<p>omg there goes my shot at 800 (i was really hopeful this time)</p>
<p>i disagree with the infinity answer, they would not have put that many points and in that arrangement if they meant you could just arbitrarily pick points</p>
<p>the points were there to define that you could not use any part of the perimeter, only draw from them</p>
<p>soo, what is the DEFINITE answer?!!</p>
<p>no definite answer, thats why the thread was created....maybe they will just throw out this question</p>
<p>you know what's weird? this question is #8 out of 20 or 25 questions, something like that. so, it's supposed to be easy or medium, but instead, it's very difficult problem! how weird is that?.....</p>
<p>i believe that points for te rectangles were just to trick you into believing that it cant be infinity. like hopeforfortune said, this really is a easy/medium problem, but we just made it hard for ourselves...the answer is 90% infinity</p>
<p>Why did they bother stating the rectangles' perimeters were 12? How is that at all relevant?</p>
<p>I just stared at this problem for 2 minutes trying to see the trick.</p>
<p>im 89% sure it was 4.</p>
<p>actually not THAT sure... but it's supposed to be an easy problem. No one is supposed to think about spinning it. THey're supposed to think o... 6 possible ways that you can draw a 12 primeter rectangle and two are given... OOOO it must be 4...</p>
<p>They told you the perimeter was 12 because if it were any other perimeter it wouldn't have fit within the circle. Basically, how many rectangles of this size will fit in the circle? The answer is infinity.</p>
<p>ugh...................................</p>
<p>but they are not supposed to trick us with the presence of letters. they are included for a reason. i think the question goes like "the rectangle had to contain the given points on the circle. how many OTHER rectangles can be placed with the points something like that?" there are 6 points, and two rectangles took four. so it has to be either 2 or 4.</p>
<p>But it didn't. Extended wording (many many rectangles using these points) would have stood out. The points weren't even mentioned. It simply asked how many rectangles of this size could be placed in the circle.</p>
<p>once again, they might throw out the question if they see alot of high percentile scorers missing it due to ambiguity.....</p>
<p>I bet the points were there to trick us.</p>
<p>I mean, this IS the SAT.</p>
<p>i thought the answer was too obvious (infinity) so i thought it was a trick and left it blank. this better gets thrown out.</p>
<p>wait... how do they just "throw" out a problem??? i mean the total is still going to be out of 54 pts. They can't just throw out a problem and make it 53 can they? I don't think it's ever been done before.</p>
<p>they did it with writing on Oct. SAT.</p>
<p>I think CB should just grant us free points on a bad question instead of throwing it out. I mean, what if we spent ~3 minutes agonizing over its ambiguity?</p>
<p>Booo.</p>
<p>Syn: you can fit rectangles with different perimeters inside circles. All that stating it has a constant perimeter does it limit the shape. Anyway, the 12 had nothing to do with anything else.</p>