<p>woohaa its decreasing for the bar graph one</p>
<p>decreasing and then increasing?</p>
<p>woohaa got you covered for both ;)</p>
<p>I ran into the problem with the bar graph too. We didn't read it carefully enough. It was watt output per speed ratio. If you looked at it, the BARS were CONSTANT but the SPEEDS were INCREASING.</p>
<p>wat/speed is constant/increasing.
model it: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/100... It's always decreasing over that interval.</p>
<p>the solution picture you were suppose to read the graph and interpret what it's telling you. It told you that at the point, no ice was present. There was solid potassium iodide and aquas H2O. That means that you have black stuff at the bottom and the rest is gray-no white color present in the picture.</p>
<p>wooohooo that's what I put for the picture one! </p>
<p>I can't really remember what I put for the bar graph one, but I think I said decreasing and then increasing... is that the right answer then?</p>
<p>i did NOT understand the science graph about the solutions and freezing and boiling!!!!!! i had no idea how to even read the chart!</p>
<p>Oh yeah, does anyone remember putting an answer (for the last section) somewhere along the lines of "where the boiling point line intersects with the H20 line"... another choice was something like "where the boiling point line intersects with the y-axis"...</p>
<p>there is no increasing. Over that interval, it only decreases.
that chart was tricky to read. I took AP chem tho so I had experience with similar graphs. </p>
<p>btw for the other questions concerning that graph:
yes, because the graph increases over -20 to 110 Celsius
where the freezing line intersects the vertical line
KI will be solid and water will be aquas
first question: about 60% KI concentration (answer choice A)</p>
<p>edit: y-axis intercept was NOT the answer for that one</p>
<p>oh, perfect, that's the answer I put for that one too! you have a good memory haha! do you remember any other tricky questions?</p>
<p>necro-- do you remember the choices for that reading question? I eliminated "willing to volunteer his time" too</p>
<p>yeah, i knew the definition, so i was kind of curious as to why you chose it ;) ... and i also wondered how many other people know the def.</p>
<p>I don't remember much but I remember one of the other choices being "commercial bio[something]"
and then it's all a blur >.<</p>
<p>edit: I don't actively remember anything else but if someone gives me something to spark my memory, I can probably recall it.</p>
<p>I can't understand hoe someone was supposed to answer some of those science passages/questions without prior knowledge. I would NOT have been able to do the phenotype and solubility one without my bio and chem classes</p>
<p>Neither would I.</p>
<p>Plus, I wouldn't have been able to do so well on the essay if I wasn't actually on my school paper.</p>
<p>you're expected to know basic definitions. You're suppose to know that boiling is turning into gas and freezing is turning into solid. Other than that, it was simple interpretation.</p>
<p>as for the phenotypes, yeah you needed to have bio to answer a couple. You couldn't have known that if you cross two parents with recessive and dominate for each trait, you'd get a 50% chance of hetero kid.</p>
<p>However the question with the answer 3/16 was an easy math question. You know 1/4 chance of recessive and 3/4 chance of dominant. it's an AND question to mathematically it's multiplication (as oppose to or being addition). So 1/4*3/4=3/16.</p>
<p>edit: the essay didn't require you to be on the school paper. I wrote a pretty strong paper without any knowledge of how the school paper is produced.</p>
<p>so just for future purposes...could you tell me HOW to read the boiling/freezing chart?</p>
<p>when several conditions are met, you look on where they intersect on the graph to figure out what's going on.</p>
<p>ex: at low temperature and high pressure, the substance I gave the link to would be a solid. However, at a moderate temperature, it depends more on pressure. If it's high, the substance is liquid. If it's low, the substance is gas. (just trace from x and y axis and find where on the graph the 2 intersect).</p>
<p>edit: to link back to the test. To find what is going on with the substances, you trace concentration and temperature to their point of intersection. Logically, you can deduct where the boiling/freezing points are because they are labeled (h2o gas and h2o solid on either side of the line).</p>
<p>I know it's obviously possible to write a good essay without being on the paper - it's just that I had especially strong views on that topic in particular because I deal with it every day.</p>
<p>Basically, I would have done okay on other topics, but I really got into this one.</p>
<p>I was afraid of getting a topic I felt passionate about. I could write on abortion and taxes for HOURS. If you ask me about socialism v capitalism I could write a novel and still not say enough. Hence, it was to my benefit that the topic was something I could write about and not get too much into.</p>
<p>(it's hard to write an essay in 30 min when you're so opinionated on everything).</p>
<p>for the room in the heart of the house, i said that it meant the center of the house and not where the important things happened.</p>
<p>dictionary definitions include both center and where essential or vital things happen
<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart%5B/url%5D">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/heart</a></p>
<p>look at definition #6</p>
<p>i really don't know though, this one seems like it could go both ways.</p>
<p>on the heart of the house thing-the paragraph goes on to detail the important things that happened in that room...so I put down "the important things"</p>
<p>I agree with burnitblue but also, that was an inference question. Giving the physical attribute of the room seems inappropriate because it's too literal.</p>