October 2012 SAT Discussion

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<p>Are these experimental Math questions: </p>

<ol>
<li><p>Find the fraction of the volume of the smaller cylinder to the whole thing… It was like a cylinder within a larger cylinder or something like that… The larger cylinder had like side length 10, the other had side length 5.</p></li>
<li><p>There are n numbers in a list that consist of only 3s and 5s. The mean of the list is 4. What could be a possible value for n? ( I, II, or III)</p></li>
<li><p>Find perimeter of the triangle that is equilateral and has an area of 1… or something like that ( this was one of the last problems in the section #18,19,or 20) NOT the maximum perimeter of triangle question that was 33… I had that in another section.</p></li>
</ol>

1322

<p>I was tempted to put ‘similar abilities in other apes’ but I went for scientific implications as it seemed much more likely and more evidenced.</p>

1323

<p>@Overide, yeah but “major scientific implications” seems excessively vague to me. I also wouldn’t classify the discovery of an intelligent ape as major.</p>

1324

<p>And what about “alternative explanation?”</p>

1325

<p>what was the question where the answer was major scientific implications?</p>

1326

<p>Was the math question with the cube (54 was the answer) a bubble in or a fill in?</p>

1327

<p>echelon11- she did say that scientists are hesitant to accept this because we want to believe that humans are unique in that we can utilize language and communicate. if scientists accepted that apes are also able to do so, it could change how we perceive ourselves in this world and future studies so i think that’s where the choice significant scientific implications comes from. the alternative explanation one involved the passage 1 author and his statement “perhaps…” he says it to refute the belief that kanzi actually communicates.</p>

1328

<p>the cube was grid in, i think it was the second to last question :)</p>

1329

<p>Yeah, I aknowledge that “implications” is probably correct, I was just wondering. And what were the other answer choices for the alternative explanation one?</p>

1330

<p>can anyone gauge when there will be a compilation???!!! I mean seriously, you guys are still arguing over questions that are pretty much consensus. Lets get a few compilations and see if we missed any questions that have not been discussed and move on and wait for our scores to come out.</p>

1331

<p>@taylorspence, no-one actually cares about it, since they all leave school talking about the test anyways. Mostly just a formality.</p>

1332

<p>BUT CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE OTHER ANSWER CHOICES WERE FOR the “ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION” ONE?</p>

1333

<p>What was the question for the math grid-in with answer 3/2???</p>

1334

<p>@loncria</p>

<p>the answer was like 9/6 and it reduced to 3/2 but I forget the question</p>

1335

<p>aw… i think i SIMPLIFIED wrong… i grid in 9/2</p>

1336

<p>do you guys remember a writing question about a movie theatre like my sister and I went or something ?</p>

1337

<p>@gthopeful93, yea those were experimental.</p>

1338

<p>@loncria it said f(x)=x^2-6x+9. what is f(6)/6?</p>

<p>f(6)= 36-36+9
=9</p>

<p>9/6= 3/2 or 1.5</p>

1339

<p>GoodJobBro’s list of confident answers:
urbane + erudite
autonomous
scholarly enthusiasm
secret heart=undisclosed
father was appreciative but ambivalent
148 was to validate a statement
scientific implication
mired=stuck
superfluous
both used behavioral science
teacher eccentricity
father kept asking = uniqueness
sieve = things he didn’t mind sharing
quality control = his ability to restrain himself from sharing
boom of yo-yo’s = commercialization
letters between = most disprove
the “assumptions” = not yet disproven
wife was teasing
defies
phlegmatic
indefagitable
polymath
the author acknolweged his position
disproportionate
alternative explanation
present tense = mark a contrast
the groundbreakign research = investigate Homer’s language
inhibit and skew
learning to write predated classes
mollifying
scientific implication
accessible
monkey can’t say “in”
insufficient skepticism
women’s suffrage = imperative
social inequality can change government (women’s suffrage)
unflattering
passage was self-reflection
Homer wanted to make it flow
dino-man was belittled by his classmates
utilized</p>

1340

<p>ahh I’m -3 to -4 so far. that is 41/67 of the questions. Those are all of the hard ones and most of the medium ones. If we can increase the list to 50/67, then we can rest assured that the other 17 were so easy that we forget them and not need to discuss them.</p>