<p>Okay I’ve tried an analogy question on the SSAT:
Kitchen is to home as
a body is to arm
b hair is to head
c eyelash is to eye
d knee is to leg
e finger is to hand</p>
<p>Which answer do you choose? How come?</p>
<p>I really have no idea, but i’ll take an “educated” guess</p>
<p>every option except for A is part in whole, which is Kitchen to home. </p>
<p>For me, it’s really between B and E: is a kitchen a unique part of the home, or is it one in a series of rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, living rooms, etc. I would say E, because finger implies more strongly that there are others, while there are other features on the “head” which are more variable. </p>
<p>The eyelash is not part of the eye necessarily, the knee is too big of a part of the leg, body arm is obvious, unless i’m missing something completely. </p>
<p>But honestly, i’m probably wrong, and this question is ridiculous</p>
<p>I think it is D.</p>
<p>Who buys a house without a kitchen?
And who walks without a knee?</p>
<p>1 (ok usually…=P) kitchen per house.
1 knee per leg!</p>
<p>That’s my simple logic =D hah</p>
<p>I hope you have the right answer</p>
<p>E
10 char</p>
<p>I’m no expert with analogies, but I would have said D.</p>
<p>A kitchen is inside a house.</p>
<p>Hair, eyelashes, and fingers are all appendages, but a knee is “inside” the leg so to speak in the sense that it’s surrounded by leg on all sides.</p>
<p>E
A kitchen is one of several similar things (rooms) that are parts of a house. A finger is one of several similar things that are parts of a hand.</p>
<p>@112: See, to me, that’s vague. the knee JOINT may be surrounded by ‘leg’ (but can u be surrounded by something you’re a part of) but the ‘knee’ kind of implies an area.
Choice E ftw!</p>
<p>The answer was D. I chose E. I didn’t know the explanation so thanks Heplayer and 112, very good answers</p>
<p>I would say D. because kitchen is a part of the inside of a home, whereas an eyelash, finger, hair arre all appendages to the thing they are attached to. the knee is the only thing that is a part of the main body of the thing. does that make sense? bump</p>
<p>It’s D. This is a very tough question, but here’s how I thought of it:</p>
<p>Preliminary:</p>
<p>A kitchen is a specific part of a house. There is only one (in most houses I know of)</p>
<p>Choice A:</p>
<p>Doesn’t make sense at all.</p>
<p>Choice B: </p>
<p>Hair is a part of the head, but it is not unique by any standards. </p>
<p>Choice C: </p>
<p>Same principle as choice B.</p>
<p>Choice D:</p>
<p>More like it. There is only one knee per leg.</p>
<p>Choice E:</p>
<p>Each hand has four fingers and a thumb. If it has said thumb is to hand, I might have considered it more, but a finger is in no way unique to a hand. </p>
<p>Make sense?</p>
<p>Wow.
Nope, it doesn’t make sense at all, and I would have been mad enough to challenge that question 25+ years ago. Sure glad I’m too old to have the current crop of test writers determining factors in my future. :rolleyes: And now glad I didn’t try to help geek_son study for the SAT!</p>
<p>It makes perfect sense. D. Kitchen is within house. Knee is a joint hidden from the outside world by the rest of the leg. The others are ridiculous.</p>