<p>was the answer to the whale sentence completion flexible or plasticity?</p>
<p>i put flexible..., but maybe.... , whatever, man
i gave the sat today so i dont really care abt what i did on psat on the 15th.. lol</p>
<p>Pretty sure it was flexible. Doesn't plasticity mean it can fix itself or something like that?</p>
<p>Yeah I got flexible.</p>
<p>plasticity means being able of being shaped or formed</p>
<p>no, plasticity means w/e hpa said it did</p>
<p>@whoever said "none other"</p>
<p>though like none other is certainly idiomatic, the phrase "none other" would refer to Mr. Brett, and not to his departure. so the answer was "like nothing else," or something to that effect.</p>
<p>Dang...another writing question missed...how about the one that said "the debaters competed ON every occasion." ? I put E. No error, but it can't be "competing IN occasion" can it??</p>
<p>@tom: I think I got that one wrong, lol. I wrote that "competing on" was wrong. It sounded awkward, but I think the answer was E, no error.</p>
<p>@euphoria Z - the funky circle problem was A, which was 18. The shape was in a square that was 6x6, and 4 sides of the shape were tangent to the midpoint of each side of the square. That means that the radius was 3. So now, imagine the square in 4 equal sections, each 3x3. 2 of those sections are 1/4th of a circle that is the diameter of the length of the square, so the diameter is 6 and the area of the circle is 9 pi. Since we broke down the square that the circle is in into fourths, the area of 1/4 of each circle is 9pi/4. Then the other two sides of the circle have blank arcs in them that have a radius of 3, and their area is 9 pi/4. But since we want to find the area of the shaded area, the whole square has an area of 9. So we do 9-9pi4, which is the area of the shaded section. Since there are two squares like this, and two 9pi/4 things, we make this a math problem:
2(9-9pi/4)+2(9pi/4)= area
18-18pi/4+18pi/4 = 18 (the 18pi/4 's cancel out)</p>
<p>i put competing AT every occasion
an occasion is not a time, but an event
so you don't compete on an event, you compete at an event</p>
<p>numsquat, i operated under the same logic you did, and i almost always 80 SAT writing skills sections...however, i feel that the answer to that problem was E, just because...i don't know how to explain...</p>
<p>@numsquat REALLY?!!??! I would be so glad if i got that right.</p>
<p>If the phrase was "competing on," it was just cruel and unusual on the CB's part. Because you have to decide whether on goes with occasion or competing, and it sounds weird with both.</p>
<p>Ahh reading all these posts makes me sad .. I was hoping for 220+ but now I'll be lucky if I get 200. I hate psats D:</p>
<p>Lol I google both "competing on every occasion" and "competing in every occasion" and "competing on every occasion" won 297,000 results to 296,000 results...this must mean that ON occasion is right?? ...</p>
<p>^ in addition to post #629.
You can "cut out" 90 deg sectors form the lower left and upper right squares and move them to complete the upper left and lower right squares (think jig-saw puzzle).
The shaded area then is a total area of two small squares: 2x3^2 = 18.</p>
<p>blah! i was hoping for 220+ just like dolcevalse.. but yeah i'd be lucky if i broke 200 now.</p>
<p>wait so whats the answer? is this resolved?</p>
<p>ON OCCASION OR AT OCCASION? this is really stressing me out. please oh please let it be on occasion!</p>
<p>its on occasion.... not at occasion...</p>
<p>it a) makes phonetic sense, have you ever heard anyone say "at occasion"</p>
<p>b) I beleive it it gramatically correct:</p>
<p>Idiom:
on occasion
From time to time; now and then.</p>
<p>At occasion did not come up in any search...</p>
<p>it is definatly on occasion</p>
<p>hopefully it is!</p>
<p>bummp so people can compare predictions vs. real answers.</p>