GMAT Quantitative Reasoning › Measurement Problems
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Restate 200 feet per second in miles per hour (nearest whole number).
A really backward country does not use inches, feet, yards, or meters to measure distance, it uses units called flots, glots, and klots. It takes 17 flots to make a glot, and 7 glots to make a klot.
These units can also be used to form units of area and volume (i.e. square flots, cubic klots).
How many cubic flots make a cubic klot?
If the length and width of a rectangular room is increased by 20%, what percent has the area increased by?
If an object travels at a speed of 10 feet per second, how many feet does it travel in half an hour?
A jar is 40% full of water. If 250 milliliters of water are added, the jar will be half full. What is the total capacity of the jar?
If one liter of gasoline costs , how much would eighteen gallons of gasoline cost? (One gallon is approximately
liters.)
Using the conversion factor 2.54 centimeters = 1 inch, rewrite 100 square inches in square centimeters (nearest tenth).
A furlong is a unit of length used in horse racing; it is equal to one-eighth of a mile. To the nearest tenth, how many meters are equal to a furlong if 1.609 kilometers are equal to a mile?
Jason skips a rock across the surface of a pond. The rock bounces three times over the pond's surface. If the second bounce is half the distance of the first bounce, and the third bounce is one quarter of the second bounce, and the total distance between bounces is 65 inches, how many inches did the rock travel on the first bounce?