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 29 practice skills and 8 representative questions from the playable bank.

PSAT 10 (Grade 10)29 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

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 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 1511410.79\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.

Practice playeasy

The practice times, in minutes, for five days are 35,35\textsf{,} 15,15\textsf{,} 20,20\textsf{,} 40,40\textsf{,} and 25.25\textsf{.} Which data set has the same median?

In order, the original values have middle value 2525, so the median is 2525. The set 17,17\textsf{,} 23,23\textsf{,} 25,25\textsf{,} 40,40\textsf{,} 4848 also has median 2525, so the medians match.

Practice playeasy

Two fair coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting exactly one head?

The sample space is HH, HT, TH, TT. Exactly one head appears in 22 of the 44 equally likely outcomes: 24=12\dfrac{2}{4} = \dfrac{1}{2}.

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