Question Number 1 SAT PROBLEM

Question Number 1 SAT PROBLEM

4

problem in a 25 problem section

A certain state requires that an applicant for a driver's license answer at least 80 percent of the questions on a written test correctly. If the test has 30 questions on it, at least how many of these questions must be answered correctly?

A. 20 B. 21 C. 22 D. 23 E. 24

Question Number 2 SAT PROBLEM

#7 in a 25 problem section What percent of 50 is 6?

A. 3 % B. 8.33%

C. 12%

D. 30%

E. 88.33%

( Saturday/1.200) p.524 Question Number 3 SAT PROBLEM

#7 in a 25 problem section

If r is 35 percent of p and s is 45 percent of p, what is r + s in terms of p?

A. 0.4p B. 0.5p C. 0.6p D. 0.7p E. 0.8p

( Saturday/1.2000 #7) p.524 * Question Number 4

SAT PROBLEM

9

problem in a 25 problem section

What percent of 50 is 6?

Question Number 5 SAT PROBLEM

#11 in a 25 problem section

75 percent of 88 is the same as 60 percent of what number?

A. 100 B. 103 C. 105 D. 108 E. 110

( Saturday/1.1997 #11) p. 405 * Question Number 6

SAT PROBLEM

#17 in a 25 problem section

A store has 660 bocks in stock. If 30 percent of these books are on sale, how many books are not on sale?

(Student Generated Response) ( Saturday/5.2002 #17) p. 665 * Question Number 7

SAT PROBLEM

A total of 60 advertisements were sold for a school yearbook. If 20 percent of the first 20 sold were in color,

40 percent of the next 30 sold were in color, and 80 percent of the last 10 sold were in color, what percent of

the 60 advertisements were in color?

Question Number 8

SAT PROBLEM (#13 of 25)

If x > 0, what is 30 percent of 15x?

A. 0.5x B. 2x C. 4.5x D. 5x E. 45x

( Saturday/11.1996 #13) p.372 * Question Number 9

HARD SAT PROBLEM:

A dress is selling for $100 after a 20 percent discount. What was the original selling price?

A. $ 200 B. $125 C. $120 D. $80 E. $75

( taken from Princeton Review's Cracking the New SAT ) #17 Question Number 10

MEDIUM-HARD SAT PROBLEM

The percent increase from 8 to 14 is equal to the percent increase from 20 to what?

A. 14 B. 26 C. 28 D. 32 E. 35

(#7 out of 10 Satuday/1.2002 SAT) p.637 Question Number 11

SAT PROBLEM ( 7

out 10 problems)

Pat has s grams of strawberries and uses 40 percent of the strawberries to make pies, each of which

requires p grams. The rest of the strawberries are used to make pints of jam, each of which requires j grams.

Which of the following gives the number of pints of jam Pat can make?

A. (2s)/5p B. (2s)/5j C. (3s)/5j D. (3p)/5s E. (3sj)/5

(Sunday/5.1997 SAT) #7 p. 508 * Question Number 12

HARD SAT PROBLEM (22nd out of 25 problems)

A person slices a pie into k equal pieces and eats on piece. In terms of k, what percent of the pie is left?

Question Number 13

HARD SAT PROBLEM ( 21

out of 25s)

S is the sum of the first 100 consecutive positive even integers, and T is the sum of the first 100 consecutive positive integers. S is what percent greater than T ?

A. 100%

B. 50%

C. 10%

D. 2%

E. 1%

(Sunday/5.2002 SAT) #21 p. 575 Question Number 14

HARD SAT PROBLEM

( 25

problem out of 25 problems )

A store charges $28 for a certain type of sweater. This price is 40 percent more than the amount it costs the store to buy one of these sweaters. At an end-of-season sale, store employees can purchase any remaining sweaters at 30 percent off the store's cost. How much would it cost an employee to purchase a sweater of this type at this sale?

A. $ 8.40

B. $14.00

C. $19.60

D. $ 20.00 E. $ 25.20

(Saturday/5.1997 SAT #10) p. 472

First, here are eight practice problems exploring typical GMAT percent themes.

1. The original price of a suit is $200. The price increased 30%, and after this increase, the store published a 30% off coupon for a one-day sale. Given that the consumers who used the coupon on sale day were getting 30% off the increased price, how much did these consumers pay for the suit?

1. $182 2. $191 3. $200 4. $209 5. $219

2. The profits of QRS company rose 10% from March to April, then dropped 20% from April to May, then rose 50% from May to June. What was the percent increase for the whole quarter, from March to June?

1. 15%

2. 32%

3. 40%

4. 62%

5. 80%

3. Bert and Rebecca were looking at the price of a condominium. The price of the condominium was 80% more than Bert had in savings, and separately, the same price was also 20% more than Rebecca had in savings. What is the ratio of what Bert has in savings to what Rebecca has in savings.

1. 1:4 2. 4:1 3. 2:3 4. 3:2 5. 3:4

4. Company KW is being sold, and both Company A and Company B were considering the purchase. The price of Company KW is 50% more than Company A has in assets, and this same price is also 100% more than Company B has in assets. If Companies A and B were to merge and combine their assets, the price of Company KW would be approximately what percent of these combined assets?

1. 66%

2. 75%

3. 86%

4. 116%

5. 150%

5. There are 300 seniors at Morse High School, and 40% of them have cars. Of the remaining grades (freshmen, sophomores, and juniors), only 10% of them have cars.

If 15% of all the students at Morse have cars, how many students are in those other three lower grades?

1. 600 2. 900 3. 1200 4. 1350 5. 1500

6. A scientific research study examined a large number of young foxes, that is, foxes between 1 year and 2 years old. The study found that 80% of the young foxes caught a rabbit at least once, and 60% caught a songbird at least once If 10% of the young foxes never caught either a rabbit or a songbird, then what percentage of young foxes were successful in catching at least one rabbit and at least one songbird?

1. 40%

2. 50%

3. 60%

4. 80%

5. 90%

7. A book store bought copies of a new book by a popular author, in anticipation of robust sales. The store bought 400 copies from their supplier, each copy at wholesale price W. The store sold the first 150 copies in the first week at 80% more than W, and then over the next month, sold a 100 more at 20% more than W. Finally, to clear shelf space, the store sold the remaining copies to a bargain retailer at 40% less than W.

What was the bookstore’s net percent profit or loss on the entire lot of 400 books?

1. 30% loss 2. 10% loss 3. 10% profit 4. 20% profit 5. 60% profit

8. At a certain symphonic concert, tickets for the orchestra level were $50 and tickets

for the balcony level were $30. These two ticket types were the only source of revenue

for this concert. If R% of the revenue for the concert was from the sale of balcony

tickets, and B% of the tickets sold were balcony tickets, then which of the following

expresses B in terms of R?

1) A 2) B 3) C 4) C 5) E 6) B 7) D 8)D

Question 1: If the price of gasoline increases by 25% and Ron intends to spend only 15% more on gasoline, by how much % should he reduce the quantity of petrol that he buys?

Question 2: The wages earned by Robin is 30% more than that earned by Erica. The wages earned by Charles is 60% more than that earned by Erica. How much % is the wages earned by Charles more than that earned by Robin?

Question 3: In an election contested by two parties, Party D secured 12% of the total votes more than Party R. If party R got 132,000 votes, by how many votes did it lose the election?

Question 4: The difference between the value of a number increased by 12.5% and the value of the original number decreased by 25% is 30. What is the original number?

Question 5: What is the % change in the area of a rectangle when its length increases by 10% and its width

decreases by 10%?