1. How many hours are there between 8:30 a.m. today and 3:15 a.m. tomorrow?

2. Last week, 23 of the 76 patients admitted to Emergency Hospital had been in accidents. How many of the admitted patients had not been in accidents?

3. If a barrel has a capacity of 100 gallons, how many gallons will it contain when it is two-fifths full?

4. Fifteen nurses who work the morning shift at Get Well Hospital are responsible for 135 patients. The average number of patients served by each nurse is

5. How many days are there from September 19 to December 25 (inclusive)?

6. The visitors’ section of a courtroom seats 105 people. The court is in session 6 hours per day. On one particular day, 485 people visited the court and were given seats. What is the average length of time spent by each visitor in the court? Assume that as soon as a person leaves his seat it is immediately filled and that at no time during the day is one of the 105 seats vacant. Express your answer in hours and minutes.

7. If copy paper costs $14.50 per ream and a 5 percent discount is allowed for cash, how many reams can be purchased for $690 cash? Do not round off cents in your calculations.

8. Arthur can shovel snow from a sidewalk in 60 minutes and Jack can do it in 30 minutes. How many minutes will it take them to do the job together?

9. Find the interest on $25,800 for 144 days at 6 percent per annum. Base your calculations on a 360-day year.

10. If an annual salary of $21,600 is increased by a bonus of $7,200 and by a service increment of $1,200, the total pay rate is

11. If your monthly electricity bill increases from $80 to $90, the percentage of increase is, most nearly,

12. If a monthly salary of $3,000 is subject to a 20 percent tax, the net salary is

13. If an employee’s base pay is $3,000 per month, and it is increased by a monthly bonus of $350 and a seniority increment of $250 this month, her total salary for the month is

14. A clerk is requested to file 800 cards. If he can file cards at the rate of 80 cards per hour, what is the number of cards remaining to be filed after 7 hours of work?

15. If a nursing exam contained 80 questions and you answered 72 of them correctly, what percent of the questions did you answer correctly?

16. If an inspector issued 182 summonses in the course of 7 hours, his hourly average of summonses issued was

17. If a patient is required to get 45 minutes of exercise each day, how many hours of exercise does he get in a week?

18. A truck going at a rate of 40 miles per hour will reach a town 80 miles away in how many hours?

19. If $1,000 is the cost of repairing 100 square yards of pavement, the cost of repairing 1 square yard is