Quantitative Level 5 Score range: 376 to 500
These tasks require readers to perform multiple operations sequentially, and they must disembed the features of the problem from the material provided or rely on background knowledge to determine the quantities or operations needed.
One of the most difficult tasks on the quantitative scale (381) requires readers to look at a table providing nutritional analysis of food and then, using the information given, determine the percentage of calories in a Big Mac® that comes from total fat. To answer this question, readers must first recognize that the information about total fat provided is given in grams. In the questions, they are told that a gram of fat has 9 calories. Therefore, they must convert the number of fat grams to calories. Then they need to calculate this number of calories as a percentage of the total calories given for a Big Mac®. Only one other item on this scale received a higher score.
In Canada, 4% of adults are at this level.
