What did you all think of October 15th 2008 PSAT?

Test Preparation
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<p>Gahhhh....I hate questions like that. Especially when people in your classroom are being really annoying because they dont care about the test.</p>

22

<p>for the 75<ldasjfljsd<76, what was in the middle?</p>

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<p>I still feel confident that I did well on the math section. :x</p>

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<p>Ingrette, (x-2)/3.
Just divide by two to get your desired interval.</p>

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<p>It was 75 < (x-2)/3 < 76</p>

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<p>why divide by 2?</p>

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<p>I really hope math has a friendly curve. I got 3 wrong so far and on some tests that could be like a 69 :(!!!</p>

<p>On the other hand, I thought that writing was really easy and I think I honestly might have gotten them all right. The only one I wasnt sure about was about a whale or something.</p>

<p>I know I got 1 CR wrong. The answer was supercilious and I put magnanimous.</p>

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<p>It asked for a possible value for (x-2)/6, which is (x-2)/3 divided by two.
Back to the discussion...
I think I got around a 60 for the CR and WR sections. I hope I make NMS.</p>

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<p>Because it asked for a value of (x-2)/6.</p>

<p>(x-2)/3 x 1/2 = (x-2)/6</p>

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<p>Cut Up Box:</p>

<p>The original Volume was 6<em>6</em>6 = 144.</p>

<p>They took off 4 Inch squares from the bottom
Ergo ~ 4<em>4</em>6 (In my understanding the height was not changed).</p>

<p>96 not 112?</p>

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<p>The height grew to 7 inches because of the removal of the 1 square inch boxes on the bottom.</p>

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<p>Tilagaham, there were only five faces because, remember, the top was cut off.
EDIT: I dunno how I arrived at 112 then.
I just summed the areas of the four rectangular areas and the base: 4[6*4]+16.</p>

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<p>@tilgaham</p>

<p>you are making the sides taller by cutting into the base. 7, not 6.</p>

34

<p>How does cutting into the base of a cardboard box make the sides taller? Explain this to me please?</p>

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<p>How did my method work if the height of the rectangular box supposedly increased?</p>

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<p>I thought I did pretty well, the only one I skipped was that last one on the first math section where you had to find the shaded area ughh I'm so bad at those</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure I got 112 for the cut-box one also</p>

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<p>wait did the box one ask for area or volume</p>

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<p>Tilgaham, i also got 96 for that question</p>

39

<p>volume. so 7x4x4=112.</p>

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<p>i have taken a lot of practice PSATs but I thought that one was much harder than PSATs in past years. Anyone agree with me?</p>