Odd math problem on June SAT

<p>yay! :) hehe i got it!!</p>

<p>I agree w/ NJ Pitcher....I had the other answer but changed it</p>

<p>sorry guys, NJ pitcher is completely wrong...how can you say y>3 when the problem states that if x>3 then y=4. so if x = 4 (which is greater than 3) then y would have to be 4 and nothing else...not y>3. it just makes no sense.</p>

<p>Sorry Tsmall, but I'm completely right. If x=4 (which is greater than three) than y=4, and last time i checked, 4>3. Sit down.</p>

<p>yes but you are saying that y could be 3.221145683 since that number is greater than 3 and that is IMPOSSIBLE since y has to equal 4. your answer is too vague and incorrect. OHHHHHHHHH!</p>

<p>No. All that I'm saying is that if x=4, then y will be greater than 3. Since y will equal 4, and 4 is greater than 3, that statement is true. Learn some logic.</p>

<p>dude, you're wrong but it's okay. if i get an 800 like i'm expecting, we will know who was right.</p>

<p>OK, be prepared for the first digit to read a 7. What did you put as your answer.</p>

<p>Note: I didn't have the test, so I don't know what the choices were. EEE is right too, so maybe the one I'm talking about wasn't a choice. meh, doesn't effect me.</p>

<p>lol tsmall I'm in the same boat as you...and all these people are wrong trying to make false explanation for something that was wrong get over it...I'm getting an 800 wooo</p>

<p>NJ, what did you think was the answer?</p>

<p>the answer was if y <3 then x is not equal to 4....how many times have people said that over and over again. lol</p>

<p>the question was (for the last time) if x = 4, then y >3
the answer was (for the last time) if y < 3 then x does not equal 4.</p>

<p>shut down.</p>

<p>and for anyone who thought the answer was teh opposite of the question, you are wrong....no further discussion required.</p>

<p>merudh, i understand this....i wanted to know what NJ thought was the answer since he did not actually take this test, so that I could understand why Tsmall disagrees. Also, I would like to know what Tsmall thinks is the answer.</p>

<p>that's cool.</p>

<p>I don't even know if it was a choice, but the opposite is true.</p>

<p>We are given if x>3, y=4</p>

<p>Now, if x =4, then it is fulfilling the fact that x>3
Because x>3, then y=4
Because y=4, then y>3 (4>3)</p>

<p>Now I don't know if it was a choice. However, if there was a choice that if y<3 then x=/=4, that is safer, because it's essentially the statement. I don't believe that they'd put both on the test, but it's possible; again, I didn't have the test.</p>

<p>I think you just have the wrong question. It wasn't x>3, y=4, but rather x=4, y>3.</p>

<p>The first post said what my given in bold says. What was the given?</p>

<p>what was given was x = 4 then y > 3</p>

<p>the given was the question, which was, as I just said, "If x=4 when y>3, then which of the following must be true?"</p>