<p>because there’re always wrong answers.</p>
<p>15 pi.<br>
I wonder if they’re going to get rid of/not count this question, because they sometimes do that to controversial/badly worded questions… I heard about them doing something like that once.</p>
<p>On the PSAT, I remember on my score sheet that showed which ones I missed, one of the questions had a different mark by it, and below, it said it wasn’t counted in our score because of bad wording.</p>
<p>so aerospace girl, would that question just count as if everyone got it correct then? cuz it has to be a total raw score of 60, so how do they make up for that question then?</p>
<p>I’m not sure… that’s probably how they do it. The time that happened to me was a long time ago, like freshman year or something on the PSAT, so I don’t remember exactly. Maybe I’ll go try to find that score sheet.</p>
<p>i put 8pi, for the people who didn’t take the Oct. 9 test what do u think the answer is?</p>
<p>the question was something like this(i’m 98% sure):</p>
<p>What is the area of the circle inside the largest circle minus the smallest?</p>
<p>and the areas were : 16pi, 9pi,?pi(don’t remember), and 1pi - from the biggest to smallest cirlce</p>
<p>look at the picture at this link:
<a href=“http://jophelps.port5.com/images/8pi.jpg[/url]”>http://jophelps.port5.com/images/8pi.jpg</a></p>
![http://jophelps.port5.com/images/8pi.jpg[/url]](http://jophelps.port5.com/images/8pi.jpg%5B/url%5D){kind=link}
<p>it was a # 8 on the 10 question section, which usually is a difficulty level 4.</p>
<p>can someone explain how they got 8pi? i don’t understand it.</p>
<p>the biggest area is 16pi</p>
<p>the smallest is 1pi</p>
<p>16pi-1pi = 15 pi</p>
<p>15 pi…!!!</p>
<p>i just asked my dad who is like a math genius, and he thinks it’s 15 pi</p>
<p>he doesn’t understand the 8pi reasoning, because by that reasoning it could be 3 pi as well (how do you know they aren’t talking about the 4pi circle?)</p>
<p>I don’t think that it was a badly worded question…i just think that people overanalyzed it WAAAYYY too much…i looked at it for about a minute and re-read the question about six times because i thought it was too easy…and, alas, it was really just asking for 16pi-pi. I think that they knew that people would think that 15pi was too obvious. ETS works in mysterious, devious ways.</p>
<p>the question asks the area of the circle inside, thats right inside the larger circle minus the smaller. This means the area of the circle inside the large circle which is 9pi minus the smaller cirlce which is 8pi, why is this so confusing to understand?</p>
<p>enlightened- either you read it wrong or i read it wrong, i thought it said the area inside the biggest circle minust the area of the small circle (16pi-pi=15pi)</p>
<p>8 pi !!!</p>
<p>inside the area of the large circle (meaning not including the large circle) and outside the small circle… besides it was a number 8 question… you really think that they would put that simple a problem at the end of a question set?? i mean my 4 year old brother can subtract 1 from 16</p>
<p>8pi just seemed…right. It was like, “Aha, I see what you’re trying to do, you ■■■■■■■ ETS.” And it wasn’t as simple as 16pi-1pi, you had to subtract individual areas and add them up to get 8pi. Seemed right for a #8 question on a 10 question section.</p>
<p>But if I had to bet, I’d say it is wrong. The way people are wording it on this board make it quite obvious. I only hope they are wrong in their wording.</p>
<p>It wasn’t number 8, It was number 7. This I would say, is where the discrepancy lies. I stared at it very carefully to be sure because Number 7 out of 10 is medium difficulty. Look in a Princeton Review book or the Real SAT’s and you will see this. Throwing in all the extra circles, or extraneous info, was enough to make the question medium difficulty. 15pi cannot be eliminated by the idea that it would be too easy for a number 7 problem. 8pi on the other hand requires you to read the question in unorthodox and odd ways. That would be a difficult problem…</p>
<p>I believe the wording was “what is the area of the regions within the largest circle but outside of the smallest circle.”
I put 8pi.</p>
<p>Paradeus…then it’s definitely 15pi</p>
<p>the regions within the largest circle are the 16 pi-9pi part (7pi), + (the 9pi-4pi part) = (5pi) + the (4pi-1 pi)=3pi part</p>
<p>= 15pi</p>
<p>the question asks the area of the circle inside, thats right inside the larger circle minus the smaller. This means the area of the circle inside the large circle which is 9pi minus the smaller cirlce which is 8pi, why is this so confusing to understand?</p>
<p>enlightened1, I’m sure that you didn’t read the question thoroughly, it didnt ask for “the area of the circle inside”, it asked you for “the area inside the largest circle but outside the smalllest circle” Get it ??? </p>
<p>paradeus, you’re right about the question but wrong about the answer, r u thinking that a circle has all the points inside it ??? </p>
<p>Obilisk18, ever heard of distractions ?</p>
<p>hoanginc-where are you getting that it’s talking about the second largest circle in here??? I don’t understand that.</p>