A walkthrough of a digital SAT physics problem where an object starts at 12 m/s. The presenter uses Desmos to find when two lines are parallel, determining the constant is 5, and shows how studyshare.app helps you solve problems like this.
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If you see this problem on the SAT and don't know how to solve it, I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're probably screwed. This is the difference between students who score a 600 and a 700 on the digital SAT. Before we solve it, go to the website studyshare.app to get your personalized crash course before the SAT. The question tells you about an object with an initial velocity of 12 meters and gives you an equation to represent it. Then it says, when it's written in this form, what are the constants? So take a second and really dissect this question. It's really saying that this equation just needs to be translated to this equation. In Desmos terms, this means we can turn a vf - 12 into y x - 12/5. And make sure to put the 5 underneath only the second part of the equation, or else you're gonna get the answer incorrect. Then it tells you, if the equation is rewritten in form vf xa y, All we have to do is translate it the same way. We already defined vf as x, so x equals— and we defined a as y, so we can come up with a new variable, ay, plus— and we can say b here. Then all we have left to do is find what the value of x is. And remember, we said that x equals a. So then we'll see when these lines are perfectly parallel. After using the slider tool and zooming on out, we'll notice that a 5, the lines never intersect. So that means that the answer is going to be 5.