Fractions, decimals, and percents — SSAT Upper practice questions

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What this topic is

Fractions, decimals, and percents questions turn on moving one quantity between three forms: three-fifths, six-tenths and sixty percent all name the same amount.

Many SSAT Upper items are short word problems about discounts, parts of a whole or distances, where the main work is deciding what the percent or fraction is taken of. A classic error is answering with the wrong quantity, such as giving the sale price when the question asks for the discount, or the part when it asks for the whole.

Expect answer choices that include these tempting partial results, so rereading the final question before choosing pays off.

Sample questions

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Question 1Easier

Maya ran $\frac{3}{8}$ mile and then walked until she had traveled $\frac{1}{2}$ mile in all. How far did she walk?

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Answer: B — $\frac{1}{8}$

$\frac{1}{2} - \frac{3}{8} = \frac{4}{8} - \frac{3}{8} = \frac{1}{8}$ mile.

Question 2Easier

A $60 jacket is discounted by $15 %$ . How many dollars is the discount?

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Answer: D — 9

$10 %$ of 60 is 6, and $5 %$ of 60 is 3. The discount is $6 + 3 = 9$ dollars.

Question 3Easier

18 is $\frac{3}{5}$ of what number?

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Answer: B — 30

If $\frac{3}{5}$ of the number is 18, then $\frac{1}{5}$ is 6. The whole number is $5 \times 6 = 30$ .

Every question is picked for where you are right now, wrong answers come back until they stick, and it all works offline.

Practice 143 Fractions, decimals, and percents questions in the app

Fractions, decimals, and percents — SSAT Upper practice questions

What this topic is

Sample questions

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