Number Sense and Problem Solving

Class Test 1: question paper

Do not use calculator for questions 1 – 7

1. What is [(-1) × 2 × (-3) × 4 × (-5)] divided by 6?

2. What number is the largest common factor of both 18 and 42?

3. Two-thirds of Mrs. Jensen’s class passed the Literature exam. If there are 24 students in her class,
how many passed the exam?

A) 13 B) 14 C) 15 D) 16

4. The ratio of men to women is a chorus is 2:3. If there are 180 women in chorus, how many are
men?
A) 72 B) 108 C) 120 D) 270

5. What is the smallest whole number that has both six and eight as factor?

A) 14 B) 18 C) 24 D) 48

6. Arrange the following in descending order: 9/10, 1/3, 3/8, 2/3, 5/8

7. A new movie has opening day ticket sales of $21,343,845. How is 21,343,845 written in words?

A) Twenty-one million, three hundred and forty-three thousand, eight hundred forty five

B) Twenty-one million, three hundred forty-three thousand, eight hundred forty five

C) Twenty-one million, three forty-three thousand, eight hundred forty five

D) Twenty-one million, three forty-three thousand, eight four-five

Use calculator for questions 8 – 32

8. Erin must add 4.5 cups of flour to her cookie batter using a 1.5-cup measuring cup. How many times
will she need to fill the measuring cup with flour?

A) One B) Two C) Three D) Four

9. Not including 1 and 24, how many whole numbers are factors of 24?

A) 4 B) 5 C) 6 D) 7

10. Evan is developing a table of population data for cities in his state and is rounding the number to
the nearest hundred. What would he enter for a city with a population of 93,548?

A) 93,500 B) 93,550 C) 93,600 D) 94,000

11. A group of 426 people is going to a rally. Each bus can take 65 people. What is the minimum
number of buses needed?
12. Neva’s car is now worth $12,000. This is 60% of what she paid for it. How much did she pay for
the car?

A) $7,200 B) $18,000 C) $19,200 D) $20,000

13. Form a total yearly budget of $360,000, the Kimball Foundation spends $30,000 on leasing office
space. What is the ratio of dollars spent on office space to dollars spent on other costs?

A) 12:1 B) 11:1 C) 1:11 D) 1:12

14. The proportion of students to chaperones for a school trip is required to be no more than 7 to 1.
If 45 students go on the trip, what is the minimum number of chaperones that must accompany the
students?

15. A plane drops 300 feet, rises 240 feet, drops 180 feet, rises 130 feet and drops 300 feet. What is
the height of the plane now relative to its initial height?

A) -410 feet B) -190 feet C) 190 feet D) 410 feet

16. Eighty-four percent of student athletes attended a preseason meeting. If there are 175 students
athletes, how many attended the meeting?

A) 28 B) 84 C) 128 D) 147

17. Thirty-five percent of residents surveyed were in favor of creating a new road. The remaining
residents objected. If 1,200 people were surveyed, how many objected to the new road?

A) 780 B) 420 C) 360 D) 35

18. Tom makes $200 per week working a part-time job. He pays $300 per month for his share of the
rent where he lives. How much money does he have left for other expenses in one year?

A) $1,200 B) $5,200 C) $6,000 D) $6,800

19. Justina deposits $2,000 per month into her checking account. Payments for mortgage, car, loan,
utilities and property taxes totaling $2,300 per month are withdrawn automatically. If she make no
other transactions, what is the change in her checking account balance (and not including any bank
fees or penalties) after one year?

A) -$3,600 B) -$300 C) $300 D) $3,600

20. The population of a city grew from 43,209 to 45,687 in just five years. What was the percent
increase in the population to the nearest whole percent?

A) 4% B) 5% C) 6% D) 7%

21. Fifty-four percent of customers at a grocery store bought milk on Friday. What fraction of the
customer is this?

A) 27/50 B) 14/25 C) 9/17 D) 3/5

22. Answer 22 to 24 using table 1. The following table lists the average daily receipts for a seafood
restaurant during a typical week. List in decreasing order of receipts the five days with the greatest
sales.

A) Saturday, Sunday, Friday, Thursday, Monday

B) Saturday, Sunday, Friday, Monday, Thursday

C) Saturday, Sunday, Friday, Thursday, Tuesday

D) Saturday, Sunday, Friday, Monday, Tuesday

24. Which day has the lowest receipts?

A) Monday B) Tuesday C) Wednesday D) Thursday

25. Based on the table, what sales trend can you identify?

A) Sales decrease steadily during the weekdays

B) People are more likely to eat at the restaurant on the weekends

C) Sales increase steadily from Friday through Sunday

D) Weekend special help boost the profit of the restaurant

26. If -15 is subtracted from a number, the result is -12. What is the number?

A) -27 B) -3 C) 3 D) 27

27. A grocery store stocker places 15 gallons of whole milk, 20 gallons of 2% milk, 20 gallon of 1% milk
and 20 gallons of skim milk in the case. What fraction of the milk stocked was whole milk? Write the
answer in fraction.

28. Use the number line (graph 1) for this question. In increasing order, list the fractional values of
the three points, reduced to lowest terms.

29. Examine the number line (graph 2) to answer questions 29 & 30. Write your answers in the box.
What was the change in temperature from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.?

30. What was the change in temperature from 2 P.M. to 6 P.M.?

31. In a survey, 0.52 of the participants answered "No" to the questions. How many answered "Yes"?

A) 11/50 B) 13/25 C) 78/10 D) 12/25

32. A newspaper advertisement contains the following information in the table 2. What is the original
price of the upright bike, in dollars?
 Table 1

Graph 1

Graph 2

Table 2