SATs are test that are able to help

SAT’s are test that are able to help you get into colleges, the test helps you get a good scholarship as well.

� Students take the SAT’s because colleges make you take a standardized test to see where students are, to see how they will perform in college academically.

� First SAT was created in 1901 � SAT originally stood for: "Scholastic Achievement Test” � In 1941, College Board changed the name to "Scholastic Aptitude Test"

� What is the result when 436, 921 is rounded to the nearest thousand then expressed in scientific notation? � Answer: 4. 37 x 10

� At the beginning of 2006, both Alan and Dave were taller than Boris, and Boris was taller than Charles. During the year, Alan grew inches, Boris and Dave each grew inches, and Charles grew inches. Of the following, which could NOT have been true at the beginning of 2007? � Answer: Dave was shorter than Charles

� If is an integer and if is a positive integer, which of the following must also be a positive integer? � Answer: 2 n-n

� There are 100 seniors, 150 juniors, and 200 sophomores who applied. Each senior's name is placed in the lottery 3 times; each junior's name, 2 times; and each sophomore's name, 1 time. What is the probability that a senior's name will be chosen? � Answer: 3/8

� The table above shows the temperatures, in degrees Fahrenheit, in a city in Hawaii over a one-week period. If m represents the median temperature, f represents the temperature that occurs most often, and a represents the average (arithmetic mean) of the seven temperatures, which of the following is the correct order of m, f, and a ? � Answer: a<m<f

� The projected sales volume of a video game cartridge is given by the function � where s is the number of cartridges sold, in thousands; p is the price per cartridge, in dollars; and a is a constant. If according to the projections, 100, 000 cartridges are sold at 10$ per cartridge, how many cartridges will be sold at 20$ per cartridge? � Answer: 60, 000

� Emerson college: 1800 or above. � MCLA: 1200 � Salem or above state university: 1320 or above