My 'best' room, however, my withdrawing (45) room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house. As the conversation (40) began to assume a loftier and grander tone, we gradually shoved our chairs farther apart till they touched the wall in opposite corners and then commonly there was not room enough.

In my house we were so near that we could not begin to hear-we could not speak low enough to be heard as when you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations. I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the (35) opposite side. Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them. Also our sentences wanted room to unfold and form (30) their columns in the interval. The bullet of your thought must have (25) overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a (20) sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, (15) at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. When visitors come in larger and unexpected (10) numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. I am naturally no hermit, (5) but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter for the bar-room, if my business called me thither. I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. This passage is excerpted from the 1854 book Walden by Henry David Thoreau, which details Thoreau's experience living in a cabin alone for two years. Stumped? Check out these SAT reading tips. Questions 1-3 are based on the following passage. What is the measure of minor arc XY ?īecause the question wants arc length and gives you the measure of the central angle in radians, you can use the formula s = rθ to find the arc length: s = (8)( 5 ⁄ 16 π) = 40 ⁄ 16 π, which reduces to 5 ⁄ 2 π, which is (B). In the figure below, circle O has a radius of 8, and angle XOY measures 5 ⁄ 16 π radians. That means the answer is (B) by process of elimination. If you ballpark (C) and (D), putting 10 or 15 in the function will give you a number bigger than 100, and you're looking for 76, so (C) and (D) are too big. You can tell that f (4) will be between 22 and 54, so you can cross out (A). If f(x) = 2x 2 + 4 for all real numbers x, which of the following is equal to f(3) + f(5) ?

That matches the information in the question, so (B) is correct.

The sales for the regular gasoline would be 475($2.39) = $1,135.25. A total of 550 gallons were sold, so the station would have sold 550 - 75 = 475 gallons of regular gasoline. If 75 gallons of premium were sold, the station would make 75($2.79) = $209.25 for those sales. Label them as gallons of premium and start with the value in (B). When asked for a specific value, try Plugging In the Answers. If the gas station sold a total of 550 gallons of both types of gasoline in one day for a total of $1,344.50, how many gallons of premium gasoline were sold? A gas station sells regular gasoline for $2.39 per gallon and premium gasoline for $2.79 per gallon. You can use a calculator for questions 1–2. COVID-19 Update: To help students through this crisis, The Princeton Review will continue our 'Enroll with Confidence' refund policies.

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