SSAT : Quantitative Section

Following each problem in this section, there are five suggested answers. Work each problem in your head or in the blank space provided at the right of the page. Then look at the five suggested answers and decide which one is best.

Note: Figures that accompany problems in this section are drawn as accurately as possible EXCEPT when it is stated in a specific problem that its figure is not drawn to scale. 

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[question text="The blue team has 12 players and the red team has 20 players. How many players need to move from the red team to the blue team in order for the teams to have the same number of players? " answers="10#8#6#*4#3 "]

[question text="When 10,301 is divided by 206, the result is closest to " answers="5#45#*50#500#550 "]

[question text="Mr. Perry’s class has j more students than Mrs. Clark’s class. If Mr. Perry’s class has 19 students, how many students are in Mrs. Clark’s class? " answers="$19+j$#$j-19$#$\frac{j}{19}$#$19j$#*$19-j$ "]

[question text="Bogdan wants to build a boardwalk around his farm that has a perimeter of 972 feet. If each piece of wood he will use is 3 yards long, how many pieces of wood will he need to build the boardwalk? " answers="$81$#*$108$#$162$#$243$#$324$ "]

[question text='In Figure 1, the perimeter of the two congruent trapezoids is 48. If $x$ = 12, then = ' answers="24#12#8#*6#4 "] 

[question text="$600-8\frac{9}{10}=$ " answers="*$591\frac{1}{10}$#$591\frac{9}{10}$#$592\frac{1}{5}$#$592\frac{9}{10}$#$593\frac{1}{5}$ " line-height="3"]

[question text="All of the following expressions are equal EXCEPT " answers="$2\times\frac32$#*$3\times\frac23$#$4\times\frac34$#$6\times\frac12$#$9\times\frac13$ "]

[question text="What is the next number in the following sequence? 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ___ " answers="28#34#35#*36#50 "]

[question text="The average wait time for a popular ride at the amusement park is 1 hour and 15 minutes. If Jeniffer rode on the roller coaster four times and had to wait in line each time, how long was her total waiting time? " answers="3 hours and 45 minutes#4 hours#4 hours and 15 minutes#4 hours and 45 minutes#*5 hours "]

[question text="Antoinette decided to put all of her jewelry on sale for 20% off. If one of her necklaces had an original price of $17.50, its discounted price was " answers="$3.50#$8.75#$10.50#*$14.00#$15.50 "] 

Questions 11-12 refer to the graph in Figure 2, which reflects a survey of students’ preferred bread types in a cafeteria. 

[question text='What percent of the students prefer whole wheat bread? ' answers="40%#33%#*30%#25%#20% "]

[question text="What fraction of students prefer rye bread? " answers="$\frac16$#$\frac18$#$\frac1{12}$#$\frac3{10}$#*$\frac3{25}$ "]

[question text=" If D < 9, then 4D+6 could be equal to " answers="*38#42#46#50#54 "]

[question text="Donald is 4 inches taller than Melania, who is twice as tall as their son Eric. If Donald is 74 inches tall, how tall is Eric? " answers="2 ft, 9 inches#2 ft, 10 inches#*2 ft, 11 inches#3 ft, 1 inch#5 ft, 8 inches "]

[question text='Find the perimeter of the shape in Figure 3. ' answers="26#30#38#*40#42 "] 

[question text="On Monday, Jackson had £12.75 in his piggy bank. On Tuesday, he took out £2.45. On Wednesday, he added £6.25. On Thursday, he did not add or take away any money. On Friday, he took out £1.60. The amount of money in his piggy bank on Friday was how much greater than the amount on Monday? " answers="*£2.20#£2.45#£5.40#£7.10#£14.95 "]

[question text="If 4M + N = 20, and N + P =20, what is the value of M? " answers="0#4#16#24#*It cannot be determined from the information given. "]

[question text="A small town has two parks. The first park measures 80 feet by 90 feet, and the second park measures 150 feet by 200 feet. The two parks have an average area of how many square feet each? " answers="260#18400#18500#*18600#37200 "

[question text="If x + y is divisible by 9, which of the following expressions MUST also be divisible by 9? " answers="$\frac{x}{y}+9$#$9x+y$#$x+9y$#$xy+9$#*$2x+2y$ "]

[question text="In the first round of a math contest, each student had to answer 2 questions. Lora averaged 76 seconds per question. Jake and Sofia averaged 84 seconds per question, and Victoria averaged 80 seconds per question. At the end of the first round, what was the total time for all 4 students? " answers="324 seconds#400 seconds#480 seconds#568 seconds#648 seconds "]

[question text='In Figure 4, if lines p and q are parallel, then x + y = ' answers="140°#170°#175°#180°#*190° "] 

[question text="A and B have an average of 15. If A is greater than B, which of the following MUST be true? " answers="$A+B=15$#$\frac{A}{B}\div2=15$#$A=12$ and $B=18$#$A-B=20$#*$(A+B)\div2=15$ "]

[question text="$281\div4$= " answers="*$\frac{200}4+\frac{80}4+\frac14$#$200+\frac{80}4+\frac14$#$\frac24+\frac84+\frac14$#$\frac{200}4\times\frac{80}4\times\frac14$#$\frac{200}4\div\frac{80}4\div\frac14$ "]

[question text="If 40 percent of a movie ticket costs £5.00, what is 20 percent of the cost of two tickets? " answers="£2.50#£5.00#£6.00#£7.50#£10.00 "]

[question text="Which of the following could be the value of h, if $\frac47 + h < 1$? " answers="$\frac12$#$\frac37$#*$\frac27$#$\frac35$#$\frac23$ "] 

 

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