May 2013 SAT Discussion Thread

<p>I asked this question but no one answered so here I go again…</p>

<p>For math, there was a m/c question about the circle. It had diameter drawn and there was another line AB was drawn right above the diameter. And it asked you for the length of the AB or something. I think I used pythagorem theorem. What was the answer?</p>

<p>I didn’t find that the little sides were 2, although you could take that route. It just said since all of the triangles were equilateral, I knew the sum of any of the 3 small segments would be 6 (even if you couldn’t necessarily prove each small side was 2). I counted 48 small segments so I just did a ratio. 3 is to 6 as 48 is to 96.</p>

<p>@Speedlimit I think the answer was 48. The line segment was 18, the radius was 30, so using the Pythagorean theorem you get 24 for half of the segment, and you double it to get the length of the full segment.</p>

<p>So you can assume on some of the SAT math questions?</p>

<p>What testtaker said. I ended up miscounting the segments, got like 46x2 = 92, but obviously it was a miscount so I just went to 96 lol</p>

<p>It’s not so much assuming, you can prove the side is of length 2. However, no figure here so you will just have to take my word for it.</p>

<p>It wasn’t really an assumption, it makes sense if you think about it, but I would say unless it says figure not drawn to scale it’s pretty safe to assume.</p>

<p>Okay, thanks guys.</p>

<p>For the MC about the circle, I got 48.</p>

<p>I can’t believe it said the denominator is 2 less, I so did not see that when I was taking it.</p>

<p>What was the reading experimental?!?!?!
I got ones that were about salsa and deception and suburbia and research funding</p>

<p>Anyone remember the fillin where the answe was 2? It was like the second or third fillin</p>

<p>lol like no one remembers the question where the answer was 2.</p>

<p>Does anyone remember the knitting question? I read it again and again and it still doesn’t make sense to me. 9 stitches to an inch and 7 stitches to an inche and 30x30 blah i do not remember anything…</p>

<p>That was probably experimental because I didn’t have it</p>

<p>wait was that one experimental? I had it too and it was so confusing…</p>

<p>It must have been because my experimental was writing and I didn’t have that math question, meaning that section must’ve been experimental.</p>

<p>well basically this is how i did it : there was 7 by 9 stitches per inch: so 63 per inch. And it was a 30x30 inch blanket, so just 30x30x63? idk i dont remember exactly but i think thats basically how i solved it</p>

<p>@ Dreamer1623</p>

<p>It was probably a pretty simple question considering that no one has had a question about it yet.</p>

<p>Also, does anyone else remember getting 3/5 as the probability of picking out a red shirt? There were 9 red shirts and I found that there were 15 total.</p>

<p>Yea I got that too</p>

<p>@DivisionByZero Right, it was 3/5.</p>

<p>@DivisionByZero: yup i got that. Wait did u get that knitting question? People might have not asked about it simply because it was experimental and not everyone got it</p>