Up Your Score SAT, 2018-2019 Edition The Underground Guide to Outsmarting The Test

we have already drawn one black card, that changes our numerator and denominator. Finally, we just multipl ...

A wig seller raises the price of a wig by 25% to a new price of $65. What was the original price? When ...

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH The main thing to recognize about exponential growth is that it’s fast—the fastest growth ...

An exponential function will always involve putting the independent variable —usually time—into the exponent par ...

times per year the interest is assessed. Since in our example, the interest is compounded per year, n = ...

INTERPRETING GRAPHS The SAT is obsessed with data and graphs, and there are many types of graphs that it ...

math section, there is a high likelihood that the next two or three problems will refer back ...

the total number of barrels in 2000 was about 375 million. Calculate .25 × 375 = 93.75. (Why did we not ty ...

How many barrels of fuel were consumed by motorcycles in 2010? To answer this question, we need to us ...

At first glance, we might answer that clearly the Segway was the most popular, as it takes up the largest sli ...

Just like in a line or bar graph, the title and axes of a table are necessary to tell the story of ...

An SAT question might ask about the trend in a scatterplot. To answer this you need to draw a line ...

part, studying more gets you results. (Not that we are trying to imply anything. It’s just an ex ...

Median is the middle value of a group. It’s the number that would be right in the middle of the list ...

Now let’s take another set of ten scores: 1130, 1140, 1150, 1170, 1180, 1200, 1210, 1230, 1240, 1250 If ...

learn some new terms. But don’t worry, if you can grasp the basics, then you’ll have no trouble with these ...

Looking at that graph, you might conclude that most kids scored between 1000 and 1200. But any statisticia ...

What is important to a statistician is that the second bar graph is better than the first. It is bett ...

graph itself does not explain why fewer students score above a 1400. The difference between C and D is ...

This is a classic data-analysis question, and it involves two steps. First, you need to be able to read ...