Product Description

The Fractions, Decimals, & Percents Guide provides an in-depth look at the variety of GMAT 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 GMAT tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains a total of 82 “In-Action” problems of increasing difficulty with detailed answer explanations. The content of the book is aligned to the latest Official Guides from GMAC (12th edition).

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Chapter by Chapter

Part I: General

1. DIGITS & DECIMALS

Place Value, Estimation, Powers of 10, Last Digit Shortcut, Heavy Division Shortcut, Decimal Operations.

2. FRACTIONS

Simplifying, Multiplication Shortcut, Reciprocals, Cross-Multiplication, Splitting Denominators, Benchmark Values, Smart Numbers

3. PERCENTS

Percent Tables, Percentage Change, Successive Percents, Percent Formulas, Percent Mixtures

4. FDP‘s

FDP Connection, Conversions, Common Equivalents

Part II: Advanced

Includes separate chapter on numerous Advanced Fractions, Decimals, & Percents topics such as Repeating and Terminating Decimals, Unknown Digit Problems, Estimating Decimal Equivalents, Fractions and Exponents & Roots, and Percents and Weighted Averages. This section also includes additional practice problems.