March 2009 SAT discussion

<p>you can, because it had to be parallel</p>

<p>Parallel with what?</p>

<p>For sentence completions for one reading section do you guys remember gettin from numbers 3 - 7:</p>

<p>3) D
4) D
5) C
6) D
7) D</p>

<p>that?</p>

<p>i remember getting 3 Ds ,one C, and another Ds, not two</p>

<p>yea i think i got them in that order, h3lp me</p>

<p>yo what did u guys get for the one where a circle was divided into 4 parts, and 3 of them were p% and one of them was x%? u had to find the value of x, i think.</p>

<p>For that one I put 43, but I think there’s more than one solution. </p>

<p>Because if p=19, 2p=38 and 3p=57. 100-57=43, which is less than 57 but greater than 38.</p>

<p>nice, dawg! i put like 50 or something.</p>

<p>Sorry, 50 doesn’t work because then x=3p, and it has to be less. And if you put anything greater than 50, that doesn’t work either. I think anything between 41-49 works.</p>

<p>dancer 13, for ur sentence completion it was: her research was theoretical and “pragmatic” was in the other blank.</p>

<p>For the one about the four parts made up of X and Ps, heres the solution, i think. I got 110 degrees, heres how.
X is greater than P
360 (degrees in a circle)-110 equals 250
divide that by 3 and it equals 86 point something
this is true becuase it is smaller than 110.</p>

<p>wait, i have a question… the experimental for me was 3 WRITING sections… i had 3 and 3 of math and reading. is it possible to have experimental writing?</p>

<p>whoa, buddy, i dont think mine asked me for degrees… just percent…</p>

<p>^ that question wasn’t asking about degrees though, wasn’t it percents?</p>

<p>I thought the Zubin passage was hard… anyone remember the question towards the end of that section that was like asking what type of writing the author was using in the passage? Two of the choices were recounting an experience with details or something, and an extended metaphor for the creative process. What was the right answer??</p>

<p>Im almost possitive it was degress, because there was an X next to an angle and the question asked for X. and yes i had an experimental writting section.</p>

<p>does anyone remember the question where 7/10 of the area of a circle was shaded and then you had to find the angles x formed by connecting 2 radii with a chord?</p>

<p>i thought the math sections from this test were harder than the one from Jan. In Jan i only had 3 questions wrong, but i feel like i really screwed up this one.</p>

<p>X+3P=100
2P<X<3P
Therefore,we can assume X=2.5P
5.5P=100
P=about 18
X=3P= about 45</p>

<p>the 7/10 of a circle question:</p>

<p>the unshaded portion=3/10*360=108 degrees is the angle of the triangle at the middle of the circle
it’s an isosceles triangle because the two legs are radii of the circle, therefore the other two angles are both equal to x
180-108=72/2=36 degrees</p>

<p>Crap, then i got it wrong, wat eve it was a grid in.</p>

<p>Question, this is my first sat, when we receive the scores online of by mail do we receive the ones we got wrong.</p>