Official September 2013 ACT Math Thread

<p>I think it was 56 if i remember correctly</p>

<p>what was number 58?? the one with the calculator and what function only multiplies twice?</p>

<p>(x(x(x-7))+5x+1</p>

<p>Anyone remember the 3:2 one? Stumped me for a while, can’t remember if I ever ended up getting the sucker or not. Something about adding X bass players to make it a 2:1 ratio.</p>

<p>I guessed E for that one idkhur, but I probably got that wrong.</p>

<p>Nspire, I believe it was to add 18.</p>

<p>I did 2x + 3x = “X bass players”, solved for x, and plugged it back into the equation, which gave me how many percussion players and brass players they initially had. Then I just plugged in values from the answer choices.</p>

<p>What did you guys get for the question that ask you how many people got something (a car? I don’t remember the exact question.) below $25,000? They had the bar graph, and percentage for each bar… The inputs were like $10,000-$20,000 $20,000-$30,000 and so on… I chose it’s impossible to figure it out because we don’t know how many things below 25,000 there are because it just says 20,000-30,000. I mean of course, you can divide % of 20,000-30,000, but that’s just an assumption. The question asked for the precise number of something below $25,000</p>

<p>ethanking, that’s not the answer. (x(x(x-7))+5x+1 has three mulitplication because 5x is a multiplication. so x<em>(x-7) is the first multiplication x</em>(x(x-7)) is the second, and 5*x is third. So there are three. I think that was the trick. I bet lots of people chose that answer.</p>

<p>damnit. what was the answer then?</p>

<p>humanities, I also got that it could not be determined from the information given.</p>

<p>lol all i remember is putting d for the multiplication one…do you remember if it was d?</p>

<p>I was in total rage and butt hurt mode during the math portion. But reading this, many of my educated guesses were right so… We will see what happens. This math test was harder than any in the red book, making me think it will be a nice curve.</p>

<p>On the parabola one, i got (3, -2/5). I just subtracted the 5x to one side and had all the y’s together. Then i pretty much flipped the x’s to be y’s and divided the equation by 5 then graphed it. </p>

<p>How is that wrong?</p>

<p>and yea nspire it was 18 for the brass player things</p>

<p>it was (-2/5), 3.</p>

<p>y=3+/-sqrt(-5x-2) i think</p>

<p>graph it and find the vertex</p>

<p>i put b for the parabola one…i just plugged answers in till i got it correct</p>

<p>b was correct</p>

<p>Not it was (5/2, 3) for that question</p>

<p>it was most definitely 101/103</p>

<p>take the leading coefficients of the degree of the polynomial or find the limit as x approaches infinity.</p>

<p>either way y=101/103</p>

<p>shaker, i think that is the one where you had to find the horizontal asymptote… all you had to do was remove the greatest coefficient which was x. and then you had 101/103 i believe.</p>