<p>im pretty sure that was the answer. in all honesty i thought the CR and writing were pretty easy and sadly enough math troubled me the most on our version of the test (i skipped 2 grid-ins and missed 1)</p>
<p>anyone else...bump...for he gardners question...</p>
<p>Gardener was A, 100%. I got a 77 psat writing if that's any consolation, but I'm 100% sure that the other choices sucked by comparison. And I looked long and hard for a good alternative, haha.</p>
<p>And the Haiku thing, it was that she wanted personal/phd (she even said she looked forward to it), and the rebuttal was that just because she couldn't understand them doesn't mean others couldn't.</p>
<p>thx pitcher...</p>
<p>anyone have an idea about my earlier question: the last question of the SETI passage asking the purpose of the passage?</p>
<p>I remember there were 2 answer choices i was choosing between</p>
<p>To promote an unpopular view
To support an unusual undertaking</p>
<p>Wat did u guys put?</p>
<p>I agree with personal and educational, but I'm still shaky on the "direct challenge to her piece of writing." I put and still believe (although shakily) that the answer was "the authors didn't intend for their symbols to be understood," as that would give her no argument. If the authors wanted their poems to be understood, and an educated woman such as herself didn't understand it but others did, it still supports her view that the poems are hard to understand.</p>
<p>Anyone agree? I was stuck between the two for a while.</p>
<p>Wrath-</p>
<p>wasn't it like "discuss an unsual program" or something like that? I thought I remembered it being pretty straightforward.</p>
<p>also, nice screen name. :)</p>
<p>Gardener question was terrible, I put A too though. Unrelated but, I noticed that on this writing they didn't do the thing where they compare on author's work to another author instead of the work, they almost always do that.</p>
<p>i dunno i put that "just because she can't understand doesn't mean other people can't" because when i was reading the passage, she kept talking about how nobody can understand the writers' symbols. i could be wrong.</p>
<p>odan...i agree with u on what u wrote to wrath...</p>
<p>however, i am almost 100% sure that "others can understand her work is right." She claimed that the work was individualistic, hence NO ONE could understand it because only the person who wrote it could understand the symbols. therefore, if others can understand these "individualistic" works, it would contradict her thesis...the author never ever talked about whether they intended their works to be UNDERSTOOD, she talked about their being UNDERSTANDABLE. anyone else agree...</p>
<p>i do, but u already knew that</p>
<p>I was just wondering since for me the math was pretty easy. What were some of the diffucult questions on the math sections?</p>
<p>There was nothing too difficult, just a few tricky ones. The one that I know I screwed up on was the "area of the shaded trapezoidal region" one, which you may or may not of had -- it was that third to last one on the grid-ins. Also some people had trouble with the question that asked you to find the fraction of the total area of a portion of a cube to the whole thing. I can't really think of anything besides that...</p>
<p>"gardners would use fertilizers more (if they can be shown to increase crop production)"</p>
<p>I can't remember what I decided to put for this one, but it was definitely one of those questions where all the answers were bad, so you choose whichever is least bad. Does anybody remember at least one other answer choice that they were debating between? Was there any answer choice that had "could be" or anything?</p>
<p>QUOTE: And the Haiku thing, it was that she wanted personal/phd (she even said she looked forward to it)</p>
<p>I think it was rather how it was an disappointment because she looked forward to it but it turned out to be beyond her comprehension thus i put it was an disappointed expectation or sth.</p>
<p>regarding the SETI question, hmm it was unusual but he also said how others loathed it and no funds were given to aid the program. so i was leaning towards the unpopular answer but he was not promoting it tho. both questions sucked and are they worded like thar wrath? because i remember the "To promote an unpopular view" answer wasn't as attractive and i quickly discarded it</p>
<p>Was the trapezoid problem the question with the shaded/unshaded region, and they asked to find the area of the shaded region? If i remember correctly, i just made it into two triangles, and subtracted the areas. Is this question you guys are refering to?</p>
<p>Yeah, that's the question, and that was the correct way to do it. My mistake was, since I was a little rushed for time (having spent too much time checking over my work on the other questions so as to avoid stupid mistakes), that I added 1 from (1/4)k^2 rather than subtracting it, so my final answer was sqrt(28), which I certainly would have checked over if time didn't run out.</p>
<p>whats answer?</p>
<p>The answer was 6:</p>
<p>[ (1/4)k^2 - 1 = 8 ]</p>
<p>can you post the entirequestion please?</p>
<p>was it the grid in? or section 2?</p>
<p>It was a grid-in; section 7, #16, I believe:</p>
<p>Sorry, I forgot to put this in the picture, but you are also given that those two lines are parallel.</p>