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Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exam: Quantitative Ability - Problem Solving Practice Test
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Nursing School and Allied Health Entrance Exam: Quantitative Ability - Problem Solving Practice Test
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1. If the city uses 1,500 laborers in manual street cleaning and half as many more to load and drive trucks, the total number of laborers used is
2. Six gross of special drawing pencils were purchased for use in a city department. If the pencils were used at the rate of 24 a week, the maximum number of weeks that the six gross of pencils would last is
3. A sanitation worker is 40 feet behind a sanitation truck. There is a second sanitation truck 90 feet behind the first truck. How much closer is the worker to the first truck than to the second?
4. If a flushing machine has a capacity of 1,260 gallons, how many gallons will it contain when it is two-thirds full?
5. Of 186 summonses issued, 100 were issued to first offenders. How many summonses were issued to non–first offenders?
6. If a sanitation department scow is towed at the rate of 3 miles per hour, how many hours will it need to go 28 miles?
7. If a crosswalk plow engine is run 5 minutes a day for ten days in a given month, how long will it run in the course of this month?
8. If the average cost of sweeping a square foot of a small town’s street is $0.75, the cost of sweeping 100 square feet is
9. If there are 245 sections in a city containing five boroughs, the average number of sections for each of the five boroughs is
10. If an employee earns $160.00 a week and has deductions of $8.00 for the pension fund, $12.00 for medical insurance, and $29.60 withholding tax, his take-home pay is
11. If, in that same city, a section has 45 miles of street to plow after a snowstorm, and nine plows are used, each plow will cover an average of how many miles?
12. If a man is 60 feet away from a sanitation truck, how many feet nearer is he to the truck than a second truck that is 100 feet away?
13. A city department uses 25 twenty-cent, 35 thirty-cent, and 350 forty-cent metered postage units each day. The total cost of stamps used by the department in a five-day period is
14. A cogwheel having eight cogs plays into another cogwheel having 24 cogs. When the small wheel has made 42 revolutions, how many has the larger wheel made?
15. In 2005, a school bought 500 dozen pencils at $0.40 per dozen. In 2008, only 75 percent as many pencils were bought as were bought in 2005, but the price per dozen was 20 percent higher than the 2005 price. The total cost of the pencils bought in 2008 was

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