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SAT Math Strategies Quiz When you are stumped on an SAT or ACT math question, there are two very useful strategies that may help you to get the correct answer: 1) work with the answers; and 2) plug in real numbers. This review quiz will help you become familiar with these strategies so that they will be second nature when you take the SAT or ACT for real. Each problem can be solved using one of the two strategies. The quiz begins on the next page; answers are at the end. Good luck! Examples w w 8 8 1. If w is a positive integer and (2 ) = 2 2 , then what is the value of w ? A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3 E) 4 Solution: Notice that the question gives an equation that w must satisfy, and then proceeds to list five possible numerical values for w , one of which must be correct. You can work with the answers by substituting each answer in for w until the left and right sides of the equation are equal (your calculator may be useful here). For example, substituting 1 for w into the equation gives 2 = 65536, so answer B is incorrect. When you substitute 4 for w , you will find that the equation works, so E is the correct answer. It doesn’t particularly matter which answer you use first. However, since number answers are ordered, if what you get is way off, you may want to skip the next answer or two (in this case, skip from B to D, at least). You may also realize that the equation can be written: 2ww = 216, so that w w = 16, or w = 4. This is faster, but requires that you can remember and apply the rules for combining exponents. The “work with answers” strategy is best for multiple-choice questions with numerical answers. 2. If −1 y 0, which of the following is not between −1 and 0?