ASVAB Practice Test 1 Arithmetic Reasoning

Several kids take from a 30-foot roll of gimp rope for crafting. If two children each take 3 feet, how much of the roll did they take?

Mark takes a total of 5 exams for one class over the course of a semester. He earned test scores of 65, 92, 86, 74, and 88. If each score is weighted equally, what was Mark’s test average?

Logan gets his hourly salary raised from $9.50 an hour to $10.25 an hour. What percentage did his wage increase?

Greg takes out a student loan of $20,000 to pay for college. If Greg manages to pay off all of the accumulated interest in addition to $800 of the initial principal loan each month after he gets a job, how long will it take Greg to pay off his debt?

Three siblings have a cookie eating contest. If two siblings each eat ⅓ of a box of cookies and the other sibling manages to eat ¾ of a box of cookies. How many boxes of cookies did the siblings eat?

Trisha put $1800 down on a new car and paid $375 a month for 6 years. How much did Trisha spend in total for her car?

Ross receives an employee discount of 12% at the furniture store he works for. If Ross selects $1,300 of merchandise, how much will he receive off his total with the discount?

If Paul spends 2 hours working out in the morning and 2 hours at night reading. Since there are 24 hours in a day, what portion of every day does Paul spend reading and exercising?

Michelle’s boss requests that she meet with new clients over dinner and has her submit the dinner checks as a company expense. Michelle’s monthly receipt totals were $315, $275, $190, and $235 for four consecutive months. Based on the average, how much should Michelle’s company budget for her dinner expenses within a whole year?

The sum of three numbers is 150. If two of the numbers are the same and the third number is 6 more than the other two, what is the value of each of the smaller numbers?

A mountain guide leads a group along a trail that spans 318 miles over the course of 15 days. If the group hiked roughly the same distance each day, approximately how many miles did they walk daily?

A teacher goes out and buys a collection of books for her students. Her total comes to $230 which includes a state sales tax of 3.6%. If the tax gets waived because the teacher works for a public school, what will the teacher have to pay for the books?

Mary attends a farmer’s market and notices that the apples are 60 cents each, with an additional sale that for every 3 apples bought, receive a 4th one free. If Mary leaves the market with 12 apples, how much money will she pay?

Grandma Sarah baked cookies for her grandchildren. If Sarah’s eldest grandchild ate ⅓ of the cookies and she made 120 cookies total, how many cookies remain for the other grandchildren?

Sean’s grandfather agrees to sell him his car for $1,200 at the end of the summer. If Sean makes money by mowing lawns in his neighborhood for $15, how many lawns does he need to mow in order to afford the car?

Alex bought a box of 500 nails to use for building a treehouse. If Alex uses ⅖ of the nails for the walls and ¼ of the nails on the floor, how many nails has he used?