PSAT 10 Problem-Solving and Data Analysis. Practice it free.

Measures the ability to apply quantitative reasoning about ratios, rates, and proportional relationships; understand and apply unit rate; and analyze and interpret one- and two-variable data. This All grades reporting domain maps to 36 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

PSAT 10 (Grade 10)36 mapped skills
What the test measures

Problem-Solving and Data Analysis skills

  1. Ratios, rates, proportional relationships, and units

  2. Percentages

  3. One-variable data: distributions and measures of center and spread

  4. Two-variable data: models and scatterplots

  5. Probability and conditional probability

  6. Inference from sample statistics and margin of error

  7. Evaluating statistical claims: observational studies and experiments

Standards basis

Common Core State Standards (CCSS-M) / College and Career Readiness-aligned SAT Suite framework — national

How the PSAT 10 reports it

PSAT 10 is part of College Board’s SAT Suite and uses the same digital Bluebook math framework as the SAT/PSAT-related assessments. Its math reporting categories are the four fixed SAT Suite domains, aligned to college- and career-readiness standards derived from the Common Core.

Blueprint & weighting

College Board’s content-domains page lists the four math domains for PSAT 10 but does not publish domain-by-domain weighting percentages on the page text extracted here.

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Practice playeasy

A beetle is measured at 8080 millimeters long. What is the length in centimeters? (11 centimeter =10= 10 millimeters)

Use a conversion factor with centimeters in the numerator so millimeters cancel: 80 mm×1 cm10 mm=8 cm80 \text{ mm} \times \dfrac{1 \text{ cm}}{10 \text{ mm}} = 8 \text{ cm}.

Practice playeasy

Write 45\dfrac{4}{5} as a percent.

45=0.8=80%\dfrac{4}{5} = 0.8 = 80\%.

Practice playeasy

8282 is what percent of 100?100\textsf{?}

82100=0.82=82%.\dfrac{82}{100} = 0.82 = 82\%\textsf{.}

Practice playeasy

A banquet hall sets out 360360 chairs. Guests have reserved 45%45\% of the chairs. How many chairs have been reserved?

Convert 45%45\% to a decimal and multiply: 0.45×360=1620.45 \times 360 = 162 chairs.

Practice playeasy

What is 25%25\% of 100?100\textsf{?}

25%=0.25.25\% = 0.25\textsf{.} Then 0.25×100=25.0.25 \times 100 = 25\textsf{.}

Practice playmedium

A fitness tracker recorded daily step counts, in thousands of steps, over 1414 days. The frequency table shows the results.
Steps (thousands)Number of days5382114143172\begin{array}{c|c} \text{Steps (thousands)} & \text{Number of days} \\ \hline 5 & 3 \\ 8 & 2 \\ 11 & 4 \\ 14 & 3 \\ 17 & 2 \end{array}

What is the mean step count per day?

Multiply each step count by its frequency and add: (5×3)+(8×2)+(11×4)+(14×3)+(17×2)=151(5 \times 3) + (8 \times 2) + (11 \times 4) + (14 \times 3) + (17 \times 2) = 151. With 1414 days, the mean is 15114≈10.79\dfrac{151}{14} \approx 10.79 thousand steps.

Practice playeasy

Four small data sets are listed below. Which set has the least standard deviation?

Set A:
3,7,11,153, 7, 11, 15
Set B:
6,8,10,12,146, 8, 10, 12, 14
Set C:
8,9,10,11,128, 9, 10, 11, 12
Set D:
4,8,12,16,204, 8, 12, 16, 20

Set C has mean 1010 with values within one step of the center (88 through 1212), giving the smallest standard deviation, about 1.41.4. Sets A, B, and D spread farther from their means.

Practice playeasy

Five quiz scores are 82,82\textsf{,} 75,75\textsf{,} 90,90\textsf{,} 85,85\textsf{,} and 68.68\textsf{.} Which data set has the same mean?

The original mean is 82+75+90+85+685=80\dfrac{82 + 75 + 90 + 85 + 68}{5} = 80. The set 70,70\textsf{,} 75,75\textsf{,} 80,80\textsf{,} 85,85\textsf{,} 9090 also has mean 8080, so the means match.

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