GED® Test - Mathematical Reasoning
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A carpenter is installing shelves in 2 offices. Each office will have 4 shelves. The wood the carpenter wants to use comes in 6-foot-long boards. Each shelf is 
feet long and is constructed from a single board. How many boards does the carpenter need to buy to make the shelves?
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The manager of a shipping company plans to use a small truck to ship pipes. The truck has a flatbed trailer with a rectangular surface that is 27 feet long and 8 feet wide. The truck will travel from Atherton to Bakersfield, where some pipes will be delivered, and then on to Castlewood to deliver the remaining pipes. The map shows the roads that connect Atherton, Bakersfield, and Castlewood.
The manager is planning to buy a new truck with better gas mileage. He collected data about the gas mileage of one of the company’s trucks. The table shows the gas mileage for that truck based on the distances traveled on five recent trips.
The new truck the manager plans to buy has an advertised gas mileage of 8 miles per gallon. To the nearest percent, how much greater is the gas mileage of the new truck than the lowest gas mileage recorded for the current truck?
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A graph is shown.
Which equation represents the graphed line?
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An expression for a company’s cost to make n bicycles is 
An expression for the revenue from selling these n bicycles is 70n. Profit is revenue minus cost. Which is an expression for the profit for making and selling n bicycles?
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The Willis Canyon Dam releases an average of 1,733,400 cubic feet of water every day. Based on that average, how many cubic feet of water does the dam release every hour?
The distance, d, in feet, it takes to come to a complete stop when driving a car r miles per hour can be found using the equation 
. If it takes a car 240 feet to come to a complete stop, what was the speed of the car, in miles per hour, when the driver began to stop it?
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