Official SAT Subject Test - Math Level 2 - June 2015

The orbiting planets question was D I think… Something like jupiter is 5x further than mars?

It’s that one you have to find the vertex?

The way I did it was take the 1.5th root of both the orbit times, and then find the ratio of those two numbers

@mat324 I was getting high 700 to 800 in barrons but I think I got a 790 or 780 :confused:

Lol I got consistent 740-750 on Barron’s and I still thought this test destroyed me.

Scaled Score Average Raw Score Scaled Score Average Raw Score
800 50 570 18
800 49 560 17
800 48 550 16
800 47 540 15
800 46 530 14
800 45 520 13
800 44 510 12
800 43 500 11
790 42 490 10
780 41 480 9
770 40 470 8
760 39 450 7
750 38 440 6
740 37 430 5
730 36 420 4
720 35 410 3
710 34 400 2
700 33 390 1
690 32 380 0
680 31 370 –1
680 30 360 –2
670 29 350 –3
660 28 340 –4
650 27 330 –5
640 26 320 –6
630 25 310 –7
630 24 300 –8
620 23 300 –9
610 22 290 –10
600 21 290 –11
590 20 280 –12
580 19 280 –13

@goldennuggets I did that too and got 3 something, lowest value. So did that one other guy.

@Pingpong2 the different one was i think e (not positive on the letter) because it would have the opposite sign of all the others

@goodlife12 Think we came to a concensus on circle and point.

What was thee open for the factory question
n thousand to reduce the cost?

@Frigidcold Can you please explain why concentric spheres wouldn’t result in a sphere intersection?

@guy6127 10, if I remember correctly.

@Frigidcold I also got 10

@Yakisoba it said sphere surfaces (so they’re hollow) so even since they have different diameters, there’s no way their surfaces would overlap and form a sphere

lol just googled the actual distances for the planets, that formula was surprisingly accurate

That test was cake compared to Barron’s. Feeling -5 tops

One of the question ask about the minimal cost of the pencil, given a quadratic equation. I used vertex method tho find it.

LIKE if you think the answer is 10.

@goodlife12 It wouldn’t be too much to ask, but unfortunately I’m in the same position as you. I put that answer because it seemed correct when I thought about it, but I don’t know why exactly.

Maybe @Kat2016 can help.

if you put pencil one in vertex form you get 2(x-10)^2 + … so it’s 10

I’m actually surprised that I got the probability questions (92 and 13/25) correct. Usually on practice tests I miss every single one.