Two-category Venn diagram problems

I made a video today that I hope will help you understand something I get asked about an awful lot. The SAT loves asking a particular kind of Venn diagram question—not so common that it appears on every test, but common enough that high scorers need to know it. The test writers keep coming back (more…)

Median and Mode on the SAT

Like the average (or, as some say, the arithmetic mean), the median and the mode are useful properties of a set of numbers and can give statisticians great at-a-glance insight into the nature of copious data. When the SAT gets its hands on them, though, they are usually stripped of any analytical utility and instead (more…)