PSAT 2011 Wednesday Answer Thread

<p>Can someone explain personification and homogeneous questions?</p>

<p>westfield95- I think it said that he wasn’t discouraged, and welcomed criticism. That’s what I chose.</p>

<p>Whatever D was, it wasn’t right haha.</p>

<p>I also put something about welcomed criticism.</p>

<p>@biovball
It was passionate.</p>

<p>I agree with dasdui</p>

<p>For the thieves, I got D. “had shrunk” should have been “shrunk”.</p>

<p>WHoever said the embraced criticism one, thats what i put too.
So far im at
CR -4
Math -2
Writing: so far -0 but im sure ill get one or two wrong
crap</p>

<p>For the isosceles triangle max length question, it seems pretty unanimous that everyone had 11. I had 10, but here’s my reasoning:
The total perimeter was 24 (6+8+10 from the right triangle), and if the longest side was 11, then the other two sides would have to be (24-11)/2 = 6.5. I’m pretty sure that the problem required the side lengths of the isoceles triangle be integers… So wouldn’t the answer be 10 instead? This forms a 10, 6, 6 triangle which abides by the triangle side length rule because 6 + 6 > 10.</p>

<p>Help, what did I do wrong?!</p>

<p>Can someone explain why the tone was passionate and not pretentious for the second extraterrestrial passage? </p>

<p>Also, why wouldn’t William from the Mo/Duncan passage have been self-conscious?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>What did u guys put for the one with manipulating the teacher or he’s sympathetic?
I think it was manipulate</p>

<p>@beyond it couldve been a 11 11 2 triangle, but i said 10 too because i thought it was asking for the base :(</p>

<p>@beyondinfiniti - It is 11 because both isosceles sides were 11, making 22, so the other side is 2. For any given side, 2 + 11 > 11.</p>

<p>i answered every question and missed 3 cr, 3 math, 3 writing</p>

<p>whats my score?</p>

<p>@beyondinfiniti- You would be correct had the problem not said the GREATEST value for the sides. 11+2>11</p>

<p>also did you guys get equivocal for an answer somewhere, cant remember what the question was</p>

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<p>Two sides were of length 11 (it’s an isosceles triangle). One side was of length 2. </p>

<p>11 + 11 + 2 = 24.</p>

<p>@Greenmamba- sympathetic. Note the phrase - the students “requested”-, which does not imply a command but a plea. teacher’s sympathetic to honor it</p>

<p>230s range…assuming you got everyhting else correct</p>

<p>@brucepark i forget but i think something like mo wanted to undermine duncan</p>

<p>What about Mo repeating what he said. It was like he was an authoritarian or martinet something</p>

<p>EDIT: And what is the question/answer choices!!!</p>

<p>“Mo, assign more homework so the students don’t mess around”</p>