December 2009 Math II Discussion

<p>can someone post the raw score from last time?</p>

<p>i don’t think there will be a huge curve this time</p>

<p>Anyone know when the embargo is lifted?</p>

<p>can we start posting specific questions?</p>

<p>If I had to guess the curve it’d be ~5</p>

<p>baron’s curve is about -6 and it was barrons is harder. I would agree with kallistos.</p>

<p>man i rreally hate taking these tests and their curves :x</p>

<p>the curve is generally around 45 points…or maximum 44…i don thnk there has ever been an 800 below that</p>

<p>yes there has
-7 is a 800 from many previous administered tests</p>

<p>The embargo has been lifted. What did everyone get for number 50 and also the one about the non real roots?</p>

<p>nonroots i got nonpositive</p>

<p>greatest common divisor - 72
parabola opens up - a>0
Sets A and B- standard deviation doesn’t change
number of points per question on test 2 - 2
locus from two lines intersecting - two intersecting lines</p>

<p>For the one that was like sqrt ( - x^2)…was the answer when x = 0?</p>

<p>@NYEM
yeh thats what i got except i cudnt do 50…</p>

<p>i got mode dosnt change… if u add five to every number on set be, the difference between the highest and lowest numbers is the same on both lists… i got nonreal roots=2 because there must be three ruits (power of three) and there was only one real root (which was one)</p>

<p>I left 50 blank and had trouble with quite a few others, like…
The one about the cylinder’s radius and height being increased, was that E?
The one about a 10 unit long line being rotated around (0,6), was that none of the sets?
And… there was a weird one I think I might have misread, it asked about the x values where x^2 <4… or did they ask for the y values? Ugh I think it was y values… I probably got that one wrong :[
AND… the one about the x-y-z plane, how many perpendicular lines can be drawn through a point on another line.
Anyone know the answers to these?</p>

<p>the ones i am not sure if i got right: r= “-q” … list contains only “0” for the set of answers… and a diff question that only has “-1” as a real root.</p>

<p>locus from two lines intersecting - two intersecting lines
isn’t it two perpendicular lines?</p>

<p>more answwers… a=2 (one that makes the equation have no answers)… cylnadir was easy… just make up dimentions for the smaller cylander and manipulate them to get the bigger cylander and then solve</p>

<p>The one about the 10 unit long line was [-8,8] I think. Actually, if it was square brackets, that was it and if it was circle brackets, then it wasn’t. I can’t remember AT ALL. The x^2 < 4 was (0, 2) or something like that.</p>

<p>The XYZ plane perpendicular line was infinitely many. It’s because you can have 1 line, and another line at a 90 degree angle to it to make it perpendicular; but since it’s also a Z plane, that line can be rotated around an infinite amount of times.</p>