<p>@ BMittman: The (0, 2) answer choice was an open interval question. I remember specifically. That’s why it messed so many people up. If it was [0, 2] I doubt so many people (including myself) would have tripped up on it.</p>
<p>Also (to BMittman) - to be perfectly honest - I doubt the College Board will throw that question out, so you shouldn’t worry. I actually had eliminated the answer choices down to (-3, 3) and (0, 2), but picked the wrong one partly because I was getting tired and failed to read the question carefully enough, and because I happen to be unlucky/dumb like that haha. I see my error now; I’ll actually be upset too if you end up getting penalized because of my stupidity.</p>
<p>Ah, so I didn’t remember correctly. But I highly doubt College Board would intentionally word a problem to confuse people. Seemed pretty straightforward, imo.</p>
<p>@fledgling, for the frequency table, you had to find the value of x such that the average of all values was one of the counted values. What I did was make a rational expression with an “x” in both the numerator and the denominator that represents the average of all values. Once I simplified it, I graphed it on my calculator and plugged in positive x values until I got a y value that was one of the numbers on the left side of the table.</p>
<p>Meh, but I was taking Lit as well, and since I was scared about its harsher curve I decided to do it first while I could still think properly. This is why taking more than one subject test can be somewhat detrimental to overall scores lol</p>
<p>Just more ways College Board discriminates, lol. It costs $87 to take 3 subject tests on 3 different dates, but only $47 to take them on the same day, so there’s an automatic disadvantage for economically challenged students and kids with really cheap parents. Now that I think of it, how the hell can a kid with ADD possibly do well on the 4-hour SAT I???</p>
<p>If the questions asked for the interval that would satisfy x^2<4, wouldn’t (-3,3) be incorrect because x=-2 or x=2 is 4. That is not less that 4. So wouldn’t the correct answer be (0,2).</p>
<p>^ No… the question asked (I remember it now, yay!), “Which of the following intervals INCLUDES ALL the values of x for which this statement is true: x^2 < 4”. The values of x would be [-2, 2], but the -1 and -2 aren’t accounted for with the (0, 2) answer.</p>
<p>^ Haha nice use of repetition/emphasis. =P I wonder how many more people are going to show up here and argue about (0, 2) before this whole argument dies down…</p>
<p>Crazyman, in that question (r,q) was an ordered pair, not a distance. The problem included distance, but it asked you to come up with the coordinate, which can be negative.</p>
<p>If it was asking for the distance, then they wouldn’t have told you what quadrant the circle was in.</p>
I actually had eliminated the answer choices down to (-3, 3) and (0, 2), but picked the wrong one partly because I was getting tired and failed to read the question carefully enough, and because I happen to be unlucky/dumb like that haha. I see my error now; I’ll actually be upset too if you end up getting penalized because of my stupidity.</p>