1. Look at the row of numbers below. What number should come next?

8 4 2 1 ? 2. Assume the first two statements are true. The boy plays baseball. All baseball players wear hats. Is thefinal one: The boy wears a hat. 1. true, 2. false, 3. not certain? 3. Paper sells for 21 cents per pad. What will four pads cost? 4. How many of the five pairs of items listed below are exact duplicates? Nieman, K.M. Neiman, K.M. Thomas, G.K. Thomas, C.K. Hoff, J.P. Hoff, J.P. Pino, L.R. Pina, L.R. Warner, T.S. Wanner, T.S. 5. RESENT RESERVE Do these words 1. have similar meanings, 2. have contradictory meanings, 3. mean neither the same nor opposite? 6. One of the numbered figures in the following drawing is most different from the others. What is thenumber in that figure?

7. A train travels 20

feet in 1/5 second. At this same speed, how many feet will it travel in three seconds? 8. When rope is selling at $.10 a foot, how many feet can you buy for sixty cents? 9. The ninth month of the year is 1. October, 2. January, 3. June, 4. September, 5 May. 10. Which number in the following group of numbers represents the smallest amount? 7 .8 31 .33 2

11. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the largertype, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The articleis allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type? 12. The hours of daylight and darkness in SEPTEMBER are nearest equal to the hours of daylight anddarkness in: 1. June, 2. March, 3. May, 4. November. 13. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests $9,000, Yinvests $7,000, Z invests $4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive than if theprofits were divided in proportion to the amount invested? 14. Assume the first two statements are true. Is the final one: 1. true, 2. false, 3. not certain? Tom greeted Beth. Beth greeted Dawn. Tom did not greet Dawn. 15. A boy is 17 years old and his sister is twice as old. When the boy is 23 years old, what will be theage of his sister? 16. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball game,the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person. How manypoints does each boy score on average? 17. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly gowithout wearing the same combination of these three items? 18. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he performs. Lastweek he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did he make? 19. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed. What is theheight of the box? 20. Arnold is about to go on a 500-mile car trip. His mechanic recommends that he buy a specialhighway engine oil that will save him 50 cents in gas for every 25 miles of the trip. This new oil,however, will cost $20. Is it worthwhile for Arnold to buy the oil if he has a coupon for $4 dollars off theprice? 21.) Which number is larger: .8, 8, 90, 200?

22.) If a cup of pancake mix makes 2 pancakes, how many pancakes can be made with 3 cups ofpancake mix? 23.) An airplane travels 100 miles per hour. How long will the airplane take to travel 300 miles? 24.) A gallon of gas costs $2.50. How many gallons of gas can be purchased with $5? 25.) A 10 year old Ford truck has 100,000 miles on the engine when the transmission fails on the truck.There are two replacements available- one transmission will last for 20 years, or 50,000 miles, and theother transmission will last for 8 years, or 75,000 miles. Given the current average yearly mileage onthis truck, which transmission would last the longest? 26.) A rocket engine that takes off from earth burns 10,000 pounds of fuel in 15 minutes, and is able tolift 20,000 pounds total for that time period (including the rocket fuel itself). If a payload that weighs20,000 pounds is needed to be transported for one hour, and unused rocket engines are dropped instages after their fuel has been exhausted, how many rocket engines must be used to transport thepayload for that time period? 27.) How many of the five pairs listed below are exact duplicates? Bologna AND BalognaMalicious AND MaliciousFirearm AND FireamSpace Shuttle AND Space HuttleGray AND Green 28.) 7 months of the year have 31 days, and 4 have 30 days. What month has only 28 days? 29.) Do the words retire and inspire have opposite meanings, similar meanings, or no relation?

30.) Do the words hypothesis and theory have opposite meanings, similar meanings, or no relation? 31.) Choose the verb that correctly completes the sentence: Have you ________ the painting yet?A) FinishB) FinishesC) FinishingD) Finished 32.) 56/4= A) 16B) 9