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<p>Ahmed rolled an eight-sided polygon six times. Each face of the polygon has a number from 1-8 painted on it. No two numbers are repeated. Each roll yields one number face up.

  • The first roll yields an even number.
  • The second roll yields an odd number.
  • The third roll yields the number 5.
  • The fourth roll yields a number smaller than 4.
  • The fifth roll yields the same number as the fourth roll.
  • The sixth roll yields a number smaller than the fifth roll.</p>

<p>Which of the following must be true?
A) Ahmed could have rolled a 5 three times.
B) Ahmed could have rolled a 2 more frequently than he could have rolled any other numbers.
C) Ahmed rolled more odd numbers than even numbers.
D) Ahmed rolled a 3 at least once.
E) Ahmed rolled a 1 on four rolls.</p>

<p>I am extremely confused here…</p>

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<p>It’s B, but that’s just ruling out all the other options…</p>

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<p>I chose B as well, but I don’t have the answer key with me. This is from Kaplan. I have to say that this practice test really sucks. Why make a Sentence Completion problem with choices not adhering to the proper part of speech? Anyway, if anyone has the Kaplan SAT book, I would really appreciate the answer for this. It’s practice test ten.</p>

<p>The most B can be rolled is 3 times.
number 3 can also be rolled 3 times.
Doesn’t that make B wrong?</p>

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<p>b) says ‘could have rolled’, which denotes that the possibility of rolling a 2 more frequently than any other number must exist.</p>

<p>i guess you just have to look at the answers and piece them together (??), almost like grammar/cr</p>

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<p>This is a problem.</p>

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<p>^ Yeah. The SAT does not have questions with the structure “it must be true that it could be true that…”</p>

<p>Also, “polygons” are two dimensional! But that’s nitpicking. </p>

<p>A, C, D and E are pretty easy to disprove.</p>

<p>B is so grammatically contorted that it is hard to check. He COULD have rolled a 2 on the first, fourth and fifth rolls for a maximum total of 3 times. But unless I am missing something, he COULD have rolled a 3 on the second, fourth and fifth rolls, also for a maximum of 3. So I don’t see how you can say that it MUST be that he COULD have rolled more 2’s than he COULD have rolled any other number.</p>

<p>But I bet that the second “COULD” was a mistake on the part of the writer and that b was the intended answer to this idiotic question. So once again, like sweeping back the tide, I ask the CC community: Why are you wasting time with non-college board questions?</p>

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<p>I go with B…</p>