New York City SHSAT 2017

ROUNDING You might be asked to estimate or round off a number on the SHSAT. There are a few simple rules to rounding. Look at th ...

EXPONENTS AND ROOTS Exponents are the small raised numbers written to the right of a variable or number. They indicate the numbe ...

Learn to recognize perfect squares. To add or subtract radicals, make sure the numbers under the radical sign are the same. If t ...

Exercise viii. Simplify the following expressions. ...

SCIENTIFIC NOTATION The exponent of a power of 10 indicates how many zeros the number would contain if it were written out. For ...

PERCENTS Remember this formula: To find part, percent, or whole, plug the values you have into the equation and solve. FROM FRAC ...

Exercise SHORTCUT A handy shortcut: x% of y = y% of x. ix. Of the 64 cookies on the tray, 16 are chocolate chip. What percent ar ...

AVERAGE, MEDIAN, AND MODE Remember this formula: Average = Sum of the terms/Number of the terms. The average (arithmetic mean) o ...

RATIOS, PROPORTIONS, AND RATES Ratios can be expressed in two forms. The first form is If you have 15 dogs and 5 cats, the ratio ...

xiv. If it took Michael three hours to bike 48 miles, what was his average speed in miles per hour? ...

PROBABILITY An event is a collection or set of outcomes. For example, suppose that a die with faces numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and ...

STRANGE SYMBOLISM AND TERMINOLOGY Some math problems will be confusing because you’re unfamiliar with the math concept being tes ...

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Practice Set 1. Which of the following is not even? (A) 330 (B) 436 (C) 752 (D) 861 (E) 974 2. What is the least prime number gr ...

(F) (G) (H) (J) 7 (K) What is the least common multiple of 18 and 24? (A) 6 (B) 54 (C) 72 (D) 96 (E) 432 Which of the followi ...

(F) 10,005 (G) 10,030 (H) 10,101 (J) 100,005 (K) 101,101 9. Which of the following is a multiple of both 5 and 2? (A) 2,203 (B) ...

(F) 135 (G) 155 (H) 250 (J) 350 (K) 390 Professor Jones bought a large carton of books. She gave 3 books to each student in her ...

(F) 48 (G) 51 (H) 60 (J) 70 (K) 75 Which of the following is not odd? (A) 349 (B) 537 (C) 735 (D) 841 (E) 918 Which of the fo ...

(F) 1 (G) −1 (H) −2 (J) −4 (K) −6 Susie and Dennis are training for a marathon. On Monday, they both run 3.2 miles. On Tuesday, ...

(F) 9,902,481 (G) 9,901,481 (H) 9,901,471 (J) 9,891,481 (K) 901,481 What is the sum of 5 consecutive integers if the middle one ...