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The document provides a review of basic arithmetic skills necessary for aptitude tests, including rounding off numbers, working with fractions, decimals, and conversions between decimals, percents, and fractions. It outlines methods for rounding numbers, reducing and adding fractions, and converting between different numerical formats. Examples are included to illustrate each concept clearly.

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The document provides a review of basic arithmetic skills necessary for aptitude tests, including rounding off numbers, working with fractions, decimals, and conversions between decimals, percents, and fractions. It outlines methods for rounding numbers, reducing and adding fractions, and converting between different numerical formats. Examples are included to illustrate each concept clearly.

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PART 1:

Basic Arithmetic Review


Before we get started with some serious practice, it might be helpful to brush-up on some
basic mathematics skills needed for success in the test. You may move on if your math
skills is great!

1. Rounding Off Numbers


In most aptitude test calculations, you will be required to work in approximated figures,
in such cases, rounding off is required.
To round off any number:
1. Underline the place value to which you’re rounding off.
2. Look to the immediate right (one place) of your underlined place value.
3. Identify the number (the one to the right). If it is 5 or higher, round your underlined
place value up 1. If the number (the one to the right) is 4 or less, leave your underlined
place value as it is and change all the other numbers to its right to zeros.

EXAMPLE: Round to the nearest thousandth:


345,678 becomes 346,000. 928,499 becomes
928,000
2. Fractions
Fractions consist of two numbers: a numerator (which is above the line) and a
denominator
(Which is below the line).
1 (numerator)
2 (denominator)
The denominator lets us know the The numerator tells us how many of
number of equal parts into which these equal parts are contained in the
something is divided. fraction.

(i) Reducing Fractions


A fraction must be reduced to lowest terms. This is done by dividing both the
numerator and the denominator by the largest number that will divide evenly into both.
For example, 14⁄16 is reduced by dividing both terms by 2, thus giving us 7⁄8.
Likewise, 20⁄25 is reduced to 4⁄5 by dividing both numerator and denominator by 5.

(ii) Adding Fractions


To add fractions, you must first change all denominators to their lowest common
denominator (LCD)—the lowest number that can be divided evenly by all the
denominators in the problem. When you have all the denominators the same, you may
add fractions by simply adding the numerators (the denominator remains the same).
EXAMPLE:
3. Decimals
Fractions may also be written in decimal form by using a symbol called a decimal point.
All numbers to the left of the decimal point are whole numbers. All numbers to the right
of the decimal point are fractions with denominators of only 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000,
and so on, as follows:
Calculator Tips for solving Decimals
When working with decimals less than 1, (for example 0.9), it is best to leave out the
first zero and save yourself some vital seconds which might be very useful in solving
other questions.
For Example, if you wanted to multiply 0.5 and 0.5, a faster calculator stroke would be

4. Conversions
(i). Changing Decimals to Percents
To change decimals to percents:
1. Move the decimal point two places to the right.
2. Insert a percent sign.
.75 = 75% .05 = 5%

(ii). Changing Percents to Decimals


To change percents to decimals:
1. Eliminate the percent sign.
2. Move the decimal point two places to the left. (Sometimes adding zeros will be
necessary.)
75% = .75 5% = .05
23% = .23 .2% = .002

(iii). Changing Fractions to Percents


To change a fraction to a percent:
1. Multiply by 100.
2. Insert a percent sign.
1⁄2 = (1⁄2) × 100 = 100⁄2 = 50%
2⁄5 = (2⁄5) × 100 = 200⁄5 = 40%

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