ACCUPLACER
Placement Testing
Arithmetic - Sample Questions
The Arithmetic test (22 questions) measures
your skills in three primary categories:
- Operations with whole numbers
and fractions. This includes addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division and recognizing equivalent
fractions and mixed numbers.
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- Operations with decimals and percents.
This category includes addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division as well as percent problems, decimal recognition,
fraction and percent equivalences, and estimation problems.
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- Applications and problem-solving.
Questions include rate, percent, and measurement problems,
geometry problems, and distribution of a quantity into
its fractional parts.
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Solve each problem and choose your answer
from the alternatives given. You may use scratch paper
to work problems, but no calculators are allowed on the
Arithmetic test.
Sample
Question 1:
All of the following are ways to
write 20 percent of N EXCEPT
- 0.20N
- 20/100 N
- 1/5 N
- 20N
Sample
Question 2:
Which of the following is closest
to the square root of 10.5 ?
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 8
Sample
Question 3:
Three people who work full-time are
to work together on a project, but their total time on
the project is to be equivalent to that of only one person
working full-time. If one of the people is budgeted for
1/2 of his time to the project and a second person for
1/3 of her time, what part of the third worker's time
should be budgeted to this project?
- 1/3
- 1/4
- 1/6
- 1/8
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