Problem1.

What are your strengths and weakness as a future business/engineering student?

1. How many percent is one second out a 24-hour day?

a. 0.069%
b. 0.0012%
c. 0.041%
d. 4.1%
e. 0.00069%
2. What is the price if 0.02 percent of it is 0.01€?
a) 0.000002€
b) 0.0002E
c) 0.5€
d) 20€
e) 50€
3. I have sons but no daughters. Each of my sons has twice as many brothers as he has
children. Each of my sons has the same number of children. Each of my grandchildren has as
many cousins as uncles. How many grandchildren do I have?
a)1
b)2
c)3
d)4
e)6

4. A company’s employees work in three teams. In team 1, there are 6 females and 2 males. In
team 2, there are 4 females and 3 males. In team 3, there are 4 females and 2 males. One person is
chosen randomly from each team. What is the possibility that all three persons chosen are males?

a) 1/28

b) 1/27

c) 1/8

d) ½

e) 1/9

5. The discounted price of a product is 75.56€ when the discount is 16%. What was the original price
of the product?

a) 89.95€

b) 87.65€

c) 63.47€

d) 91.56€

e) 88.74€
6) A factory has 112 workers. They have decided to change from an 8-hour working day into a 7-hour
working day. How many more employees does the company need to hire in order to keep the
factory running as before?

a) 14

b) 15

c) 12

d) 16

d) 11

7) If(x*x-1)=4, what is the value of statement x*x-(x-1)(x+1)-1?

a) 8

b) -1

c) 0

d) 16

d) -16

8) A factory manufactures cell phones. The probability of a defective product is 4%. Five phones are
chosen randomly. What is the probability that none of them is defective?

a) 96%

b) 80%

c)20%

d) 84.9%

e) 81.5%

9) How many different arrangements can be formed out of the letters of PRODUCTS, keeping P as
the first and S as the last letter?

a) 720

b) 20160

c) 40320

d) 360

e) 120

10) B is 50 percent bigger than C and C is 50 percent bigger than A. Which of the following
statements is correct?

a) B is 100% bigger than A

B) B is 25% bigger than A

c) B is twice as big as A
d) B is 125% bigger than A

e)The ratio between A and B can not be determined

11) When Bob was four years old, his mother was 32. Now the mother is 3 times older than Bob.
How old is Bob now?

a)6

b)10

c)14

d)24

e)42

12. What is the next letter in the sequence: Y, V, R, M, ..?

a) I

B) H

c) G

d) F

d) E

13. The price of a product was decreased by 12%, which caused the sales of the product to increase
by 25%. How man percent did the income from the sales change?

a) 13%

b) 10%

c) 15%

d) 25%

d) 37%

14. The normal price of a laptop’s is 899€. In a sale, its price is reduced to 599.95€. How many
percent is the discount?

a) 49,8%

b) 50,2%

c) 66,7%

d) 33,3%

e) 29,9%
15. The currency exchange rates are 1 EUR = 1.2140 USD and 1 GBP = 1.3464 USD. What is the
exchange rate between EUR and GBP?

a) 1 EUR = 1.1091 GBP

b) 1 EUR = 0.9017 GBP

c) 1 EUR = 1.6345 GBP

d) 1 EUR = 0.8237 GBP

e) 1 EUR = 0.6188 GBP