HESI Math Practice Test

Subtract: \(\, 2033 − 987 =\)

The patient’s daily calorie target needs to be reduced by 400 calories. If it is currently 2100 calories, what will be the calorie target after the reduction?

(Type your answer below as a numeric value only.)

Multiply: \(\, 774 × 68 =\)

(Type your answer below as a numeric value only.)

If each tablet contains 38 mg of Diphenhydramine citrate, how many milligrams of this ingredient will there be in 215 tablets?

Divide: \(\, 8844 ÷ 12 =\)

Erin drives 156 miles commuting to and from work over the course of 6 days. How many miles does she commute each day?

Add: \(\, 2.788 + 0.46 + 0.975 =\)

Subtract: \(\, 4.68 − 0.975 =\)

Multiply: \((97.3)(0.006) =\)

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

If a nurse sees 1.7 patients per hour, how many patients should she be expected to see in 9.5 hours? Round to the nearest whole number.

Divide: \(\, 16.8 ÷ 1.5 =\)

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

A hospital pays $21.36 for a pack of 24 surgical masks. What is the cost of each mask?

Add: \(\, \dfrac{2}{5} + \dfrac{1}{3} =\)

Add: \(\, 2 \dfrac{5}{6} + \dfrac{4}{15} =\)

Subtract: \(\, \dfrac{5}{6} − \dfrac{1}{4} =\)

Subtract: \(\, 3 \dfrac{1}{6} − 1 \dfrac{3}{4} =\)

Multiply: \(\, \dfrac{3}{8} × \dfrac{4}{9} =\)

(Express your answer in the simplest form.)

What is \(\dfrac{2}{3} \text{ of } \dfrac{1}{5} \)?

Divide: \(\, \dfrac{4}{9} ÷ \dfrac{3}{8} =\)

Divide: \(\, 8 ÷ 2 \dfrac{2}{5} =\)

A tablet contains 0.45 mg of an active ingredient. How would this decimal be written as a fraction? Be sure to write it in its simplest form.

Express 0.125 as a fraction in its simplest form.

At a long-term care facility, 4 out of the 15 nursing staff are Registered Nurses. How could this be represented as a decimal?

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

Express the improper fraction \(\dfrac{72}{5}\) as a whole number with decimal.

Convert the decimal 0.3 to a percentage.

(Type your answer below as a numeric value only.)

Express 35% as a fraction in its simplest form.

Ratio and proportion:

\(x : 30 :: 16 : 120\)

Solve for \(x\).

Ratio and proportion:

\(60 : x :: 12 : 7\)

Solve for \(x\).

How can \(\dfrac{7}{40}\) be expressed as a percentage?

In the typical hospital, 3 out of every 25 beds are ICU beds. What percentage of hospital beds are ICU beds?

Of all the patients that visited the ER yesterday, 5% required admission. If 6 patients were admitted yesterday, how many total patients visited the ER yesterday?

For a patient on a low-sugar diet, a maximum of 8% of the total calories consumed should come from sugar. If the patient consumed 1800 total calories today, what is the maximum number of calories from sugar she should have consumed?

Covert the following military time to regular time: 20:30

A staff member clocked in at 19:30 and clocked out 9.5 hours later. What time did he clock out if the attendance system uses military time?

Enter your answer using hh:mm format.

Solve for \(x : −5x + 100 = 65\)

\(x =\)

Evaluate the following:

\(r × (220 − a) \)\(\text{ if } r = 0.8 \text{ and } a = 50\)

How would 350 milligrams be expressed in grams?

How tall in inches is a patient that has a height of 4 feet 7 inches?

A patient is receiving pain relief via IV. The 1000 ml IV bag contains 8 mg of morphine. How many milligrams of morphine has the patient received when 400 ml of the IV solution remains in the IV bag?

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

Dosing instructions for a prescription oral pain medicine call for 0.3 milligrams per kilogram of body weight 3 times per day. If a patient weighs 180 pounds (1 pound = 0.45 kilograms), how many mg of the pain medicine should they be taking in total each day?

(Round to the nearest whole number of milligrams and enter your answer in a numeric value only.)

A patient needs to take pain medicine every 8 hours. If the first dose was taken at 22:00 (military time), when will they receive the third dose?

A hospital worker worked a total of 45 hours over the course of 5 days last week (they stay clocked in during all of their breaks, including lunch). If they had the same schedule each day and clocked out at 18:00 (military time), at what time did they clock in each day?

Enter your answer using hh:mm format.

A patient’s height is \(1.8\) meters. How much should they weigh (in kilograms) in order to have a BMI of \(22 \text{kg/m}^2\)?

Use the formula: \(\text{BMI} = \text{mass/height}^2\) 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 kilogram and enter numeric value only.)

An inpatient received 800 mg of a drug on Monday. The dosage was decreased by 20% on Tuesday. On Wednesday it was reduced an additional 30% from Tuesday’s dosage. How many milligrams of the drug was received on Wednesday?

(Round your answer to the nearest whole number of milligrams and enter numeric value only.)

A 0.9% NaCl (Sodium Chloride) solution contains 0.9 mg of NaCl per 100 ml of solution. How many liters of such a solution would be needed in order to contain 7.0 mg of NaCl?

(Round your answer to the nearest hundredth of a liter and enter numeric value only.)

An IV solution is set for 30 drops per minute. There are 15 drops per milliliter of IV solution. Over the course of 4 hours, how many milliliters of the IV solution will have been delivered?

A prescription medicine has a dosage of 0.8 mg/kg/day divided into two doses per day. If a patient is prescribed 21 mg per dose, how much would that patient be expected to weigh?

(Round to the nearest tenth of a kilogram and enter numeric value only.)

A patient used 12 ml of medicine 3 times per day for 30 days. In total, how many milliliters of medicine did they take?

(If rounding is necessary, round to the nearest whole milliliter and enter numeric value only.)

A doctor saw 17 patients during his shift which began at 9:00 AM and ended at 5:00 PM. He took a 45 minute lunch break. On average, how many minutes did he spend with each patient?

(If rounding is required, round to the nearest minute, and enter numeric value only.)

Insulin is being dosed at 1.5 units per kilogram per day. If a patient weighs 200 pounds, what would be the expected dosage (in units) per day? There are 2.2 pounds per kilogram.

(If rounding is required, round to the nearest whole number, and enter numeric value only.)