<p>yeah but the whole point is that corn has been so extensively genetically modified that it’s not even remotely close to the teosinte, and moreover this whole idea of genetic relation is highly ambiguous and vague. btw I’ve realized I’m fighting a lost cause here since I appear to be alone, but the fact that the author CONCLUDED no kinship, and there being hard evidence for teosinte being smaller and less hardy, i feel it could have gone either way… I thought as the passage framed it, it was leading toward my answer… But it’s whatever Cboard sucks </p>
<p>@Chrysanthemum14 It was the one that talked about conserving natural resources for future generations. Ik one of the questions was like “what the axe signify” or w/e and I put the answer choice that had “efficiency” for that one.</p>
<p>CR Vocab???</p>
<p>Either way lol</p>
<p>My experimental was the entire sixth section. The passage went on throughout the whole section.</p>
<p>@Dynasty21 </p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>@hainly </p>
<p>That may have been experimental. I don’t remember it.</p>
<p>No errors were: number 4 (cant remember), then the elephants cloth one, the ostrich egg, and the vegetarian one</p>
<p>I thought for the elephant one, perfect gifts -> a perfect gift? </p>
<p>either would make perfect gifts vs either would make a perfect gift? </p>
<p>Corn and teosinte would definitely be genetically linked he says beyond the level of chromosomes to indicate a physical, not genetic difference. The only reason why he used teosinte as an example is that it was corns closest ancestor (which isn’t saying a lot in terms of physical similarities)</p>
<p>I said a perfect gift… but I’m not sure thats right.</p>
<p>@iconicsoul I don’t think the one that had perfect gift involved elephants. that’s a different problem and yes, perfect gifts should be changed to singular.</p>
<p>@CornelianGuy @victorp It was all three, super confident about it as well. The sequence was 3,5,9,17,33,65 the second condition said any two have a difference of 2^n , which they all do. Sorry guys :-?? </p>
<p>Maybe I am mistaken. I thought it was something about elephant purses lol </p>
<p>wouldn’t a lack of physical similarity somewhat indicate a lack of genetic relation? And moreover the word “kin” has to do with genetic relations not physical similarities. Same number of chromosomes doesn’t mean anything and this whole idea of corn descending from teosinte is flawed because its SOO artificially genetically transformed that they’re basically unrelated; hence the no kinship. But I mean again whatever I’ve expressed my opinion already and I could defend both answers, I still want to keep hope that the way the passage was framing this whole thing leads to my answer but eh God knows </p>
<p>@collegetalk11 yeah i feel ya - i’m still clinging to hope that maybe “being” is wrong on that writing question, but it’s probably not. still, at least you can hope for a generous CR curve.</p>
<p>Okay not trying to sound harsh or anything but can we just let the genetic vs variety of corn argument go and wait until results come out?</p>
<p>yeah cr curve better be generous lol</p>
<p>Yup I’m done 
</p>
<p>This is why the answer is -2.</p>
<p>The question was “2x + 2 = root 8x + 4y - 4”</p>
<p>Square both sides and you get:</p>
<p>4x^2 + 8x + 4 = 8x + 4y - 4</p>
<p>Subtract or add like terms and you get:</p>
<p>4x^2 + 8 = 4y</p>
<p>Divide 4 from both sides and you get:</p>
<p>x^2 + 2 = y</p>
<p>Answer is x^2 - y = -2</p>
<p>I don’t think the curve will be as harsh as you guys think. Math had a few really ambiguous questions that a lot of people got wrong. Cr had some really hard vocab and the grammar section was just fair</p>