SSATSuite
Know Your Keywords — Math, Standard

Point 17 — Percentages

What do we see?

A percentage question connecting three or more quantities.

What do we understand?
  1. Plug in the common variable (the one linked to both others) as 1.
  2. Frame all the equations for the other quantities in terms of it.
  3. Then solve once for the unknown — DO NOT SOLVE ANY INTERMEDIATE EQUATION.

Question 1 of 2

If A = 208% of B and C = 0.019% of A, then find the value of p, where B = 10p · (A + C).