Percentages: SAT Practice Questions
83 official Percentages questions (Problem Solving and Data Analysis) from the SAT Suite Question Bank, in the same question-ID order used in signed-in practice. Every question shows the answer and a full explanation, with step-by-step Desmos solutions available for most questions. It is free, and no account is needed.
What does Percentages test on the SAT?
Percentage questions involve part-whole relationships, percent change, repeated growth or decay, and reverse percentages. Translating the wording into a multiplier prevents most errors.
Common question types
- Find a percent of a quantity
- Calculate percent increase or decrease
- Recover an original value after a percentage change
Common traps
- Using the new value as the percent-change denominator
- Adding repeated percentage changes instead of multiplying factors
- Confusing percentage points with percent change
Difficulty distribution
Start with the easier questions, then work toward the highest score bands.
- Easy
- 28
- Medium
- 22
- Hard
- 33
- Extreme
- 0
Featured Percentages questions
How do I improve at Percentages?
- 1Identify the original whole before calculating.
- 2Convert an increase or decrease into a multiplier such as 1.12 or 0.88.
- 3Estimate the direction and size of the result as a reasonableness check.
Desmos method
Use direct numeric expressions for percent calculations or define a multiplier model. For repeated change, graph or evaluate y = initial(1 + r)^x.
Related Problem Solving and Data Analysis skills
All 83 official questions
- Question 1 022e9894Medium
- Question 2 0231050dHard
- Question 3 040f2a84Hard
- Question 4 048811bdEasy
- Question 5 05195d8aMedium
- Question 6 0ea56bb2Hard
- Question 7 121dc44fMedium
- Question 8 191d167bEasy
- Question 9 194ae3b1Easy
- Question 10 1baffbcfHard
- Question 11 1c2f50a6Easy
- Question 12 1fbd3b67Hard
- Question 13 20845d36Hard
- Question 14 25faa756Hard
- Question 15 273b7f37Easy
- Question 16 284303f1Easy
- Question 17 28c6bd8cEasy
- Question 18 28ff3966Hard
- Question 19 29c177e6Easy
- Question 20 2afd3cecHard
- Question 21 2d31caaeEasy
- Question 22 2e92cc21Hard
- Question 23 34e18ce4Easy
- Question 24 34f8cd89Hard
- Question 25 3a6ed720Easy
- Question 26 3d73a58bHard
- Question 27 40e7a1a9Hard
- Question 28 41b71b4eEasy
- Question 29 4aaa9c42Hard
- Question 30 5267c3c7Hard
- Question 31 54cb53cfHard
- Question 32 566759efMedium
- Question 33 58a71e06Easy
- Question 34 58ba7239Hard
- Question 35 623dbebbHard
- Question 36 63573feaMedium
- Question 37 65c49824Hard
- Question 38 67c0200aHard
- Question 39 699af7b3Hard
- Question 40 6e4a60ddEasy
- Question 41 6feae9c3Hard
- Question 42 709e04deMedium
- Question 43 73362607Easy
- Question 44 771ee744Easy
- Question 45 77cf4fa6Easy
- Question 46 7b731fc3Medium
- Question 47 7cab9fe1Medium
- Question 48 7ed0d098Easy
- Question 49 7f84b136Medium
- Question 50 8213b1b3Hard
- Question 51 86684ce9Hard
- Question 52 8705ecbaEasy
- Question 53 8784bc84Easy
- Question 54 8a714fa1Medium
- Question 55 8bb94668Hard
- Question 56 8c5dbd3eHard
- Question 57 8cbf1415Medium
- Question 58 8e2e424eMedium
- Question 59 93724cc6Easy
- Question 60 949cd96bEasy
- Question 61 94c65646Medium
- Question 62 954943a4Hard
- Question 63 96a45430Medium
- Question 64 98818acfHard
- Question 65 993000daHard
- Question 66 9c44f828Easy
- Question 67 a0b165f8Hard
- Question 68 a8fabad0Easy
- Question 69 ad1d6adbMedium
- Question 70 ad911622Hard
- Question 71 b2f6f17dMedium
- Question 72 ba0e23b0Hard
- Question 73 ba61d95fMedium
- Question 74 bb7c8186Easy
- Question 75 bd90f87eEasy
- Question 76 c256b723Medium
- Question 77 d693f563Medium
- Question 78 d72a2b4dMedium
- Question 79 dccdb20cMedium
- Question 80 e635aedeHard
- Question 81 e9f4521aMedium
- Question 82 e9fb7774Easy
- Question 83 eaab8bc1Easy
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