<p>Alright, this isn’t worth arguing about. Whether or not one type of math is categorized as calculus doesn’t really make the world any different.</p>
<p>Well for the SAT it does. They can test algebra and geometry, but not calculus. If you want to drop this argument, that’s fine though.</p>
<p>You can split it into (x/x)+(1/x). That gives you 1+(1/x). If you put in 2, then you would get 1.5, but since x must be greater than 2, (1/x) becomes infinitely smaller as x increases. Therefore, you just need to find the answer that is between 1 and 1.5, not inclusive. That means the only answer is D, 11/8. This is par for the course in SAT I Math.
Understanding how (1/x) becomes increasingly smaller depends on a fundamental understanding of limits, but it is an understanding that is just as easily to derive from intuition as it is from learning calculus. It definitely feel that this question is plausibly on the SAT, because it requires logic and reasoning, if not knowledge. </p>
<p>@Smargent yeah that makes sense. I have seen similar questions on the SAT, but I think this is slightly out of range since it has the calculus-like topics.</p>
<p>Sont worry the hardest part os sat math 2 is factoring ( if you even find that hard) and the curvr is very very nice.</p>