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Health Education Systems Admission Assessment Mathematics

Operations, fractions, decimals, ratios, military time, and Roman numerals.

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  1. 1.A campus print shop runs 86 orientation handouts on Monday and 49 on Tuesday. How many handouts is that for the two days?

  2. 2.A skills-lab closet starts the week with 200 procedure masks. Instructors take 73 masks for a workshop. How many masks remain in the closet?

  3. 3.A simulation cart holds 7 instrument trays, and each tray contains 9 forceps. How many forceps are on the cart?

  4. 4.A field trip has 84 students. Each van seats 6 students, and every van that is used is full. How many vans are needed?

  5. 5.During move-in, 4 residence halls each open 3 lounges, and staff place 5 new lamps in every lounge. How many lamps are placed?

  6. 6.A student has $40 for a campus errand, spends $18 on a badge, and spends $13 on a notebook. How much money is left?

  7. 7.A library cart receives 23 returned novels in the morning and 19 in the afternoon. Patrons then check out 11 of those returned novels. How many of the returned novels are still on the cart?

  8. 8.A greenhouse has 6 benches. Four benches each receive 8 liters of water, and the other two benches each receive 5 liters. How many liters are used in all?

  9. 9.A film club sells 15 adult tickets at $8 each for a documentary night. How much money is collected from those adult tickets?

  10. 10.A drill team lines up in 5 rows with 12 students in each row. Then 3 students step out. How many students remain in the formation?

  11. 11.A pottery studio has 36 finished mugs and packs 4 mugs in each shipping box. How many boxes are filled?

  12. 12.A foot ferry sells 27 fares during the first hour and 36 fares during the second hour. How many fares are sold in those two hours?

  13. 13.A prop shop cuts each of 8 dowels into 5 equal pieces. How many pieces does that make?

  14. 14.A hostel has 11 rooms with 2 beds and 4 rooms with 3 beds. How many beds are there?

  15. 15.A trivia team starts at 0, earns 18 points, loses 7 points on a penalty, and then earns a 5-point bonus. What is the final score?

  16. 16.A warehouse prepares 9 crates with 12 bottles in each crate, then removes 6 bottles as samples. How many bottles are left in the shipment?

  17. 17.A quilter has 5/6 yard of cloth and uses 1/3 yard for a border. How much cloth is left?

  18. 18.A juice stand blends 3/8 liter of orange juice with 1/8 liter of pineapple juice. How many liters are in the blend?

  19. 19.A writing tutor meets one student for 3/4 hour and a second student for 2/5 hour. How many hours is that altogether?

  20. 20.A community plot covers 7/8 acre. A club plants vegetables on 1/2 of that plot. What fraction of an acre is planted in vegetables?

  21. 21.A 2/3-meter cord is cut into pieces that are each 1/9 meter long. How many pieces does the cord make?

  22. 22.A pitcher is 5/6 full of water. A painter pours out an amount equal to 1/3 of the pitcher's capacity. What fraction of the pitcher is still full?

  23. 23.Three friends share 6/7 of a pan of cornbread equally. What fraction of the whole pan does each friend get?

  24. 24.A cyclist rides 1/4 of a marked route before lunch and 2/5 of the route after lunch. What fraction of the route is finished?

  25. 25.A carpenter has a board 3 1/2 feet long and cuts off 1 3/8 feet. How much of the board remains?

  26. 26.A granola recipe uses 2/3 cup of oats. A cook prepares 3/4 of the recipe. How many cups of oats are needed?

  27. 27.A jug holding 4/5 gallon of water is emptied equally into 8 bottles. What fraction of a gallon goes into each bottle?

  28. 28.A volunteer uses 1/6 of a can of wood stain in the morning and 1/4 of the can in the afternoon. What fraction of the can is used?

  29. 29.A spool is 11/12 full of thread. A sewer uses an amount equal to 2/3 of a full spool. What fraction of a spool is left?

  30. 30.A relay team runs 2 1/6 km on the first leg and 1 1/3 km on the second leg. How far do those two legs go?

  31. 31.Flower beds fill 3/5 of a courtyard, and herb beds fill another 1/5. The remaining beds are empty. What fraction of the courtyard beds are empty?

  32. 32.A lab assistant measures 5/8 liter of distilled water and then pours out 1/4 liter. How much distilled water is left?

  33. 33.A runner logs 3.6 km on Monday and 4.25 km on Wednesday. How many kilometers is that in the two runs?

  34. 34.A rooftop tank holds 20.5 liters. A gardener draws off 8.75 liters. How many liters remain?

  35. 35.A hardware bin sells screws for $0.35 each. What is the cost of 12 screws?

  36. 36.A 7.2-meter audio cable is cut into 0.8-meter leads. How many leads does the cable make?

  37. 37.A rain gauge collects 0.45 inch overnight, 1.2 inches in the morning, and 0.08 inch in the afternoon. What is the total rainfall?

  38. 38.Three classmates buy one lab notebook that costs $18.60 and split the price evenly. How much does each classmate pay?

  39. 39.A courier walks 2.05 miles to a pickup and then 1.4 miles to the drop-off. How many miles is the whole walk?

  40. 40.Upholstery for a stool seat costs $6.50 a yard. The seat needs 2.5 yards. What is the cost of the fabric?

  41. 41.A keeper tops off a fish tank by adding 0.075 liter of water and then 0.2 liter more. How many liters were added?

  42. 42.A stack of sample cards is 1.8 cm tall. Each card is 0.09 cm thick, and there are no gaps. How many cards are in the stack?

  43. 43.A student buys a folder for $3.49 and a pen for $1.26. What is the combined cost?

  44. 44.A 2.5-meter aluminum rod is cut into pegs that are each 0.25 meter long. How many pegs does the rod make?

  45. 45.A market scale shows 0.6 kg of apples and 0.45 kg of pears. What is the combined mass?

  46. 46.A magazine subscription costs $9.99 each month. What is the cost of 4 months, before any extra fee?

  47. 47.Of 80 seed packets in a community bin, 25% are tomato. How many packets are tomato?

  48. 48.A museum membership priced at $84 is discounted by 25% for students. What is the student price?

  49. 49.A pond count rises from 40 ducks to 46 ducks. What is the percent increase?

  50. 50.In a bank of 40 lockers, 16 lockers are in use. What percent of the lockers are in use?

  51. 51.A concert ticket is $30 before a 6% service fee. What is the price with the fee included?

  52. 52.Thirty percent of a playground fund is $54. What is the whole fund?

  53. 53.A sapling grows from 25 cm to 40 cm. By what percent does its height increase?

  54. 54.A jar holds 200 beads. During a move, 15% of the beads are lost. How many beads remain?

  55. 55.Of 20 neighborhood surveys that were handed out, 14 are returned. What percent of the surveys are returned?

  56. 56.A club due of $80 is reduced by 5%. What is the new amount due?

  57. 57.A $60 jacket is marked down by $18. What percent markdown is that?

  58. 58.In a lecture section of 75 seats, 8% are held for guests. How many seats are held for guests?

  59. 59.A savings note of $600 earns 5% simple interest in one year. How much interest is earned?

  60. 60.A bridge toll rises from $15 to $18. What is the percent increase?

  61. 61.A greenhouse recipe uses 5 scoops of soil for every 2 scoops of sand. A worker adds 15 scoops of soil. How many scoops of sand keep the recipe?

  62. 62.Sopranos and altos stand in the ratio 4 to 5. Those two sections have 36 singers together. How many are altos?

  63. 63.A trail mix uses peanuts, raisins, and pretzels in the ratio 3 to 2 to 1. A 48-ounce bag follows that ratio. How many more ounces of peanuts than pretzels are in the bag?

  64. 64.Which ratio is equivalent to 18 to 24?

  65. 65.A volunteer log shows 12 morning hours and 8 afternoon hours. What is the ratio of morning hours to afternoon hours in simplest form?

  66. 66.A breakfast pot uses 2 cups of oats for every 5 cups of water. How many cups of oats are needed for 15 cups of water?

  67. 67.Two gears have teeth in the ratio 7 to 3. The larger gear has 42 teeth. How many teeth does the smaller gear have?

  68. 68.A dye is mixed as 1 part pigment to 9 parts water. How many milliliters of pigment are in 200 mL of the finished mix?

  69. 69.Tomato plants and pepper plants are set out in the ratio 5 to 3. There are 12 more tomato plants than pepper plants. How many pepper plants are there?

  70. 70.A playlist keeps the pattern of 4 jazz songs for every 6 folk songs. If that pattern reaches 15 folk songs, how many jazz songs are in it?

  71. 71.A walkway mix uses cement and gravel in the ratio 1 to 4. A crew uses 35 kilograms of the two materials combined. How many kilograms are gravel?

  72. 72.Which ratio is not equivalent to 2 to 3?

  73. 73.A printer produces 90 pages in 6 minutes at a steady rate. How many minutes does it need to produce 135 pages?

  74. 74.A knitting pattern uses 3 balls of yarn for every 8 rows of a border. How many balls are needed for 20 rows at that rate?

  75. 75.A car uses 8 liters of fuel to travel 100 kilometers. At the same rate, how many liters are needed to travel 250 kilometers?

  76. 76.A stew that serves 6 people uses 450 grams of lentils. How many grams of lentils are needed to serve 9 people at the same rate?

  77. 77.Two photo prints are proportional. The smaller print is 4 inches wide and 6 inches tall. The larger print is 10 inches wide. How tall is the larger print?

  78. 78.A pump fills 18 liters in 4 minutes. How many liters does it fill in 10 minutes at that rate?

  79. 79.A 5-foot signpost casts a 4-foot shadow at the same time a flagpole casts a 12-foot shadow. How tall is the flagpole?

  80. 80.A packing line fills 84 cartons in 7 minutes. How many minutes does it need to fill 132 cartons at that rate?

  81. 81.A model boat is built at a scale of 1 to 24. The model is 15 inches long. How many inches long is the real boat?

  82. 82.Reading 12 pages takes a student 18 minutes at a steady pace. How many minutes are needed to read 30 pages at that pace?

  83. 83.A paint sprayer covers 27 square meters with 3 liters of paint. How many liters are needed to cover 45 square meters at the same rate?

  84. 84.On a drafting sheet, 8 units correspond to an unknown length n in the same ratio that 12 units correspond to 18 units. What is n?

  85. 85.A ferry timetable lists departure as 0710. What is that time on a 12-hour clock?

  86. 86.A museum sign says the doors close at 9:40 p.m. How is that closing time written in military time?

  87. 87.A train leaves at 13:25, and the trip lasts 2 hours 50 minutes. What is the arrival time on a 24-hour clock?

  88. 88.A rehearsal call is listed as 1845. What is that time on a 12-hour clock?

  89. 89.An observatory log writes 0015. What is that time on a 12-hour clock?

  90. 90.A cafeteria bell rings at noon. How is noon written in military time?

  91. 91.A flight is scheduled from 22:10 to 01:40 the next day. How long is the flight?

  92. 92.A teaching lab draws its first sample at 0645 and its last sample at 1115. How much time passes between those two clock times?

  93. 93.What is 3:20 p.m. in military time?

  94. 94.A radio show ends at 2350. What is that time on a 12-hour clock?

  95. 95.A bus leaves at 9:05 a.m. and arrives at 2:35 p.m. How long is the ride?

  96. 96.A birth log records 12:00 a.m., the beginning of that day. Which military time matches the entry?

  97. 97.A textbook appendix is numbered XIV. What Arabic number is that?

  98. 98.Which Roman numeral equals 49?

  99. 99.A cornerstone is marked XC. What Arabic number is that?

  100. 100.Which Roman numeral equals 64?

  101. 101.Which of these Roman numerals has the greatest value?

  102. 102.A clock labels the ninth hour with the standard Roman numeral. Which numeral is that?

  103. 103.What is the Arabic value of LXXVIII?

  104. 104.Which Roman numeral equals 146?

  105. 105.An outline uses LIV for one item. What Arabic number does LIV stand for?

  106. 106.A score sheet asks for the sum of the Roman numerals XXV and XVII. What is that sum as an Arabic number?

  107. 107.A puzzle subtracts the Roman numeral XL from C. What is the result as an Arabic number?

  108. 108.Which Roman numeral equals 99?