Sat Math Easy Practice Worksheet With Answer Key Page 9
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17SAT Math Easy Practice Quiz #2 Answers
Numbers and Operations
4. E
(Estimated Difficulty Level: 1+)
We need to figure out how many ounces are in each ton.
1. B
(Estimated Difficulty Level: 1)
Each ton equals 2000 pounds, and each pound equals 16
ounces, so each ton equals 2000 × 16 = 32,000 ounces.
If one meter equals 10 decimeters, then 12.5 meters
But wait! Did you pick answer C? The question asked
equals 12.5 × 10 = 125 decimeters.
for two tons, not one, so the answer is 64,000 ounces, or
E. Sorry about that, but the SAT makers love that kind
of last-minute, extra trick at the end of a question, and
they will make sure to have an answer like C just waiting
for you to jump on it. Next time, stick it to them by
re-reading what the question is asking for before you
2. C
(Estimated Difficulty Level: 1+)
put your answer down.
This question may be easiest to do with a calculator.
Each purple tomato costs $1.20/5 = $0.24, and each
green tomatoes costs $1.80/6 = $0.30. So, the cost
of the 3 purple and 4 green tomatoes on the chair is
5. E
(Estimated Difficulty Level: 2)
$0.24 × 3 + $0.30 × 4 = $1.92.
Percent is another way of saying “fraction”: when you
Why not use a bowl instead of a chair? If I were a bad
see 40%, you should think 40/100. The question says
poet, I would probably say:
that 40% of the cats have brown eyes and 40% of the
Katie would put those tomatoes on a chair
dogs have green eyes. Since there are 40 dogs, the an-
To have a bit of fun when someone sat there!
swer is 40% × 40 = 40/100 × 40 = 16.
Did you calculate 40% of 30 to get 12? The number
30 in this question is extraneous (unnecessary). Just
another thing to be aware of: sometimes you are given
useless information in a SAT math problem.
3. C
(Estimated Difficulty Level: 1)
Let’s decode the wording: to get a term in the sequence,
first multiply the previous term by 3, then subtract 3
6. D
(Estimated Difficulty Level: 2)
from the result. (Why couldn’t they just say it that
way in the first place? Part of doing battle with the
A good time to make up numbers! If your combination
SAT makers is learning how to turn the slightly strange
is odd, you know that the answer is incorrect. For ex-
wording that they like to use in a math problem into
ample, 1 + 2 = 3 so answer A is incorrect. Answer B
something that you can easily understand.)
is wrong since 2 + 4 + 5 = 11 is odd. You’ll find that
answer D is always even, no matter what numbers you
To get the value of n, we multiply 6 by 3, and then
pick, so that is the correct answer.
subtract 3 to get 6 × 3
3 = 15.
pg. 9
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