November 2008 SAT Math

<p>i also believe that the letters one was 24. that question wasnt a hard question bc it was halfway throughout the math section so that makes it an easy one. 4<em>3</em>2*1=24. please correct me if u think im wrong</p>

<p>yea I put 24 for the exact same reason. It was like question 11 or something? If it were higher like a 17+ it would deff have been a trick</p>

<p>I put the answer was 8.</p>

<p>At firs I thought to go 4 P 4 on the calculator, which gives 24 but it just didn't seem right. </p>

<p>I decided to do out the combinations. </p>

<p>the letters were a e m t. and they had to be alternating with consonants and vowels not being grouped together.</p>

<p>a m e t
e m a t
a t e m
e t a m</p>

<p>t a m e
t e m a
m e t a
m a t e </p>

<p>I think those were all the possible combinations following the guidelines in the question. I can't remember the question exactly but at the time this looked right to me.</p>

<p>I, though, have a different question. Did you guys get 93 for the question about the repeating As? A B C D were repeating over and over again and you needed to figure out how many As there would be in the first 374 repetitions.
I did 374/4 = 93.5, and so I put down 93. (It was a grid-in question I believe).</p>

<p>what about the one with the number line and all of the letters and we were asked which one is true. i said r x r = t because r was negative and t was positive so a negative times a negative gives a positive. agree?</p>

<p>i think it was like r +s = 0 or something like that</p>

<p>^toomuch u could have have a combination like amte which isnt one of your 8 combinations so i know it cant be 8. But im not a 100 percent sure that 24 is right but it couldnt have been tricky since it was a medium type question.</p>

<p>ooo and u fell for their trick on the abcd blocks. yes it did come out to be 93.5 but 93 is not the answer bc .5 is also there. .5*abcd = ab so that adds an extra a to 93 making it 94.. that was a very tricky question i believe</p>

<p>azn, I don't think could have consonants *or *vowels grouped together. amte would put m and t next to each other.</p>

<p>Either way, stupid, confusing question, should have been worded better.</p>

<p>oo crap was that specified in the question??</p>

<p>I think so, azn, though I don't remember 100%. All i know is that at the time of the test those were combinations I got.</p>

<p>Btw, is what we're doing legal (in terms of sat policy)? haha</p>

<p>hah i dont really know i think we went a little too much in detail on the questions but i dont think it matters since practically 70 percent of people who take the sat will discuss some of the problems with others afterward</p>

<p>Remember
NOVEMBER</a> 2008 SAT: QUOTING test questions IS NOT PERMITTED
For valid reasons.</p>

<p>Vowels and consonants could not be grouped together...that was the whole point of the problem..someone bombed CR.</p>

<p>The answer was 8.</p>

<p>yeah, I did out the combinations too, according to that stipulation</p>

<p>lol at "someone bombed CR"</p>

<p>lol no i did not bomb cr, i must have went through that question quickly bc i dont remember that. does anyone else remember it saying that they could not be grouped together?</p>

<p>Btw the experimental section was the grid-in section that DID NOT have the question about Johan and Maria selling tickets... so, the other one :P</p>

<p>well i got 8 right and forgot the .5 on the question with the letters. Feel for the trick azn, you're right. Damn, now i cant get an 800. 780's decent i guess.</p>

<p>plus i dont think that the creators of this sat would put a problem with those stipulations in the middle of the section.. but if im wrong then im wrong :(</p>

<p>the 1/9th one goes like this</p>

<p>27,9,3,1,1/3,1/9</p>

<p>It was like question 14/18...so it wasn't exactly a medium question.</p>

<p>thanks amby now i remember</p>