Real asvab test!!! Updated Spring 2023.
"Complexity" most nearly means
>Correct< - intricacy
4 weights are tied together and hung from the ceiling. what will be the tension in the cord at the
point labeled X?
>Correct< - 60 pounds
4x+12=0
>Correct< - -3
a belt passes over a drum and its ends are connected to springs. if the drum rotates in the
direction shown and there is friction between the drum and the belt, then
>Correct< - spring 1 will get shorter, and spring 2 longer
a box sits on a smooth table. 3 strings are attached to the box, each having a weight of 10 Ibs.
attached to the other end. the box will move in direction
>Correct< - D
a device that converts sound waves to electric current is a
>Correct< - transistor
a period of time is usually measured by comparing it with another period of time.for example, a
year on mercury is equal to 88 earth days. a year on uranus is approximately 348 mercury years.
according to the passage, the way time is usually measured shows that the time is
>Correct< - calendar-based
A perpetual-motion machine can never be built because it is not possible to eliminate what?
>Correct< - Clasticity
a printing press will print 6,000 copies in 20 minutes. a second press can print 15,000 copies in
60 minutes. how many more copies per minute will the faster press print than the slower press?
>Correct< - 3,000
A radar is designed to report the track of an aircraft every second. If this radar reports 30 tracks
in one minute, what percentage of the time did the radar track the aircraft?
>Correct< - 50%
A rose is a what?
>Correct< - A flower
, a series of 4 gears (W,X,Y,Z) is driven by pulley V and a belt. if V turns in the direction shown,
which gears will rotate clockwise?
>Correct< - Y and X
a spring is compressed against a wall by a wooden block that has a force applied to it. if the force
is removed from the block,
>Correct< - the block of wood will move to the right
a spring will compress 1 inch for every 50 pounds of force that is applied to it. how much force
is needed to compress the same spring 10 inches?
>Correct< - 500 Ibs
A square has how many sides?
>Correct< - 4
a standard multimeter does NOT measure
>Correct< - frequency
A train goes twice as fast downhill as it can go uphill, and 2/3 as fast uphill as it can go on level
ground. If it goes 120 mph downhill, how long will it take to travel 45 miles on flat land?
>Correct< - 1/2 hour
A women is looking for a bigger square office. She finds an office twice the area of her current
office. If the perimeter of her current office is 88 feet, how many square feet is the new office?
>Correct< - 176 sq ft
according to mark twain, october is a particularly dangerous month to speculate in stocks. others
include july, january, september, april, november, may, march,june, december, august, and
february. what was mark twain's point?
>Correct< - october is an especially bad month for speculating in stocks
An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless. For as yet poorly
understood reasons, the immune system malfunctions and marshals up an army of antibodies to
fight these substances. For many allergies, this malfunction causes a large amount of histamine
to flood into the bloodstream. It is overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms
such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing. the passage states all of the following about allergies
except
>Correct< - medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to
certain substances
An analysis of the mandatory oil quota program shows that separate quotas were established for
crude oil and for petroleum products. Petroleum products were divided into light products mostly
gasoline jet fuel and desolate and heavy or residual fuel oil products. The quota for crude oil