ASVAB-SECTION-2 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A student scores 74, 87, 68, 63, 76 on his last five exams. His teacher will drop the lowest grade to compute the student's average.

What is the students average in the class?

A. 76.3%

B. 79.4%

C. 84.9%

D. 89.4%

E. 68.2%

If doughnuts are usually 75 cents each, but there is a sale on Friday advertising them as 1 dozen + 1/2 dozen for $10.80, what is the new cost for just one?

A. 55 cents

B. 50 cents

C. 60 cents

D. 65 cents

You take your dog for a walk in the evenings and it takes about 25 minutes to walk 8 city blocks.

If you decide to do a "marathon walk" of 32 city blocks on a Saturday, how many minutes will it take you to complete this?

A. 1 hour + 40 minutes

B. 1 hour + 25 minutes

C. 1 hour

D. 1 hour + 32 minutes

If 4 people can stain a deck in 2 days, how many people would be required to stain the deck in only 1 day?

A. 8

B. 2

C. 4

D. 12

Jolie wants to get a new car before her second year of college. The sticker price of the kind of car she wants went up from $22,399 last year to $23,999 for this year's model.

What percentage did the price increase?

A. 1.071%

B. 7.1%

C. 9.3%

D. 71.4%

During Friday night's high school performance of the play Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, 76% of the seats in the performing arts center (with a seating capacity of 500 people) were occupied, and three-quarters of those attending were parents.

How many high school students attended the play?

A. 95

B. 100

C. 76

D. 285

The population of Grand Island, Nebraska, grew by 600,000 people between 1995 and 2005, one-fifth more than the town council predicted.

The town council originally predicted the city's population would grow by __________.

A. 400,000

B. 500,000

C. 300,000

D. 200,000

Joan is taking an admissions examination.

If she has to get at least 40 of the 60 questions right to pass, what percent of the questions does she need

to answer correctly?

A. 30%

B. 40%

C. 661/3%

D. 662/3%

Darla spent $120.37 on groceries in January, $108.45 in February, and $114.86 in March. What was the average monthly cost of Darla's groceries?

A. $343.68

B. $110.45

C. $114.86

D. $114.56

A plumber needs four lengths of pipe, each 3-feet, 6-inches long. Pipes are sold by the foot. How many feet does he need to buy?

A. 15

B. 16

C. 14

D. 12