Numerical Comprehension Test 3

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Instructions

This numerical reasoning test comprises 18 questions, and you will have 18 minutes in
which to correctly answer as many as you can. Calculators are permitted for this test, and it is
recommended you have some rough paper to work on.

You will have to work quickly and accurately to perform well in this test. If you don't know the
answer to a question, leave it and come back to it if you have time. Each question will have
five possible answers, one of which is correct. If the exact correct answer is not provided,
select the closest possible answer. You may click Back and Next during the test to review or
skip questions.

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working until the time limit is up.

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Practice Aptitude Tests
 Q1 A local utilities company exclusively provides electricity and natural gas to a
small village containing 342 households. Each household purchases on
average £75 of gas and electricity per month. If the village’s natural gas sales
account for ¾ of the utilities company’s revenue, how much revenue is
generated in one year from electricity sales in the village? (assume the
company has no customers outside the village)

(A) £73,750
(B) £74,500
(C) £76,950
(D) £78,150
(E) Cannot say

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 Q2 A commercial property contains 750 square feet of flooring space. A real
estate agency has the property on sale at the asking price of £465 per
square foot, along with a commission of 3.5% of the properties value. If a
customer makes an offer on the property of £300,000 (which includes the
commission), how much cheaper per square foot is this offer compared to
the asking price? (not including the commission)

(A) £78.53
(B) £80.49
(C) £82.45
(D) £84.93
(E) £86.24

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 Q3 The Interest rate for a savings account is 3% per annum, paid in four
quarterly payments. If a customer has £20,000 and they do not make any
deposits or withdrawals, what will be the total value of the savings account
after the first three quarterly interest payments?

(A) £20,447.53
(B) £20,450.00
(C) £20,453.39
(D) £20,455.21
(E) £20,457.00

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 Q4 ¼ of interns will be offered a full time position at our company. Of those
interns selected, ½ will be transferred to the consulting function. Of those
interns transferred to consulting, they will be split equally between the
company’s strategy, risk, marketing, finance, organization and operations
departments. With an internship cohort of 425 at the start, how many interns
will hold full time consulting positions in the strategy function?

(A) 9
(B) 10
(C) 11
(D) 12
(E) Cannot say

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 Q5 A commercial bull calf is expected to put on 35 kg of weight per month from
birth until the age of nine months. If 13 bull calves are recently bred (all the
same age), with an average birth weight of 40 kg, what will be the expected
weight of this group 5 months after birth?

(A) 2,575kg
(B) 2,795kg
(C) 2,925kg
(D) 3,105kg
(E) 3,235kg

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 Q6 A clothing manufacturer is able to produce 1.8 metric tons (1 metric ton =
1,000kg) of clothing per day, which is sold at a 25% profit margin. How much
profit is generated by the clothing manufacturer in 34 weeks if clothing is sold
at £5,500 per ton?

(A) £549,050
(B) £559,050
(C) £569,050
(D) £579,050
(E) £589,050

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 Q7 A box of antibiotics contains 4 packs of pills. Each pack of pills contains 24
individual antibiotic pills, with each pill containing 12mg of the antibiotic.
Patients proscribed the antibiotic are required to take four 36mg servings per
day for 14 days. How many boxes of antibiotics would patients require for the
14 day course?

(A) 2 boxes
(B) 3 boxes
(C) 4 boxes
(D) 5 boxes
(E) Cannot say

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 Q8 A large shop bought sandwich box contains two sandwiches, each containing
275 kcals (calories) per sandwich. If a customer eats one whole sandwich
and ¾ of the other, then throws the rest away, how many kilojoules of energy
have they consumed? (1kcal = 4.184 kilojoules of energy).

(A) 1,785.31 kilojoules

(B) 1,867.52 kilojoules
(C) 1,968.47 kilojoules
(D) 2,013.55 kilojoules
(E) 2,116.86 kilojoules

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 Q9 Between January and July, the average temperature raises from 5°C to
23°C. What does this temperature change correspond to in Fahrenheit? Note
that:
Fahrenheit temperature = [(Celsius temperature x 1.8) + 32]

(A) 26.9°F
(B) 30.5°F
(C) 32.4 F
(D) 38.2°F
(E) 42.6°F

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 Q10 One troy ounce of gold is currently valued at £926.17. An investor purchased
6 troy ounces of gold at the previous market price of £827.29. If the investor
sells this gold at the current market price, at what profit margin would the
metal be sold? (profit margin = [(profit / revenue) x 100])

(A) 6.58%
(B) 7.24%
(C) 8.62%
(D) 9.54%
(E) 10.68%

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 Q11 A telephone landline contract stipulates that calls between the hours of 6am-
6pm during weekdays costs 7.5p (£0.075) per minute, with all calls outside
these hours costing 1.5p (0.015) per minute. If during a week, a customer
makes 2 hours’ worth of phone calls during the week between 6am-6pm and
30 minutes worth of calls at the weekend, what would their weekly phone bill
be?

(A) £9.15
(B) £9.45
(C) £9.75
(D) £9.95
(E) £10.15

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 Q12 1 barrel of crude oil can produce an average of 40% petroleum. Each barrel
contains 159 litres of crude oil. On average, how many litres of hydrocarbons
can be produced from 15 barrels of crude oil?

(A) 886 litres

(B) 915 litres
(C) 938 litres
(D) 954 litres
(E) Cannot say

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 Q13 An Olympic sized swimming pool when full contains 2,500,000 litres of water.
To keep the swimming pool disinfected, the pool needs to maintain a chlorine
concentration of 0.5ml of chlorine per litre of water. Assuming the swimming
pool is emptied and re-chlorinated every day, how much chlorine is needed
to disinfect an Olympic sized swimming pool for 5 days? (1 litre = 1000ml)

(A) 5,750 litres

(B) 6,000 litres
(C) 6,250 litres
(D) 6,500 litres
(E) 6,750 litres

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 Q14 The People’s Republic of China is currently the largest exporter of tea,
accounting for 30.4% of global tea exports. India is ranked second and
Kenya third, accounting for 24.4% and 9.5% of global tea exports
respectively. If 4,211,397 tons of tea were produced globally, how much of
the global tea production is accounted for by these three countries?

(A) 2,569,620 tons

(B) 2,469,560 tons
(C) 2,568,970 tons
(D) 2,689,350 tons
(E) 2,707,928 tons

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 Q15 A sales executive is paid a monthly commission of a quarter of their total
monthly sales. Similarly, the sales executive is given a performance related
bonus if they reach their sales target (10% of monthly base salary). If the
executive’s base salary is £2000 per month, with a monthly sales target of
£3,000 per month, what would the executive’s minimum annual remuneration
be if they bill £4000 every month?

(A) £34,200
(B) £35,700
(C) £36,100
(D) £37,600
(E) £38,400

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 Q16 John buys 13 pens, four A4 booklets and 3 packs of coloured pencils. Pens
cost £0.99 each, A4 booklets cost £1.99 each and packs of coloured pencils
cost £1.49 each. If John uses his loyalty card, which gives him a 7.5%
discount, and a £2.50 off voucher, how much will John need to pay?
(voucher is applied after the 7.5% discount)

(A) £19.30
(B) £20.90
(C) £21.50
(D) £22.40
(E) £23.80

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 Q17 An office water cooler can store 15 litres of water when completely filled. The
average employee consumes 450ml of water per working day from the water
cooler. The 15 litre container is replaced once it has run out of water and
filled back up to the full 15 litres. If there are 20 employees at the office, how
many times on average would the water container be replaced in three
weeks?

(A) 9
(B) 10
(C) 11
(D) 12
(E) 13

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 Q18 A car with a fuel efficiency of 40 miles per gallon of petrol is traveling to city B
from city A. If the distance from city A to city B is 350 miles, and the cost of
petrol is £5.90 per gallon, what would the cost of petrol be for this journey?

(A) £51.63
(B) £52.45
(C) £53.95
(D) £54.26
(E) £55.31

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