October 25, 2008 ACT Discussion- Math

<p>x<y was the answer, right?</p>

<p>chronic, draw a 3D box and label the length, width and height. That should tell you what you should multiply for each wall and the floor.</p>

<p>yeah, x<y because x-y < 0, add the y.</p>

<p>college, i got that too</p>

<p>What was the one with the K's? (some greater then equal to stuff)</p>

<p>And the one with the absolute value (X >1) stuff got negative one for that one but wasn't too sure.</p>

<p>Did anyone else have a form of the test that asked about the number of library books or something? Like, the library was cataloging 1,000 books, one per day, and it started on Monday, so which day would the last book be done? :P</p>

<p>What was the one with the K's? (some greater then equal to stuff)</p>

<p>And the one with the absolute value (X >1) stuff got negative one for that one but wasn't too sure.</p>

<p>highhopes, was that q on the first page?</p>

<p>I didn't have anything about the library.</p>

<p>My friend and I got 52 for the hypotenuse on the boat question.... I ended up kinda guessing and getting it right... thankfully</p>

<p>the boat one was the law of cosines? I got 19 or some number like that.</p>

<p>the sides were 25 and 30. The angle between them was 180-40=140</p>

<p>a^2=25^+30^-2(25)(30)cos140</p>

<p>i think u guys musta used the outside angle with was 40. that would give u a positive value for cos, which i think would be wrong?</p>

<p>19 is wrong.</p>

<p>11 + .067(1500) + .062(x-1500) Or something like that? Choice E</p>

<p>^Was that an answer?</p>

<p>I put it as the other way around. .62 .67 were flipped around.</p>

<p>wantivy, yeah, it was one of the bottom ones.</p>

<p>law of cosines one was 52</p>

<p>yes wantivy that's the answer.</p>

<p>can someone confirm to me that the exponential graph was fourth to last question?</p>

<p>i got (E), the last choise for the first question of the graph.</p>

<p>Ooops my bad. I meant the answer is 57.1. 19 is WRONG. sorry (boat problem)</p>

<p>What was the perimeter of the trapezhoid?</p>

<p>Argh, i think I missed like 4. What's the score then?</p>

<p>I'm so frustrated I can't join the conversation. Damn my testing center with it's 900 different versions of the test..</p>

<p>Can anyone estimate what my math score would be for missing ~5 questions?</p>