A warehouse worker earns $14.50 per hour. How much does she earn for a 40-hour workweek?
Money And Time
Question · Easy
Order of operations (PEMDAS)
Basic Operations
Flashcard
A shipping box weighs 3 pounds 8 ounces. The postage rate is $0.45 per ounce. How much does it cost to ship the box? (1 pound = 16 ounces)
Measurement And Conversion
WorkKeys Overview & Basic Operations
1.1 Exam facts, levels 3-7, formula sheet & strategy
Study guide
Cheat sheet
A cafeteria worker prepares 5 dozen sandwiches. If she uses 2 slices of bread per sandwich, how many slices of bread does she need in total?
Fraction multiplication (a/b x c/d)
A store clerk marks the price of a shirt down from $24.00 to $18.00. What is the percent decrease in price?
Percentages
A delivery driver travels 225 miles in 4.5 hours. What is his average speed in miles per hour?
Proportions And Ratios
Division with a remainder: when to round up
A nurse needs to administer 3/4 of a 200 mg tablet to a patient. How many milligrams will the patient receive?
1.2 Basic operations: whole numbers, fractions, decimals & one-step workplace problems
An employee clocks in at 7:45 AM and clocks out at 4:15 PM, with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break. How many hours did the employee work?
Decimal addition and subtraction alignment
A construction crew pours a concrete sidewalk that is 48 feet long and 3 feet wide. What is the area of the sidewalk in square feet?
Area And Volume
A restaurant uses 2.5 pounds of coffee beans per day. How many pounds of coffee beans are needed for a 30-day month?
Mixed number to improper fraction
A mechanic charges $75 per hour for labor. If a repair job takes 3 hours and 20 minutes, how much is the labor charge?
Money, Time & Percentages
2.1 Wages, hourly rates, overtime & making change
A farmer plants corn in a field that measures 120 meters by 85 meters. He plans to leave a 5-meter unplanted border along every edge. What is the area (in square meters) of the planted section?
Question · Medium
Converting a fraction to a decimal
A sales rep earns a base salary of $2,400 per month plus a 5% commission on all sales. In one month she sold $18,000 in products. What was her total income for that month?
A paint crew must cover the four walls of a rectangular room. The room is 14 feet long, 11 feet wide, and 9 feet tall. There are two windows (each 3 ft × 4 ft) and one door (3 ft × 7 ft) that will not be painted. What is the total paintable wall area in square feet?
Regular hourly wage calculation
Money and Time
A truck driver's logbook shows these daily mileages: Monday 312, Tuesday 287, Wednesday 345, Thursday 298, Friday 268. What is the driver's average daily mileage for the week?
Averages
2.2 Elapsed time, scheduling & production rates
A supplier offers a 15% discount on orders over $500, and a further 5% early-payment discount applied to the already-discounted price. An order totals $800. What is the final price after both discounts?
Overtime pay (time-and-a-half)
A production line fills bottles at a rate of 240 bottles per hour. The line runs for 7 hours 30 minutes. How many bottles are filled?
A recipe for industrial cleaning solution calls for 1 part concentrate to 7 parts water. A technician needs to make 48 liters of solution. How many liters of concentrate are needed?
Converting minutes to a fractional hour
A shipping coordinator needs to pack 375 items into boxes that each hold 24 items. How many full boxes will there be, and how many items will be left over?
2.3 Percentages: increase/decrease, discounts, markups, tax, commissions, defect rates
A water tank holds 1,200 gallons when full. It is currently 3/8 full. How many gallons are needed to fill it completely?
Elapsed time across the AM/PM boundary
A landscaper earns $35 per hour. After taxes and deductions totaling 28% of gross earnings, what is the take-home pay for a 45-hour workweek?
A cable installer measures a room as 18 feet 6 inches long. She needs cable that is 1.5 times this length. How many feet of cable does she need?
Subtracting unpaid breaks from elapsed time
A manager tracks customer complaints per day over 5 days: 8, 12, 7, 15, 13. What is the average number of daily complaints?
Measurement, Proportions & Averages
3.1 Measurement & unit conversion (US/metric, F/C, mixed units)
A storage room floor measures 12 feet by 9 feet with 8-foot-high ceilings. What is the volume of the storage room in cubic feet?
Making change (count-up method)
An electrician buys wire at $1.85 per foot. He needs 3 pieces: 12.5 feet, 8.75 feet, and 6.25 feet long. What is the total cost of the wire?
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