HESI®A2 Math Practice Test 2

A rat can finish a maze in about 3 minutes. If a small backpack is put on the rat so it reduces its speed by 50%, how much longer will it take the rat to finish the maze\(?\)

A nurse’s schedule is written in military time, and shows their shift is from 1500 to 0100. When will they get off work?

Convert 26° Celsius to Fahrenheit.

The probability of a side effect occurring is 0.15. How would this decimal be written as a fraction? Be sure to write in its simplest form.

Multiply: (0.67)(0.09) =

A nurse working at a medical clinic earns $17.81 per hour. The nurse works three 8-hour shifts and one 12-hour shift every week, and is paid weekly. Weekly deductions are: federal tax $102.80, state tax $24.58, federal insurance $18.13, and family health insurance $52.15. What is the nurse’s take-home pay each week?

There are 48 students studying foreign language at the community college. The only two foreign languages offered are French and Spanish, and a student cannot take both. If 28 students are studying French, which of the following represents the ratio of students studying Spanish to the total number of foreign language students?

Express the improper fraction \(\dfrac{81}{7}\) as a whole number with decimal. Round to the nearest tenth.

A patient has a height of 1.6 meters and a weight of 67 kilograms. What is the patient’s BMI (Body Mass Index)?

Use the formula: BMI = mass/height² where the mass is in kilograms and the height is in meters. (Note: the height is squared in the BMI formula.)

Round to the nearest whole number.

Add: \(\,2\dfrac{1}{8} + 1\dfrac{5}{9}\)

A 0.75% NaCl (Sodium Chloride) solution contains 0.75 mg of NaCl per 100 ml of solution. How many milligrams of NaCl would be contained in 3 liters of the solution? Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a milligram.

If each tablet contains 230 mg of glucose, how many milligrams of this ingredient will there be in 75 tablets?

Subtract: \(\,\dfrac{2}{3} − \dfrac{3}{7}\)

Divide: 4.6 ÷ 0.3 =

(If rounding is necessary, round to the nearest tenth.)

What is \(\dfrac{3}{16}\) of \(\dfrac{8}{9}\)?

A prescription medicine has a dosage of 0.6 mg/kg/day divided into three doses per day. If a patient weighs 90 kg, how many milligrams of the medicine would be prescribed per dose? Round to the nearest milligram.

Divide: \(\, 10 ÷ 3 \frac{1}{8} =\)

Express 65% as a fraction in its simplest form.

Sandy consumes 13,300 calories over the course of 7 days. How many calories does she consume each day on average?

A patient took 15 ml of medicine 4 times per day for 14 days. In total, how many milliliters of medicine did they take?

Subtract: \(\, 5 \frac{2}{7} − 3 \frac{5}{6}\)

An IV solution is set for a certain number of drops per minute. There are 15 drops per milliliter of IV solution. Over the course of 5 hours, 600 milliliters of the IV solution is delivered? How many drops per minute is the IV delivering?

An inpatient received a certain dosage of a drug on Wednesday. The dosage was decreased by 20% on Thursday. If the patient received 464 milligrams of the drug on Thursday, what was the dosage received on Wednesday? Round your answer to the nearest milligram.

At our hospital, 11 out of the 15 nursing staff are LPNs. How could this be represented as a decimal? (If rounding is necessary, round to the nearest hundredth.)

Insulin is being dosed at 1.5 units per kilogram per day. If a patient weighs 160 pounds, how much insulin will they use over the course of one year. There are 0.45 kilograms per pound and 365 days per year.