May SAT 2011: Math Section

<p>Thank you qwerty, I plugged every damn number in the problems so I appreciate the reassurance.</p>

<p>Ok, I always do worst on geometry questions so i’ll go ahead and ask away on those. Remember I got a math experimental so if it wasn’t there then just let me know. </p>

<p>The one that asked how many spherical balls with radius 3 could be fit into a cube where the length of each side of 12. I ended up getting 8. </p>

<p>The one where you had two adjacent circles unshaded inside a bigger circle that was shaded. It asked for the shaded area. The diameter of one little circle was 4. I got 16pi - 4pi(2) = 8pi. </p>

<p>The one where you had value (5,6) or something and you had to give the y-coordinate for when the point hit the y-axis. I think I put 11 instead of 14 because I assumed the slope to be 1 (probably one of my missed questions cause I was rushing), so can I confirm that was wrong? </p>

<p>The surface area question’s answer was A^3/2?</p>

<p>There was also another circle question where it asked for the arc between AED after it gave the AEB arc a certain value. Was the answer on that one 4pi/4 = pi?</p>

<p>Similar triangles problem where it asked for a + b + c, which was all the space not occluded by the triangles. Was that one like 270 degrees? </p>

<p>Was the grid-in answer on one of the easiest seeming problems 9 degrees where it gave 2x + 3x + 5x = 90? </p>

<p>Hexagon question which asked for the value of a certain angle inside the shape. Anyone recall this?</p>

<p>Also, I got 30 degrees for x on another triangle problem where it gave y = 40 and you had to use various simple geometry techniques to get x = 30 on the top. It was two triangles next to each other. Confirmations?</p>

<p>^ I think i got 10 degrees for that question</p>

<p>what was that really easy question with like w=2 and xy=5 and wy=2 or somethign like that? does anybody remember it? it was extremely simple but for some reason i didn’t get an exact answer, i just made an educated guess and put b</p>

<p>@ tennis or mmfanatic
was that triangle one experimental? did u guys have math experimental</p>

<p>^ no i had an experimental writing</p>

<p>@concretepencil9-- there are definitely some extraneous questions in there cause I had math experimental</p>

<p>um which triangle one, though?</p>

<p>The question basically had a triangle split in two and we were told that two lines were perpendicular to one another and that two sides were equal</p>

<p>and then it said that y was 40 and we had to calculate x</p>

<p>yeah! I remember that question now…I felt like it was on Sec. 2 so prob experimental. Idk I was kinda honing in on CR this time because that’s my weak area, and oddly enough I remember much, much less in that section because I was so locked in and efficient.</p>

<p>@MMA…I just thought of a different one. that y = 40 question was definitely not experimental cause I think I got that in sec. 4.</p>

<p>@MMAfAnatic9
omg did u have the pyramid question? the one looking up from the bottom?
and did u have the one like Volume, and Area, and it was like A^1.5
im tryna find out the experimental</p>

<p>^do you remember if you put 10 for the y=40 one?. And ya I had the pyramid one. That definitely wasn’t experimental</p>

<p>YES YES YES square pyramid question…did you put the x pattern or cross pattern?</p>

<p>I put the one with a small square inside a larger square</p>

<p>@tennis
i put the X, but its WRONG.
im SOOO blown.</p>

<p>i misread the question. they said the midpoints of the lines or something, so its the square inside the square.
AHHH.</p>

<p>I think both of those you’re talkin about weren’t experimental. </p>

<p>OMG dumbest question on this thread…but was it A or C for the parabola reflected across x-axis problem? one was where the parabola was sideways facing right and another where it was still on y-axis but crossed through x. I forgot the meaning of a reflection so I had to guess.</p>

<p>Ugh, well I think I got >630 (previous score) on math so i’m relatively happy</p>

<p>If it’s 385, I got my 800. If it’s 165, I’m going to be really upset lol :(</p>