October 2010 Math SAT Thread

<p>Dont u mean everyone IS accounting for order? @ mmontefo</p>

<p>“the question involving x^-y = 1/8 and y^z = 243… it asked for x + z. z was 5 and x was 2 so 5+2=7”</p>

<p>I confirm.</p>

<p>so any ideas about the curve for this math section. seemed kinda easy but the questions were, clearly, trickier than they seemed. ?</p>

<p>one of the gridins was 1.2 for the radius of the semi circle. Hope that helps.</p>

<p>anyone remember if 6 was an answer choice for the 5 5 6?</p>

<p>Was the one with the cube exp? Just wondering XD</p>

<p>@ coup. Im not sure I think i put either B or C or something in the middle. Not sure.</p>

<p>was the “finding the area of a triangle that has sides 5, 5, and 6” experimental?</p>

<p>no because order matters it goes 665 656 665 656 566 566 666 666 666 666 666 666</p>

<p>For the ones about the cube, what do you guys mean about accounting for order?
By 566 / 656 / 665, I was referring to the different cubes?</p>

<p>it was 12 b/c you could make two 3-4-5 right triangles, each with area 6</p>

<p>DICE QUESTION:</p>

<p>666, is ONE RESULT. Order or not, 666 is still one outcome.</p>

<p>If order didn’t matter, then the total outcomes would be 72</p>

<p>I think the dice were thrown at once.</p>

<p>6-5-6, 5-6-6, and 6-6-5 all yield the same result. There shouldn’t be a distinction.</p>

<p>God I hate stupid mistakes! I got the circle diagonal one wrong (did 4 rad 2; forgot that it was 4+4) then got the 556 triangle one wrong (did .5x3x4 after making height from pythagorean theorem). ■■■. I got a 740 last time for 2 wrong. I just hope now that I didn’t f*** up on any others. Dammit.</p>

<p>no the triangle one was not experimental, i had 4 reading sections and still had the triangle one</p>

<p>I am aware the answer is 12, but was 6 an answer choice?</p>

<p>For the obtuse triangle question- I got 10.4 using 95 degrees, did the length have to be an integer??</p>

<p>@Mike: But there are three different dice…?</p>

<p>probably they always do stuff like that</p>