Fractions, Decimals, and Percents GRE Strategy Guide, 2nd Edition

Updated for the revised GRE, the Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Guide provides an in-depth look at the variety of GRE questions that test your knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents so that you can 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 revised GRE tests a given topic and how you can respond accurately and quickly. The Guide contains both “Check Your Skills” questions in the chapters that test your understanding as you go and “In-Action” problems of increasing difficulty, all with detailed answer explanations.

Purchase of this book includes one year of access to 6 of Manhattan GRE’s online practice exams.

Chapter by Chapter

1. INTRODUCTION & THE REVISED GRE
Introduction, How to Use Manhattan GRE's Strategy Guides, The Revised GRE, Question Formats in Detail

2. FRACTIONS
Manipulating Fractions, Switching Between Improper Fractions and Mixed Numbers, Division in Disguise, Fraction Operations: Funky Results, Comparing Fractions: Cross-Multiply, NEVER Split the Denominator!, Benchmark Values, Picking Smart Numbers: Multiples of the Denominators, When NOT to Use Smart Numbers

3. DIGITS & DECIMALS
Place Value, Adding Zeroes to Decimals, Powers of 10: Shifting the Decimal, The Heavy Division Shortcut, Decimal Operations, Terminating vs. Non-Terminating Decimals, Units Digit Problems

4. PERCENTS
Percents as Fractions: The Percent Table, Benchmark Values: 10% and 5%, Percent Increase and Decrease, Percent Change vs. Percent of Original, Successive Percents, Smart Numbers: Pick 100, Interest Formulas: Simple and Compound

5. FDP CONNECTIONS
Converting Among Fractions, Decimals, & Percents (FDPs), Common FDP Equivalents, When To Use Which Form, FDPs and Algebraic Translations, FDP Word Problems

6. DRILL SETS

7. FDPS PRACTICE QUESTION SETS