Official October 21, 2006 PSAT Discussion

<p>What did you guys put for the Charlotte Bronte and FDA questions, I'm still not sure. -.-</p>

<p>The purpose was to introduce readers to a basic problem in astronomy.</p>

<p>i think i put show how they solve problems or something</p>

<p>that was choice... E?</p>

<p>this sucks...</p>

<p>yeah, and the fact that we're all on CC one hour after the exam is over is also quite sad.. but lets keep on discussing.</p>

<p>It was choice B.</p>

<p>Still waiting for more input on FDA and Charlotte Bronte questions.</p>

<p>well i got the 80 one wrong, probably got the surly one wrong (i put surly). What else did I probably get wrong...</p>

<p>oh crap i think i counted wrong on the sunday one... why do i keep thinking 22.... will we find out what we got wrong, though? ... when we get our score report?</p>

<p>wait, wait...for the car one i got 28
this is how:
of 200 cars, 50% are red....that means the other 50%, or 100 cars, could be green.
Of all the 200 cars, 60%, or 120, are four-door...that means that out of 100 cars that are green, 60 are four-door and the other 40 could be two-door
finally, of all the 200 cars, 70% are alloy wheels...that means that out of 40 cars that could be green and could have two-doors, 70% have alloy wheels, so .70x40=28...
did i misread the question, by any chance? or is the answer 80 like everyone else says?</p>

<p>for the passages about the famous biographer (i forget his name)...what was the same in both passages? i think i said that he was critical of 19th century biographies, but i'm not sure. it also could have been that he was a good writer or......?</p>

<p>i thought the math section was reaaally easy
what did you guys get for some of the math on section 5?
third side of triangle i got 21.1? i think
i did 2^2 + 21^2 = c^2
is that wrong?</p>

<p>i think i got an 80 on math if x^2=y^2 for the last MC on first section</p>

<p>i'm sure there was an error in the fda one, but can't remember anything about bronte. i put E for the aristotle question... does anyone remember the one about "by watching tv ..."</p>

<p>no, I think the car one was 80; too many people agreed on the car one already.</p>

<p>I got 100 green cars, got half of the percents: 60 and 70 and for 30 and 35 for that. So I got 65.</p>

<p>Ugh, I feel quite stupid. I got confused on the stopgap one, and put something else.</p>

<p>I came up with, 80 and wry. I remember the Emily Bronte one I put had no mistakes.</p>

<p>@ rockyraccoon628: was that the one with either "critical" or "unusally good"
if it was, i think i put good writer</p>

<p>@sari: it didnt say 60% of the 100 green had four door, but that out of 200 cars, 60% had 2-doors</p>

<p>sari- out of the door criteria, it implys that there are 80 2-door cars</p>

<p>rocky- i said both authors commented on the skill of the biographer, which may be totally wrong</p>

<p>homie- triangle in equality x + 2 > 21 , 2+21 > x ,x+21 > 2<br>
thus 19<x<23, remember it doesn't have to be a right triangle, but you got it :-)</p>

<p>Any value between 20 and 22 is right for the 3rd side of the triangle. But if it asked for integer solutions, it would have to be 20 or 22.</p>

<p>sari, just because it says 60% of all cars are 4 door does not mean 60% of green cars are. 100 of the 120 4 door cars could be red, and 20 could be green.</p>

<p>Both passages said he was a good writer.</p>

<p>Right now I'm spazzing out over Emily Bronte and FDA. -.-</p>

<p>now i think i made SO many careless mistakes.. i put that the 2nd author commented on how the... imitators... or something like that. choice E.</p>

<p>I got 80 for the car problem.</p>

<p>will we know which ones we got wrong later?</p>

<p>what about the shopping mall one.... i put "said to be..."</p>

<p>i can't believe i missed the parallelism one about salem witch trials - "to intend.... to neglect" damn im stupid</p>