ASVAB PICAT Test (2023/ 2024 Update) | Questions and Verified Answers| Grade A
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Questions and Verified Answers| Grade A
QUESTION
Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How much is the
smaller income?
Answer:
$13,000
QUESTION
Shawn purchased a shirt for $22.05 If this includes a...
ASV AB PICAT Test (2023/ 2024 Update ) | Questions and Verified Answers| Grade A QUESTION Together, two people earn $28,000. One earns $2,000 more than the other. How much is the smaller income? Answer: $13,000 QUESTION Shawn purchased a shirt for $22.05 If this includes a 5% sales tax, what was the actual price of the shirt? Answer: $20.95 QUESTION PRESTIGE most nearly means Answer: Status QUESTION CONSTRUE most nearly means Answer: Interpret QUESTION Roosevelt made conscious use of the media almost from the moment he entered the White House. His press conferences served writers, and through them the nation, about the complex, novel measures he was advocating. It can be inferred from the passage that Ro osevelt Answer: was a president who recognized the power of the press. QUESTION Riding the mail plane is a low -budget way to visit America's largest national park Wrangell -St. Elias --13 million acres of scenic beauty. Copper first drew prospectors to this part of Alaska. From 1911 to 1938, the Kennicott mine produced 200 million tons of it. Now a mecca for tourists, the town of Kennicott was abandoned to the ghosts when the copper ran out. According to the passage, which of the following illustrates the correct sequence of events? Answer: copper drew prospectors, copper ran out, town abandoned, tourist attraction QUESTION Physicists seek out those features of nature that are finding answers as it is asking the right questions. The trick is simple and universal. The secret of their success is not so much a matter of keeping the questions simple and sticking to universal phen omena. Simple questions can be answered unambiguously by careful observation of repeated experiments and by logical thinking. Answer: How fast do stones of a particular size fall? QUESTION system malfunctions and marshals up an army of causes a large amount of histamine to flood An allergy is a hypersensitivity to substances that are essentially harmless. For as yet poorly understood reasons, the immune antibodies to fight these substances. For many allergies, this malfunction into the bloodstream. It is the overabundance of histamine that causes allergic symptoms such as headaches, rashes, and sneezing. The passage states all of the following about allergies EXCEPT Answer: medical science does not fully understand why the body has an allergic reaction to certain substances. QUESTION 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 show s that time is Answer: Relative QUESTION without noticing it; we enter a room and There is a tremendous difference between "seeing" and orienting yourself. know where we are without being Mostly we orient ourselves. We walk through a door conscious of the color or texture of the walls. But it is consciousness of visual detail that constitutes seeing. Which of the following is the best example of seeing as described in the passage? Answer: She was surprised shiny black shell and odd limbs of the beetle. QUESTION From Texas to Southern California, low -water maintenance very valuable. Considering the fact that cactus profits for this shallow rooted succulent. Removing cactus from state -owned have extremely slow growth and landscaping and the popularity of desert the mes have made cactus reproduction rates, rustlers anticipate significant land, however, is a felony, and if state lines are crossed, the 1900 Lacey Act makes this same crime a federal offense. From the passage, determine the sequence of events. Answer: Lacey Act passage, cactus popularity, cactus rustling QUESTION brussels sprouts. Writers know this, and those who take their nonsensical or "light." Many poets writing today sign The world decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with literary selves with great seriousness are at considerable pains neve r to associate their names with anything funny or flippant or their real names to their serious verse and pseudonyms to their comical verse. It is a wise precaution. The passage is primarily concerned with the Answer: lack of respect given to humorous writing. QUESTION On a Sunday afternoon drive through the countryside of southeastern variety of trees in Pierce Park. Collected from far and wide, these hundred -year-old trees had been planted Pennsylvania in 1906, Pierre du Pont was struck by the by the Pierce brothers on this tract of land granted to their family by William Penn in 1702. Answer: They were planted in the early 1800s. QUESTION 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 distillate) and heavy or residual fuel oil products. The quota for crude oil imports was set at approximately ten percent of crude oil consumption. The passage implies which of the following about the oil quota program? Answer: The quota for petroleum products was the same as for crude oil products. QUESTION If A = 6 and B = 5, what is the value of (A2 - B2)2? Answer: 121
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