TABE Applied Math Practice Test 2023 (Sample Question Level A)

Bathrooms ‘R Us is having its annual towel sale. Luxury bath towels normally sell for $14 but are 20% off on sale. How much does Rita save if she buys four luxury bath towels?

Todd plans to carpet his L-shaped family room, shown in the following diagram. Allowing 15% waste, how many square feet of carpeting does Todd have to buy in order to carpet this room?

A dinner party of 20 consists of 12 females, 8 teenagers, and 5 teenage females. How many at the party are males who are not teenagers?

What is the volume of the box shown?

What value of makes the equation true?

2/3 x + 4 = 12

Which of the following is closest to 5.67 hours?

The directions on a paint can say that you can thin the paint by adding a ½ pint of water per gallon of paint. How many quarts of water need to be added to thin a 10-gallon drum of paint? 

Cooking instructions call for ¼ teaspoon of salt for 2 servings. How many teaspoons of salt should be used for 7 servings?

Which of the following describes the sides of a right triangle?

One month a contractor earns $563, $612, $890, and $392 on four jobs. About how much did the contractor earn on these four jobs?

Clair rounded the number 8835 to the nearest hundred. Steve rounded this number to the nearest thousand. What was the difference between the two rounded numbers?

In his first game of the season, Michael made 6 of 7 free throws. If he takes 182 free throws during the whole season, how many would he expect to make at this rate?

Jim drives at an average of 48 miles per hour on a two-and-a-half-hour trip. How far does he travel?

What is 74.36 rounded to the nearest tenth?

What number is a factor of all the numbers shown next?

12 18 27 42 63

The table shows the number of residents of East and West Springfield who agree or disagree with a proposal to build a new bridge connecting the two towns. Study the table.

If a resident of East Springfield who participated in the survey is selected at random, what is the probability that this resident disagrees with the proposal?

The table shows the number of residents of East and West Springfield who agree or disagree with a proposal to build a new bridge connecting the two towns. Study the table.

What percent of all those surveyed agree with the proposal?

The table shows the number of residents of East and West Springfield who agree or disagree with a proposal to build a new bridge connecting the two towns. Study the table.

Which graph shows how the West Springfield residents voted in the survey?

The table shows the number of residents of East and West Springfield who agree or disagree with a proposal to build a new bridge connecting the two towns. Study the table.

If the new bridge is built, it will take on average about 15 minutes to drive from one town center to the other. Now you have to drive 25 miles at an average speed of 50 miles per hour. How much driving time would be saved driving between the two town centers with the new bridge?

What is the supplement of a 70° angle?

Bill expects to get an 8% raise with his next paycheck. If his gross pay (before deductions) is $3550 per month, what will it be after his raise?

Rich noticed one month that his cable bill was $43.56 and his telephone bill was $55.24. Approximately how much does Rich pay for cable and telephone in a year?

A group of hikers observed that their altitude was 4635 feet at 10:30 A.M. and 3954 feet at 2:30 P.M. What was their change in altitude during the four hours?

Four members of a bowling team went for dinner to celebrate a big win. The cost was $73.68 including tax and tip. If they left a 20% tip, how much was the dinner including tax?

Once a month, Clyde plans to put an amount into a savings account and twice that amount into a retirement account. If P represents the amount of his monthly paycheck, which expression shows the amount of money he will have left from his paycheck after contributing to his savings and retirement accounts?

If this pattern continues, which of the figures following will be next?

The table next shows the number of visits to a certain website over a 5-week period.

What is the weekly median number of visits?

A fleet consists of 200 vehicles, of which 2/5 are full-size cars and the rest are trucks. To reduce costs, the company plans to replace half of the full-size cars with compact cars. How many compact cars will the company buy?

The table following shows the average scores of six math tests taken in two neighboring high schools.

In how many tests did South average more than 8 points more than North?

The table following shows information about the five most severe hurricanes to hit the United States.

According to the table, which two areas experienced the most recent hurricanes?

Which equation means the same as 4 less than 8 times a number equals 9?

A local deli charges $3.99 a pound for boiled ham and $6.98 a pound for roast beef. Michelle has $15.00. Which inequality represents the amount ( A ) Michelle can spend on roast beef if she buys two pounds of boiled ham?

Jack has 6 brown socks, 4 black socks, and 3 blue socks in a drawer. If he selects a sock from the drawer at random, what is the probability that the sock will be blue or brown?

Of the 160 nurses at Eastside Hospital 7/8, work full time. Of the full-time employees, 1/5 regularly work overtime. How many nurses at Eastside Hospital regularly work overtime?

What is the volume of the box shown next?

What number is missing from the number pattern?

1, 2, 5, 10, __ , 26, 37

Peter had a job to count the number of cars passing an intersection each hour. Starting at 9:00 A.M., he counted 86, 93, 96, 104, and 127 cars for the first five hours. He later realized that he transposed two digits and the last count should have been 172. Which of the following is not affected by this correction?

The cost of the meal at the 45-man golf league banquet was $853.92. If an 18% tip was added to the bill, which is the best estimate of the average cost per man?

The capacity of air conditioners to cool an area is measured in British thermal units (Btu). The table next shows the room areas that can be efficiently cooled by air conditioners of various capacities. Study the table.

An air conditioner in a kitchen needs an additional 4000 Btu over the recommended capacity. What air conditioner capacity is required for a kitchen that has a length of 18 feet and a width of 12 feet?

The capacity of air conditioners to cool an area is measured in British thermal units (Btu). The table next shows the room areas that can be efficiently cooled by air conditioners of various capacities. Study the table.

Kim bought an air conditioner that was on sale at 25% off. The model that she selected originally sold for $388.95. How much did Kim save at this sale?