GED-Mathematical-Reasoning GEDMathematical ReasoningExam Questions and Answers

The United States and Indonesia have the same percent of inland water area, but their total areas are different.

Approximately how many times as great as the total area of Indonesia is the total area of the United States?

Katya found temporary work for herself and her brother, Dimitri. The job will pay a total of $400. Since Katya found the work, they agreed that she would get $30 more than Dimitri.

How much money will Dimitri earn from this work?

The slope of the function gives the cost per hour for using each Internet service. To the nearest whole dollar, what is the approximate cost per hour for using the Cost Cutter Service?

What is the volume, in cubic meters, of a railway boxcar that is 10 meters long,2 meters wide, and 3 meters high?

By what calendar year does the model predict there will be no frogs in the lake?

A painter uses the formula C = 20h + 20c to determine how much he should charge a customer in dollars if a job takes h hours and c cans of paint. How much should the painter charge if it took 15 hours and 3 cans of paint to paint a house?

Approximately what percent of the floor area of the warehouse was used for the sale of household items?

Each bag of topsoil that Kyle wants to purchase will cover an area of 2.25 square feet. What is the minimum number of bags he should purchase to cover the garden area?

A store placed an order for 10 video game systems at $48.50 each and 20 game disks at $2.25 each. What did the store pay, in dollars, for the game systems and disks it received?

According to the graph, how much MORE does it cost to mail an overseas letter weighing 4.1 ounces than a letter weighing 3.5 ounces?

A certain car can be ordered in 6 different paint colors, 3 different styles of interiors, and 2 different accessory packages. From how many different cars of this type can a customer choose?

How much MORE would it cost to rent 6 videos per month under Plan D than to rent 6 videos per month under Plan C?

In the diagram below, segment AD is perpendicular to segment BC, and segment AB is perpendicular to segment BD.

If the measure of angle A is 50°, what is the measure, in degrees, of angle D?

Two groups collected aluminum cans for a recycling drive. The first group had 40 members, and each collected 18 cans. The second group had half as many members, but each collected twice as many cans as any member of the first group had.

What was the total number of cans collected by the two groups?

Shortly after the tank was filled to capacity, a leak was discovered. By the time the hole was repaired, the level of the liquid had dropped 2 meters. What portion of the original liquid REMAINED after the leak was repaired?

What was the approximate height of the tree, in meters, when it was transplanted?

Fiona had written checks totaling $2157 but had only $1843 in her checking account. To cover the balance, she transferred money from her savings account, which held $3145.

If Fiona transferred exactly enough money to cover the checks she had written, how much money remained in her savings account after the transfer?

Which of the following represents the PERIMETER of the rectangle?

During which year did the height of the tree first exceed 3 meters?

A library features its new books on a cart. The new books this month are 12 mystery books, 6 biographies, and 2 poetry collections.

If Donald randomly selects a book from the cart, what is the probability that he will select a poetry collection?

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If a, b, and c are three different numbers, and a minus b equals c, which of the following statements must be true?

What was the approximate frog population in the lake when the study began?

Adora’s car averages 28 miles per gallon of gas. Approximately how many gallons of gas should she expect to use for a trip of 190 miles?

If a = -4 and b = 3, which of the following is the value of the expression 2ab 2 + a 2?

What is the DIFFERENCE, in feet above ground, between the height of the rocket at 8 seconds and its height at 2 seconds?

Eli has a net (after-tax) monthly income of $2000. Each month, he takes his check to the bank, deposits most into his three accounts, and receives some cash for miscellaneous expenses. The money is distributed as shown in the table below.

Approximately what percent of Eli’s GROSS (before-tax) monthly income is deposited into his two savings accounts?

Potatoes can be purchased in 10-kilogram bags for $14 or loosely for $2 per kilogram. Harry bought one 10-kilogram bag of potatoes and 3 kilograms of loose potatoes.

Which of the following expressions equals the average price per kilogram, in dollars, for the potatoes Harry bought?

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The number of games in a shipment must be a multiple of 25 and 40. What is the FEWEST number of games that could be in the shipment?

In which of the listed cities is the population in 2015 projected to be more than a 50% increase from the 1995 population?

Boxes for shipping telephones can contain a maximum of 18 phones. What is the FEWEST number of boxes needed to ship an order for 110 phones?

At Grant’s Stereo Shop, economy cassette tapes are sold in packages of 10 for $16, or separately for $2 each. Jimmy buys 1 package of 10 tapes and 5 separately packaged tapes. Which of the following expressions equals the average price, in dollars, of his cassette tapes?

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The slope of each line shows the cost per box. What is the cost of each LARGE box?

What is the length of the roof, in feet, from the floor to the top of the open front of the shelter?

A point and its reflection in a line are mirror images of one another, the “mirror” being the line itself. In the diagram below, points P and Q are reflections of one another in the y-axis.

Point R (not shown) is the reflection of point P in the x-axis. Point S is the reflection of point R in the y-axis.

What is the location of point S?

What percent of its goal did the organization achieve?

If a customer purchases a sweater at its regular price, he or she may purchase a second sweater at a discount of 50%. The discount is taken from the lower-priced sweater.

Hayden bought two sweaters whose regular prices were $40 and $60. After the discount, how much did Hayden pay for the two sweaters?

In the diagram at the left, figure SRQP is a non-square rectangle.

Which of the following statements is/are true?

Jasmine had a piece of wood that was  inches long. She cut off one piece that was 12 inches long, and cut the remaining section intotwo pieces of equal length. If 87 3/4inch of wood was wasted making the two cuts, how long, in inches, were each of the two equal pieces?

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A club wanted to double its membership. It recruited 6 new members, but that was 10 short of the club’s goal. How many members were in the club before the new members joined?

How many minutes after the medication is taken is the increase from the initial pulse rate the greatest?

A local electric company charges $0.07893740 for each kilowatt-hour of electricity used. To the nearest cent,what is the kilowatt-hour charge for electricity?