ACT Sept 2012 MATH

<p>TheNexus, I put that answer too!</p>

<p>Confirmed. So either we all got it right or wrong…
But I had the same thought process as you.</p>

<p>somebody’s probably asked this already, but what was that log question? I was sooooo confused. explanations/answers?
oh and the one with triangle BDM being points on a circle.
oh and was 59 (the one with the circles and triangle in the middle) 30 degrees or 60 degrees?</p>

<p>-4 was the answer. Which I did not put down because I suck at properties.</p>

<p>I put 30 degrees. You knew each angle of the triangle was 60. That left 90 for the right angle and 30 for the last one. Unless I did that wrong.</p>

<p>What was the sin question?
Was it like sin30/sin80 or something else?</p>

<p>The MN answer was 1, not 0</p>

<p>I am not going to argue any more, but many of us still believe the mn question was 0. On sep 24 there is going to be a big i told you so moment for one side.</p>

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<p>MN answer is 1, just to clarify for everyone. A distinct pair just means you cant flip around the integers I.e., (2,1) and (1,2) those aren’t solutions, just a example. </p>

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<p>Themost, read my explanation about 1 or 2 pages back & tell me how it is wrong. Please, I would love to hear</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=14825722[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=14825722&lt;/a&gt; Proof.</p>

<p>All i am saying is if n and m were meant to be the same they would not have gave the equation, but instead used the words product and sum to clear up confusion of m and n not being the same. I have also seen many post with the term distinct integers. </p>

<p>And for the baseball question the answer was 30000 it was a little lower but rounded up.</p>

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<p>the mn answer is one, it said two positive integers… 2+2=2*2 what is so hard to understand?</p>

<p>Because it specified “distinct” and some people interpreted that as meaning m and n could not be the same integer</p>

<p>Did anyone get lots of D’s and G’s in the beginning</p>

<p>almost like</p>

<p>1 D
2 G
3 F?
4 D
5 G
6 D</p>

<p>??</p>

<p>Does anyone know or can estimate how many C’s and H’s were in the last 10 question?
I didn’t have enough time and guessed on all of them</p>

<p>Iamadad
When it comes down to it you are not going to see my side because you put one.</p>

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<p>Wcclirl444, If I interpreted your logic correctly, you’re saying that the word distinct was used to describe the pairs and not the two individual values of M and N. However, wouldn’t it have been redundant for the test makers to bother including the word distinct?</p>

<p>Suppose they asked the following: For how many pairs of positive integers M and N do M+N=2? Firstly, you can’t assume they are asking for a ordered pair. The answer would be one because both M and N can be equal to one.</p>

<p>Now suppose they asked the following: For how many pairs of distinct positive integers M and N do M+N=2? Now there is no way to solve the it so the answer would be zero.</p>

<p>TL;DR - They included the word distinct in the question with a purpose and you shouldn’t be trying to answer the question in the form of an ordered pair (which assumes that M and N are interchangeable).</p>

<p>Also, I acknowledge the fact that this is overkill. =)
Also feel free to correct anything I said. I may have misinterpreted.</p>

<p>Okay guys, this mn debate has been going on for like 10 hours… Call it quits! We can all agree that the wording of the question was a bit problematic.</p>

<p>Q: Average of how many people attended home games
A: 30000</p>

<p>Q: Avg rate of change in games won?
A: 2</p>

<p>Q: Biggest drop in years
A: 2002</p>

<p>Q: (6x^2+5x-4)/3x+4)
A: 2x-1</p>

<p>Q: Cone volume of 1.5 Diameter
A: 1.8</p>

<p>Q: Cosecant of the triangle w/ hypotenuse 4root26
A: root26/5</p>

<p>Q: How many took spanish or something like that
A: 3</p>

<p>Q: M + N = MN
A: ****ing 1. Dammit</p>

<p>Q: Triathalon
A: 130 minutes</p>

<p>Q: W-Shaped Graph
A: |x^2-a^2|</p>

<p>Kev: for that last answer you posted, do you happen to remember the letter of the answer choice?</p>