The Advanced Numeracy Test Workbook - Mike Bryon [18]
Q6. What is the highest factor that 12 and 18 both have in common?
A 9
B 3
C 6
D 2
Answer
Q7. What is the only even prime number?
A 10
B 14
C 2
D 4
Answer
Q8. What is the highest factor that both 16 and 22 have in common?
A 2
B 3
C 16
D 8
Answer
Q9. Is 19 a prime number?
A Yes
B No
Answer
Q10. If the price of an item is increased from €150 to €200 what is the nearest whole percentage point increase?
A 33%
B 17%
C 11%
D 25%
Answer
Q11. What is the equity interest of the owner of 100 shares of a company’s stock if that company has 10,000 shares outstanding?
A 0.001%
B 0.1%
C 1%
D 10%
Answer
Q12. An illustrated book comprises 938 pages. If the ratio of pages with illustrations to pages without is 6:1, how many illustrated pages does the book contain?
A 536
B 804
C 670
D None of these
Answer
Q13. What is the highest factor that both 48 and 72 have in common?
A 6
B 12
C 18
D 24
Answer
Q14. Is 222 a prime number?
A Yes
B No
Answer
Q15. Convert the ratio 5:5:6 into a percentage:
A 20%:20%:60%
B 31.25%:31.25%:37.5%
C 25%:25%:50%
D None of these
Answer
Q16. 20 is a 1/3 of 1% of what number?
A 6
B 60
C 6,000
D 600
Answer
Q17. The depreciation on a piece of office equipment is written down over three sequential years at the percentages 20%, 30% and 40%. If the original cost was £10,000 what was the book value after the depreciation?
A £1,000
B £3,360
C £3,600
D £2,240
Answer
Q18. A firm’s monthly wage bill increased by 3.6% after the annual wage review to a new total of £16,000. What was the original monthly figure? (Suggested answers are expressed to the nearest £.)
A £15,136
B £15,424
C £14,993
D £15,444
Answer
Q19. Is 337 a prime number?
A Yes
B No
Answer
Q20. An inventory reveals that the stock of components has decreased by 16% from an original number of 3,250. What number of components are now recorded in the inventory?
A 2,353
B 2,730
C 520
D None of these
Answer
Q21. What is the highest factor common to both 135 and 270?
A 2
B 135
C 14
D 9
Answer
Q22. An employment agency reduced the charge for its services by 10% and as a result finds that sales have increased by 30%. By what percentage does turnover increase?
A 19%
B 116%
C 17%
D You cannot tell
Answer
Q23. Find the modal value from the following data:
20, 26, 24, 20, 21, 25
A 20
B 22
C 22.6
D 25
Answer
Q24. Find the median of the following values:
10,2, 9, 3, 8, 1, 7
A 5
B 7
C 6
D 8
Answer
Q25. Find the lower quartile for the following data:
19, 20, 27, 30, 40, 45, 70, 88, 89, 90, 91
A 19
B 24.75
C 27
D 30
Answer
Q26. Find the interquartile range for the data given in Q25.
A 36
B 62
C 55.5
D 45.5
Answer
Q27. What is the average of the 137 consecutive numbers from 282 through to 419?
A 340.5
B 375
C 325
D 350.5
Answer
Q28. Is 48 a prime number?
A Yes
B No
Answer
Q29. A supplier increases prices for two consecutive years by 3%. What is the combined percentage increase?
A 7.1%
B 6.09%
C 6%
D 6.03%
Answer
Q30. What is the sum of all the numbers from 16 through to 60?
A 1,672
B 1,748
C 1,980
D 1,710
Answer
Q31. Which of the following is true of a multiple of 6?
A Last digit is even
B Sum of digits is a multiple of 9
C Sum of digits is a multiple of 3
D Last digit is odd
Answer
Q32. The average price of a holiday in Europe is €700 per person while the average price for a holiday in the United States is €900. If three times as many holidays to Europe are sold as holidays to the United States, what is the average price of a holiday overall?
A €750
B €800
C €775
D €825
Answer
Q33. What is the average of every number from 13 to 80?
A 40
A 40
B 50
C 46.5
D 55
Answer
Q34. Which of the following is true of a multiple of 3?
A Last digit is always 0
B Sum of digits is multiple of 3
C Sum of digits is multiple of 9
D Last digit is 5 or 0
Answer
Q35. What is the range of possible answers to the sum of two two-digit numbers in the addition below:
A 99 ≤ x ≥ 100
B 100 ≤ x ≥ 198
C 100 ≤ x