April 2011 ACT Math Discussion

<p>@hight That’s what I got too.</p>

<p>@Gian Yes, using trig identity you get 1, don’t remember if it was plus or minus 4 though.</p>

<p>Highteeld you just plug in values for the X except 7 because 7^2 gives you 49. So I chose 6 and solved it that way.</p>

<p>i put -5 for that one</p>

<p>High: Hard one for me. I put something dumb like 1/7.</p>

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<p>^YEAHHH I PUT -5. Ahahaha okay, good.</p>

<p>What answer choice was -5?</p>

<p>WOW, i had some good F#<em>&</em>%# guesses on the math section, the stars are bound to align themselves after 4 attempts at this damn thing</p>

<p>Stanford: the one with the identity equal to 1.</p>

<p>that was tan CBA right? for an answer of 1</p>

<p>Edit: Just realized what I posted was bs.</p>

<p>No this one, the one you were referring to:</p>

<p>sin^2 - 4 - cos^2</p>

<p>What answer choice was -5</p>

<p>I think it was F?</p>

<p>Also AMZ1, isn’t it…wow, now I’m confused.</p>

<p>Edit: LMAOO!!!</p>

<p>Yeah ignore what I wrote up there haha, my brain’s still fried 9 hours later</p>

<p>Wait the sin^2-4-cos^2…if sin^2-cos^2=1 then 1-4=-3…is the correct?</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure the problem was sin^2 - 4 + cos^2. Which makes -3… There is no identity for sin^2 - cos^2</p>

<p>I don’t think there was any -3!?!!</p>

<p>Well even if it was sin^2 + 4 + cos^2 which I doubt, the answer would’ve been 5, not -5. Maybe the “4” is wrong haha.</p>

<p>It was minus 4 for sure. Only mystery is if it was plus cos^2 or minus…eh, who cares, what we put is what we put.</p>

<p>Hmm i remember putting -3 because i remember seeing -4in the equation…</p>

<p>Hahaha maybe! Well I put 5 or -5…</p>

<p>Remember the park questions? Were you stupid like me and counted each little square (the one the had the picture) and multiplied or something…?</p>