How Good Are Your Math Skills Basic
How Good Are Your Math Skills Basic Math Test Quiz With Answers
Q 1. Let’s start with Place Values. Which digit is in the tens place of 3,482?
R=8
Q 2. The temperature today is 7 degrees Celsius. Yesterday it was 13 degrees Celsius cooler. What was the temperature yesterday?
R=-6 degrees celsius
Q 3. How are your skills in fractions, percentages, and ratios? Our Einstein has baked a cake and cut it into 8 slices. If he hands out 3 slices to his guests, what fraction of the cake is left?
R= 5/8
Q 4. Which calculation gives an answer of 82?
R= 2x(10x6) -38
5. Work out: 1/3 + 3/9
2/3
6. What comes next in this sequence of prime numbers? 11, 13, 17, 19, ?
R=23
7. What is the volume of a cube with a length of 10cm, the width of 5cm and a height of 8cm?
R= 400 cm3
8. Which of these negative numbers is the largest?
R= -7
9. Daisy is cooking pasta. The recipe says she needs 480 grams of pasta for 4 people. How many kilograms will she need for 14?
R=1.68
Q 10. If y equals 32, then what is x in this equation?
R=6
11. What fraction do the blue segments make up?
R=7/16
Q 12. If 1kg is the weight of seven apples, how many apples is in 2000g?
R=14
Q 13. Write 24 as a product of its prime factors.
R=2x2x2x3
Q 14. Dennis thinks of a number. He adds 0.5 to that number and then multiplies the new result by 4. He then subtracts 2 and divides the number by 2. His final answer is 48. What number did Dennis start with?
R=24
Q 15. Find 27% of 200.
R=54
Q 16. What is the ratio of dogs to cats in this image?
R=4:3
Q 17. What is the Mean of this number sequence: 4, 2, 2, 2, 5, 15
R=5
Q 18. If 1800 people go to a football match and 46% leave at half time, how many people are left in the stadium?
R=972
Q 19. If each grey square is 1cm in width and length, then what is the area of the shape?
R=15cm2
Q 20. What comes next in the sequence: 5, 13, 29, 61, ?
R=125
Q 21. Imagine that $1 = €1.40. Sam spends €50 and has €34 left. How many dollars did he start with?
R=$60
Q 22. Sarah pays a 20% deposit for a new TV and then an extra $96. What’s the total cost?
R=$120
Q 23. Estimate 93 x 19.
R=1800
24. Each letter of the word “Mathematical” is written on a separate piece of paper and put into a bag. You are asked to pick a random letter from that bag without looking. What is the probability that you pick a vowel?
R=5 in 2
25. When written as a percentage and a decimal, 7/8 becomes?
R=87.7% and 0.875
Q 26. If a classroom contains 35 students, 2/5 of which are girls, then how many boys are in the class?]R=21
Q 27. Solve this equation: (x + 4) (x - 4) = 9
R= x=5
Q 28. Work out 1/3 x 3/4.
X= 1/4
Q 29. 90% of runners who started a marathon completed it. Of those, 30% are men. If 270 men completed the marathon, then how many total runners started the marathon?
X=1000
Q 30. It takes 10 people 5 days to complete a piece of work at a factory when working 2 hours a day. Working at the same pace, how many days will it take 2 people to do the same work, if they are working 5 hours a day?
R=10
Q 31. Without using a calculator, find 816/17.
R=48
Q 32. Work out the square root of 100 million.
R=10.000
Q 33. Which of these is the net of a cube?
R=48
34. Which sequence is NOT a geometric progression?
R=3,6,9,,12
35. Marcus earns $8.40 per hour. He works for 26 hours each week, 48 weeks each year. If he earns over $10,000, then Marcus has to pay tax. Does he pay tax?
R=Yes
