October 2011 Post-ACT Test discussion

<p>@TedJones
Thanks. I’m pretty sure I picked that one. I knew it was one of the 2 larger answers. But I messed up, then the supervisor called time, and my calculation was a bit off so I picked j really fast.(the smaller of the 2 bigger answers)</p>

<p>yea “chronologically, what happened first? Was it losing the softball game or choosing the mozart piece?”
sum1 please answer</p>

<p>does anybody remember the answer choices given for the question that asked for the value of k for x^2+kx+17? i know the answer was -18, but i just want to remember if i guessed correctly.</p>

<p>For the science section,</p>

<p>what was the last question??</p>

<p>Wavelength and amplitude?
or</p>

<p>Wavelength and frequency?</p>

<p>I put the former but on second thought, it probably is amplitude even though amp is usually half the distance from the max/min point. An alternate definition is that it is the range of values. -_-. stupid ACT.</p>

<p>choosing the mozart piece was first^
does anyone know if there a colon her. she made the book Challenge: written in 1934, bla…bla?</p>

<p>also for the science when naoh increased did acidity increase?</p>

<p>@neuroscience it was wavelength and amplitude.</p>

<p>Mozart piece. She picked it, but then quit practicing for softball.</p>

<p>@defianced - “the answer was definitely its rational. the question never said it had to equal 1, it just said it has to be rational.”</p>

<p>I don’t think so. If you plugged in, for example, 1 (a rational number), you’d get the answer 2/3, which is not an integer as I believe the question asks for. The only way to get an integer answer is to plug in 2/3.</p>

<p>pretty sure it was amplitude, amplitude is height of a wave</p>

<p>@TheRhino, what if you wanted the integer to be 2? 2/3x=2, x=1/3. In order for that expression to be an integer the only thing that is certain is that x is rational. x does not need to be 2/3. If the question said what makes the expression equal 1, then you would be right.</p>

<p>usually amplitude is the distance from the center or midpoint of the wave. </p>

<p>not in this case though</p>

<p>^^I think then we’d have to recall the wording of the question. It isn’t always true when x is rational, and it isn’t only true when x is 2/3.</p>

<p>Yeah. it depends on the wording. I THINK it was something along the lines of “If 4x/6x^2 is an integer,for a given x, what must be true of x”. Anyone have some insight ?</p>

<p>It said that 4x/6x^2 was rational, not an integer. I think haha.</p>

<p>it’s definitely x is rational. name any scenario where a rational x would be wrong. x can be, but is not limited to, 2/3</p>

<p>@TheRhino</p>

<p>I believe that it said that the answer had to be rational. I said x must be rational, too, as there are multiple solutions.</p>

<p>If the answer had to be rational, not an integer, then you guys are right.</p>

<p>did you guys get this punctuation?
CHALLENGE: which was written in 1934, bla bla</p>

<p>@teamonster</p>

<p>No…that’s not even remotely correct, my friend. It should be “Challenge, which was written in 1938,” if that was the correct portion of the sentence (though I don’t remember it)</p>

<p>i would have said that but it wasn’t an option</p>

<p>For the rational/irrational question:</p>

<p>I say it’s irrational.</p>

<p>It said to put in a positive real number–which could be anything. Say pi.</p>

<p>The answer is irrational.</p>