ASVAB Exam Questions

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?

Your piggy bank contains $19.75 in dimes and quarters. There are 100 coins in all. How many dimes are there?

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?

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?

If 4 people can run 8 machines, how many machines can 2 people run?

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...

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?

The product of two consecutive odd numbers is 399. What are the numbers?

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?

A rectangle is one inch longer than it is wide. Its diameter is five inches. What's the width of the rectangle?

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?

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...

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?

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?

Miguel passed seven of his history-class quizzes and failed three. The fraction of quizzes he passed is correctly expressed as:

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?

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?

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'...

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...

A recipe calls for 8 ounces of black beans or red beans. The cheapest option to buy and use would be:

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...

A person has $30.00. He saw some camouflage socks for $3.95 a pair. How many pairs of socks can he buy?

A crate containing a puppy weighs 60 pounds, 5 ounces. The puppy weighs 43 pounds, 7 ounces. How much does the crate alone weigh?

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...

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...

Rafael can type 9 pages an hour. How long will it take him to type 126 pages?

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...

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...

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...

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?

If you typed 45 words per minute, how many words would you be able to type in 12 minutes?

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?

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?

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...

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?

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?

Eleven plus forty-one is divided by a number. If the result is 13, what's the number?

Mark received an hourly wage of $9.25. His boss gave him a 4% raise. How much does Mark make per hour now?

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?

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...

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?

On a trip to the beach you travel 200 miles in 300 minutes. How fast did you travel?

21 students, or 60% of the class, passed the final exam. How many students are in the class?

Joan invests $4,000 in an account that earns 3% simple interest. How much will Joan have in the account in 10 years?

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?

A back yard is 50 feet by 100 feet. What's its area?

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...

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?

Apples are on sale for "Buy 2 get 1 free." How many pounds must Janet purchase to get 2 pounds free?

If 4 pipes of equal length measure 44 feet when they're connected together, how long is each pipe?