GRE Solutions Manual, Problem 6.11

Exam Prep, GRE, Quantitative Reasoning

This page is part of my unofficial solutions manual to the GRE Paper Practice Book (2e), a free resource available on the ETS website. They publish the questions; I explain the answers. If you haven’t worked through the Practice Book, give Section 6 a shot before reading this!

6.11: Convention Goers

The theme of this problem is “percentages of percentages.” We could use a table as in problems 5.9 and 5.21, but that’s overkill here, because the problem is so direct. If 32% of the convention goers came from Asia, and 45% of that subgroup are women, then women from Asia constitute

GRE 6.11, Eqn. 1

of the overall group of convention-goers. That’s all there is to it, but don’t worry: we’ll get more practice with percentages in problem 6.13.


Math Review Reference

For more on this topic, see the following section of the GRE Math Review:

  • 1.7: Percent (pp. 9-12)