SAT Practice Paper
Unit Conversion & Probability
Section A: Unit Conversion
Q1. A car travels 360 miles in 6 hours. What is the average speed, in miles per hour?
Q2. A bird flies at a speed of 72 miles per hour. What is this speed in kilometers per hour? (Use 1 mile = 1.6
kilometers)
A) 45 B) 96 C) 115.2 D) 124
Q3. An object’s speed is increasing at a rate of 4.5 meters per second squared. What is this rate in miles per minute
squared? (Use 1 mile = 1,609 meters)
A) 5.2 B) 10.1 C) 16.8 D) 25.4
Q4. The walls of a room were covered using exactly 5 gallons of paint over a total area of 2,000 square feet. What
was the rate, in gallons per square foot, at which the paint was used?
A) 1/2000 B) 1/400 C) 400 D) 2000
Q5. A rectangular field’s area is increasing at a rate of 180 square feet per hour. Which of the following is closest to
this rate in square meters per minute? (Use 1 meter = 3.28 feet)
A) 0.28 B) 0.40 C) 1.50 D) 2.10
Q6. A container has a volume of 1.2 cubic meters. Which of the following is closest to this volume in cubic
centimeters? (1 meter = 100 centimeters)
A) 1,200 B) 12,000 C) 120,000 D) 1,200,000
Q7. A raised garden has dimensions 6 feet × 12 feet × 18 inches. It costs $144 to fill it with soil. What is the cost per
cubic yard of soil?
Q8. How many centimeters are equivalent to 58 meters? (1 meter = 100 centimeters)
Q9. An underwater vehicle is at a depth of 54 fathoms. What is the depth in feet? (1 fathom = 6 feet)
Q10. An object moves at a speed of 9/20 feet per second. What is this speed in yards per second? (3 feet = 1 yard)
A) 3/20 B) 9/20 C) 27/20 D) 1/20
Section B: Probability
Q11. A bag contains 15 red marbles, 10 blue marbles, and 5 green marbles. If one marble is selected at random, what
is the probability of selecting a blue marble?
A) 1/2 B) 1/3 C) 1/4 D) 2/3
Q12. A school has 400 students. The probability of selecting a student from Grade 10 is 0.35, and the probability of
selecting a student from Grade 11 is 0.40. How many students are in Grade 12?
A) 60 B) 80 C) 100 D) 140
Q13. A choir has 72 singers, and 18 of them sing alto. If one singer is selected at random, what is the probability of
selecting an alto singer?
Q14. The table below shows the distribution of people by age group.
Age Group Proportion
Less than 18 years old 30%
18–40 years old 25%
41–65 years old 30%
Greater than 65 years old 15%
If a person is selected at random, what is the probability that the person is greater than 65 years old, given that the
person is at least 18 years old?
A) 0.15 B) 0.21 C) 0.32 D) 0.45
Q15. A study contains 80 participants.
Group 0–9 years 10–19 years 20+ years Total
A 8 12 20 40
B 10 6 24 40
Total 18 18 44 80
One participant is selected at random. What is the probability of selecting a participant from Group A, given that the
participant is at least 10 years old?
Q16. A sleep study consisted of 75 participants, of which 60 participants had more than 100 minutes of REM sleep
per night. What is the probability of selecting a participant with more than 100 minutes of REM sleep?
A) 60/75 B) 75/60 C) 15/75 D) 1/5
Q17. A box contains 50 tiles, where 8 are black and the remaining are white. If one tile is selected at random, what is
the probability of selecting a black tile?
Q18. The table below summarizes employees by department and experience.
Department Less than 5 years At least 5 years Total
Sales 12 28 40
HR 8 12 20
IT 10 30 40
Total 30 70 100
If one employee is selected at random, what is the probability that the employee has at least 5 years of experience?
A) 30/100 B) 40/100 C) 70/100 D) 100/100
Q19. A researcher studied 90 plants.
Type Small Medium Large Total
Type A 10 15 5 30
Type B 20 10 30 60
Total 30 25 35 90
If one plant is selected at random, what is the probability of selecting a Type A plant, given that the plant is Medium?
Q20. The table shows the number of even and odd numbers in two lists.
Even Odd Total
List A 16 24 40
List B 24 36 60
Total 40 60 100
What fraction of even integers are in List A?
A) 16/40 B) 16/100 C) 40/100 D) 24/40
Answer Key
Question Answer
1 60
2 C
3 B
4 B
5 A
6 D
7 36 dollars per cubic yard
8 5800
9 324
10 A
11 B
12 C
13 1/4
14 B
15 16/31
16 A
17 4/25
18 C
19 3/5
20 A