SSAT Upper Level Math : SSAT Upper Level Quantitative (Math)

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for SSAT Upper Level Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #222 : Fractions

Change the following fraction from a mixed number into an improper fraction in simplest form:

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To change a mixed number into an improper fraction, keep the denominator. Multiply the whole number part of the mixed number by the denominator and add your result to the given numerator to find the numerator of the improper fraction.

Example Question #3 : How To Find Out An Improper Fraction From A Mixed Fraction

Write  as an improper fraction.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, keep the denominator.

Then, multiply the whole number by the denominator and add that to the given numerator.

Example Question #4 : How To Find Out An Improper Fraction From A Mixed Fraction

Write  as an improper fraction.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, keep the denominator.

Then, multiply the whole number by the denominator and add that to the given numerator.

Example Question #5 : How To Find Out An Improper Fraction From A Mixed Fraction

Write  as an improper fraction.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, keep the denominator.

Then, multiply the whole number by the denominator and add that to the given numerator.

Example Question #6 : How To Find Out An Improper Fraction From A Mixed Fraction

Write  as an improper fraction.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, keep the denominator.

Then, multiply the whole number by the denominator and add that to the given numerator.

Example Question #281 : Number Concepts And Operations

Express  as an improper fraction.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To change a mixed number to an improper fraction, keep the denominator.

Then, multiply the whole number by the denominator and add that to the given numerator.

Example Question #1 : How To Find A Solution To A Compound Fraction

Simplify:

 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

Simplify into a complex fraction for the numerator and denominator.

For the numerator, we need to multiply  then the top should read .

For the bottom, we need to multiply  in order to add the components. Thus the bottom should read .

Dividing fractions is the same as multiplying the numerator by the reciprocal of the denominator.

Therefore, multiply top and bottom by  and then you should see that if you factor a  on the bottom, the  cancels along with the .

The answer then should be

Example Question #2 : How To Find A Solution To A Compound Fraction

Convert  into a fraction. 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

The whole number  is multipled by the denominator . Then we add the numerator . This value is divided by the denominator. Final answer is .

Example Question #3 : How To Find A Solution To A Compound Fraction

Convert  to an improper fraction. 

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

To convert into an improper fraction, take the whole number  and multiply that with the denominator .

 

Then, we add that to the numerator which is .

Then we take that sum and put it over th denominator  which gives us an answer of:

 

Example Question #4 : How To Find A Solution To A Compound Fraction

Simplify.

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Correct answer:

Explanation:

Lets focus on the left fraction. Lets try to have three fractions multipled altogether. To acheive this, we can multiply the numerator of the left fraction with the reciprocal of the denominator.

Thus, mutliple the numerator and denominator by .  

Now we have . We can simplify this by crossing out the  to a  and the  to a .

Then, cross out the  into a  and the  into a . It should look like this:

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Multiply it out and you will get the answer.

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