?

A)$589,000
B)$571,000
C)$518,200
D)$552,000
E)$578,750

Question 16

What is 1 ½ as a simple fraction in lowest terms?

A)1/2
B)2/3
C)3/2
D)1)5

Question 17

What is 5/12?

A)0.41666
B)0.42
C)0.4333
D)0.41333
E)0.415

Question 18

How long will it take for Ron's $37,353 investment to double if he expects 9% returns?

A)5 years
B)8 years
C)9 years
D)9)5 years
E)10 years

Question 19

Identify the pattern in the following set of numbers:2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17

A)There is no pattern.
B)The set starts with 2 and ends in 17.
C)The set starts with 2 and jumps 3 each time.
D)The set starts with 2 and jumps 2 each time.

Question 20

A business has decided to resurface a floor section in their warehouse. The section is a square that measures 15 feet on one side. How much is the area that needs to be resurfaced?

A)30 square feet
B)60 square feet
C)215 square feet
D)225 square feet
E)250 square feet

Question 21

What is 2/9?

A)0.17
B)0.19
C)0.1818
D)0.2222
E)0.235

Question 22

What is 3/8s?

A)0.36
B)0.38
C)0.375
D)0.3833
E)0.365

Question 23

If the speed of a car is 200 km per hour, how may minutes does it take to travel 60 km?

A)3 1/3 hours
B)20 minutes
C)18 minutes
D)22 minutes
E)24 minutes

Question 24

94% of Jim's income last year came from his salary. The rest came from awards his prize winning poodle won in dog shows. If he won $9,600 in dog shows, what was his total income?

A)$145,000
B)$160,000
C)$170,000
D)$120,000
E)$118,600

Question 25

What is the perimeter of a rectangle that has 2 sides measuring 4 cm and 2sides measuring 6 cm?

A)24 cm
B)10 cm
C)12 cm
D)20 cm

Question 26

The test scores for eight students are 97, 94, 98, 97, 89, 92, 68 and 96. What would the seventh score be considered?

A)Outlier
B)Mean
C)Mode
D)Standard deviation

Question 27

What is the median for the numbers 89, 87, 94, 82, 89, 91, 95, 88, 90, 87, 92 and 93?

A)87 and 89
B)89.5
C)93
D)89.75

Question 28

What is the median for the following set of numbers? 15, 62, 47, 33, 89, 4, 76, 40, 54

A)28
B)46.7
C)47
D)39.2

Question 29

According to the US Standard system, which of the following would be used to measure the volume of water in a bath tub?

A)Gallons
B)Liters
C)Cups
D)Meters

Question 30

An 8-year-old boy named Albert has a 10-year-old brother named Benny. Benny joins the service at 20 leaving Albert feeling bitter that he no longer has a brother to look up to. After 7 years, Albert is finally ready to make up with Benny who has been out of the service for 5 years. How old is Albert now?

A)27
B)15
C)25
D)32
E)23

Question 31

In a jar of candy there are 127 red candies, 92 orange ones, 108 yellow ones, 77 green ones, and 13 blue candies. If a person reaches into the jar without looking and grabs one piece of candy, what is the probability of that piece being red?

A)25%
B)35%
C)20%
D)30%

Question 32

All data can be divided into four equal sections that are called:

A)Quartiles
B)Quagmires
C)Quadrants
D)Quarternaries

Question 33

What is the mean for the following test scores? 92%, 87%, 75%, 88%, 96%, 95%, 94%, 82%, 88%

A)85.56%
B)88%
C)84.92%
D)86%

Question 34

What is the mean for the following distances? 206 miles, 410 miles, 97 miles, 125 miles, 999 miles, 234 miles

A)220 miles
B)407.88 miles
C)345.17 miles
D)206 miles

Question 35

If Martin invests $20,000 for 20 years and his investment earns 20% interest compounding quarterly, what will it be worth at the end of his investment period?

A)$991,228.82
B)$120,000.00
C)$244,529.20
D)$424,872.36

Question 36

The wholesale price of a fountain pen is $2.80. What will the new price be if a 5% increase is instituted?

A)$2.84
B)$2.90
C)$2.94
D)$2.96
E)$2.97

Question 37

A company just distributed candy bars wrapped with golden tickets hidden within ordinary shipments of their product. The company spokesperson announces that there is a "one in one thousand chance" of someone finding a golden ticket when they open a candy bar, and that 500,000 candy bars have been distributed in the golden ticket promotion. If a person buys three of the candy bars, what is their chance of finding a golden ticket?

A)0)30%
B)3%
C)0)00%
D)0)03%

Question 38

Olivia has $5,000 to invest. She invests in a fund at 4% interest. How long will it take for her money to double?

A)10 years
B)12 years
C)15 years
D)18 years
E)20 years

Question 39

Round 567.342 to the nearest hundredth. What is the answer?

A)600
B)560
C)567.34
D)567.3

Question 40

Jacqueline and Lee are meeting for the weekend somewhere between their cities, which are 420 miles apart. Jacqueline drives 80 mph for the duration of her trip. If they both left home at 10 a.m. and met at 1 p.m., what speed did Lee drive to reach their meeting spot?

A)75 mph
B)70 mph
C)65 mph
D)60 mph

Question 41

The division of your company that you oversee contains 18 employees whose total salary last year was $855,000. The average salary of all company employees with the same level of responsibility and qualifications is $50,000. Is your department above or below the company average?

A)Below by 20%
B)Above by 10%
C)Below by 5%
D)Above by 15%

Question 42

In initial production of a new video game, it is discovered that the ratio of functional games to defective games is 20 to 1. If 360 games are produced, how many could be expected to be defective?

A)12 games
B)15 games
C)16 games
D)18 games
E)20 games

Question 43

Olivia is writing a recipe for orange-colored fruit salad. She uses 4 apricots for every cantaloupe, 2 peaches for every apricot, and one orange for every cantaloupe. If she uses 8 oranges, how many whole pieces of fruit total will be used for the fruit salad?

A)212
B)232
C)112
D)132

Question 44

What is 1/7?

A)0.142857
B)0.153
C)0.12
D)0.125
E)0.144

Question 45

Greg's Golf Shop hires teenagers to collect lost golf balls from the city's golf courses. The golf balls are then packaged in boxes of a dozen for reselling. This summer, the workers collected 2,244 golf balls. After repackaging, how many golf balls will be left over?

A)2 golf balls
B)3 golf balls
C)4 golf balls
D)6 golf balls
E)No golf balls will be left over

Question 46

Kathleen projects her expenditures for purchasing office supplies to be $85/week. How much will she spend on office supplies over a 4-week time span?

A)$290
B)$325
C)$340
D)$355
E)$342

Question 47

Round 6148.11385 to the nearest thousandths place. What is the answer?

A)6000
B)6148
C)6148.113
D)6148.114