SULHAFAT

hey guys there was a question about the household that recieved calls there was a pie graph about the percentages and stuff ... so the question was ... what is the percent of the household that recieved 2 calls or fewer calls? ... IS IT 57 ( WE DON'T COUNT THE PERCENT OF THE NO CALLS RECIEVED ) OR 62 ???

mcpheevn

I think it's 62 since 0 is technically fewer than 2. On the semantics of the words 'receive', I think the phrase 'I got/received zero calls from my boyfriend today!' sounds pretty normal so I think 0 is also under the 'received' pile.

mcpheevn

Double post

Bilguun

@SULHAFAT
We do count the households which did not receive calls at all because they are included in the "2 or fewer calls".

@mcpheevn
Actually both "compared to" and "compared with" are correct.

SULHAFAT

but guys logically you cann't recieve NOTHING or a 0 call so i think it is a trick where you should consider in your answer only the 2 calls and the 1 calls .

Bilguun

SULHAFAT, why can't you receive 0 calls? Is there no day you don't use the telephone?

richardt92

i think sulhafat :P:P:P is right . but -1 is not a big problem. the answer is (8,4) for the coordinates . (7,4) is wen u take the bottom line but the question asked for the right line so it is (8,4). this SAT was the same like march 2009 SAT (US ONLY) . so do u guys think the curve will be the same? -1 was 790 in math

abatis

Well I too took the 0 calls into consideration. If they were really trying to trick us then wouldn't the question would have appeared later in the section rather than somewhere in between.

haggahagga

"Identifying errors
-questions for which there had been no time. No error
-A woman not being able to find a flight instructor and going to Europe. No error."

I think both had errors.
1) Questions for which there had been no time - should be "was no time"
2) The sentence went something like "Unable to find an instructor in the US, she traveled...". Unable was incorrect, should be "being unable".

Any opinions on these two?

Bilguun

SULHAFAT, 0 calls is fewer than 2 calls and I think this answer has been proven correct on the US March SAT. See the March SAT discussion. Please don't use insulting language when discussing math problems!

mcpheevn

SAT questions are recycled? Dude this is crazy!

overachiever91

Unable to find is perfectly fine .. it should be no error
There had been no time ,I think,is fine because we need past perfect to express actions that happened before a certain event in the past.
The event was that they gathered around the teacher to ask questions,for for there had been no time ..

mcpheevn

@haggahagga: Unable alone, I believe, is fine. In fact, if you refer to Section 7 in Practice Set 1 of the CB blue book, there's a W question like this 'Burdened with 3 pieces of luggage and a pair of skis, Sarah's search for a baggage cart was desperate' and they only underlined the main clause for error.

I somehow thought 'traveled' had two l's in it (crazy(ly) retarded, I know xD)

haggahagga

The tense in the first part of the sentence was "would" (occuring on a regular basis). There was no past simple in the sentence.

And why is "unable to find" fine? Shouldn't there be some form of "be"? "She unable to find" makes no sense.

Bilguun

"She unable to find sthng" would be wrong, but "she, unable to find sthgn, did sthng" would be correct.