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Originally Posted by taseal

1. A physical education class has three times as many girls as boys. During a class basketball game, the girls average 18 points each, and the class as a whole averages 17 points per person. How many points does each boy score on average?

2. Randolph has 8 ties, 6 pairs of pants, and 4 dress shirts. How many days could he possibly go without wearing the same combination of these three items?

3. John is a mechanic. He makes $8.50 an hour, plus $3 extra for every oil change he performs. Last week he worked 36 hours and performed 17 oil changes. How much money did he make?

4. A box of staples has a length of 6 cm, a width of 7 cm, and a volume of 378 cm cubed. What is the height of the box?

I don't THINK I've ever taken this test before, but to me, it appears that these are mostly word problems having to deal with different ratios, which does apply to flying somewhat, in terms of the arithmetic involved. There's one or two questions on the PPL written that are similar in the way you have to calculate, as well.

There are a bunch of questions similar to this in the Logic section of the LSAT, which I have taken, and I'm assuming they're testing for the ability to extrapolate the relevant numbers and crunch them. Just a guess, though.