GED GED-Mathematical-Reasoning - GEDMathematical ReasoningExam

What percent of its goal did the organization achieve?

 

The ratio of VCR tapes to DVD disks available for rent at a local video store is 5.6 to 1. If there are 2436 VCR tapes, how many DVD disks are available?

A library features its new books on a cart. The new books this month are 12 mystery books, 6 biographies, and 2 poetry collections.

If Donald randomly selects a book from the cart, what is the probability that he will select a poetry collection?

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Potatoes can be purchased in 10-kilogram bags for $14 or loosely for $2 per kilogram. Harry bought one 10-kilogram bag of potatoes and 3 kilograms of loose potatoes.

Which of the following expressions equals the average price per kilogram, in dollars, for the potatoes Harry bought?

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A club wanted to double its membership. It recruited 6 new members, but that was 10 short of the club’s goal. How many members were in the club before the new members joined?

Several numbers, some of which are the same, are represented by variables and arranged in order from least to greatest. The list of numbers is as follows:

a, b, b, c, d, d, d

What is the median of the numbers?

A)c

B)d

C)d – a

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How many 4-ounce hamburger patties can be made from25.5pounds of hamburger? (1 pound = 16 ounces)

Question 13

When each plant had been growing for 6 weeks, how much TALLER, in centimeters, was the plant on which fertilizer A had been used than the one using fertilizer B?

Five items were purchased for a total of $52.50. The three least expensive items cost $3.40, $7.90, and $9.80, respectively.

What was the cost of the most expensive of the 5 items?

A blueprint of a building uses a scale where 1 centimeter represents 15 meters. If the actual distance between two points on the building is 210 meters, how long, in centimeters, must a line segment be to represent that distance on the blueprint?