CBEST-SECTION-1 Online Practice Questions and Answers

A salesman drives 2,052 miles in 6 days, stopping at 2 towns each day. How many miles does he average between stops?

A. 171

B. 342

C. 513

D. 684

E. 1,026

A school cafeteria manager spends $540 on silverware. If a place setting includes 1 knife, 1 fork, and 2 spoons, how many place settings did the manager buy?

A. 90

B. 108

C. 135

D. 180 E. There is not enough information to solve this problem.

What is the estimated product when 157 and 817 are rounded to the nearest hundred and multiplied?

A. 160,000

B. 180,000

C. 16,000

D. 80,000

E. 123,000

Of the 1,125 teachers in a study of bilingual education, 135 speak fluent Spanish. What percentage of the group of teachers in the study speaks fluent Spanish?

A. 12 percent

B. 7.3 percent

C. 8.3 percent

D. 9.3 percent

E. 14 percent

Mr. Richard Tupper is purchasing gifts for his family. He stops to consider what else he has to buy. A quick mental inventory of his shopping bag so far reveals the following: 1 cashmere sweater valued at $260 3 diamond bracelets, each valued at $365 1 computer game valued at $78 1 cameo brooch valued at $130 Later, having coffee in the Food Court, he suddenly remembers that he has purchased only 2 diamond bracelets, not 3, and that the cashmere sweater was on sale for $245. What is the total value of the gifts Mr. Tupper has purchased so far?

A. $833

B. $975

C. $1,183

D. $1,198

E. $1,563

The condition known as Down syndrome occurs in about 1 in 1,500 children when the mothers are in their twenties. About what percent of all children born to mothers in their twenties are likely to have Down syndrome?

A. 0.0067%

B. 0.67%

C. 6.7%

D. 0.067%

E. 0.00067%

Use the diagram below to answer the question In the diagram above, if angle 1 is 30 degrees, and angle 2 is a right angle, what is the measure of angle 5?

A. 30 degrees

B. 60 degrees

C. 120 degrees

D. 140 degrees

E. 150 degrees

Roger wants to know if he has enough money to purchase several items. He needs three heads of lettuce, which cost $.99 each, and two boxes of cereal, which cost $3.49 each. He uses the expression (3 $0.99) + (2 x $3.49) to calculate how much the items will cost.

Which of the following expressions could also be used?

A. Option A

B. Option B

C. Option C

D. Option D

E. Option E

Of the following causes, which one has the highest ratio of total fires to percentage of deaths?

A. heating equipment

B. smoking materials

C. exposure and other heat

D. child play

E. natural causes

If you take recyclables to whichever recycler will pay the most, what is the greatest amount of money you could get for 2,200 pounds of aluminum, 1,400 pounds of cardboard, 3,100 pounds of glass, and 900 pounds of plastic?

A. $490

B. $440

C. $447

D. $454

E. $485