<p>im not too sure but the think the question was like… whats the area in the two circles inside the larger circle excluding the smallerest one. thats why i put 8pie. i was pretty confident at that point. so im pretty sure it is 8pie</p>
<p>I put 8 pi as well.</p>
<p>No, I distinctly remember: “What is the area of the region inside the largest circle that is not inside the smallest circle?” or something like that, but it definitely had nothing about “the area in the two circles inside the larger circle excluding the smallest one.”</p>
<p>15</p>
<p>Get over it</p>
<p>15pi</p>
<p>My guess is that if it’s 8pi, then CB should really consider disregarding the question (they have done this once in a previous administration). 80% of kids getting it wrong…simply due to poorly wording isn’t really the goal of the SAT.</p>
<p>I had 8pi and i am standing by it. However, if it was 8 pi the question should get thrown out because the wording was kind of ambiguous. The fact that such a seemingly straightforward question has so much discussion tells me that it was a faulty problem.</p>
<p>I definitely put 8pi and I stand with it because I know that I read the question right and because pretty much all the kids in my BC Calc class got 8pi too. Only one kid got 15pi and he’s dropped the class since Oct. 9th. Sorry to those who put 15.</p>
<p>well, thejuiceisback, how do you remember the question being written. do you agree with what has been said so far “the area inside the largest circle, outside smallest” [abridged] or do you remember something else?</p>
<p>it’s the opposite in my calc class…</p>
<p>“I definitely put 8pi and I stand with it because I know that I read the question right and because pretty much all the kids in my BC Calc class got 8pi too. Only one kid got 15pi and he’s dropped the class since Oct. 9th. Sorry to those who put 15.”</p>
<p>I don’t know where you get the notion that your BC Calc class’ getting 8 PI necessarily makes it correct. I’m in linear algebra and number theory and got 15 pi…so booyah.</p>
<p>just the fact that 3 or 4 people i know who got 780-800 on the math section before and took the test last week say the anwer is 15pi makes me pretty confident in my answer. People who get 800s DO NOT miss number 8’s on math sections…and if the answer is truely 8pi, a lot of 800 caliber kids would be getting -1/4 point.</p>
<p>it’s questions like these which make the SAT such a bad exam. I mean, we have kids taking multivariable calc, linear algebra, and i’m personally in discrete and we’re bickering over a problem that tests basic level math. What a terrible exam.</p>
<p>8pi… but majority isnt always correct… there are always those types of questions where the minority get correct</p>
<p>i agree sanguine… and by the way i am sure you got that question right on the sat</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I do remember how the question was worded and therefore maintain that 8pi was the right answer; I do agree, however, that the question was poorly worded and if it was indeed implied that 16pi-1pi=15pi was the answer, then that’s just way too easy to be on the SATs. Was it question 8? I remember it being one of the final problems in the section (also a reason why I thought it was too easy). I could be wrong on this point though.
I gave the BC Calc class example just to show that other talented math students had the same answer I did, I did not mean that they are necessarily correct. It made me feel better knowing they all got the same answer I did, though.
Whatever, bad question from CB on that one.</p>
<p>Yo stop trippin’ its mothaf***in’ 8pi dont hate the playa hate the game</p>
<p>■■■, just because someone is taking BC Calc doesn’t make them any better at this problem than geometry kids. And FYI, I got 15pi and I got a 5 on the BC Calc test last year. I don’t know why there is so much commotion about this one little problem.</p>
<p>lol someone’s gonna need to buy the exam and tell us what ETS says the answer is</p>
<p>yea…um maybe not.</p>
<p>i think that it is hillarious that you are all arguing about this question, when no one can actually prove what the answer is…however what is even more pathetic is the fact that i sat here and read all of your responses…they are quite amusing actually</p>
<p>I find it amusing too. Can anyone remember the wording to the question?</p>
<p>I didn’t take the test but I’m interested that a post on cc on a number 8 math question can have four pages of posts. I see that if it was a circle of radius 4 and a circle of radius 1 inside then it was 15pi, how was it 8pi?</p>