Official May 2008 SAT discussion

<p>calm down silver...
the answer actuall said strength of conviction. and i wasnot for the mirror question</p>

<p>it definitely is x^3 substitute -1/2 and come back to me</p>

<p>did you get the people publicly denounced for no 22 in the double passage</p>

<p>For the one where you had to find the median, I just plugged in a number for x, and checked it that way.</p>

<p>silverdragon, I also got D on the math. I put genuine conviction in the May passage, it was asking about what the point of her saying that she thought those friends had been put there specifically for her was.</p>

<p>Yes i believe it was a negative number. -.5 maybe?</p>

<p>but..what about substituting -3?
x^3=-27
x=-3
1/x= 1/-3
1/x^2= 1/3
x^2= 9</p>

<p>I hate math!</p>

<p>I dunno, did it say x had to be a positive integer?</p>

<p>soug sorry to deliver the bad news but it said -1<x<0</p>

<p>Ha. That sucks. I felt so happy when I did that one too!</p>

<p>For the math, did anybody remember how to do the one when the function was reflected over the x-axis, how many x-intercepts it would have? Eh, my brain can't compute visual things when I'm in a panic, so I just put the number of intercepts as it was pre-reflect. 5.</p>

<p>did you get the people publicly denounced for no 22 in the double passage</p>

<p>kelper----------you are correct it is 5</p>

<p>prospective on was an error right?</p>

<p>hey! anyone know how the wording on the italian/germans question worked/why it was so ambiguous? see my post on p 22 of this thread if you need the wording, i tried my best to remember it haha</p>

<p>I also realized that the anwer can be either 9 or 6.
But more probably 9.</p>

<p>kelper, it's same: 5!</p>

<p>I have never heard of a section being experimental. How do you tell? does it count? does every SAT 1 have an experimental ques?
Thanks</p>

<p>How do you know if a section is experimental? does every test have one? Do they count?</p>

<p>Edit: more probably 6.
(My answer was 9.)</p>

<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>last night, people werent sure whether 9/4 Pi or 5 Pi was the right answer for the circle question.
So I couldnt sleep (lol) and had this stupid explanation for 9/4 Pi in my head:
All we know is the relative distance between the circles and the big circle and the middle point of the big circle.
The circle middlepoints are all the same horizontally, but have been moved vertically. So we know that the shaded circle has a distance of 1 to the big circle. We want to make his middlepoint the same as the middlepoint of the big circle, so we move him up by 0.5. The shaded circle now has a distance of 2.5 to the middlepoint of the big circle, as he has got the same middlepoint, his radius is 2.5
The distance between the smaller circle and the big circle is 2, we therefore move him up by 1. He now has a radius of 2.
2.5=5/2
A1 = Pi 25/4
A2 = Pi 4 = Pi 16/4
A1-A2 = Pi 9/4</p>

<p>Is this right?
Pleaaaaaaaaaaaase</p>

<p>It has already been discussed. It IS Pi * 9/4. </p>

<p>gj :)</p>

<p>Soooo... the Math section with the babies on June 15th was experimental right?</p>

<p>for the question </p>

<p>23x + 90y = 4523</p>

<p>90(50) = 4500
23(1) = 23</p>

<p>And that gives you 4523 for an answer of 51.</p>

<p>was this section experimental or did everyone have it???????</p>

<p>I had that one as well, wasnt experimental - I had a writing experimental.
And Ive also had the same answer! =)</p>