Pass ACT Workkeys Test: Updated Guide and Free Practice Tests (2021)

Level 3
A company bought some printers. The printers cost $547. 89, $1172.36 and
$1359.08. What was the total amount that the company paid for the printers?

You work at a counter and a customer hands you a $50 bill for something that costs
$23.78. How much change should you give?

Level 4
A supermarket charges $12.60, including tax, for a pound of nuts. Someone buys 1
¹/₄ pounds of these nuts. How much do they spend on this purchase?

Last week, in your job as a sales representative, you dealt with the following
numbers of customers.

On average, how many customers do you deal with daily?

Level 5
From a large cable measuring 10 yards, two smaller cables of lengths 3
³/₈ yards and 2 ¹/₄ yards were removed. How much of this cable remained?

A writer was paid by the hour, at the rate of $20 an hour. After performing some
tasks and finishing a job, he presented his invoice with the times that he had
worked, which were 5 hours 52 minutes, 3 hours 23 minutes and 4 hours 19
minutes. What was the correct amount of time that he spent writing?

Level 6
Joseph had a rectangle of wood, which she knew was 10 ft.² in area. The base of
this rectangle was 5 feet long. He needed two rectangles of wood like this to be the
ends of the box that he was making, whose length was 20% longer than the height
of the rectangle. What was the volume of the box in cubic feet?

The length of paper needed to cover a table is 4 ¹/₈ feet. Also, there have to be an extra 3 inches of paper at each end to cover folds at the ends of the table. A roll of this paper is 100 feet long. What is the maximum number of tables that could be covered, using this roll?

Level 7

The cost per hour of a machine was $25. It worked for 30 hours each week. Due to power charges, the costs increased by 5%. The company finance officer was very concerned and reported that the annual cost was now
$46800. What was his mistake?

While preparing a calculation, Julianne found that a sample of 60 prices, none
of which exceeded $6000, had a standard deviation of $3400. What would be
her conclusion?

Level 3
A company advertised for some positions requiring very able employees four times
during one particular year. The numbers of applicants they received are shown in
the diagram below. The candidates were placed into two categories, A and B.
Category A candidates were invited to attend a test. Category B candidates were
not considered.

How many Category B candidates were there in Intake 2?

An order was made from Gmanzt, as shown in the form above.

What was the order number?

Level 4

There were four sales representatives in the team supervised by Miriam Quartz. At
the end of the year, she analyzed the performance of her four salespeople, who
were Alice, Bob, Dave, and Liz. The results are shown in the chart above. She was
instructed to arrange further training for anyone, whose sales had improved in each
quarter. Did any of the four sales representatives manage to do this?

A company advertised for some positions requiring very able employees four
times one year. The numbers of applicants they received are shown in the
diagram below. The candidates were placed into two categories, A and B.
Category A candidates were invited to attend a test. Category B candidates
were not considered.

In which intakes, was the number of Category B candidates twice as much, or
more as the numbers of Category A candidates?

Level 5

Sheila is a zoologist who was doing some research. Some animals of a certain species were weighed. The median weight was 21 kg, the lower quartile of the weights was 14 kg and the upper quartile was 25 kg. The lightest animal was 2 kg, the heaviest 38 kg. Although there were several different breeds of this animal, all breeds had the same statistics. This information was shown in the box and whisker plot below.

Sheila’s manager asked her what percentage of animals would weigh no more
than 14kg. What answer should she give?

The sunburst chart below shows information about the staffing for a
computer company.

How many categories are the workers in Artificial Intelligence divided into in
this chart?

Level 6

Three employees of ABC Enterprises were assessed on some characteristics
that the company valued. The results of the assessment are shown in the radar
chart below

What was the lowest score?

A field was fertilized with a new chemical that had been discovered by scientists in Bolivia. The bubble diagram shows the effect.

The fertiliser was added at the rate of 1 kg per 1000 m² in the first month, leading to some production, as shown by the small ‘bubble’ at the point (1,1). In the second month, 3 kg per 1000 m² was added leading to a much larger bubble indicating far greater production and so on.

During this period, what month saw the greatest productivity?

Ms. Brooklyn Johnson was booking her daughter Chelsea for a movie. Brooklyn was booking online and wanted a seat at the end of an aisle or row, which was more than 4 rows in front of the screen. The movie software automatically places you in a seat but this can be changed.

How many seats of the right type were available for Chelsea?

The graph above compares the take-up of a new app with the growth of the Internet in its first few years from 1991. The app was released at about the beginning of 2016. Since then the number of users has grown enormously.

Which year saw the number of users of the app, first exceed the users of the Internet during its early years?

Level 3

This policy is about Motor Vehicle Maintenance

• The driver is responsible for the scheduling and the maintenance of the Company’s motor
  vehicles and its conditions. All vehicle maintenance work must first be approved by the
  manager in charge before taking place.
• The manager in charge is also responsible for checking and overseeing all aspects of the
  motor vehicle maintenance and management on a weekly basis and will manage issues
  and detect tasks to relevant parties as necessary. This includes but is not limited to log
  books, problems, fuel requirements and cleaning.
• The driver is responsible for routine services and repairs including refueling and routine
  motor vehicle checks, e.g. tire pressure checks and car battery checks. Routine scheduling
  includes organizing renewal registrations, pink slips, green slips and insurances for all of
  the Company’s motor vehicles.

Question
What must the driver do with the Company’s cars based on the above mentioned policy?

The material below is an excerpt of Data Quality Officers Policy
Staff members who have designated data quality functions as part of their role will be considered
to be Data Quality Officers and will:

• assess and provide reports on compliance with the data quality framework;
• assist in data quality studies or ad hoc data quality reporting or initiatives;
• assist in the development of data quality infrastructure, strategy, and policy;
• provide feedback to System Trainers to help develop best practice; and
• assist in root cause analysis of data issues.

Question
What is NOT supposed to do a Data Quality Officer based on the policy excerpt above?

Level 4

Look carefully at the letter below:

Dear Mr. Stevenson:
Your company recently installed rain gutters on my house in Country Meadows. We paid $4545
for new gutters on every face of our two-story home. The work took place on 10/2/2019.
Attached is a copy of the invoice showing the work was completed and paid in full.
We were very happy with the service we received and your crew was very kind and professional.
Unfortunately, during the heavy snow storm we had last week, our new rain gutters on the north
side of our house fell off. While I am not an expert, it appears that several of the fasteners where
inadvertently left out during installation.
We ask that you send your crews back out to complete the job that was paid for, replacing the
gutters that have detached and inspecting the remainder of the gutters for similar issues.
We look forward to hearing back from you in the next several days to confirm when you will be
returning. We expect to see your crew within the next three weeks and will wait until then before
contacting the state contractor’s license board.
Feel free to contact me at (123) 456-7890 to schedule or visit or with any questions or concerns.
Sincerely,

David Jones
Question
The above text is an example of a ……………

Arrange the following sentences to form a sensible paragraph.
(1) In another container, B floats above C, and in a third container, A above C.
(2) Our experiment shows that liquid A floats above liquid B when combined in a container.
(3) Therefore, it is safe to say that C is the most dense, or heaviest, substance of the three.
(4) The book suggests that the further a material sinks down in a container, the denser it
actually is than the other material within the same container

Level 5

Select the sentence that best describes the ideas of the given paragraph.

“In 1974, there was a loud sound and a bright light that woke the whole neighborhood up.
Too afraid to figure out what it was, the people decided to lock themselves in their rooms and
waited for it to pass.
When morning came, they found that the streets are wet and the winds felt very cold.
Up to this day the people claim they do not know what the light and sound was.”

The text below is extracted from a maintenance system program.
The maintenance program is designed around the principles of a reliability centered maintenance
strategy. This incorporates different types of strategies in different conditions. Reactive
maintenance can be used for items that have a low impact on operations, low cost of repair, and
that are affected minimally by maintenance intervention. A majority of the maintenance being
done in the facility will be completed using a preventative maintenance strategy, resulting in a
regular upkeep of the equipment. This can be used for equipment that can have an expanded
lifespan when regularly maintained, for pieces of equipment where additional funds can be
utilized to avoid failure, and may be hard to regularly inspect due to access or availability. The
final group of equipment will undergo a predictive maintenance strategy. These are pieces of
equipment with a lifespan that can be significantly increased by regular monitoring and repair
with parts that are nearing the end of their functional life, and/or are mission critical pieces of
equipment. By taking regular measurements, failure can be predicted and prevented while still
allowing for the maximum use of the parts in question.

Question
Which of the following statements is true based on the above text?

Level 6

This document is a General Security Policy
This security policy addresses the following areas of concern:

• General security policy and standards
• Security organisation
• Personnel security and training
• Physical security
• Computer systems access control
• State Health Network
• Security in system life cycle management
• Computer integrity and incident reporting
• Malicious software
• Business continuity management
• Compliance

Question
Based on the abovementioned Security Policy, which of the following statements is NOT true?

This part consists of several sentences, each followed by four possible ways of restating the main idea of that sentence written in italics in different words. For each question, choose the one restatement which best expresses the meaning of the original sentence in italics.

Bears are big omnivores that hunt fish in streams and forage plants, using their keen sense of
smell and surprising agility to support their vast appetites. In winter they take a long sleep
known as “lethargic sleep’ that lasts during the entire season. So, they must consume a large
amount of food before sleeping for such a long period of time.

Level 7

The text below is an excerpt of a business plan

The Sorcerer’s Accountant is a small, successful, one-person accounting and tax preparation service owned and run by Max Greenwood, CPA in Chicago, Illinois. The firm offers tax accounting, management accounting, and QuickBooks set-up and training for small business clients. To move beyond a one person model, the business will expand its services to include bookkeeping services for small businesses. This will require an investment in marketing and staff to grow the business to include this complementary line of business. This business plan
organizes the strategy and tactics for the business expansion and set objectives for growth over
the next three years.

The business will offer clients bookkeeping services with the oversight of a CPA at a price they can afford. To do this involves hiring undergraduate student bookkeepers and a graduate student manager, keeping fixed costs as low as possible, and continuing to define the expertise of Sorcerer’s Accountant through its website resources. The effect will be sales more than doubling over three years as 8 part-time bookkeepers are deployed to client businesses as needed, and salary and dividends to Greenwood increase substantially.

The Sorcerer’s Accountant seeks to provide a full suite of tax and management accounting services for small businesses in Chicago, Illinois, allowing business owners to not only save money over in-house accounting and ensure their compliance with tax laws, but to make valuable management decisions from their numbers.

Question
The above text is an excerpt of a business plan. Which statement below is correct?

The text below is an excerpt of a business plan
It is the mission of Marrowstone Advertising Consultants to provide comprehensive marketing consultation and creation of advertising campaigns for the nonprofit industry. It is our long-term goal to become the preferred advertising agency for nonprofit institutions nationwide. Our firm is not interested in simply producing a service for our clients. We believe in creating a long-term relationship with them so that the delivery of their message becomes a seamless and thought-provoking experience that engenders action.

Marrowstone Advertising Consultants will be a limited liability partnership registered in the state of Delaware for tax purposes. Its founder is Mr. Curtiss Cole, a former marketing executive with the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Cole has brought together a highly respected group of marketing, development, and graphic art specialists who, combined, have a total of 35 years of experience with nonprofit organizations.

The company has a limited number of private investors and does not plan to go public. The company has its main offices in Reston, Virginia. The facilities include a design lab, conference rooms and office spaces. The company expects to begin offering its services in January. The firm offers a complete, custom advertising campaign that covers all audio-visual and printed media. Examples include radio and television ads, billboards, building advertisements, brochures, direct mailing, business cards, etc. Management has designed a proven and effective
seven step process to building a winning campaign.

Question
The above text is an excerpt of a business plan. Which statement below is correct?