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WorkKeys Assessments: Applied Math Practice Test 3
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WorkKeys Applied Math exam covers critical thinking, mathematical reasoning, and problem-solving techniques for practical situations that happen every day in the workplace. This assessment has five levels of difficulty and may be administered by computer or pencil-and-paper exam.

WorkKeys Assessments: Applied Math Practice Test 3
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1. A dress is marked down by 20% and placed on a clearance rack, on which is posted a sign reading, 'Take an extra 25% off already reduced merchandise.' What fraction of the original price is the final sales price of the dress
2. The 24 students in class each dropped a quarter in the box. How much money did they collect
3. Find the mean temperature for the week shown in the graph below:
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4. According to the graph below, how many hours this week did Levi spend practicing his saxophone?
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5. Marie purchased highlighters for 30 cents each, notebooks for $1.79 each, and pens for $2.49 per dozen. She bought 3 notebooks, 2 dozen pens, and 6 highlighters. What was her cost before tax
6. In a town of 35,638 people, about a quarter of the population is under the age of 35. Of those, just over a third attend local K-12 schools. If the number of students in each grade is about the same, how many fourth graders likely reside in the town
7. Rufus is a plumber working for ACME Plumbing Co. For a given job, he bills the customer $50 plus a rate of $85 per hour. 22% of the money goes to ACME Plumbing, the rest belongs to Rufus. How much does Rufus receive for a job that takes him 2.5 hours to complete
8. Emily ate 1/6 of a box of chocolates. The next day she ate an additional 2/9, and the third day she ate ¼ of the box. What fraction of the box did she eat in all
9. You are constructing a semi-circular wall around some property. The wall will be a 300° arc with a radius of 38 feet. What is the total length of the wall
10. Amy, Lee, and Dani were collecting coins as shown in the chart below. How many more dimes than nickels did they have?
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11. Annie, David, Mark, and Liz each had several coins as shown in the graph below. What was the average number of dimes per person?
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12. You are constructing a semi-circular wall around some property. The wall will be a 300° arc with a radius of 38 feet. What is the total length of the wall
13. Elsa bought 3 lbs of pecans for $5.89 per pound. What was her total cost, assuming no tax
14. Miles added image_016_014.png by adding numerators and denominators to get 2/4. What mistake did he make
15. Luke counted the gumballs in a machine and found that there were 1.37 times as many gumballs as he had estimated. What is this number as a percent
16. Zane ate 5/12 of a pizza for lunch, and an additional 3/8 for dinner. What percent of the pizza is left
17. A Ford dealership has 137 vehicles on the lot. 38 of them are sedans, 27 are SUVs, and 64 are trucks. What is the ratio of trucks to sedans
18. Zoe had 7/8 of a pizza. She gave 1/8 to Marie and 3/8 to Kenna. What fraction of the pizza does she still have
19. Grant's car holds 10 gallons of gas and can go 275 miles on a tank. Ana's car holds 12 gallons of gas and can go 324 miles on a tank. Which vehicle has better gas mileage
20. A rancher has 40 adult cows, half of which are female. If all the female cows give birth to calves, how many cattle will the rancher have in total
21. If a space heater draws 10 amps from a 120-volt household circuit, and electricity costs 10¢ per kilowatt-hour, how much has it cost to run the space heater for 3 hours? Note that a watt-hour is equal to 1 watt of power used for one hour.
22. An ice cream cone is 6 inches tall, and the opening at the top has a diameter of 2 inches. What percentage of a gallon of ice cream can the cone hold
23. Brent purchases 2 movie tickets for $6.50 each, a large popcorn for $7, and two drinks for $3.50 each. Tax is $2.25. How much change should Brent receive if he pays with $30
24. Samantha found that 42% of her socks were missing their mates. What decimal is this
25. Margery is planning a vacation, and she has added up the cost. Her round-trip airfare will cost $572. Her hotel cost is $89 per night, and she will be staying at the hotel for five nights. She has allotted a total of $150 for sightseeing during her trip, and she expects to spend about $250 on meals. As she books the hotel, she is told that she will receive a discount of 10% per night off the price of $89 after the first night she stays there. Taking this discount into consideration, what is the amount that Margery expects to spend on her vacation