Thursday, September 6, 2007

Fractions of 1 to 30

Time is golden. So, Im going to give you the tips to save time during calculations in data interpretation and quantitative analysis.

Beginning with fractions from 1/1 to 1/30 :

Till 1/1 to 1/5, its easy. You probably have these on your tips already.
For convenience purposes, ill deal the fractions as percentages. [ The actual fraction is the answer divided by 100]

1/1 : 100
1/2 : 50
1/3 : 33.33
1/4 : 25
1/5 : 20

Now let's begin the tough ones. Ill try to make you understand the patterns here :

1/6 : 16.67 and 1/15 : 6.67 [ Got it? ]
1/7 : 14.2856 [ 7x2=14 ; 7x4=28 ; 7x8=56 ]

TIP : The fractions of the multiples of a number can be calculated by just dividing the source fraction by the multiplication factor .
Eg. : 1/2 : 50 ; 1/4 : 25 ; 1/8 : 12.5 ;

So, by this way, we get the following fractions :
1/8 : 12.5
1/10 : 10
1/12 : 8.33 [ 1/6 =16.67 remember??]
1/14 : 7.14
1/16 : 6.25
1/20 : 5
1/24 : 4.16
1/25 : 4
1/30 : 3.33

Now, something goes in pairs :
1/9 : 11.11
AND
1/11 : 9.09

So, once you get 1/9 and 1/11 . Therefore you get
1/22 : 4.545 [ forty five forty five]
1/18 : 5.56

Now, some weird, but easy to learn patterns :
1/13 : 7.69 [ 13 square =169 ; just replace the one by seven ]
Hence ; 1/26 : 3.84

1/28 : 3.56 [ 28x2=56 ]
1/27 : 3.7 [ twenty seven is thirty seven ]

The last few :
1/17 : 5.88
1/19 : 5.26
1/21 : 4.76
1/23 : 4.34
1/29 : 3.44

You can make your combinations too. Post a comment here, if you come up with something.
Just have a look at these fractions for 2 or 3 times a day, and in a week, you'll remember them all. This surely will save you lot of time in the CAT .

7 comments:

Unknown said...

It was of no use, you have not explained it in a good manner.

Neha pal said...

Nice...I like the way to learn

Unknown said...

Awesome trick bro... It's always been hectic to remember these fraction values..You have done a commendable job ...Hope you keep posting such tricks in future. And not only CAT, it's useful for other competitive exams.

Unknown said...

Some values are missing like 13,15,17 nd 18...please answer my question

Unknown said...

See carefully, you can see all the values from 1 to 30

Unknown said...

Very helpful for beginners

vishal said...

thankyou somuch, you are awesome..