Question 1
The city recently hired a local contractor to seal the blacktop on a municipal parking lot. The lot measures 360 feet by 205 feet. According to the manufacturer of the sealant the contractor used, one gallon of the sealant should cover 100 square feet of blacktop. Records show that the contractor charged the city for 1,000 gallons of sealant. How many gallons of sealant should the job have required?
394
584
*738
942
Question 2
A candidate for the local City Council is campaigning in part on a promise to replace a crumbling, increasingly dangerous 6-foot-high stone wall around a circular garden in a park in his district. His opponent says replacing the wall would be too expensive and favors tearing it down instead. After consulting several local contractors, you learn that the materials and labor needed to replace the wall would cost an estimated $670 per foot of wall. Visiting the park, you learn that the radius of the garden’s wall is 30 feet. You also notice that the wall has one gate that is 4 feet wide. How much would it cost to replace the wall? (Hint: deduct the 4-foot-wide gate from the circumference you come up with.)
*$123,548
$136,200
$142,112
$153,598
Question 3
The day after your story about the cost of replacing the garden wall is published, the council candidate who wants the wall replaced organizes a rally for people who agree with him. The rally takes place in the garden (it’s late fall, so space usually occupied by flowers is available for standing on). You cover the rally and notice that all of the rally’s attendees fit within the perimeter of the garden’s wall. During a press conference after the rally, the candidate claims that 6,000 people attended the rally. If that claim were accurate, how many attendees would have had to share each square foot of the garden? (Hint: First, determine the garden’s square footage, then divide the square footage by 6,000).
Less than one
*About two
About three
About four
Question 4
__ the fire had engulfed the middle floors of the hotel, filling the emergency exits with smoke and flames, people in the upper part of the building had to be rescued by helicopter from the building's roof.
*because
since
Question 5
The company's executives earned ___ $26 million in bonuses last year, records show.
over
*more than
Question 6
college of business
*
College of business
Question 7
She will replace Dr. John Smith, who retired as head of the ___ last year.
business college
Business college
*
business College
Question 8
Which of the following is a run-on sentence?
Even though I had stayed up all night writing a paper and studying for a test, I went to work the next morning.
*I had stayed up all night writing a paper and studying for a test, however, I went to work that morning.
I had stayed up all night writing a paper and studying for a test. However, I went to work that morning.
I had stayed up all night writing a paper and studying for a test, but I went to work that morning, mainly because my boss had called to say that he was desperate to fill the morning shift, and he promised that, if I would come in, he would pay me double the usual rate.
Question 9
Which of the following is a run-on sentence?
Everyone in the neighborhood knew the dog was dangerous; it had chased down and bitten a jogger last year.
*Everyone in the neighborhood knew the dog was dangerous it had chased down and bitten a jogger last year.
Everyone in the neighborhood knew the dog was dangerous. It had chased down and bitten a jogger last year.
Everyone in the neighborhood knew the dog was dangerous, because it had chased down and bitten a jogger last year.
Question 10
Which of the following is a comma splice?
My computer has crashed, so I can't get to any of my work!
My computer has crashed; I can't get to any of my work!
*My computer has crashed, I can't get to any of my work!
My computer has crashed; as a result, I can't get to any of
my work!