Arithmetic Reasoning practice test
Word problems that ask you to apply arithmetic to a real situation.
Arithmetic Reasoning is a word-problem subtest. It does not ask you to compute in the abstract — it gives you a situation and asks you to work out the arithmetic that answers it. A question might ask how much change you get, how long a trip takes, or how many items fit in a box. The skills are the everyday ones: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, ratios, averages and simple algebra. The difficulty is usually in reading the problem and deciding which operation to use, not in the arithmetic itself. The bank here covers the concepts most often tested, each question original and written for this site, with a one-line explanation of the correct answer. This is one of the four subtests that feed the AFQT.
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AR-001
A store sells notebooks at $3 each. A customer buys 4 notebooks and pays with a $20 bill. How much change does she receive?
The concepts this bank tests
These are the concepts behind the questions. The study sheet groups your missed items by concept, so three misses that are all one gap read as one gap.
- percent change
- ratio and proportion
- averages
- unit conversion
- multi-step word problems
- simple algebra
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