Official October SAT Math Discussion

<p>Also for the reflection problem, I was certain mine only said reflection over y=x hmmmm…</p>

<p>College Board’s logic is flawed too. Why have a rest area when hiking hasn’t even begun!</p>

<p>there was y=x AND over one of the axis which I believe was y.</p>

<p>yeah reflection had 2 reflections x=y and then over y axis</p>

<p>but like other problems</p>

<p>different versions??</p>

<p>I misread the question and still picked the wrong answer (-1, 3)… So two errors cancelled each other.</p>

<p>Now I’m just worried that I actually read the problem right.</p>

<p>Okay, guys, I read and solved that marker/rest area/field question like three times cause I had extra time left. It definitely said the rest area was found in the BEGINNING of the trail, so the had to be 2:1. I even remember underlining it because I was scared it might be a tricky question.</p>

<p>@feedback411 I did the same thing! I’m positive that the answer is 2:1.</p>

<p>same. I knew College Board was trying to trick us, so I read the problem over and over again. both marker and rest were at the beginning</p>

<p>@coolpillow (-1, 3) is the right answer</p>

<p>For the absent one, did the question ask for students who were absent AT LEAST once or absent for ONLY ONE day during the week?</p>

<p>@feedback- I thought it said absent ONLY ONE day during the week and got a 1420 but I’m starting to second guess myself. But I’m 99.99% sure that the trail one is 8:3, there was NO rest area at the beginning I remember having like 5 minutes left over and just working that one out.</p>

<p>I really hope it was 8:3.(no offense to you guys who put 2:1)</p>

<p>For the absent one, I believe it said there were 8 students absent twice, 1 student absent 3 times, and then 5% about something. I got 1600.</p>

<p>for the trail marker problem… i definitely remember reading that it said THERE WAS A REST AREA AT THE BEGINING. if there wasn’t and the answer is 8:3 im gonna go cry for not getting my 2400.</p>

<p>the trail one said that they were both at the beginning; i read it like through many times. the answer was 2:1</p>

<p>fuaarrrkkkk I swear it said no rest area in the beginning, I read it over like ten times. Shut up and let me get my 760 math lol</p>

<p>I’m sorry, but it was 2:1. I read over it multiple times to check. I then drew a picture with both at the beginning. The reason it was a harder problem was that it had the potential to fool many people who weren’t careful and neglected to put a rest stop/marker at the beginning. It looks like it did its job, unfortunately.</p>

<p>dear mighty math god of magicalness,</p>

<p>i pray that there was a rest stop at the beginning of the trail even though having a rest stop before you begin the trail doesnt make any sense. </p>

<p>god help me because im starting to freak out…
Amen.</p>

<p>I remember it said there was only one of them at the beginning. It was either 8:3 or 8:4(2:1), so the debate is where or not there was a rest stop? at the beginning?</p>

<p><em>Not original</em> ADD ON OR CORRECT!
VOCABULARY:
accessible
urbane + erudite
autonomous
defies
phlegmatic
indefagitable
polymath
inhibit and skew
mollifying
DINOSAUR PASSAGE
scholarly enthusiasm
puzzling phenomenon
scientific implication
mired=stuck
present tense = mark a contrast
boom of yo-yo’s = new sales campaign/commercialization
unflattering
dino-man was belittled by his classmates
personal reflection
YO PASSAGE
secret heart=undisclosed
father was appreciative but ambivalent
teacher eccentricity
unique that he responds
father kept asking = uniqueness
sieve = things he didn’t mind sharing - info about his life
quality control = leaving out bits of information to tell his daughter
wife was teasing
passage was a reflection
MULTIPLES SHORT PASSAGE
148 was to validate a statement
letters between Leibniz and Newton= most disprove
GREEK ALPHABET PASSAGE <em>missing answers</em>
Superfluous
the groundbreaking research = investigate Homer’s language
Homer wanted to make it flow
Most people think Homer’s writing was meant to be written (as opposed to sung)
APES PASSAGES
“perhaps…”-alternative explanation
the “assumptions” = not yet disproven
passage 1 - response, passage 2 - communication
the author acknowledged his position may seem unreasonable
has significant science implications
monkey can’t say “in”
Both used observational data
insufficient skepticism
CREATIVE WRITING SHORT PASSAGES
learning to write predated classes
writing classes good, but not essential
life experiences - in passage 1, but not passaged 2
WOMENS SUFFRAGE SHORT PASSAGE
women’s suffrage = imperative
social inequality can change government (women’s suffrage)</p>

<p>some more:
utilized
disproportionate
kids like things that can’t harm
Homer’s writing was thought to have been written
fixed=static
scant and undistinguished</p>

<p>Math:
x+y+z < 270
(-1,3)
3 ordered pairs
x+y=6
9/22
cube=54
x=5
slope = -2/7
whale= ⅛
sum of something = -3
165 minutes
median-avg = 0
ratio of markers to reststops = 2:1
|w-500|less than/equal to 15
max perimeter = 33
don’t remember question, but 48
temperature approximation = 130
$330 he spent 2 times+30$ more
grid in function = 9/6
halfsquare = 128
diagonal of square = rad130 about 11.4
length AC = 2xrad3
volume cone = 12pi
number of line segments to connect points = 6
y = 65 degrees
roman numeral question = I,II, and III
greatest value = a+b
250 seniors
y^2-x = 0
f(4)=g(4) — 4
2B8/11, remainder = 7
Jackson high 1600
X+Y= greatest value
3k^2= 3^2x+1
78% didn’t vote
Perimeter of triangle inside circles=12
2w+2x+2z=10 w+2x+z=10
Cut rope into 7 pieces
Largest angle of triangle 87 degrees
A b=25 c, X+Y= 50</p>

<p>ADD on!</p>

<p>@Reckie, yes that is what they have been debating.</p>

<p>Every person that says it’s 2:1 makes me sad… :(</p>

<p>8:3!!!</p>