[Jtarii]

This is more a test of reading comprehension than algebra. Figuring out what the questions is even trying to ask is like 90% of the question.

[swiftcoder]

When I was that age, we practiced a lot of word problems. The folks who wrote the tests really favoured this kind of slightly underhanded logic

[Jtarii]

They aren't allowed to make the mathematics too difficult so they make up for it by making the questions hard to understand.