All HSPT Quantitative Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #31 : How To Manipulate Numbers
is percent of what number?
Using to represent the unknown number, we know that . Solve for by dividing both sides by :
Example Question #32 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What number multiplied by is of ?
First, find of :
Then, divide by to reverse the multiplication:
Example Question #33 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What number subtracted from makes percent of ?
First, find percent of :
Then, subtract from to find the difference:
Example Question #34 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What number is percent of ?
Multiply by the decimal to find the answer:
Example Question #35 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What is the difference between of and ?
First calculate of :
Then, square :
Subtract to find the difference:
Example Question #36 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What is more than percent of ?
First, find percent of :
Then, add :
Example Question #37 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What number multiplied by is of ?
First, of is :
Then, divide by :
Example Question #38 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What number is less than percent of ?
First, percent of is :
Next, subtract :
Example Question #39 : How To Manipulate Numbers
What number is times ?
First, .
Now, multiply by again:
Example Question #40 : How To Manipulate Numbers
is percent of what number?
If we represent the unknown number with an , we have . Divide both sides by to solve for :