October 2010 ACT Math Thread

<p>It was sqrt(200). 10 was the length of the triangle’s sides.</p>

<p>Yes it was</p>

<p>this might’ve been answered already (sorry to repeat) but what did everyone put for the copy machiene question? (the one with the graphs as answers)</p>

<p>anybody pick the piecewise function?</p>

<p>yes sqrt(200) was right.</p>

<p>WHY would you pick the piecewise function??</p>

<p>I forgot which one I picked, but it was one with a slope, then a less steep slope (around the time the second printer broke down), then back to a steeper slope. I think it was one of the graphs on the left…?</p>

<p>A B
C D</p>

<p>So it was like A or C?</p>

<p>xbuddy</p>

<p>it was the one with the steeper slop, less steep sloper, then steeper slop again which was choice A or F the first one.</p>

<p>ahh nooo! i had one minute left, panicked, and picked the first one that stood out at me :(</p>

<p>lol the one that stands out usually isnt the answer.</p>

<p>Sigh, I already got like 3-4 wrong… I hope I don’t get another wrong but it’s impossible :frowning:
Hopefully there’s a big curve X_X</p>

<p>do you remember if there was a -1for an answer? i did not think about factoring it out, but i don’t thin kACT generally asks those kind of questions… either way, i think i did fine, but i think that it would be fine to put just 1.</p>

<p>The answer is x=-1, because the removable discontinuity is at x=1.</p>

<p>A was correct. the coping did not stop completely because there were 2 machines going and only one broke… so the slope of the line was steap and then the 2nd machine broke making the slope decrease, then it was fixed and the slope returned to its initial slope… so it was not the piece wise fnction</p>

<p>I also put -1 for that answer but i didnt factor it out.
and wouldnt the question that had two functions in terms of x y and a be a=3 because both equations would now be equal to eachother allowing infinite x and y values.</p>

<p>for the tan^-1 its def 3/25. tan^-1 is used to find the angle measure while 3/25 just simply gives you the value of tan. not the angle~</p>

<p>are u guys sure its 2/3 :frowning: i put 3/2 T__T im still not convinced. can someone explain the problem?</p>

<p>i thought -1 wasn’t an answer choice, only 1? Wouldn’t they both be correct?</p>

<p>Common ratios of a geometric sequence a, b, c, d,… is the ratio of b/a, c/b, d/c, etc.</p>

<p>It goes from 270 to 180. 180/270 is 2/3.</p>

<p>If sinx=1 than tan x=?</p>

<p>college, it was asking for cos not tan and the answer is 0</p>

<p>Answer is 1. It’s not asking you about a unit circle.</p>

<p>If a triangle has a hypotenuse of 1 and another leg of 1, Pythagoras tells us that the other side must also be 1.</p>

<p>Or was that a question I took on a practice test earlier this week?</p>

<p>a hypotenuse and a leg both cannot be 1 in a right triangle</p>