ASVAB Exam Questions
874 real ASVAB exam questions with expert-verified answers and explanations. Page 1 of 18.
- Question #1
A baker sells a dozen donuts for $3.99. The cost to make three donuts is $0.45. How much is the total profit on 5-dozen donuts?
- Question #2
Your piggy bank contains $19.75 in dimes and quarters. There are 100 coins in all. How many dimes are there?
- Question #3
A bricklayer charges $8 per square foot to lay a patio. How much would it cost for the bricklayer to lay a 12-footx16-foot patio?
- Question #4
Terry earns three times more money per hour than Tim. Tim earns $2 more per hour than Angie. As a group they earn $43 per hour. What's Angie's hourly wage?
- Question #5
If 4 people can run 8 machines, how many machines can 2 people run?
- Question #6
The price of daily admission at an amusement park is $36. The park sells an unlimited season pass for $240. How many trips would you need to make with the season ticket in order fo...
- Question #7
A plumber needs four lengths of pipe, each 3-feet, 6-inches long. Pipes are sold by the foot. How many feet does he need to buy?
- Question #8
The product of two consecutive odd numbers is 399. What are the numbers?
- Question #9
A personal trainer earns a 65% commission on her training sales. If she sells $530.00 worth of training, how much commission does she make?
- Question #10
A rectangle is one inch longer than it is wide. Its diameter is five inches. What's the width of the rectangle?
- Question #11
A treasure map is drawn to a scale of 2 inches = 3 miles. On the map, the distance between Point A and X marks-the-spot is 91/2 inches. How many actual miles does this represent?
- Question #12
A painter has painted a picture on a piece of canvas that measures 10 x 14 inches. In order to accommodate a frame, he has left an un-painted margin of 1 inch all the way around. W...
- Question #13
For a quadrilateral-shaped area with sides measuring 9 feet, 9 feet, 16 feet, and 16 feet, how many feet of chain link fence will she need?
- Question #14
A rectangle is 1 1/2 times as long as it is wide. The perimeter of the rectangle is 100 inches. What's the length of the rectangle?
- Question #15
Miguel passed seven of his history-class quizzes and failed three. The fraction of quizzes he passed is correctly expressed as:
- Question #16
A 3-yard-long ribbon was used to trim four dresses. Each dress used the same amount of ribbon. How much ribbon was used for each dress?
- Question #17
Sarah found a wallet containing $500 in the street. She returned the wallet to its owner, who gave her a $30 reward. What percentage of the $500 was the reward?
- Question #18
A bin of bolts at the hardware store contains 7-dozen bolts when full. The stock clerk is supposed to reorder bolts when the bin is 1/6 full. How many bolts are in the bin when it'...
- Question #19
Two bicyclists head toward each other from the opposite ends of Main Street, which is six miles long. The first biker started at 2:05 going 12 mph. The second biker began peddling...
- Question #20
A recipe calls for 8 ounces of black beans or red beans. The cheapest option to buy and use would be:
- Question #21
A street vendor sells $25.70 worth of pretzels on Friday, $32.30 on Saturday, and $31.80 on Sunday. He spends a fourth of the money over the weekend. How much money does he have le...
- Question #22
A person has $30.00. He saw some camouflage socks for $3.95 a pair. How many pairs of socks can he buy?
- Question #23
A crate containing a puppy weighs 60 pounds, 5 ounces. The puppy weighs 43 pounds, 7 ounces. How much does the crate alone weigh?
- Question #24
In a manufacturing plant that produces new computers, a 0.15 probability exists that a computer will be defective. If five computers are manufactured, what's the probability that a...
- Question #25
A house contains one 12-foot-x-14-foot bedroom, one 12-foot-x-10-foot bedroom, and one 8-foot-x- 12-foot bedroom. What's the total amount of carpeting needed to carpet all three be...
- Question #26
Rafael can type 9 pages an hour. How long will it take him to type 126 pages?
- Question #27
In a 60-minute gym class, 40 girls want to play volleyball, but only 10 can play at a time. For each player to get the same amount of playing time, how many minutes should each per...
- Question #28
The video-rental store charges $2.00 for the first day a rented video is overdue and $1.25 for each day after that. If a person paid $8.25 in late fees, how many days was the video...
- Question #29
The neighbor's dog barks at a squirrel every 15 minutes at night. If he first barks at 10 p.m., when you're trying to fall asleep, how many times will he bark by 2 a.m., when you g...
- Question #30
If a barber is capable of cutting the hair of 35 people per day, and he works 7 days per week, how many haircuts could he give during the months of April, May, and June?
- Question #31
If you typed 45 words per minute, how many words would you be able to type in 12 minutes?
- Question #32
Tom is flying a kite at the end of a 500-foot string. His friend Kathy is standing directly under the kite 300 feet away from Tom. How high is the kite flying?
- Question #33
Amy wants to fence in a yard using 400 feet of fencing. If she wants the yard to be 30-feet wide, how long will it be?
- Question #34
A three-digit code must be used to access a computer file. The first digit must be an A or a B. The second digit must be a number between 0 and 9. The final digit is a single lette...
- Question #35
The sun is 93 million miles from Earth and light travels at a rate of 186,000 miles per second. How long does it take for light from the sun to reach the Earth?
- Question #36
A tanning bed pass for unlimited tanning costs $53 per month this year, but it was only $50 per month last year. What was the percentage of increase?
- Question #37
Eleven plus forty-one is divided by a number. If the result is 13, what's the number?
- Question #38
Mark received an hourly wage of $9.25. His boss gave him a 4% raise. How much does Mark make per hour now?
- Question #39
How many pounds of nails costing $7 per pound must be mixed with 6 pounds of nails costing $3 per pound to yield a mixture costing $4 per pound?
- Question #40
Theodore has 20 baseball cards. He sells 1/4 of his cards to Tom, 1/3 of his cards to Larry, and his Mom accidentally throws away 1/6 of his cards. How many baseball cards does The...
- Question #41
Theresa bought 5 karaoke CDs on sale. A karaoke CD normally costs $24, but she was able to purchase the CDs for $22.50 each. How much money did Theresa save on her entire purchase?
- Question #42
On a trip to the beach you travel 200 miles in 300 minutes. How fast did you travel?
- Question #43
21 students, or 60% of the class, passed the final exam. How many students are in the class?
- Question #44
Joan invests $4,000 in an account that earns 3% simple interest. How much will Joan have in the account in 10 years?
- Question #45
A rectangle has a perimeter of 36 inches. It's length is 3 inches greater than twice the width. What's the rectangle's length?
- Question #46
A back yard is 50 feet by 100 feet. What's its area?
- Question #47
Eric is driving a car in which the speedometer is calibrated in kilometers per hour (kph). He notes that his car is travelling at a rate of 75 kph, when he passes a speed limit sig...
- Question #48
Three apples and twice as many pears add up to one-half the number of grapes in a fruit basket. How many grapes are in the basket?
- Question #49
Apples are on sale for "Buy 2 get 1 free." How many pounds must Janet purchase to get 2 pounds free?
- Question #50
If 4 pipes of equal length measure 44 feet when they're connected together, how long is each pipe?