SAT January 2012 - ALL International Discussions

<ol>
<li>ecologist’s opinion in environment science passage</li>
<li><p>the relationship btw two passages?
A. contradicting opinion that passage 1 criticizes
B. responding to an accusation made in passage 1
which one?</p></li>
<li><p>manga/anime passage</p></li>
<li><p>passage2 would say this about passage 1’s discussion of manga as art?</p></li>
</ol>

<p>it is art because it has wide audience
or
it has not endured enough to be art? </p>

<p>which one did you guys choose??</p>

<p>and then there was also a question that said …" on which of the following are the authors most likely to differ …" last cr sec …answers?</p>

<p>yep. it was x<y. don’t remember what parabola question you’re talking about though.</p>

<p>There was three points on a quadratic curve (parabola), A (-3,0), B (2,4) and C which too lies on x-axis. The question asked for the area of triangle ABC.
I remembered I got 20. Because the x-coordinate of vertex is -b/2a=2, and sum of x-intercepts is -b/a=(-b/2a)(2)=4. Hence the x-coordinate of C is 4-(-3)=7.
The base of triangle=7-(-3)=10, height=4, hence area=(1/2)(10)(4)=20?
Anyone verifies whether it is correct?</p>

<p>^ i got 20 too</p>

<p>^ same here</p>

<p>can you please give answers to the cr question I posted on the previous page…there are three questions actually</p>

<p>wow i also want to know that three…</p>

<p>i originally put e, but then realized if p were 3, it wouldnt work out with 9 so i changed it to 2 and 3. but then again i wasn’t quite sure if it implied integers greater than 3…</p>

<p>btw, what did you guys put for the math question that asked which couldn’t be the second smallest variable?
a<b
v<s<r<t (something like that)</p>

<p>^It was t (E)</p>

<p>Which number with the first couple of numbers covered can be the square of an integer?
A)
B)
C)
D)
E) —,729</p>

<p>I put E. What about you guys?</p>

<p>^
That was obvious. A square of a number can only end with 1,4,9,6,5,0, and only one meets the requirement.</p>

<p>Yeah, goes to prove I know absolutely nothing about math, and simply approach the section through substituting numbers and trial & error.</p>

<p>Yet my methods have yielded a -1 in November, and a total 780.</p>

<p>In the math ques it was x is odd. If wasn’t x<y because 3.5 and 3.5 could also work</p>

<p>Nope, those values don’t work, shinchan93, because X and Y must be positive integers. 3.5 isn’t an integer. Moreover, there were even values of X that worked.</p>

<p>^I don’t think so. It probably said that the numbers had to be integers. Also x doesn’t -have- to be odd.</p>

<p>It was x<y, like Fat_Nerd pointed out.</p>

<p>The triangle with quad fumch parabola , I also confirm it’s 20.</p>

<p>What I did is simply imagined the function moving 2 points leftwards on the x coord. Then the function would be equal on both of its x intercepts (-5,0) and (5,0) respectively. That would make the base =10 . We know the height is 4. Therefore 10*4/2 = 20 . It’s a weird approach,not sure if someone else thought of it this way.</p>

<p>With the [----],729 which could be the square of a number? </p>

<p>When I read “square!” I grabbed the calculator, then spotted 729 as one of the answers. I recalled that I had similar question on the grid-ins involving 729 (the right answer there is the same, btw) so I circled it. Didn’t put much thought on it.</p>

<p>I’m an absolute disaster at math, too. All I’m good at is calculating percents, averages , functions (WITHOUT the quadratic) and data interpretation. All these skills I’ve acquired from studying in an Economics vocational school. But seems like you can master the SAT math only by simple practice and error evaluation.</p>

<p>@9jagurl96 … it could not be t …t was actually possible…i remember figuring that out for each choice… it was definitely possible
@ fat_nerd can you post your answers to the cr qtns i and another guy posted on the previous page.</p>