Parts and Proportions

A.

1. Richard has $90.00. He spent of this B.

money on a shirt and of what remains on C.

records. How much money does he now
have? D.
A. $30.00
B. $40.00 E.
C. $43.00
D. $50.00
6. David received his allowance on Sunday. He
E. $60.00
spends of his allowance on Monday and
2. A team played 30 games of which it won 24.
What part of the games did it lose? of the remainder on Tuesday. What part
A. of his allowance is left for the rest of the
week?
B.
A.
C.
B.
D.
C.
E.
D.

3. If a man’s weekly salary is $X and he saves E.

$Y, what part of his weekly salary does he
spend?
A.
7. 12 is of what number?
B.
C. A. 16
D. B. 9
C. 36
E.
D. 20
E. 15
4. What part of an hour elapses between 11:50
A.M. and 12:14 P.M.?
8. A piece of fabric is cut into three sections so
A. that the first is three times as long as the
second and the second section is three times
B. as long as the third. What part of the entire
piece is the smallest section?
A.
C.
B.
C.
D. D.
E.
E.
9. What part of gallon is one quart?
5. One-half of the employees of X Co. earn (Please remember: 1gallon = 4quarts, and
salaries above $20,000 annually. One-third 1quart = 2pints)
of the remainder earns salaries between A.
$15,000 and $20,000. What part of the staff
earns below $15,000?
 B. 15. If x is of y and y is of z, what is the
ratio of z:x?
C. A. 1:2
B. 1:1
D. C. 2:1
D. 3:2
E. E. 4:3

16. What fraction of 8 tons is 1,000 lbs.?

10. A factory employs M men and W women. (REMEMBER: “lbs.” means “pounds” and
What part of its employees are women? 1tone= 2,000 pounds)
A. A. 1/32
B. 1/16
B. C. 1/8
C. D. 8/1
D. E. 16/1
E.
17. If 60 feet of uniform wire weights 80
pounds, what is the weight of 2 yards of the
11. A motion was passed by a vote of 5:3. What same wire?
part of the votes cast was in favor of the (REMEMBER: 1yard = 3feet, and 1foot =
motion? 12inches, so 1yard = 36inches)
A. 5/8 A.
B. 5/3
C. 3/5 B. 6
D. 2/5 C. 2400
E. 3/8 D. 120
E. 8
12. If the ratio of x:y is 9:7, what is the value of
x + y? 18. A gear 50 inches in diameter turns a smaller
A. 2 gear 30 inches in diameter. If the larger gear
B. 14 makes 15 revolutions, how many revolutions
C. 16 does the smaller gear make in that time?
D. 63 A. 9
E. can’t be determined B. 12
C. 20
13. In a certain class the ration of men to D. 25
women is 3:5. If the class has 24 people in E. 30
it, how many are women?
A. 9 19. If x men can do a job in h hours, how long
B. 12 would y men take to do the same job?
C. 15 A. x/h
D. 18 B. xh/y
E. 21 C. hy/x
D. xy/h
14. If the ratio of men to women in a class is 3:5 E. x/y
and the class contains 24 people, how many
additional men would have to enroll to make 20. If a furnace uses 40 gallons of oil in a week,
the ratio of men to women 1:1? how many gallons, to the nearest gallon,
A. 3 does it use in 10 days?
B. 6 A. 57
C. 9 B. 4
D. 12 C. 28
E. 15 D. 400
E. 58
21. A recipe requires 13 ounces of sugar and 18 C. pd/c
ounces of flour. If only 10 ounces of sugar is D. pc/d
used, how much flour, to the nearest ounce, E. cd/p
should be used?
A. 13 27. An amount of $48,000 is to be divided
B. 23 among three people in the ratio of 2:3:7.
C. 24 How much is the least share one can get?
D. 14 A. $4,000
E. 15 B. $8,000
C. $12,000
22. If a car can drive 25 miles on two gallons of D. $28,000
gasoline, how many gallons will be needed E. can’t be determined
for a trip of 150 moles?
A. 12 28. A bar of 39 inches is cut into two pieces
B. 3 such that twice the longer piece is 3 inches
C. 6 more than three times the shorter. How
D. 7 many inches is the longer piece?
E. 10 A. 16
B. 24
23. A school has enough bread to feed 30 C. 15
children for 4 days. If 10 more children are D. 81/5
added, how many days will the bread last? E. 144/5
A. 29. In a certain party the ration of the number of
males to the number of females to the
B. number of babies is 7:6:2. If there are 75
people altogether, how many females are
C. there in that party.
A. 5
D. 12 B. 10
E. 3 C. 15
D. 30
24. At c cents per pound, what is the cost of a E. 35
ounces of salami?
(1pound = 16ounces) 30. An automobile travels at the rate of 55 mph.
A. c/a How many minutes will it take to travel 2/3
B. a/c of a mile at this rate?
C. ac A. 0.2
D. ac/16 B. 0.72
E. 16c/a C. 2.2
D. 13.5
25. If 3 miles is equivalent to 4.83 kilometers, E. 22
then 11.27 kilometers is equivalent to how
many miles?
A.
31. A man runs y yards in m minutes. What is
B. his rate in yards per hour?
C. 7 A. y/60m
D. 5 B. m/60y
C. 60my
E. D. 60y/m
E. 60m/y
26. If p pencils cost d dollars, how many pencils
32. The distance between two cities is 1,800
can be bought for c cents?
miles. How many gallons of gasoline will a
A. 100pc/d
motorist use with a car that uses (on the
B. pc/100d
 average) one gallon of gasoline for each 12
miles?
A. 150
B. 160
C. 216
D. 1,500
E. 2,160

33. At a certain university, ¼ of the applicants

failed to meet minimum standards and were
rejected immediately. Of those who met the
standards, 2/5 were accepted. If 1200
applicants were accepted, how many
applied?
A. 2400
B. 3200
C. 4000
D. 4200
E. 4800

34. More than half of the members of the Key

Club are girls. If 4/7 of the girls and 7/11 of
the boys in the Key Club attend the April
meeting, what is the smallest number of
members the club could have?
A. 14
B. 16
C. 18
D. 20
E. 25

35. Jerry spent $105 for a tool kit and a box of

nails. If the tool kit cost $100 more than the
nails, how many boxes of nails could be
purchased for the price of the tool kit?
A. 40
B. 41
C. 43
D. 52
E. 120

36. If 2/3 of the workers in the office are

nonsmokers, what is the ratio of the smokers
to nonsmokers?
A. 2:5
B. 1:2
C. 3:5
D. 2:3
E. 3:2