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About the SAT Math Test

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Number and Operations

About a quarter of the mathematics questions address the following concepts:

Arithmetic word problems (including percent, ratio, and proportion)
Properties of integers (even, odd, prime numbers, divisibility, and so forth)
Rational numbers
Sets (union, intersection, elements)
Counting techniques
Sequences and series (including exponential growth)
Elementary number theory

Algebra and Functions

Just over a third of the mathematics questions address the following concepts:

Substitution and simplifying algebraic expressions
Properties of exponents
Algebraic word problems
Solutions of linear equations and inequalities
Systems of equations and inequalities
Quadratic equations
Rational and radical equations
Equations of lines
Absolute value
Direct and inverse variation
Concepts of algebraic functions

Newly Defined Symbols

Geometry and Measurement

Just over a quarter of the mathematics questions address the following concepts:

Area and perimeter of a polygon
Area and circumference of a circle
Volume of a box, cube, and cylinder
Pythagorean theorem and special properties of isosceles, equilateral, and right triangles
Properties of parallel and perpendicular lines
Coordinate geometry
Geometric visualization
Slope
Similarity
Transformations

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

A little more than a tenth of the mathematics questions address the following concepts:

Data interpretation (tables and graphs)
Descriptive statistics (mean, median, and mode)
Probability