<p>Test 2 number 19. (page 461)</p>
<p>How is the answer ironic? I don’t find anything ironic at all about the “heavens”. I thought Lewis thought that the heaven was something appreciative, because the real estate people praises it</p>
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<p>I’ve read this before, so I’ll answer this first…</p>
<p>A place filled with homes, businesses, and other things are what the real estate people praise as the “heaven”. Lewis does not want this. He says “heaven” but he doesn’t mean it since he does not agree with the real estate people’s idea of “heaven”.</p>
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<p>Haha… so take note of subtle word choices in the passage.
Alice Barber Stephens got around this prejudice… conducting business with publishers and authors from home.</p>
<p>She cared about people’s opinion. Why would she conduct her business at home if she didn’t? She only went around this issue. She found a way to pursue her profession, and maintain social respectability.</p>
<p>Practice Test 8, Section 7, #20</p>
<p>I can narrow it down to answers 2 or 3 but I don’t know how to figure out the legs of the right triangle.</p>
<p>You don’t have to figure out the legs of the right triangle. You just have to know the sum of the two legs.</p>
<p>Solve for AR + RC. It is given that length + width is 8.
Now solve for the diagonal line AC.
How? AC is given in a very subtle way. This one is very tricky. AC and RB(not shown) is the same length. RB is 6 because it’s a radius!</p>
<p>Find the arc ST.
12pi/4 = 3pi</p>
<p>Add the sides up… 12-8+6+3pi = 10 + 3pi
B is the correct answer.</p>
<p>I don’t think my explanation was clear for this one. Ask me again if you didn’t understand it.</p>
<p>I only didn’t know how to do 3 or 4 questions on this Math practice test, yet I got 7 wrong! Silly mistakes might drop me below a 700 :</p>
<p>I almost understand #20… SA is part of the perimeter, so why do we not need to know its length? its part of the perimeter</p>
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<p>On the real test, you’ll be more focused… (hopefully) You’ll do fine… :)</p>
<p>Nevermind got it! Forgot that subtracting the 8 from the 2 radii would give me the length of the 2 other pieces ^^</p>
<p>Going to practice my essay for the next couple hours then sleep maybe…</p>
<p>I’m proud to say I figured out a hard question without your help (lol!). </p>
<p>But I could not reason the second one…</p>
<p>To celebrate a colleague’s graduation, the m coworkers in an office agreed to contribute equally to a catered lunch that costs y dollars. If p of the coworkers fail to contribute, which of the following represents the additional cost in dollars that each of the remaining coworkers must contribute to pay for the lunch?</p>
<p>Answer: yp/m(m-p)</p>
<p>I realize that the cost that the remaining workers need to make up is yp, and that the remaining number of workers is m-p but why do I multiply the denominator by m?</p>
<p>Let’s organize the info.
Total cost = y dollars
Total number of coworkers = m
Total number of coworkers who failed to contribute = p</p>
<p>As for your question, yp does not give the cost that remaining workers need to make up. y is the total cost.
<a href=“y/m”>b</a>** gives the individual cost that were supposed to be paid by everyone.
But p number of people did not pay this cost.
Therefore, <a href=“y/m”>b</a> * p** gives the total cost that needs to be redistributed to each faithful workers…(represented by m-p)</p>
<p>[(y/m) * p] / (m-p) = (yp)/[m(m-p)]</p>
<p>Question 19, Section 3, first practice test (I’m a crammer…)</p>
<p>I got it down to h^2 = m^2 - ((m^2)/(4^2)) but not sure how to go from there, or if thats even right.</p>
<p>The answer is m/the square root of 2</p>
<p>m is a side of a square. The diagonal of the square is m√2. Half of this is (m√2)/2.
You can now use the pythag. theorem.
e is the hypotenuse.
The two legs are h and (m√2)/2</p>
<p>h²+[(m√2)/2]² = e²; since e=m, change e to m.
h²+[(m√2)/2]² = m²;
h²+m²/2 = m²;
h² = m²/2;
h = m/√2</p>
<p>Lol the graduation party question isn’t even hard, but I can’t visualize it and do the conceptual stuff to get there :p</p>
<p>Hopefully I’m good in crunchtime;)</p>
<p>@JeffJung,</p>
<p>Thanks mate. I used half of m as one of the legs because its half of the side - I still don’t know why you chose half the diagonal instead of half the side?</p>
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<p>To have a right triangle. Try depicting a right triangle with legs h and half of the diagonal and hypotenuse of e.</p>
<p>Sorry to bump this but I have a few BB questions of my own. Most of the help that people need regarding questions come from the BB anyway so we should just post here imo.</p>
<p>Anyway, I got frustrated with these questions:</p>
<p>p 793 (test 7, section 8):</p>
<p>9). Can someone explain the answer? When I read “capping this enumeration” in the passage (line 33), I felt that the professor was listing reasons for why he was fired in a sort of sarcastic way. “Trivial to the serious” felt a bit too strong to me… just wondering what else points to the correct answer.</p>
<p>13). CB’s answer confuses me. I guess you could he that “tedium” doesn’t belong at a progressive college, but how does that point to the college being “liberal and experimental”?</p>
<p>Bump this up.</p>