<p>Motorbike:
- what he enjoys: somethink like closed to nature? free? (how cant I recall the exact answer >‘’< )</p>
<p>You guys ve already talked about ‘Chinese mother’? I missed the discuss. Any problem about it?</p>
<p>people, discuss math!</p>
<p>what was the triangle problem?</p>
<p>one side of the big triangle is 70, small triangle in it is 35, common side is 200…</p>
<p>was the answer 100?</p>
<p>then… </p>
<p>the rectangle-square problem…
forgot what it was.</p>
<p>I asked about the “equanimity” question. Why did the author respond that way to what the mother said (about the grandma having bound feet). I answered “the author’s assumptions about the past generations” but they said the answer is “the mother’s manner of speaking”. The quoted line in the passage said “My mother was so nonchalant (or some synonymous word) that I thought everyone’s grandmother had feet measuring 3 and a half inches”. What did you put? And do you remember any questions?</p>
<p>Yeah it’s 100. For rectangle - square, it’s 1/4L. I posted a list of math questions, look through this thread. I think it’s somewhere after page 6</p>
<p>@anniruddhc: 100 for sure. I’m just wondering if there was any question with answer -2/3. I cant recall it.
@kaitlin: I remember that one. It’s mother’s manner. She talkes as if the grandmother’s feet were usual (in the passage the author said she had thought that every grandmother had bound feet) it is clear, right?</p>
<p>@hesterprynne - yeah, the question asked which one would have no solution.</p>
<p>I just thought that since the author thought “every grandmother had bound feet”, she reacted that way out of her “assumption about past generations [generation of her grandparents]”.</p>
<p>I think that answer was 2/3…</p>
<p>the “-cx” problem, right?</p>
<p>it had a minus sign, which is why i put 2/3 as the answer.</p>
<p>i think i put 1/4L. Not sure…</p>
<p>The equations were 3y = 2x + 6 and y = 1 - cx</p>
<p>Divide the first equation by 3 –> y = 2/3x + 2. If you input -2/3 for c, you’ll have the equation y = 2/3x + 1. Equating both equations would make it 2 = 1, which is wrong.</p>
<p>So the answer is -2/3?</p>
<p>^ooh, I remember the question but have no idea what I chose. Do you remember the exact question? </p>
<p>@kaitlin: I thought she had almost NO assumption about her past generation. Her mother told her nothing and she also does not need to know until she’s adult remember? Thus she has nothing in her head about her generations of her grandparents; she just listens to her mom and gets things through her tone, since the mother’s information was so few.</p>
<p>The equations were 3y = 2x + 6 and y = 1 - cx
if you recall correctly, so the answer was -2/3</p>
<p>hester - question where the answer is -2/3? I posted it (post #168)</p>
<p>Oh right, I didn’t think of it that way! Anyways, some people answered mother’s manner of speaking too. I guess I’m wrong :(</p>
<p>I think I put -2/3 as the answer! </p>
<p>Oh good lord, now I’m confused.</p>
<p>By the way, will the international test be subject to the same curve as the American test?</p>
<p>For the answer with the trapezoids, wouldn’t the answer be 17? I marked down 18, but then when I got home I realized that one of the trapezoids would count for two angles.</p>
<p>If I’m wrong about this, I’ll be very happy.</p>
<p>^me, too 
I did not know if I picked -2/3 or 2/3. The minus sign is not familiar to me lol</p>
<p>@kaitlin: dont be so pessimistic. that’s just what I thought. sometimes I believe that I understand the passage thoroughly but the outcome is terrible, and vice versa lol. But you got the ‘squid’ pretty well right? I omitted several questions in that passage :-s
And about the vocab, I just remember one question I chose ‘spate’ (my God, I have just learnt it on Friday in Direct Hits) and one I chose ‘topography’</p>
<p>^ Yeah I know I got that question wrong, haha. I put “0.” Oh well.</p>
<p>The angles at the upper right and left corners each measure 100. So if you put them side by side, you’ll get an angle measuring 200. Subtract that from 360 and you’ll get the inner angle of the figure you’re trying to form. That angle will be 160. The formula to know how many sides there are given the measure of the interior angle is [180 (n-2)] / n. </p>
<p>Equate that equation to 160:
180 (n-2) = 160n
180n - 360 = 160n
20n = 360
n = 18. There are 18 sides.</p>
<p>hester - haha but yeah you gave a good point just acknowledging it, I’m still hopeful that I’d get at least 750, if not that then at least 700 I didn’t skip any questions, but I think I made a lot of mistakes 
And spate and topography were the correct answers. I totally guessed for “spate” :)</p>
<p>^What scores were you aiming for on your three sections?</p>
<p>Personally, I was going for 800 in Writing, 700+ in Math, and 750+ in Critical Reading.</p>