WONDERLIC NUMERICAL (pt I)

Five cookies cost $0.30. How much will 30 cookies cost?

$1.80

A group of four students has set up a booth for the school fair and agreed to split the profits equally. Faye invested $90, Gabriel invested $100, Hank invested $30 and Isaac invested $80. At the end of the fair, they made a total of $850 in profits. How much more money did Hank receive compared to his original investment?

$127.50

Friend N had a bill of $50, friend X had a bill of $35, friend Y had a bill of $20 and friend Z had a bill of 15. How much more money does friend Z have to spend on dinner when the friends split the check evenly than if they paid for their bills individually?

$15

Ariel, Alex, and Dana form a business agreement in which Ariel receives 20% of profits, Alex receives 70% of profits, and Dana receives the remaining 10%. The total profits for the month of June were $6,600. How much more would Dana receive if the profits were divided equally?

$1540

On Tuesday and Wednesday, cab fare cost $7.75 total. On Monday and Thursday, cab fare cost $6.30 on each day. On Friday, cab fare cost $7.00. What was the average daily cost?

$5.47

An organization was preparing a group of training sessions for their employees. They will begin at 9:00 with a fifteen minute orientation, then the attendees will rotate through three thirty minute sessions with five minutes between each one. What time will the sessions end?

10:55

A computer store sells new computers for $500 and refurbished computers for $200. In March, the store sold 20 computers for $6,400, meaning they sold how many refurbished computers?

12

Randy answers inbound sales calls in Office 220. Over a 3-month period, Randy answered the following number of phone calls: 150, 110, 115. The average number of inbound sales calls answered per month over this period was

125

Jade is 9 years older than Rose. In 4 years' time, Jade's age will be double Rose's age. What are their ages today?

14 & 5

A motorcyclist rode between Flibbertown and Guineville at a steady pace of 60 miles per hour for 2 hours. After two hours she accelerated to 65 miles per hour for another full hour. What is the distance between those cities?

185 miles

If the problem is 3.14x5.8, the answer will end in what digit?

2

To make a dozen cookies Trish needs 1/4 cup of butter. She wants to make 9 dozen cookies. How much butter does she need?

2 1/4

A restaurant is open Monday through Saturday. They employ 15 staff members daily Monday through Thursday and 30 staff members daily on Friday and Saturday. The average number of staff members employed per day at the restaurant is

20

In the last 8 seasons, a baseball player has hit an average of 41 home runs per season. How many total home runs has he hit in those 8 seasons?

328

A student types 35 words per minute. How many words can he type in 2 hours?

4,200

A movie premiered this weekend. 250 people attended the first showing. Of the 250, 75 were adults above the age of 40, 50 were between the ages of 20 and 40, and 25 were teenagers ages 13-19. What percentage of the attendees were children 12 and under?

40%

A painter has 8 hrs of work daily, he can paint 3 square feet/1hr How many days to paint 120?

5

A biker travels 5 feet in 0.5 seconds, how far does he travel in 1 min?

600 feet

Bo received a total of 28 books for Christmas which is 40% of his all his books. How many books does Bo have all in all?

70

What number comes next in the series? 31, 1031, 402, 16, ____

80