Fractions, decimals, and percents — SSAT Upper practice questions

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What this topic is

Fractions, decimals, and percents on the SSAT Upper Quantitative (Math) section covers converting among those forms and using them in short word problems.

A student has to find a percent of a quantity, such as a dollar discount, recover a whole when given a fraction of it, and add or subtract fractions to find a remaining distance or amount. Questions usually appear as brief story problems with five answer choices that mix the correct result with nearby traps: treating a discount as the sale price, reversing a fraction-of-a-number setup, or adding when the leftover part is needed.

Choices are typically whole numbers or simple fractions.

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Question 1Easier

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

\dfrac{1}{16}

✗ Not this one

\dfrac{1}{8}

✓ Correct

\dfrac{3}{16}

✗ Not this one

\dfrac{1}{4}

✗ Not this one

\dfrac{5}{8}

✗ Not this one

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Answer: B — $\dfrac{1}{8}$

$\dfrac{1}{2}-\dfrac{3}{8}=\dfrac{4}{8}-\dfrac{3}{8}=\dfrac{1}{8}$ 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 $\dfrac{3}{5}$ of what number?

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Answer: B — 30

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

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Practice 139 Fractions, decimals, and percents questions in the app

Fractions, decimals, and percents — SSAT Upper practice questions

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