October 15 PSAT Discussion

<p>For Math, what was the one about like a circle inscribed in a square?
I put 18 or 16 or whichever was the only interger answer.
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<p>end of the last reading section: lots of D/E's ???</p>

<p>There was another one of those "Which of the following term best replaces blah blah?" questions in one of the passages. I don't completely remember the question, but my answer was "pertains to" as the best replacement...any ideas? I believe another answer choice to that question was "admits to".</p>

<p>same. (ten char)</p>

<p>@ zenyth: i did "pertain to", but i can't remember the context or even the passage.</p>

<p>i second ingette.</p>

<p>same, but could someone explain?</p>

<p>the curves kind of locked into place so that only half the circle was shaded in</p>

<p>i agree with daman11</p>

<p>last math question of first section: area was 18, no?</p>

<p>The answer to the even integers one was 2000 wasn't it?</p>

<p>Yes!
I looked at it and I seen every around me like using Pi and other things to get the answer but I just flipped over both pieces and seen that it covered 1/2 the square so I did 1/2 x 36 or w.e it was.</p>

<p>What was the answer for the fill in math question involving the volume of a cube if you decrease it by xxxxx.
Was it 6x4x4 Whatever that comes out to be?</p>

<p>wasn't it the difference between the greatest and least in a list of 1000 even integers?</p>

<p>I had no idea how to do that weird circle in square problem. I guessed 6 pi and one of my smart friends said he was sure it was correct.</p>

<p>pollocamp - yes check my thread. :)
I also put pertains to. :)</p>

<p>yeah it wasnt 2000 im pretty sure</p>

<p>I did 2000-2=1998?</p>

<p>so last reading section lots of D/E at the end?</p>

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Oh, about the mars passage (SO boring, i was falling asleep), what did you say about the similaries btwn the 2 passages? i was stuck btwn "extended analogy" and "appealing to emotions" or something like that. i think i chose the analogy

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<p>I didn't do either of them, I said "both used evidence from recent explorations" or something, which I believe they did. Neither appealed to emotions or analogy.</p>

<p>Questions of my own: Remember the passage about information? [Which I actually liked] For the question asking what "desert island" reading referred to, what was it? I put "when books were scarce, people read them more deeply."</p>

<p>Also, on one of the shorter passages [the ones about comedy], one question asked "The author of passage 1 would respond to the author in passage 2's definition of wit by:" and I put "agreeing completely", which struck me as a bit extreme but none of the others seemed to make sense.</p>

<p>Oh, and I'm pretty sure the circle problem was 18. It was half of the square, if you picture it again, but the math also made sense.</p>

<p>oh ok good lol</p>

<p>@ elaslawek: i think the height was increased. everyone was discussing that one afterward, and it seemed that what you did was the most common way. however the math geniuses agreed on a different method. i can't remember what the answer came out to be, though..sorry!</p>