Diagnostic PreTest Answers

The balance on your business credit card is $215. Then you purchase 5 new chairs for the office. Each chair cost $75.What is the new balance on the credit card?

As a farmer, one of your responsibilities is to plow the field to prepare it for planting. On day 1, you plowed of the field. On day 2, you plowed of the field.How much more of the field did you plow on day 1 than on day 2?

You own a roofing company. The roofers are replacing shingles on a house. It takes of a 50-pound box of nails to install shingles on of the roof.How many boxes of nails will the company need to install shingles on the entire roof?

While working at a bakery, you are responsible for decorating cakes. You would like to add a string of flowers to the border of a round cake you are decorating. The cake has a radius of 14 inches.What is the length, to the nearest inch, of the string of flowers you will need?

You are a furniture restorer who is mixing a solution of olive oil and lemon juice. The solution is for polishing wooden furniture to give it a shine and a fresh scent. You fill 50% of a cup with lemon juice and 25% of a quart with olive oil. Afterwards, you mix the olive oil and the lemon juice in another container.

You are a construction worker who is laying down concrete drainage pipes. Each pipe is 5 feet long and 3 inches thick, and has an outside diameter of 6.5 feet. You lay down 4 drainage pipes end to end.At any given time, what is the volume of water that passes through the 4 drainage pipes at half capacity? Round the answer to the nearest tenth of a cubic foot.

You are a sports agent’s assistant. You are preparing a report on contracts you have obtained for the agent’s clients. You recently negotiated the following annual contracts: $2.8 million, $18.9 million, $1.5 million, $1.2 million, $1.5 million, and $3.5 million per year. The standard deviation of the data is 6.3, and the range is 17.7.

You work for a house-painting company and need to purchase 25 gallons of white paint. One store charges $44.99 per gallon (including tax). A second store usually charges $52.50 per gallon (including tax), but offers 10% off because you are making a bulk purchase.

You work at a bakery that charges $5.48 per dozen cupcakes, including tax. A customer places an order for dozen cupcakes.How much should you charge the customer?

You are the shift supervisor at a local restaurant. You note that 15 employees work on Sundays. This represents 60% of all the restaurant’s employees.How many employees does the restaurant have?