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<p>Math:</p>

<p>Area of quadrilateral (almost-a-triangle thingy in the grid) – 3.5</p>

<p>Train in the tunnel – 1200</p>

<p>Rst rectangle box– square root</p>

<p>Which one could be a triangle – 7,8,9</p>

<p>How many odd numbers – 125</p>

<p>How many students – 18</p>

<p>Ratio of the wheel- 7.5</p>

<p>What cant have a remainder of 5 – 5</p>

<p>Ecdf - e>d>c>f</p>

<p>Cost to mail the package – 2.5</p>

<p>F(K) G(K) – 0</p>

<p>Answer to a grid in – 6007</p>

<p>X-K – 0</p>

<p>Average - 280</p>

<p>T in terms of A - -14a</p>

<p>Critical Reading:</p>

<p>Sentence Completion:
Applause- tacit</p>

<p>Something about corporate people and profit – vaunted</p>

<p>Modern critic – its looking like most people think its incontrovertible/trouble </p>

<p>Beach Short Passage:
Youthful adventurousness</p>

<p>Around the world Short Passage:
Authors attitude toward man - Indifferent/critical (so far it is split about 50/50)</p>

<p>Smooth - suave</p>

<p>Spanish Long Passage:
“hum” – constant presence</p>

<p>“expand” – spread</p>

<p>why was the author unfair to Spanish – not a clear answer yet</p>

<p>Robot Long Passage:
“mindchildren”- they were offspring and will surpass</p>

<p>Danish African Long Passage:
“raise” be put up for consideration</p>

<p>“exercise” use</p>

<p>pain in art with the quote from someone who knew her - transmuting the pain into art</p>

<p>which of the following best expresses the claim that Dinesen was a "great mythmaker”- Dinesen constructed a public identity as carefully as she constructed her stories</p>

<p>The parenthetical phrase - emphasize that Dinesen's life is not easily distinguished from the myth</p>

<p>phoenix – she was regenerated after a disappointment and became a successful artist</p>

<p>Fourth paragraph is unique because - is critical of Dinesen's character</p>

<p>The comment implies that - Dinesen's behavior cannot be evaluated in absolute moral terms</p>

<p>which best contrasts Dineson in Kenya and in Denmark - An awe-inspiring figure versus a contradictory individual</p>

<p>Genetically Modified Food Passages:
What would passage 2 say about the risks – acceptable or slight....this one is also split</p>

<p>Writing:</p>

<p>“John and I” – wrong, should be john and me.</p>

<p>“Indonesia jewels” – wrong, suspending should be suspended</p>

<p>“inspire” – wrong, should be “inspired by”, not “inspired from"</p>

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<p>uhh you remembered all this?</p>

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<p>CHAT ROOM: name=octpsat</p>

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<p>yeah i got 14a</p>

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<p>ill update that in about an hour or so if more people post answers.</p>

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<p>are you sure that passage 2 would find the risks acceptable? is that what everyone else got?</p>

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<p>i think the "all but" answer is not incontrovertable
IN SPITE of the yahoo definition of "all but",
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4764521.stm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4764521.stm&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050608_stafford_covey.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050608_stafford_covey.html&lt;/a>
google the phrase "all but" and you'll find that it doesn't mean "almost"
it means all BUT</p>

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<p>haha, no minor, its compiled from this thread....</p>

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<p>what was the question about 14a? were the choices 14a and -14a?</p>

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<p>"What would passage 2 say about the risks – acceptable"</p>

<p>I think that one's under debate as well--many people here think it was "slight".</p>

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<p>j bomb - it seems like the majority of people thought it was acceptable....the second closest was slight</p>

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<p>acceptable is the right answer
the author did not mention the risks of plant mutations being a bad thing in any way because the risks were never proven or identified
plus, mutated plants have been used by 75% of nations and the author mentions nothing about risks actually occuring</p>

<p>jadore_isabella 14a was not an answer
-14a was the right answer</p>

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<p>yeah, i think its acceptable, but i edited it and said it was split</p>

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<p>for the "14a" answer I think there was only one answer with a 14 in it and also it was the only answer that wasn't a fraction so if you chose the answer with 14 you were probably correct</p>

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<p>ok good :)</p>

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<p>first time i can join a p-sat/sat thread im happy..
i bombed the test...and i sat in it for 5 1/2 hours w/ my jolly(NOT!) resource room teacher...hes annoying as hell oh and yes i have double time my teacher is soooooooooo slow at reading..i could have done it in 4 hours</p>

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<p>Thanks for the answer compilation ^^ it helped alot!</p>

<p>Anyone remember the first question to the African/author passage? It asked about how she saw the biography and the letters or something like that. I don't remember...</p>

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<p>for the oen comparing teh biography and the letters, were they dissimilarl or equal?</p>

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<p>Ah, yes, was that "revealingly dissimilar" or "virtually identical"?</p>

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<p>equalally enigmatic is what i put
the sentence before that had the word "redundant" was really confusing in wording
it was like "i do not hope that it was not redundant. it was not."</p>