1. A scientist planted 120 seeds, and 90 sprouted. What percent of the seeds failed to sprout? 2. What is the average of 1/4 and 1/6? 3. A square measures 9 feet on each side. If each side of the square is increased by 3 feet, how many square feet are added to the area? 4. At a concert, floor tickets are $20 each, and balcony seats are $10 each. 324 floor tickets were sold & the box office collected $10,000. How many balcony tickets were sold? 5. In a city, taxicab fare is .80 cents for the first 1/4 mile and .20 for additional 1/4 mile. How far can you travel for $5.00? 6. What is the value of 3a2 −2a + 5, when a = 4? 7. When a certain number is divided by 15, the answer is 8, and the remainder is 7. What is the number? 8. Find the value of (−3)4 +(−2)4 +(−1)4 9. The road-paving crew needs 8 barrels of water to spray every 1/2 mile of road. How many barrels are needed to pave 31/ 2 miles of road? 10. A photograph is 8 inches long and 6 inches wide. If it is enlarged to 12 inches long, how many inches wide will it be? 11. What is the next number: 5, 2, 9, 6, _? 12. If 500 people are at the movie theater, and 80% are adults. How many children are there? 13. A $240 table is on sale for $180. What is the percent decrease in price? 14. The scale on a map is 1 inch equals 50 miles. On the map, two cities are 21 /2 inches apart. How many miles apart are the two cities? 15. The perimeter of a rectangle is 40 feet. If the length is 15 feet, 6 inches; what is the width? pg. 37 16. The profits of $72,000 were divided between the two owners in a ratio of 5:3. How much money did the majority owner receive? 17. What is the reciprocal of 5/3? Write answer as a percent here _. 18. If “a” is a negative number, and “ab” is a positive answer, then what is the sign of “b”? 19. Remaining items ARE on Pi-Cat & the real Asvab 20. Jerry walked a dog from 6:40am to 7:30am one day. If he was paid at the rate of 6 per hour, how much did he earn that day? 21. Each August, a restaurant's rent is adjusted to the cost of living index. The rent has been 1,550 a month, and the cost of living index for this August was 3.7%. What is the new rent per month? 22. There are 9 red and 6 green marbles in a bag. A child reaches in the bag and randomly takes one marble. What is the probability of that child getting a green marble? *Write answer as decimal. 23. If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old? 24. A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. A second press can print 15,000 in 60 minutes. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press? 25. Debra and Ian shared in a 1,000,000 estate. Ian received 125,000, and Debra the rest. What fraction of the estate did Debra receive? Don’t solve this. The answer is 7/8. Just remember, in case this question is on your test 26. What is the area of a parallelogram if its length is x+4 and its height is x+3? 27. The sum of: 3x3 -2x +8, 2x2 + 5, and x3 + 2x2 -3x -3 28. If x/5 + 6 = -14 then x = 29. What is the length of the diagonal of a rectangle with a length of 4 and width of 3? 30. 4/3 x 3/4 = 5K, then K =? 31. What is 5x times (3x2 -5)? 32. A stereo can be purchased on the installment plan with a down payment of $35.00 and then 15 payments of $22.50 each. If there is no sales tax, how much will the stereo cost if purchased on the installment plan? pg. 38 33. 3a2 +a2 added to a +6 34. 2 x = 32 then x= 35. Solve for d: b=cd 36. What is the 12/50 simplest form 37. If 4x+ 12= 0, then x= 38. x= -2 and y= 3, who is the value of 2y-x? 39. Terry earns a $250 salary plus $5 per sale. How many sales must Terry make to earn $765? 40. A sweater originally priced at $80 was marked down at 25%. What was the sale price of the sweater? 41. A pizza is cut into 8 equal pieces. A person who eats 1/2 of one piece eats what fraction of the pizza? 42. If five people, each working 8 hours a day, can assemble 400 toys in a 5-day work week. What is the average number of toys assembled per hour, per person? 43. A gas can is filled at the rate of 320 cubic in per min. The can is 10in long. 8in wide and 12 in high. How many min will it take to fill the can? 44. A pie was cut into two equal pieces. Each of the pieces of pie was cut into halves again, and each of those smaller pieces was cut into two equal pieces. If two of the pieces of the pie are eaten, what portion of the pie remains? 45. How many 5-pound bags of apples can be made from 400 apples, each weighing 1/4 pound? 46. If a 5-foot post casts an 8ft shadow at the same time that a nearby tree casts a 48-foot shadow,