SAT March 10 2012

<p>Does anyone remember about the writing paragraph questions?</p>

<p>so the tangent line problem was 4? i thought it couldn’t be four because the problem didn’t say that the figure WASN’T drawn to scale and had it been a right triangle (larger than the area being asked for it) would have been 4 so i went with three</p>

<p>any chance that minus 1 on math=800?</p>

<p>does anyone remember what the other choices were for the electoral college evenhanded one? I don’t think it was evenhanded because that means like fair or impartial</p>

<p>which prob is this tangent circle one i just cant seem to remember it</p>

<p>The sentence on the writing about the bike trail. I put no error. What do you guys think?</p>

<p>@Dreamchaser: it WAS a right triangle, well two of them. they even drew it in, and that makes sense b/c a tangent lines implies perpendicularity. and there is a geometry theorem, which you didn’t really need to know but which is helpful, that says that if you draw two lines tangent to a circle at two different points and connect them, the two segments are equal. Since the meeting point in this specific problem is (0,0), and the bottom right triangle’s other base vertex is (4,0), the base is 4. the height is the radius, and since the center of the circle is (4,1), the height is 1.</p>

<p>Yes the bike question was no error?
How many no errors did u get?</p>

<p>there was a circle with radius one. the circle was tangent to the x axis and a diagonal line.
you had to find the area of the quadrilateral created by where the circle was tangent to the x axis, the line, and a point to the right of the circle</p>

<p>oh no :frowning:
-1 800 anyone? pretty please?</p>

<p>@dreamchaser: no, the quadrilateral’s four vertices were: the origin, the two points of tangency, and the center of the circle (not some point to the right of the circle).</p>

<p>For identifying error, Was it “had wrote”</p>

<p>how could it have been 1440? Did you divide the right from the left side to get left side equal to 1 so that you knew the exponents had to add to zero?</p>

<p>@smartdude: yes “had wrote” was the error</p>

<p>does anyone remember some of the questions from the Space passage on CR?</p>

<p>yea forsworn what is the implied message that distances b/w planets constant?</p>

<p>what about the one with charlie Chaplin and it was b/w process and outcome and rebelliousness and conformity?</p>

<p>@benevolent: the two sides of the equation were pretty parallel in that they had the same bases.</p>

<p>so, you could automatically see that y = 4, because on one side it said 3^4, on the other side it said 3^y.</p>

<p>then by similar logic, x=3y </p>

<p>and 2x + 1 = z - 5.</p>

<p>so, x=12, and z = 30. </p>

<p>So, xyz = (12)(4)(30)= 1440</p>

<p>@spoospoo
process and otucome</p>

<p>kumar: yes, the distance between planets in the same solar system is constant. that was the implied statement.</p>

<p>@spoospoo process and outcome</p>

<p>ok cool u remember any other questions from that space passage?</p>