The Arithmetic test measures your skills in three primary categories. The first is operations with whole numbers & fractions. This includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and recognizing equivalent fractions and mixed numbers. The second category involves operations with decimals and percents. It includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as percent problems, decimal recognition, fraction and percent equivalencies, and estimation problems. The last category involves applications & problem solving. Questions include rate, percent, and measurement problems, geometry problems, and distribution of a quantity into its fractional parts. A total of 16 questions are asked.

Sample Questions:

Question 1:
Solve the following problems and choose your answer from the alternatives given. You may use the paper you have been give for scratch work.

All of the following are ways to write 20 percent of N EXCEPT

(A) 0.20N

(B) 20/100N

(C) 1/5N

(D) 20/N

Question 2:
Which of the following is closes to the square root of 10.5?

(A) 3

(B) 4

(C) 5

(D) 8

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 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?

(A) 1/3

(B) 1/4

(C) 1/6

(D) 1/8

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