Work Keys 2023 Exam
You work at a fruit market. Bananas cost 50 cents a pound. A customer hands you a
bunch of bananas that weighs 3 pounds. How much
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bananas. - Answer-$1.50
To make curtains for a living room window for a customer, you will need 3 pieces of
fabric in the following
lengths: 3 feet, 3 feet, and 5 feet. What is the total length of fabric you will need? -
Answer-11 feet
You sell pies at a farmers' market for $7.50 each. A group of 5 kids wants to pitch in
equally to share one
of your pies. How much will each of them need to pay to buy a whole pie together? -
Answer-1.50
You are a receptionist at a doctor's office. A patient's bill for a checkup totals $85.00.
The patient's health
insurance requires the patient to pay 20% of the total bill. How much should the patient
pay for the
checkup? - Answer-$17
You are scheduling a new delivery route and you need to find out how long it will take a
driver to complete
the route. You start the route at 9:50 A.M. and finish at 2:05 P.M. How long does it take
to drive the route? - Answer-4 hours 15 minutes
As a bowling instructor, you calculate your bowlers' averages during tournaments. In 5
games, one bowler
had the following scores: 143, 156, 172, 133, and 167. What was that bowler's
average? - Answer-154
As a laboratory assistant, you measure chemicals using the metric system. For your
current research, you
need to measure out 45 grams of sodium chloride. The bottle you are using lists the
amount in ounces.
About how many ounces of sodium chloride will you need? - Answer-1.6
You are making a welding fixture and must cut down a length of steel tubing from 19 3/8
inches to
11 9/16 inches. When you cut the tubing, you will waste 1/16 inch of it because of the
width of the saw cut. If
the leftover piece is long enough, you will use it in another fixture. How long will this
leftover piece be? - Answer-7 3/4
You are doing marketing research to find out the purchasing potential of students in the
community. Based
on the latest census, there are 9,860 students in a population of 62,400 people. What
percent of the total
population do students make up? - Answer-15.8
You are a school photographer taking individual and class pictures for 2 classes of 21
students each. On
average, each individual picture takes 3 minutes and a class picture takes 10 minutes.
About how long
should it take you to get all of the pictures? - Answer-2 hours 26 minutes
You are applying fertilizer to a football field. The field is 360 feet long and 160 feet wide.
You use
8 pounds of fertilizer per 1,000 square feet. The fertilizer comes in 50-pound bags. How
many bags of
fertilizer will you need to complete the job? - Answer-10
At Appliance City you sold a refrigerator to a customer for $369.00. Appliance City
advertises that if a
customer finds the same refrigerator anywhere else for a lower price, you will give a
refund equal to 150%
of the price difference. The customer returns with a Kitchen Stuff Inc. ad that shows the
same refrigerator
for $335.00. After you give the advertised refund to the customer, what is the customer's
final cost?
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