Mathematical Reasoning Exam December 2024

You are a registered nurse at a community health clinic. In your initial assessment of a new patient who recently arrived in the United States, she tells you that she weighed 70 kilograms last year. According to your scale, she now weighs 165 pounds. About how much weight has she gained?

• 11 pounds

• 95 pounds

• 118 pounds

• 165 pounds

You are the events coordinator for a running club that is sponsoring a road race to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. The race course is 25 kilometers long. The club plans to set up water stations at the end of every 1-mile interval, except the first mile of the race. There will be an additional water station at the finish line. How many water stations will there be in total?

• 15

• 16

• 24

• 20

As a chemical technician, you need to measure 3 grams of a substance to prepare a solution. You have weighed 1,800 milligrams of the substance. How much more do you need?

• 0.6 gram

• 1.2 grams

• 1.5 grams

• 1.8 grams

The best brand of juice is sold in 1-liter bottles for $1.96 per bottle. If you plan to buy about a gallon of juice, how much will it cost?

• $0.49

• $1.96

• $5.88

• $7.84

In one laboratory, which has equipment that intermittently produces a large amount of heat, you find a wide temperature variation. You record temperatures, ranging from 19°C to 30°C. What is the approximate difference between these temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit?

• 10°

• 18°

• 20°

• 68°

As a veterinarian, you find that a cat weighs 13 pounds, 6 ounces. You tell the cat's owner that the cat should weigh closer to 10½ pounds. About how much weight does the cat need to lose?

• 2 pounds, 6 ounces

• 2 pounds, 10 ounces

• 2 pounds, 14 ounces

• 3 pounds, 2 ounces

You are a quality control supervisor in a packaging plant. You check the net weight of product in a shipping canister. Specifications call for a product weight of 12.6 kilograms per canister. When you check a randomly selected canister, you find that it contains 12.57 kilograms of material. How much more material should be in the canister?

• 3 grams

• 30 grams

• 51 grams

• 300 grams

As the assistant to an industrial engineer, you are reviewing plans to replace 30-gallon water tanks with 110-liter tanks. What is the approximate difference between the capacities of these tanks?

• 59 gallons

• 80 gallons

• 102 gallons

• 387 gallons

Bob has 16 red cards and 20 green cards. What is the ratio of Bob's red cards to his green cards:

• 2:3
• 3:4
• 4:5
• 5:6

Mrs. Hart took two packages to the post office. The larger one weighed 6.1 pounds, and the smaller one weighed 2.8 pounds. About how much more did the larger package weigh than the smaller one?

• 3 pounds

• 4 pounds

• 5 pounds

• 9 pounds

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