********Official June 9th 2007 ACT Math Thread********

<p>yeah…i got 450, i got a little stumped cause i didnt know whether to stop counting the decimals at the end of the one or the beginning, but i just ended up with 450</p>

<p>you could express it as 10^-9 x 45x10^10 = 450, if i remember it right</p>

<p>I took the big number and times it by the one that was like .0000000000000045 and got 450.</p>

<p>so it must’ve been 45x10^-9 x 10^10 (was it 10 zeroes in the big number?)</p>

<p>Whoa…total guess on the matrix one and I think I got it.</p>

<p>I plugged in 0 for A, 1 for B, 2 for C, etc. and did out every equation. (I had a few extra minutes) and I ended up getting like -7.6 for matrix in the question and -10.7 for E. All the rest were way off. Glad that is right though</p>

<p>did the bobsled one ask how many variations are possible in one ride down or somthing else?</p>

<p>Yeah…the answer was 24</p>

<p>Oh man why couldn’t the bobsled one be 16??? I picked 24 at first…hmmm. =/</p>

<p>So does anyone remember if the prime number answer was the last choice (which was the 3 highest I think)??</p>

<p>the answer to the maxtriz question wasn’t A; I think it was E</p>

<p>yeah I got the same answer as you :collegeworried23</p>

<p>I dont know if you couldve expanded it any better but thats the best I could do. I forgot all Matrices and Law of Sines stuff. </p>

<p>But, can someone please tell me what the answer was to the LAW OF SINES ONE? PLEASE??? Was it B?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>They were all 2x2…
[a]+**=[a+b]
+
[1/a+b]=1
You can’t get much easier matrices than that.</p>

<p>[a+b] + [1/a+b] DOES NOT equal 1, thats like saying 1+2 + 1/3= 1…but that equals 3 1/3</p>

<p>^ yep thats where I made my mistake</p>

<p>I was rushing…oops</p>

<p>I realize what I did now. I did matrices multiplication, rather than addition.</p>

<p>Anyone remember the split triangle question? Base was a-b-c they gave AB you had to find the BC. I was running out of time so I rushed through this question.</p>

<p>i ran out of time for the last maybe 7 so i filled in the last ones all e</p>

<p>does anyone know how it went?</p>

<p>Very well! My friend put all C’s, but I believe E was the most popular answer near the end.</p>

<p>So far I haven’t found any questions I got wrong. I was stuck on one of the questions though, the one with the big right triangle, with the right angle in the bottom left hand corner. You were given fairly large numbers, around 2000+, and you had to find part of the base. I’m trying to describe it without getting myself into trouble. I think I put 4400 or something like that after just putting random things into my calculator until an answer was a choice. What exactly are we not allowed to talk about? And for how long?</p>

<p>it wasnt that- you could do similar triangles and call the unknown X- i got 3660 or SOMETHIng close to that</p>

<p>Yea… you know that the two triangles are similar so you can setup a ratio of the sides they give u to solve it… i dont remember what i got though</p>

<p>I think it was 3000 something. Not sure though.</p>