All ISEE Lower Level Quantitative Resources
Example Questions
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
Use the following table to determine the cost of purchasing two books.
The relationship between the values is ,
where represents the cost of purchased books and represents the number of books purchased.
Once we realize this, we can determine how much purchasing two books would cost:
Example Question #2 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
Use the table to determine how much one cupcake would cost.
We can determine the relationship between the values by creating a ratio of number of cupcakes to cost:
Where represents the cost of 1 cupcake.
We can now solve for :
The cost of one cupcake is then $0.85
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
The following table consists of the test grades from students. Use the table to determine how many students received a on the test.
We were told the grades are from students. The most direct way to solve this problem is to add the numbers of students listed so far:
We know there is a total of students so we can set up the equation:
which leaves us with .
So the missing value is eight.
Example Question #4 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
Use the table to determine how much one cupcake would cost.
We can determine the relationship between the values by creating a ratio of number of cupcakes to cost:
Where represents the cost of 1 cupcake.
We can now solve for :
The cost of one cupcake is then
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