March 2013 Math SAT Discussion

<p>does anyone remember what they got for the question with like an inequality? it was like comparing something x<something y and something y < something z then it asked which of the following is always true?</p>

<p>i remember choosing the one like 4x<5y or 3x<4y or whatever choice D was… i dont really remember the exact answer…</p>

<p>3x<z was the answer i believe</p>

<p>does anyone remember question with point intersection?
it was #8
one like had an equation of y=(3/4)x
and another line had y-int of -4</p>

<p>what about the question with the hexagon and the equilateral triangles? does anyone remember the specifics of the actual question?</p>

<p>@jonlee the answer was 60.</p>

<p>@archliving
yea, but what was the exact question…</p>

<p>For the question about the difference between terms, I think the answer was 5, not 20. Because if the difference between terms 5 and 6 was 5, that means that term 5 would have to equal 5 since 2*5 - 5 = 5.</p>

<p>All the terms would be 5 and the difference between all terms would be 5</p>

<p>@jonlee42:</p>

<p>question said a hexagon is split into equilateral triangles, the length that split the hexagon in half was 20. what is perimeter?
answer: if length is 20, side of triangle is 10. 10*6=60</p>

<p>@pvenigal:
the answer was 20 it said that a6=a5+5. it also said that the term is equal to 2 times the previous minus 5.
So you have
a6=5+a5
a6=2(a5)-5
a6=15,a5=10
a7=2(a6)-5=25
a8=2(a7)-5=45
a8-a7=45-25=20</p>

<p>@aznswag
was it a mc or grid in?</p>

<p>MC i believe</p>

<p>@aznswag alright thnx… do you remember the question about the circle and triangle? and you had to like find the side of the triangle if the radius of the circle is x and diameter is 2x?</p>

<p>i had math experimental for multiple choice…does anyone remember which one was the multiple choice i think i completely bombed it
was it the one with the graph asking for the mom’s height??</p>

<p>@jonlee42
That was a MC and you had to use similar triangles so the small one was x and hypotenuse 2x so the leg z was:
x^2+z^2=(2x)^2
z=xrad3
and then you had to use proportions to find the side of the big triangle and i think it was:
x/xrad3=4x/AB
AB=4xrad3
you knew one of the big sides was 4x because 2x was the radius so the diameter was 4x</p>

<p>@jonlee I believe the question was if 3x>5y and 10y>2z, which must be true?</p>

<p>The way I did it was to combine the inequalities. I halved the second to get 3x>5y>z, then simply removed the second “y” term. Therefore, 3x>z.</p>

<p>@Peaches1234 Same, I had experimental math and omitted a couple, and I never omit …</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the question that had the answer of 37? I can’t seem to remember it, was it a bubble in or MC?</p>

<p>@pvenigal
The question had a chart of populations of countries (I think it was that), and it asked find k to the nearest integer, if k is the ratio of the country with the largest population to the country with the smallest population. The smallest country was Vatican City with 900, and the largest was something else, I cant remember but it had a population of 33500. 33500/900 = 37.22222, so k = 37. This was a free response bubble in.</p>

<p>Did anybody have a question that asked you to find a value of a so (4x^3)^1/2 over a equals 2x^2? I’m thinking this was in the experimental</p>

<p>@dragooner4 thank you, I remember getting that answer in my calculation now :D</p>

<p>Why is everyone so uncertain over the 7th/8th term question?</p>

<p>5 is 10. 6 is 15. 7 is 25. 8 is 45. 45-25 = 20.</p>

<p>Similarly, the xyz inequality question is simple substitution; divide one equation in the system by two and substitute z into 5y, or something like that.</p>

<p>Or am I missing something? I had to rush that section.</p>