SSAT Middle Level Math : Numbers and Operations

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Example Questions

Example Question #61 : Percentages

 of what number is ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Taking  of a number is the same as multiplying that number by . We can find our number, therefore, by dividing  by :

Example Question #1371 : Numbers And Operations

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Refer to the above diagram. If there were  voters who were registered as neither Republicans nor Democrats in Smith County in , how many voters (nearest whole number) were there total?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

 of the voters were unaffiliated, and  were affiliated with other parties, so  of the voters were registered as neither Republicans nor Democrats. Since  of the voters numbered , we can find the total number of voters by setting up and solving a proportion:

which rounds to  voters.

 

Example Question #1372 : Numbers And Operations

25% of fish are blue (50 fish). 50% of fish are green (100 fish). The remaining fish are red. How many fish are red?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

First, we need to determine the percentage of fish that are red. So add the percentages of blue and green fish and then subtract this number from 100. So,

 and 

If you notice that the problem already states how many fish constitute 25 percent, you don’t need to do any more work! Therefore, 50 fish are red.

Example Question #1373 : Numbers And Operations

0.45 is 24% of what number?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The answer multiplied by 24%, or, equivalently, 0.24, is 0.45. Subsequently, divide 0.45 by 0.24.

Example Question #1 : How To Find Percentage

A store normally sells a certain coat for $40.  For the holidays it offers a sale where the new price of the coat is now $30.  What percent discount is the store selling the coat for?

Possible Answers:

 discount

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Correct answer:

 discount

Explanation:

The coat is $10 cheaper than normal. 

Example Question #2 : How To Find Percentage

Write 132% as a fraction in simplest form.

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Write as a fraction over 100, and simplify:

Example Question #3 : How To Find Percentage

Write  as a percent.

Possible Answers:

 %

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 %

Correct answer:

 %

Explanation:

Multiply by 100, and simplify:

The correct choice is 96%.

Example Question #3 : How To Find Percentage

What is the decimal form of 42.5%?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

This question is asking you to convert the percent into a decimal. When doing this, you must move the decimal point two spaces to the left. The answer is 

Example Question #3 : Percentages

Marshal saves 10% of his paycheck each week. If Marshal earned $652.20 this week, approximately how much money did he save?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The word approximately tells you that you need to estimate to get the answer. $652.20 can round up to $700 because 52.20 is more than half of 100. Since 10% is equal to the decimal 0.10, we multiply 700 by this number in order to find out what 10% of 700 is.

The answer is  

Example Question #2042 : Ssat Middle Level Quantitative (Math)

What percentage of  is ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find the percentage, first write the values as a fraction, then convert the fraction's denominator to . We can write the given values as , which can be converted to  by multiplying both the numerator and denominator by  is equivalent to .

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