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Many UCAT Quantitative Reasoning questions require you to combine multiple calculation steps to arrive at the answer. These are often the most challenging questions because you must identify which steps are needed, extract the correct data, perform the calculations in the right order, and avoid errors at each stage.
A multi-step question requires two or more separate calculations to reach the final answer. Each step may use a different operation or different data from the data set.
"What is 15% of 2,400?" → One calculation: 0.15 × 2,400 = 360.
"A shop sells 150 items at £12 each and 80 items at £18 each. What is the total revenue?" → Two calculations (150 × 12 and 80 × 18) plus an addition.
"If this total revenue represents a 20% increase on last year, what was last year's revenue?" → Now there is a third step (reverse percentage).
What is the question ultimately asking for? Start with the end in mind.
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