1. A stock clerk had on hand the following items:
500 pads, worth $0.04 each
130 pencils, worth $0.03 each
50 dozen rubber bands, worth $0.02 a dozen
If, from this stock, he issued 125 pads, 45 pencils, and 48 rubber bands, the value of the remaining stock would be

2. A secretary can add 40 columns of figures in an hour by using a calculator and 20 columns of figures an hour without using a calculator. The total number of hours it would take him to add 200 columns if he does three fifths of the work by machine and the rest without the machine is

3. A nursing home assistant earns $360.00 a week and has deductions of $18.00 for her retirement fund, $15.00 for medical insurance, $21.00 for social security, and $72.00 for withholding taxes. How much is her take home pay?

4. If an employee’s salary is $2,500 a month and there are 23 working days in the month, he earns approximately how much for each day he works that month?

5. Assume that a copying machine produces copies of a bulletin at a cost of 12 cents per copy. The machine produces 120 copies of the bulletin per minute. If the cost of producing a certain number of copies was $36, how many minutes did it take the machine to produce this number of copies?

6. The average number of medical records filed per day by a filing clerk during a five-day week was 720. She filed 610 records the first day, 720 records the second day, 740 records the third day, and 755 records the fourth day. The number of records she filed the fifth day was

7. A company uses 40 forty-one-cent stamps, 25 twenty-cent stamps, and 320 sixty-nine-cent stamps each day. The total cost of stamps used by the company in a five-day period is

8. Assume there is a total of 420 employees in a medical care building. Thirty percent of the employees are doctors and one seventh are nurses. The difference between the number of nurses and the doctors is

9. Two nurses were assigned to take blood pressure readings at a health fair. They took the blood pressure of 190 people. If Nurse A took 40 more blood pressures than Nurse B, then the number of blood pressures taken by Nurse A was

10. A department head hired a total of 60 temporary employees to handle a seasonal increase in the department’s workload.
The following lists the number of temporary employees hired, their rates of pay, and the duration of their employment:
One third of the total were hired as clerks, each at the rate of $9,750 per year, for two months.
Thirty percent of the total were hired as office machine operators, each at the rate of $11,500 per year, for four months.
Twenty-two stenographers were hired, each at the rate of $10,200 per year, for three months.
The total amount paid to these temporary employees was approximately

11. A sanitation worker who reports 45 minutes early for 8:00 a.m. duty will report at

12. If a monthly salary of $3,000 is subject to a $425 tax deduction, the net salary is

13. In 2005, a medical office bought 500 dozen rubber gloves at a price of $2.60 per dozen. In 2008, 25 percent fewer gloves were bought than in 2005, but the price per dozen was 20 percent higher than the price in 2005. The total cost of the gloves bought in 2008 was

14. Assume that there are 2,300 employees in a city agency. Also assume that 5 percent of these employees are accountants; that 80 percent of the accountants have college degrees; and that one half of the accountants who have college degrees have five years of experience. Then the number of employees in the agency who are accountants with college degrees and five years of experience is

15. An emergency medical technician was standing 40 feet behind his vehicle when a second emergency medical vehicle arrived and parked 90 feet from the first vehicle. If the emergency medical technician is standing between the two vehicles, how much closer is he to the first vehicle than to the second?

16. If an IV bag has a capacity of 1,260 milliliters, how many milliliters does it contain when it’s two-thirds full?

17. A city department employs 1,400 people, of whom 35 percent are clerks and one eighth are stenographers. The number of employees in the department who are neither clerks nor stenographers is

18. A city department issued 12,000 applications in 2007. The number of applications that the department issued in 2005 was 25 percent greater than the number it issued in 2007. If the department issued 10 percent fewer applications in 2003 than it did in 2005, the number it issued in 2003 was

19. A nurse is assigned to check the accuracy of the entries on 490 forms. He checks 40 forms per hour. After working 1 hour on this task, he is joined by another nurse, who checks these forms at the rate of 35 per hour. The total number of hours required to do the entire assignment is

20. Joe can paint a fence in 3 hours and his friend can paint the fence in 4 hours. How long will it take them to do the job if they work together?