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Numerical Comprehension Test 2
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Instructions
This numericalcomprehension test comprises18 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.
You can submit your test at any time. If the time limit is up before you click submit the test will
automatically be submitted with the answers you have selected. It is recommended to keep
working until the time limit is up.
Try to find a time and place where you will not be interrupted during the test.The test will
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Practice Aptitude TestsQ1 An organization is refurnishing its offices by providing employees with new
chairs, desks and filing cabinets. Each office requires 18 desks, 18 chairs
and 36 filing cabinets. The furniture supplier provides desks at £145.95 per
desk, chairs at £45.95 per chair and filing cabinets £39.95 per cabinet. The
organization has 7 offices which require refurnishing. What will be the total
cost of the new office furniture?
(A) £32,198.70
(B) £34,246.80
(C) £36,829.80
(D) £38.298.90
(E) £40,182.20
Q2 A storage container has 1100 cubic feet of storage space. This storage
contain is used to hold identically sized boxes with the following dimensions:
width = 2ft, length = 4ft, height = 2ft. what is the maximum number of these
boxes which could be held in this storage container?
(A) 67boxes
(B) 68 boxes
(C) 69boxes
(D) 70boxes
(E) 71boxes
Q3 A publicly owned company has made the decision to return to private
ownership after a management buyout. ½ of the company has been
purchased by private equity company A, ¼ has been purchased by private
equity company B and the remaining quarter has been purchased by the
companies own employees. Of this quarter owned by employees, ⅔ is
owned by the company’s upper management. Of the fraction owned by the
upper management, ¾ was financed by loans and re-mortgages. What
fraction of the company was purchased by the upper management through
loans and re-mortgages?
(A) 1/7
(B) 1/8
(C) 1/9
(D) 1/10
(E) 1/11
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prior written permission from AssessmentDay.Q4 Jamal has purchased a new car for £17,000. He has opted to purchase his
car in monthly installments of 3% of the cars total value per month. Similarly,
he is being charged £59 per month in car insurance, £50 a year in
breakdown cover, £195 a year in road tax and an estimated £1,965 per year
in running costs. How much will Jamal’s car cost him per month on average?
(while he is still paying installments for the car)
(A) £679.98
(B) £705.98
(C) £725.88
(D) £753.17
(E) £775.56
Q5 Fresh water accounts for 2.5% of all water on earth. Of this freshwater,
0.03% exists as surface water. Of this fresh surface water, 87% is found in
lakes, 11% in swamps and 2% in rivers. If the total volume of water on earth
is 1.386 billion km³, what is the total volume of water found in lakes?
(A) 80,3738km³
(B) 85,8383km³
(C) 90,4365km³
(D) 95,3731km³
(E) 100,291km³
Q6 Algae biofuel can be obtained from microalgae. Algae have a dry weight of
5% of the algae’s total weight, and a lipid content of 40% of that dry weight,
which has similar properties to vegetable oil. Algal oil can be sold for £0.42
per litre. How much revenue could be generated by the sale of algal oil from
17 metric tons of microalgae? (1 litre of algal oil weighs 0.92kg)
(A) £150.58
(B) £155.22
(C) £160.58
(D) £165.48
(E) £170.58
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prior written permission from AssessmentDay.Q7 The mountain summits of K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhostse, macula and Cho Oyu
have respective heights of 8,611m, 8586m, 8,516m, 8,486m and 8,188m.
The line parent to these mountains is Mount Everest, which is 4.324% taller
than the mean heights of these 5 mountains. What is the height of mount
Everest?
(A) 8,583m
(B) 8,629m
(C) 8,718m
(D) 8,848m
(E) 8,998m
Q8 An international train service travels from country A to country B at an
average speed of 66 miles per hour without stopping. The distance between
the train stations in country A and country B is 430km, how long would it take
to reach city B from city A via train? (1 mile = 1.609344 km).
(A) 2 hours
(B) 3 hours
(C) 4 hours
(D) 5 hours
(E) 6 hours
Q9 A dam generates a total of 1TWh (1,000 GWh or 1,000,000 MWh) of power
per year (non-leap year). This dam has 12 turbines which generate an equal
amount of power. How much power is generated per turbine each day on
average?
(A) 188.2836446MWh
(B) 192.3837929MWh
(C) 204.2866738MWh
(D) 216.2827363MWh
(E) 228.3105023 MWh
Q10 A commodities broker charges a fee of 2% of the total value per transaction
each time a commodity is sold. The broker’s client purchased 25 ounces of
platinum at the market price of £951.82 per ounce. After 4 months the client
decides to sell the metal at the current market price of £1,217.28 per ounce.
How much profit will be client receive from this transaction?
(A) £5,259.38
(B) £5,529.92
(C) £5,753.39
(D) £6,027.86
(E) £6,250.39
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prior written permission from AssessmentDay.Q11 A pharmaceutical company generates 15 metric tons of paracetamol per
month, 4.5 metric tons of Ibuprofen per week and 160 metric tons of aspirin
per year. The pharmaceutical company can sell paracetamol for £5 per kilo,
ibuprofen for £17 per kilo and aspirin for £9 per kilo. How much revenue is
generated in 1 year by this pharmaceutical company’s sale of paracetamol,
ibuprofen and aspirin?
(A) £5,672,000
(B) £5,829.000
(C) £6,029,000
(D) £6,198,000
(E) £6,318,000
Q12 Before commercial whaling in the 18th century, the sperm whale population
was estimated at 1,100,000. However by 1880 the total sperm whale
population had decreased by 29%. Between 1880 and 1946 the population
recovered slightly, growing by 5.9% from the 1880 population. However, from
1946 to 1980 only 33% of the 1946 population remained. What was the size
of the sperm whale population in 1980?
(A) 272,936
(B) 282,272
(C) 292,372
(D) 302,381
(E) 312,937
Q13 ¾ of an organisation’s staff have recently been provided with a smart phone.
By purchasing these phones in bulk, the organisation has saved 17% of the
costs per phone. The organisation has 3500 members of staff and the each
phone originally cost £125 per unit. How much did the organisation spend on
providing employees with these phones?
(A) £254,483.50
(B) £263,383.00
(C) £272,343.75
(D) £283,389.00
(E) £294,389.50
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prior written permission from AssessmentDay.Q14 Calcium carbonate used in industry is extracted direct via mining or
quarrying. A mining operation can produce 50 metric tons of magnesium
carbonate per day. The market price for pure elemental magnesium is $2.90
per kilogram. If all of the daily production of magnesium carbonate is
converted into elemental magnesium, how much revenue per year (non-leap
year) could the mine generate from the sale of that magnesium? (Assume
magnesium carbonate is 25% elemental magnesium)
(A) $13,002,500
(B) $13,107,000
(C) $13,231,250
(D) $13,378,750
(E) $13,496,250
Q15 As a rule of thumb, a household of two people are able to borrow 2.5 times
their joint yearly income before tax when applying for a mortgage. A couple
have monthly incomes of £2,500 per month and £2,000 before tax, and
between them they have saved £15,000. What is the largest amount of
money the couple could borrow with a mortgage requiring a 10% deposit
based on the rule of thumb?
(A) £135,000
(B) £140,000
(C) £145,000
(D) £150,000
(E) £155,000
Q16 An investor purchases $350 worth of shares in company A, $450 worth of
shares in company B and $750 worth of shares in company C. These shares
have the following annual dividend yields: Company A = 5.7%, Company B =
6.2% Company C = 4.9%. The average dividend yield for the Dow Jones
Average Index (DJIA) is 2.8%. How much larger will the annual dividend
income from the purchased shares be compared to an equally sized
investment in the DJIA as a whole? (assume that dividends are not
reinvested)
(A) $35.90
(B) $38.80
(C) $41.20
(D) $44.10
(E) $47.50
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prior written permission from AssessmentDay.Q17 A management consultancy generated 46% of its revenue through strategy
consulting, of which company A is the consultancy’s biggest client in terms of
fees, accounting for ¼ of the consultancy’s strategy revenue. The
consultancy currently has 35 strategy consultants working with company A,
each charging an effective day rate of £2,000 per working day. What is the
total daily revenue generated by the consultancy?
(A) £608,695.65
(B) £612,625.30
(C) £616,382.75
(D) £620,382.80
(E) £624,289.20
Q18 Francis has £8,200 in a high interest individual savings account (ISA), which
provides 0.3% interest per month, which remains in his ISA. He also holds
£5,500 in fixed rate bonds, which pays monthly interest directly into Francis’s
current account at an annual rate of 3.5%. Finally, Francis owns £3,670
worth of shares, which have an average annual dividend yield of 2.8%, also
paid directly into his current account monthly. Assuming that Francis’s
current account does not generate interest, and that all investments were
made at the same time, how much income would Francis make in the first 3
months of his investments?
(A) £119.28
(B) £126.39
(C) £133.27
(D) £140.38
(E) £147.85
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