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📖 Description
The Fractions, Decimals, & Percents Guide provides an in-depth look at the variety of GRE questions that test your knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents. Learn to see the connections among these part-whole relationships and practice implementing strategic shortcuts.
Each chapter builds comprehensive content understanding by providing rules, strategies and in-depth examples of how the GRE tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains 170+ questions: "Check Your Skills" questions in the chapters that test your understanding as you go and"In-Action"? problems of increasing difficulty, all with detailed answer explanations.
Includes access to 6 Computer Adaptive Practice Exams ($30 Value).
Table of Contents
FRACTIONS: Manipulating Fractions | Switching Between Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers | Division in Disguise | Fraction Operations: Funky Results | Comparing Fractions: Cross-Multiply | Never Split the Denominator | Benchmark Values | Smart Numbers: Multiples of the Denominator | When Not to Use Smart Numbers
DIGITS & DECIMALS: Place Value | Adding Zeroes to Decimals | Powers of 10: Shifting the Decimal | The Heavy Division Shortcut | Decimal Operations
PERCENTS: Percents as Fractions: The Percent Table | Benchmark Values: 10% and 5% | Percent Increase and Decrease | Percent Change vs. Percent of Original | Successive Percents | Smart Numbers: Pick 100
FDP CONNECTIONS: Converting FDPs | Converting Among Fractions, Decimals, and Percents | Common FDP Equivalents | When To Use Which Form | FDPs and Word Translations | FDP Word Problems
DRILL SETS: FDPs Drill Sets
APPENDIX: 2011 CHANGES 2011 Changes to the GRE Quant | Multiple Choice: Select One or More Answer Choices | Numeric Entry | Using the Calculator | 2011 Format Math Questions