PICAT/ASVAB EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS)

PICAT/ASVAB EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025) (VERIFIED ANSWERS) Jerry walked a dog from 6:40 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. one day. If he was paid at the rate of $6 per hour, how much did he earn that day? - ANS $5.00 How many feet of chain fence are necessary to enclose a dog pen that is square and has an area of 64 square feet? - ANS 32 A woman is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office twice the area of her current office. If the perimeter of her current office is 88 feet, how many square feet is the new office? - ANS 968 sq ft A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level ground. If it goes 120 miles per hour downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land? - ANS 1/2 hour ART 2 - Arithmetic Reasoning 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? - ANS $1,607.35 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? - ANS .66 The pet store had 6 puppies selling for $104 each and 12 kittens selling for $24 each. Today, only 2 puppies and 8 kittens were left. In dollar terms, what was the ratio of sales of puppies to kittens? - ANS 13 to 3 Jamie just bought two boxes. The first box is square, with each side measuring 10 units, and is 4 units high. The second box is rectangular and has twice the volume of the square box. If the height of the second box is 5 units, and the width is 10 units, what is the length of the second box? - ANS 16 units If the ratio of the sides of two squares is 3:1, what is the ratio of their perimeters? - ANS 4:1 If the perimeter of a square garden feet, what is the area of the garden? - ANS 441 sq ft The price of salmon at a fish market is $5.40 per pound. This is 150% of its cost at a supermarket. How much would it cost per pound at the supermarket? - ANS $3.60 A printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. second press can print 15,000 copies in 60 minutes. How many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press? - ANS 50 If the population of a certain city increased 25% in two years, the new population was what percent of the old? - ANS 125% Debra and Ian shared in a $1,000,000 estate. If lan received $125.000, and Debra the rest, what fraction of the estate did Debra receive? - ANS 7/8 Emphasize most neary means - ANS Accentuate We will long remember our PERILOUS journey - ANS Hazardous INEPT most nearly means - ANS Bungling ADAGE most nearly means - ANS Proverb ADMONITION most nearly means - ANS Warning DECRY most nearly means - ANS Disparage MORATORIUM most nearly means - ANS Suspension CAJOLE most nearly means - ANS Wheedle Most companies have a policy against NEPOTISM - ANS Hiring Relatives CONTENTIOUS most nearly means - ANS Quarrelsome UNPRETENTIOUS most nearly means - ANS Simple BROACH most nearly means - ANS Mention COMMUNIQUE most nearly means - ANS Message VIRULENT most nearly means - ANS Abrasive LAMBASTE most nearly means - ANS Chastise What are the two main gases that make up stars? - ANS Hydrogen and helium Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How much is the smaller income? - ANS $13,000 Shawn purchased a shirt for $22.05 If this includes a 5% sales tax, what was the actual price of the shirt? - ANS $20.95 PRESTIGE most nearly means - ANS Status CONSTRUE most nearly means - ANS Interpret Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered the White House. His press conferences served writers, and through them the nation, about the complex, novel measures he was advocating. It can be inferred from the passage that Roosevelt - ANS was a president who recognized the power of the press. Riding the mail plane is a low-budget way to visit America's largest national park Wrangell-St. Elias --13 million acres of scenic beauty. Copper first drew prospectors to this part of Alaska. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennicott mine produced 200 million tons of it. Now a mecca for tourists, the town of Kennicott was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out. According to the passage, which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of events? - ANS copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourist attraction Physicists seek out those features of nature that are finding answers as it is asking the right questions. The trick is simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of keeping the questions simple and sticking to universal phenomena. Simple questions can be answered unambiguously by careful observatio