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GED Mathematical Reasoning Practice Test
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The Mathematical Reasoning section of the GED tests your ability to solve algebraic and quantitative problems. The GED Math Test contains 46 questions. Some question types include multiple-choice, drag-and-drop, hot spot, and fill-in-the-blank. The GED Math Test is 115 minutes (1 hour and 55 minutes).

GED Mathematical Reasoning Practice Test
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25 Questions

1. The following image shows a rectangle with a semicircular top.
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What is the area of the shape?
2. The product of the first six prime numbers is divisible by which of the following?
3. Observe this figure of a donut:
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What is the ratio of the area of the donut (the shaded area) to the area of the hole?
4. A large circular pizza has an 18-inch diameter and is cut into 8 equal slices.
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What is the perimeter of one slice of the pizza?
5. Which of the following shows the correct factorization of the quadratic equation images?
6. The test scores of 10 students are listed in the following frequency table.
Score - Number of Students
72 – 1
85 – 3
90 – 4
100 – 2
Simplify the expression: imagesimages
7. Observe the following function.
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11. A limo company charges $25.50 for the first 8 miles plus an additional $3.50 for each extra mile. What is the cost of a 13-mile limo ride?
12. If two sides of a triangle are 10.2 and 5.8 inches long, which of the following cannot be the length of the other side?
13. Look at the following linear equation.
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16. Children’s tickets to the zoo cost $9 each, and adult tickets cost $16 each. On Monday, the zoo sold a total of 95 tickets and made $1,380 on ticket sales. Which of the following systems of equations could be used to find out how many of each ticket type was sold? Let a equal the number of adult tickets, and let c equal the number of child tickets.
17. A large circular pizza has an 18-inch diameter and is cut into 8 equal slices.
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What is the total area of two slices of the pizza?
18. image What is the measure of the obtuse angle shown in the figure?
19. A sports enthusiast measures the number of calories used per hour per pound of weight for four different sports. He records the results in the following table.

Sport - Calories Used per Hour per Pound of Weight
Cycling - 8.8
Running - 12.7
Soccer- 9.4
Tennis – 6.1

Which of the following could be used to calculate how many calories a 170-pound man would use by cycling for 20 minutes?
20. The angles of a triangle are in a ratio of images. What is the measure of the largest angle?
21. Observe the following linear equation.
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22. The distance between two planets is 4,560,000,000 miles. Express this in scientific notation.
23. Which number equals 7 thousandths?
24. Barney joined a gym to become stronger, and every 4 weeks he notes the maximum amount of weight that he can bench-press. He records his progress over a five-month period in the following table.
Weeks - Weight in Pounds
0 - 30
4 - 38
8 - 46
12 - 54
16 - 62
20 – 70

If Barney’s strength continues to grow at the same rate, at what week will he be able to lift 100 pounds?
25. Eleven fishermen entered a fishing competition to catch as many fish as possible in 1 hour. The median number of fish caught for all 11 fishermen was 4, and the modal score was 3.
The number of fish caught for each of the first 10 fishermen is shown in the following graph.
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What was the number of fish caught by the 11th fisherman?