AP Calc BC Discussion

<p>My friend was going to bring a salt shaker to eat the last three FR because he kept on getting perfects on everything else during practice tests.</p>

<p>Hahaha... that's ridiculous. Then again, so was throwing that polar question at us. How stupid. Somehow I screwed up part a, but managed to get the rest because the rest was really intuitive.</p>

<p>I wish I did as well on Stat, where my stupidity caused me to miss an entire FR... wow.</p>

<p>I absolutely loath polar coordinate problems. I was praying to god that there would be none on the FRQ, then BAM!</p>

<p>He brought a salt shaker to eat, eh? It's not too common for people to eat salt.. but a salt shaker >.> I don't really see how that polar question was ridiculous. I actually like the little equations.</p>

<p>why isn't 1b 595.3?</p>

<p>Hahaha... polar... it's actually not hard at all. I just purposely said... naw... polar hasn't showed up in forever. Chances are...</p>

<p>because 595.3 multiplied by pi is 1870.19 :P<br>
Ah! Now I see what you meant. At first I thought I was going to have to stand up for those little equations that can not fight back.</p>

<p>Uh, because it is PI times that.</p>

<p>Aw crap, I put 10.371 instead of 10.370 for the answer to 4a). I know that college board will take off points for that because they are complete dicks. My Ti-89 can be stupid in rounding off numbers sometimes...</p>

<p>O.O I thought it was 10.371. That's what my TI-89 said.. lemme go check..
what the hell. I see it is 10.37047, not the 10.3705 that it says in the answer.</p>

<p>Collegeboard needs to get a better job... like not screwing over kid's futures.</p>

<p>It wouldn't matter whether you put 10.371 or 10.370, I don't think. You have the option to either truncate or round.</p>

<p>screw this TI-89 calculator :/</p>

<p>Yea, but Kastam, the Ti-89 has shown the answer as 10.3705 (it rounds in a weird way) when the actual answer was 10.37047. So when you truncate or round, it goes down to 10.370. but because i simply read the 10.3705 from my Ti-89, so I wrote the answer as 10.371 (which rounds from 10.3705)...</p>

<p>Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah I guess it should be 10.370 either way. Although I think I also remember putting 10.371....or wait, maybe not.</p>

<p>Well, I just did it again using my jumble of equations and came out to 10.370 - so I hope that's what I wrote on the test.</p>

<p>well.. there goes any chance of a good score for us Yatta. :[ Might as well start learning a trade.</p>

<p>how do you do 5c?</p>

<p>well, since it is a right riemann sum, you do:
4<em>2 + 2</em>3 + 2<em>1.2 + .6</em>4 + .5*1 = 19.3</p>

<p>the number before the * is the y value, the number after is the delta x. Need I elaborate more?</p>

<p>LOL I wrote "8 + 6 + 2.4 + 2.4 + .5" as my final answer. I am fairly sure that they will accept this as a correct answer (they said it does not need to be simplified after all).</p>

<p>Well, here's 3: <a href="http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3608/07calcbcfrq3hm5.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/3608/07calcbcfrq3hm5.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Nice Noober, but you could have just set up the expressions and use your calc to find the final answers. They will accept both forms and it saves time.</p>