Official Act Math Thread June 2013

<p>Provle, it’s either 9 or 10</p>

<p>what did this question ask?</p>

<p>oooooh that one. yeah it’s just 1/40 * 360</p>

<p>@Wudufuxup</p>

<p>Ahh. Poo. Wish I would’ve given that an extra ounce of thought.</p>

<p>Fairly sure I put 28 for the blasted blinking light, but I had a number of friends tell me 56.</p>

<p>It’s definitely 9 degrees.</p>

<p>The fence one is 252. In 48 feet there are 8 sections of 6 feet, 12 posts per 6 feet. In the 3rd side of 30 feet there are 5 sections of 6 feet, 12 posts per 6 feet. So we have 8<em>12 + 8</em>12 + 5*12 = 252</p>

<p>**** nevermind it was 252</p>

<p>for the flashing light, which letter was correct answer?</p>

<p>That was what I was thinking PlayerZero.</p>

<p>Walnut one… anyone remember that?</p>

<p>I want to say I got 84,000 walnuts or something but I may have interpreted that one wrong.</p>

<p>I got 84000 too</p>

<p>it is 28 because it didnt ask for the total time from the beginning, just the time that passed between flashes</p>

<p>For the walnut one I did 210/$0.03 * 12… which was 84000. Can’t remember the context though.</p>

<p>Really hoping the light was 28, not 56.</p>

<p>I got a smaller number for the walnut one. Like at first I got 84000, but then I decided that it was way too large so I redid it and got some smaller answer??? Did anyone do this as well? :(</p>

<p>But they were asking about the amount of pounds, weren’t they? So 210/.03=7,000 walnuts in total. Now that we have 12 walnuts in a pound, how many pounds? 7000/12=583 or 580 rounded.</p>

<p>Um, I think you guys forgot the question about the flashing lights.</p>

<p>It was that one flashing light blinked every 14 seconds and one blinked every (blank) seconds. What is the first time they blink at the same time?</p>

<p>However, I do agree that the answer was 28.</p>

<p>I am 100% sure it was 84000. You guys misread it if you got something smaller ( I did too in the beginning).</p>

<p>I also got 84000 for the walnut one</p>

<p>the question about the light asked for the answer during the second time they flashed together. the time elapsed is the entire thing making it 28*2= 56. it could be either but why would they ask for only the second time. i think they were trying to trick you. if the want the time elapsed between the first and second, they would have asked which i dont remember</p>

<p>@Mmorkous96</p>

<p>I think you may have misread it. I’m fairly positive it was asking for the number of walnuts, not the pounds (thus the ginormous number). They said you had 12 pounds of walnuts, I believe… and then asked what the total number of walnuts was.</p>

<p>Who knows, you could certainly be right as well depending on how the suckers worded it.</p>