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Questions are from the 2011 Core Skills Test.
PAPER 2 MULTIPLE CHOICE I
UNIT 2: Items 5-9
Treadmills allow people to exercise by running and walking without leaving their houses.
As soon as a treadmill is started, a digital clock displays the time (in minutes and seconds) since the workout began.
The left dial shows the number of calories burned by the exerciser during the workout.
The right dial can indicate the equivalent distance travelled in kilometres (to two decimal places).
By pressing the 'MODE' button below the right dial, the user can change this readout to display the speed at which the treadmill is running in km/h (to one decimal place).
The other buttons can be used to stop or start the treadmill or to adjust its speed.
An exerciser has been running for 9 minutes and has covered a distance of 1.32km.
Assuming the exerciser has maintained a steady speed, the speed at which she has been running is closest to:
A: 6.8 km/h.
C: 11.9 km/h.
A woman spends the first three-and-a-half minutes of her workout walking to warm up.
She then runs until she has been going for a total of 11 minutes.
The distance shown at the end of the warm-up walk is 0.19km and at 11 minutes the distance shown is 1.21km.
Assuming steady speeds for each part of the workout, at what speed was she running?
A: 120 metres per minute.
B: 136 metres per minute.
C: 140 metres per minute.
D: 161 metres per minute.
An athlete supplements his track training by using the treadmill for 35 minutes three times every week. He runs at a speed of 12.9km/h during each training session.
If he keeps this up for seven weeks, the total distance he will run on the treadmill is closest to:
A: 95 km.
B: 105 km.
At the end of another person's workout, the dials are as shown below.
For this workout, 4.4 is the number of:
A: metres run each second.
B: calories burned each minute.
C: minutes it took to burn each calorie.
D: metres that had to be run to burn each calorie.
A runner intends to run for 30 minutes and cover a distance of 6km.
She runs at a steady speed for the first 12 minutes, but then looks at the dials shown below and sees she is going to have to speed up in order to complete the distance in the time she has set for herself.
By how much does this runner have to increase her speed to complete the 6km workout in the target time?
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Originally published as Are you smarter than a 12th Grader?