SAT May 2012 Official Discussion

<p>im confident it was median.</p>

<p>since it said “on the contrary”, isnt laconic NOT the answer?</p>

<p>me too, pretty sure it said median. i looked at that one for a looonnnggg time, cuz it seemed to easy</p>

<p>@newyork</p>

<p>are you sure it said mean? Because i took it a few hours ago and unless i was on drugs I’m pretty sure it said median…</p>

<p>it said median. i checked a zillion times</p>

<p>They were numbered 1-75 and it was the student who had the two numbers in the two directions. 25 & 50</p>

<p>When I saw all these posts saying median, I started thinking about it and I could be wrong but I’m relatively sure it was mean… Plus it was one of the later problems in the section so it should have been at least moderate difficulty if not hard, and if median it could be done in a few seconds but If mean you have to work through choice I and II to make sure they work.</p>

<p>@divy
use a small example like 1,2,3,4,5:
1,2,3,4,5
5,4,3,2,1
you see that each pair must add up to 6. in this case, it would be 76</p>

<p>It was definitely median and the answer was E (all could work)</p>

<p>@supine since it said “on the contrary”, isnt laconic NOT the answer?</p>

<p>Do any of you remember the writing question which started with “Historically,…”</p>

<p>Are you allowed to have an adverb like that at the beginning and was it used correctly?</p>

<p>Thanks for the explanation, and I also got 25+50 = 75…</p>

<p>Is any one that said “answer could not be determined” or the problem that some people are saying is 1/6, gonna repond to college board or anything about that problem because whether or not zero is an integer is a debated topic… If you google it you will get different answers from different sources</p>

<p>Wait for the 1-75 math question was that the last question on the math section? Because I have no idea which one that was!</p>

<p>Okay. And for the cube one. Isn’t there one that was a weird squiggle that didn’t make a cube?</p>

<p>@presidentsaad
maybe it was an experimental, cuz i had 4 math sections. but the answer is clearly 76, it was already discussed too</p>

<p>@alvin</p>

<p>look if it said mean, three would technically work because (14<em>17+1</em>20)/15 would yield a mean of 17.2, which is technically 17 in terms of age. You don’t say 1 day after you turn 17 that you’re 18.</p>

<p>I thought that if there was one CUBE with 5 SIDES (others all had 6 ) then it would be wrong…I don’t remember if it was C or D</p>

<p>I had Math as an experimental, maybe my mind is just escaping me…</p>

<p>Don’t understand why people are having so much trouble with the cube one, but here’s a diagram of the answer.</p>

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