Answers to the April 12th Question of the Week – 1. A 2. D 3 A
Try answering following questions:
1. Mr. Benson wants to sort his computer files into folders that hold 30 files each. He has 960 files. About how many folders will Mr. Benson need to hold all the files?
A. 20 folders
B. 32 folders
C. 40 [...]
Apologies for the delay in publishing the answers to the February 15, 2010 reading comprehension questions – The answers are 1. C 2. D 3. C
Try these word problems:
1. Last year Patti K. sold TVs for a department store. She sold 110 big-screen TVs for $1,500 each. What is the total dollar amount Patti K. [...]
Answers to the Question of the Week will be posted in this section prior to the next week’s question.
READING COMPREHENSION
The timing of New Year’s Day has changed with customs and calendars. The Mayan civilization, on what is now called the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, celebrated the New Year on one of two days when the [...]
The Answers to last week’s questions are: 1. C 2. C 3. C
Try these estimation problems.
1. Maggie is buying donuts at the bakery for her classmates at school. She wants to buy twice as many donuts as students in her class. Maggie has 18 students in her class. About how many donuts should Maggie buy?
A.20 [...]
Answers to last week’s questions are: 1. .33 2. 17 3. March
Here are this week’s quesitons:
1. 20 % of 2 is equal to
A. 20
B. 4
C. 0.4
D. 0.04
2. A school committee consists of 2 teachers and 4 students. The number of different committees that can be formed from 5 teachers and 10 students is
A. 10
B. 15
C. [...]
The Answers to last week’s question are: 1. 560 2. not certain 3. 40
Here are this week’s questions:
1. Which number in the following group of numbers represent the smallest amount? _________
7 .8 31 .33 2
2. In printing an article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the
larger [...]
Answers to the September 27th Question of the Week -
Section 1: 1. d 2. b 3. c 4. a 5. c Section 2: 1. c 2. d 3. b 4. d 5. a
Answer the following questions:
1. Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the profits equally. X invests
$9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z [...]
Answers to this week’s questions will be posted in this section next Sunday, October 4, 2009.
This week’s questions are:
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Vocabulary
This section consists of items requiring you to recognize words that have a similar or opposite meaning of the underlined word.
In questions 1 – 4, circle the word or phrase that means the same or about [...]
Due to circumstances beyond our control we have had to remove the forum from the website. Answers to the “Question of the Week” will now appear the following week before the next question. A new question will be posted every Sunday evening.
Patterns:
Each question consists of a series of letters or numbers (or both) that follow some definite order. Study each
series to determine what the order is. Then look at the answer choices. Circle the one answer that will
complete the set in accordance with the pattern established.
l. 19 24 20 25 21 26 3. 10 2 8 2 [...]
