Cappfinity numerical reasoning: pick, enter or rank
The public demo of Cappfinity's numerical reasoning test uses three types of question: pick an answer, enter the answer yourself, or rank options in order. This guide shows what each type asks you to submit, and lets you try all three on one price comparison. The instructions for your own assessment decide its timing, permitted aids and answer types.
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One set of figures can need three different answers, depending on which type of question asks about it. A correct calculation does not answer the question if you hand in the wrong kind of answer: one pack when the question asked for all of them in order, or a letter when it asked for a price.
If a Cappfinity numerical test is part of your assessment, try the question below. It gives you one table of three packs and asks for one answer of each type that Cappfinity’s numerical demo describes. The working after it shows whether the calculation or the form of your answer is the part to practise.
If you would rather go straight to untimed drills, they are in our numerical section.
Try a practice question with three kinds of answer
Cappfinity describes its numerical questions as job-related situations that involve calculations, and it asks candidates to have a calculator, pen and paper ready. Use them here too, and write down all three answers before you open the working.
Practice question
A shop sells the same rice in three pack sizes. There is no delivery charge and no discount, and you can buy any one pack.
| Pack | Weight | Price |
|---|---|---|
| A | 3 kg | 12 euros |
| B | 2 kg | 9 euros |
| C | 6 kg | 21 euros |
- Pick the pack with the lowest price per kilogram.
- Enter that lowest price in euros per kilogram, to two decimal places.
- Rank A, B and C from the lowest price per kilogram to the highest.
Our question, written for Testonome practice. Nothing you decide here is recorded.
Check your answers
All three answers start from the same step. The packs hold different amounts of rice, so their prices only compare once each one is divided by its weight:
- Pack A: 12 ÷ 3 = 4.00 euros per kg.
- Pack B: 9 ÷ 2 = 4.50 euros per kg.
- Pack C: 21 ÷ 6 = 3.50 euros per kg.
Each request then takes a different answer from that working:
- Pick: C. One pack, named by its letter. C has the highest price on the pack and the lowest price per kilogram.
- Enter: 3.50. A price in euros per kilogram, not the letter C. The request asks for two decimal places, so 3.5 is the right price in the wrong form.
- Rank: C, A, B. All three packs, lowest price per kilogram first. C on its own answers the first request, not this one.
If you chose B, you compared the prices on the packs. B's 9 euros is the lowest of the three, but it buys only 2 kg, and per kilogram it is the most expensive.
The unit price entry in our formula reference works packs A and B the same way.
Choose your next Cappfinity numerical reasoning practice
If your three answers were C, 3.50 and C, A, B, move on to new figures in the drill below.
If a division went wrong, or you chose B, go back through the working until you could redo it without looking. Then try the drill.
If your prices were right but an answer came in the wrong form, such as C where the request asked for a price, or C alone where it asked for all three packs, your calculation was fine and the part to practise is reading the request. In your own test, read what each question asks you to hand in before you work it out: one option, a figure in a stated form, or a complete order.
For practice on Cappfinity’s own screens, use its Preparation Hub. Its Prepare page has practice questions that preview the types of question you may meet. It also says some cognitive assessments may be time-recorded, and that you will be told before you begin if yours is.
The button below opens the unit-price drill: five multiple-choice questions, untimed and free to use, with no account and no payment. Each one compares two packs of different sizes and asks how many cents less one item costs in one of them, which is another kind of request to read before you divide. Every question is worked through after you submit, so a wrong answer shows you the step as well. The drill practises the calculation rather than Cappfinity’s answer types, and the target time in each explanation is our own pacing for this skill.