<p>Hey did anyone else take the postponed SATs today? If you did, what did you guys put for the oatmeal cookies probability question? I put 1/26.</p>
<p>Hey, somebody else! :)</p>
<p>I put not enough info, as they didn't give you any info besides that there were more oatmeal cookies than others.</p>
<p>Couple questions I'm curious about...</p>
<p>The one about xy + x^2 is odd</p>
<p>I. X<0
II. Y<0
III. X+Y is something...</p>
<p>I, I + II, etc.</p>
<p>What did you get?</p>
<p>I took the postponed SATs today and don't remember an oatmeal cookies question (sorry). Perchance that was part of an experimental section? (Did you have four maths? I had four writings. Or maybe I'm supposed to. Heck if I know.)</p>
<p>...Didn't anyone else take the postponed SATs? I'm surprised that only two out of CC's entire populace would be here to discuss it...</p>
<p>Thanks Odan, now I remember the question. The correct answer was that not enough information was available to answer the problem.</p>
<p>The question that you have posted reminds me of two different test problems formatted in I/II/III style; one of the problems pertained to odd/even numbers and the other included the answers that you have listed. I am inclined to think that you have combined the two problems, as the equation that you have listed was (I feel kinda-sorta confident of this) part of the odd/even number question. Meh, whatever.</p>
<p>I hope that more people contribute to this discussion; I need the input of others to jog my memory...does anyone know when our scores are to be released?</p>
<p>Why do you all take the postponed SAT? And do you still get your results by April 11, despite everyone else waiting nearly 4 weeks for their score?</p>
<p>I didn't take it...</p>
<p>But I find it interesting that there's an answer that's "Not enough info" now. I've never seen that as the correct choice before.</p>
<p>I had three maths, three writings, and four critical readings...I think.</p>
<p>I'll try to remember that too, we definitely need to jog each other's memory.</p>
<p>I'll throw out a couple others I wasn't too sure about.</p>
<p>The one where you had four big circles in a square and one small circle in the middle? I think it was square root of 2 - 1, what did you guys get?</p>
<p>The bucket stacking question? I got C, pretty sure it was right.</p>
<p>One from writing - something to the effect of...</p>
<p>Studies have shown that the relationship between parents and children has much to do with their amount of success.</p>
<p>Is much used correctly? I thought it might have been their amount (not sure bout amount) of success, because their is unclear, and wouldn't it be successes?</p>
<p>What did you guys use for your essay? What was your essay? Which side did you take? I said selflessness doesn't exist and used the example of countries competing in tsunami aid donations and talked some it from a philosophical stance. My second paragraph sucked.</p>
<p>billy - neither had I. I almost hesitated to put it.</p>
<p>Ours was snowed out.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that the bucket stacking question was C. (It looked intimidating at first glance, but the problem was actually not at all difficult). On the question with the four big circles and one small circle, I put that it was the radius closest to one (~0.7 I believe). I based this decision upon some quick measurements with the end of my pencil; remember, all figures are drawn to scale unless otherwise specified (I think)!</p>
<p>Yeah, I almost positive it was C.</p>
<p>For the four cirlces, I looked at it like this.</p>
<p>radius of big circles is 1, so if you make a square surrounding the small circle, the sides are 2. If you use the pythag theorem, the diagonal of the square is square root of 8. Then you subtract 2 from that for the radiiiii of the quarter circles, leaving 2(2)^.5. Then, to find the radius of the small, you have to divide by two...which is (2)^.5 - 1</p>
<p>agree, disagree? kinda hard without a pic..</p>
<p>what is the curve going to be like?</p>
<p>"Why do you all take the postponed SAT? And do you still get your results by April 11, despite everyone else waiting nearly 4 weeks for their score?"</p>
<p>Well for me and the rest of the students that took it at the same testing station, we took it because our proctor gave us the wrong test on the March 12 testing date. Also, we do get our scores by April 11. Believe it or not, but having to wait four weeks is not as bad as having to go through another four hours of test taking, especially when you don't know how bad the test will be.</p>
<p>Overall I thought this test was much harder than the one on March 12, and I'm pretty mad about it. I'd say the grammar and reading were somewhat on par, but the math (for me at least) was much tougher. Also, I did not like the essay as much as I did for the last one. (My essay prompt was a stated quote how helping, in its most basic form, is all about the gaining of social status and soothing one's conscienceI disagreed.)</p>
<p>Oh, and the question about "xy+xy^2"I put I and III (C).</p>
<p>hyper - you sure we get our scores April 11 if we took it today?</p>
<p>Also, can you explain how you got I and III...and how sure are you about it? It gave me the most trouble of any problem in the math.</p>
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<p>What other test was there to give?</p>
<p>Feeling alright, I thought the math was easy, but I probably messed up two or three.. also thought that Writing was fine, even though I didn't finish my essay (used tsunami aid example as well). Critical Reading, eh, too much of it for me. Hopefully one of those sections isn't counted for me.</p>
<p>The "xy + x^2" question, I put I/III (C).
The "circles in squares" question, I put sqr.root(2) - 1 (C).</p>
<p>How are we still getting our scores on the 11th? What's the source?</p>
<p>From the letter I received from collegeboard:</p>
<p>"The scores from this special test will be reported as March 12, 2005 test scores and will be expedited for prompt release."</p>
<p>Ok, so maybe I'm assuming a little bit, but I figured this meant they would release the scores at the same time as everybody else's scores.</p>
<p>Anyone want to explain that problem to me?? I still can't do it</p>
<p>hypernovae - what test were you originally given?</p>
<p>For the "xy + x^2" problem, just plug in sets of numbers and find the patterns. Use two evens, one even x/one odd y, one odd x/one even y, or two odds.
The conditions were:</p>
<p>I. X is odd
II. Y is odd
III. X + Y is odd</p>
<p>I saw that when I used 3 (x) and 2 (1), "xy + x^2" came out odd (15), and x + y (5) was odd. This didn't work with the others combo, so I checked with another set of numbers and moved on to the next question..</p>