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Posted on Monday, September 14th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

Ellen: Is there a flaw in this SAT question? I think there is. Maybe I’m wrong. Would you check it out and get back to me?

Wednesday, September 9

If it is now 4:00 p.m. Saturday, in 253 hours from now, what time and day will it be? (Assume no daylight saving time changes in the period.)

A. 5:00 a.m. Saturday
B. 1:00 a.m. Sunday
C. 5:00 p.m. Tuesday
D. 1:00 a.m. Wednesday
E. 5:00 a.m. Wednesday

The DVD on the kitchen table titled Comparitive Religion includes a short segment on archery in zen.

So? What happened to Alex?

Dad

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7 Responses to “sat_dvd_etc”

  1. David says:

    Hola?! Amorcita?! How did I get it wrong?

  2. David says:

    Yeah. You did get it right. Good for you. Are you going to show me the flaw in my logic?

  3. Ellen says:

    Ok u know what if u want to see it as an insult that fine with me. U ask for my opinion. U asked me if u were wrong and i say that u are. The answer is right there. I figured it out n got it right.

  4. David says:

    Understood. You’re trying to insult me, right? You’re telling me my question is silly, aren’t you? That’s insulting me, isn’t it? Don’t worry about it. I’ve scales as thick as an alligator gar.
    OK. Ten days after any Saturday is what? Well, every week has seven days, right? Seven days after Saturday is what day? Well, doesn’t that depend on whether or not we include Saturday in our count? Sure it does. If we do include Saturday, then seven days later would be the next Friday, right? If we don’t, then, of course, the seventh day would be the next Saturday. Anyway, the question says we start at a given hour, right? And then we count forward so many hours. You correctly chose a mathmatical shortcut and converted hours to days. Your conclustion was to count forward from 4PM Saturday ten days and thirteen hours. So, when we count ten days forward from Saturday, we include Saturday in that count. And you did that, I believe, although you didn’t spell it out for me – you didn’t show your work. Anyway, doing that puts us at Monday. But what time Monday? What time would it be if our clock was at 4PM and we rolled it forward two hundred and forty times? Well, it would still be 4PM, wouldn’t it? Twenty-four hours after 4PM is 4PM, right? It’s just 4PM of a different day. Now, on the other hand, twelve hours from 4PM is what time? It’s still 4 o’clock, right? Twelve hours after 4 o’clock is still 4 o’clock, right? It’s just AM instead of PM, right? Of course, you could be forgiven for not knowing anything about those early morning hours because you’re never up that early, or, heaven forbid, up that late. Anyway, twelve hours after 4PM is 4AM. So, back to the question. I mean, YOU get back to the question. Please tell me what is wrong with choices offer by the SAT, if you can find any. Alternatively, show me the flaw in the logic I’ve used above, if you can find any. What I’m really suggesting here, Ellen, is that this is one of those times when you really have to tell someone that they are wrong, and you need do so with the same tack, the same compassion, the same care, that you would use with someone in you family that is wrong. If I’m wrong, I want you to tell me. If the SAT is wrong, I want you to tell them. And if you are wrong, I want you to tell yourself. And I want you to do all this with a light heart and with love. You do know something about that. Anyway, if you can do this, then when your math teacher screws up, you’ll step up and tell him so in a way that will make him say “Thanks … and what’s your name?”
    OK. Now, back to the problem. Show your work. You can not ask any adult to help you. You can ask a peer. Or, you can ask your iPod touch, if you can figure out how to do that. Try iCal. You can add an event to iCal at 4PM on a Saturday, any Saturday. Then make that event repeat itself ten times. Then add thirteen hours. Have you got the answer yet? You had it awhile back, right? I’ve lost my mind, is what you’re thinking? Or, not.
    Is your brain on fire?
    Your heart to burst?
    Your lungs light?
    Your eyes wide?
    Your dad
    in love
    with
    you
    again
    and again
    and again and
    and again
    as
    I
    am
    Señor Frequentamente Equivocado

  5. Ellen says:

    U have to divide 253 by 24 n u get 10.5 something. Multiply 24 by 10 n u get 240. Subtract 240 from 253 n u get 13. So u have to add 10 days n 13 hours 4 on SAT

  6. David says:

    Ellen, I don’t think the answer is there. There may be a reason to write the SAT and tell them you beat the test … if they didn’t provide the right answer. Shouldn’t the answer be thirteen hours after 4PM Monday? Wouldn’t that be …. ?

  7. Ellen says:

    Wouldn’t the answer b 5 on Wednesday?? Alec shows up to the saturday rehearsul so he’s ok. He has a hurt leg n an arm that is still healing from being broken but he’s ok. That’s why he wasn’t at the game last Friday

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