<p>Today's ACT, my fourth time, was the worst I have ever taken. The English and Science sections were a bore, but the Math was a KILLER. What did you guys get for the "towers" question where you had to find the height? What about the last problem with a circle and hexagon? There was no measure for any side of the hexagon, so I really had no clue what to do. Also, there was a Cosine problem with a 7-25-25 problem where you were asked the Cosine of the smallest angle. NONE of the answer choices made sense. There was also a problem with a rectangle and a 11:13 ratio. How would anyone do these problems?
Futhurmore, a problem was written badly. "A wholesale cost is 20% onto the wholesale cost, what is the final price" <-- WTH?</p>
<p>Some of the problems are being discussed in the other thread. For the cosine problem it was 7-24-25. Since the smallest angle is opposite the smallest side, the cosine (CAH) would have been the adjacent side of 24 over the hypotenuse of 25, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>Wholesale problem. You had to find 20% of the cost and and them to get the final price. The towards and hexagon question are answerd in the today’s act post. they were 22 and 30 respectively. the smallest angle of a triangle is across from the shortest side of the triangle (i think it’s a geometry theorem) it was 24/25.</p>
<p>user - That’s what I put.</p>
<p>Was the wholesale one 20% or 30%? I distinctly remember multiplying by 1.3… or maybe it was 1.2… Dang. I don’t remember.</p>
<p>wholesale was just like 7400 or whatever that was plus 30 percent of it</p>
<p>same her user. and sciencefrenchie it was 20%</p>
<p>What were the answer choices for the Hexagon? There were 2 whole numbers and 3 with pie next to them. I chose the bigger whole number. could it be right? I forgot about cosine and thought it was the inverse of a sine function! STUPID STUPID ME</p>
<p>the answer for the hexagon problem was 30. I also went with one of the radical answers but someone explained it earlier :(</p>
<p>wanago2college - look on the today’s act thread.</p>
<p>PS - I wanna go to college too. 
We’ll see how well that ends up.</p>
<p>lol don’t we all want to go to college? How about the problem where you had to add p q and r or something. I used basic Geometry to solve for the angles but somehow I got like 2 or 3 less than one of the answer choices. How would you do that?</p>
<p>there was one big triange that you had to like turn the page to see
if you missed that it would have been tough</p>
<p>i just started filling in angles using the 180 degree rule. found all of them and added the three</p>
<p>I got 125.
There was an angle adjacent to (I think) q that equalled 55 degrees. P, q+55, and r formed a triangle = 180 degrees. 180 - 55 = 125 for p+q+r</p>
<p>i think P and Q were congruent, you had to add Q R and S. There were two 55 degree angles and R was next to it. Thus the angle would have been 70. After using the 180 rule I found that P and W were 46, so that meant W was 23. After this I have no clue what was going on.</p>
<p>for that P Q R S question, I am 100% sure it was 180</p>
<p>Where did S come into play? Weren’t there only 3 angles?</p>
<p>I agree with sciencefrenchie. </p>
<p>p+q+r+55=180</p>
<p>No there were 4 variables, but only 3 needed to be added.</p>
<p>Oh, you’re right.</p>
<p>I was just thinking of the 3 that needed to be added.</p>
<p>yeah for some reason i spent the most time on that easy question so im pretty sure it was 180</p>