Percentages SAT practice questions

Math, Problem Solving and Data Analysis. 104 questions

Percent of a quantity, percent increase and decrease, and repeated percent changes.

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What this skill tests

  • Percent of a whole
  • Percent increase and decrease
  • Successive percent changes

How to approach it

  1. 1Turn a percent change into a multiplier: a 15% increase is × 1.15.
  2. 2Successive changes multiply; they do not add.
  3. 3Read carefully which quantity is the whole in "percent of".
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