Fractions, Decimals, & Percents GMAT Preparation Guide, 4th Edition (Manhattan Gmat Prep) - Softcover

Manhattan GMAT

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0982423829 ISBN 13: 9780982423820

Publisher: Manhattan Prep Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

 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. It will teach you 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).
 
Purchase of this book includes one year of access to Manhattan GMAT's online practice exams and Fractions, Decimals, & Percents question bank.

About this title

From the Publisher:

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.

From the Back Cover:

What Students Are Saying: "I’ve loved the materials in the 7 Preparation Guides. I’ve found I really learned a lot through them. It turns out that this was the kind of in-depth study and understanding that I needed. The guides have sharpened my skills. I like how each section starts with the basic and advances all the way through the most complicated questions." "The material is reviewed in a very complete and user friendly manner. The subjects are taught in a way that get to the heart of the matter by demonstrating how to solve actual problems in a very thorough and uncumbersome fashion."

About this edition

• Publisher: Manhattan Prep Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0982423829
• ISBN 13: 9780982423820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120