Hello Mike, I was struggling to make sense of question #6 on the Math (No calculator) section on the SAT Practice Test #8. Can you please explain the steps to properly solve it. Thank you for your time.
I like to plug in here. We know that and that
. So…what if
?
Well, in that case, we’d have to say , or
.
We could take this to a bit more of an extreme if we like. What if ?
Well, then we would plug in for
and end up with
.
We could try to go even smaller (?) but I think you get the point. Choice B is what we want.
Try as we might, there’s nothing we can plug in for based on the given
that will allow
to be 4 or less. So
must be greater than 4.