PAT Questions

[amalgamgrillz]

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Hi everyone,

I have a couple PAT questions (pictures attached)

1) for pattern folding, do you fold the object INTO the page? Can it be folded out of the page? In this question, the answer is A, but from the way I'm looking at it, you can only get A if you fold it out of the page.

2) for hole punching - this question folds the paper into a square so that there would be technically 4 layers of paper on top of each other, and then they fold X amount of corners over. How would you know if they fold it down 1, 2, or 3 layers? The answer to this question is D, but why couldn't it be A?

Edit: Answer for hole punching is E.

 

[amalgamgrillz]

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[JamesBourne]

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For the pattern folding, I really don't see a correct answer, and I always do in-folding and have been doing fine on practice. As for the hole punching, are you sure the correct answer is D? I even tried with a 4x4 paper and got E as answer.

 

[Impulse155]

For the pattern folding, I really don't see a correct answer, and I always do in-folding and have been doing fine on practice. As for the hole punching, are you sure the correct answer is D? I even tried with a 4x4 paper and got E as answer.

For the pattern folding, I narrowed it down to A and C. But to me however they both look the same
Heres how I narrowed down B and D

B-Start with the black piece ont he bottom left when looking at the question. Take the white piece that is connected to that. If you use that as the piece that is facing us and looking towards the left in B, then you would notice that the black piece would have to be on the opposite side (the one you cant see). However it is placed on the side we can see. Therefore this cannot be the option.

D- If you break D into pieces like the orginal folding paper you have, thne you would notice that you cannot possible have D as the little rectangular piece is supposed to be while. In D, its black.

Only reason I can say A over C:
Going back to the white piece I had mentioned in B, if we start with that... Imagine matching that up with A and C. You would notice that A is about equal height, whereas in C, C is actually in reality a bit taller. This is the only reason I can rule out C over A.

Going to look at the hole punch and post a break down for that. I hope this helps.

 

[wizi]

Hi everyone,

why couldn't it be A?

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It can't be A because the way its folded.

Its hard to explain.

If you look at the last fold, there is no dash line on the top left corner which means that only half of the paper is folded to the right --> there must be 2+ holes -->Answer: E

You know what, get a napkin or tissue --> cut it into a square --> try to fold exactly like the way they fold the paper in the question --> punch the paper on the top left corner --> you will know why.

 

[Impulse155]

For the hole punching, I can see how to get E, in fact that is what I put for the answer. Not because I got it but because you can reason it out. However this is a horrible problem. You actually cant even fold it in real life, you just have to visualize it.

Heres how I reasoned it, hope it helps:
Step 1) You know for a fact there must be a hole on the top left, since that has never been moved. However this doesnt eliminate anything, but its just to point out that its there.
Step 2) Also note that when we do the first fold we are folding from the bottom up. After this you can say all of the paper int he top left quarter of the page are remaining where they are.
This means that when we unfold we will have a hole in the top left, and the bottom left. This eliminates A,B,C and leaves D and E.
Step 3) Next step, is to look at D. In order to make D, you would need a hole to the right of where the hole we orginally have is. So when we unfold and do the flip from left to right, we have that hole. However we dont have that. So we are only left with E.

Also I just looked at it again. The fold has to go from the top left to bottom right. Even though you cant realistically make this fold. Imagine it in a term of layers in the top left corner.

In step 1 you fold in half going up. Now you have 2 layers in the top left corner. After that you fold from right to left. This means you have 2x2 = 4 layers in the top left corner. Now out of those 4 layers you are taking 1 (why 1? because thats the only amout that works.) layer and you are folding that to the bottom left. This means that when you look at the quarter page piece, you have two triangles (like in step 3). However, the top left half has only 3 layers where hte bottom right has 5 layers. Now we put our hole punch in the top left. After that we unfold it so that we have 4 layers on each half (step 3 triangles) of the 1/4 page square. Also you have to imagine that the hole is temporarily covered since we just covered ti when we unfolded. Right now you should look exactly like Step 2, however you should know in the back of your mind you still have that hole in the top left corner. Now we unfold to form step 1. When we unfold, the part that covered the square is now in the top right. However there was no hole there. And we still have our hole in the top left (where there are now 2 layers) and we have 1 hole in the top right (where there is also 2 layers, 1 with the hole, and then one without the hole under it that we cannot see). Now we fold from step 1 into a whole page. We get one in the top left, one in the bottom left (unfolded the 2 layers), and then we get one in the bottom right (unfolded the two layers again).

Holy ****

 

[rmm30]

i think both these questions are busted. the pattern folding definitely. A and C are the same (both wrong btw). Did these come from Kaplan? I went through most of their pat stuff and i came across some duds. But to answer your question. the pattern could only be folded INTO the page. It helps if you think of it as an actual piece of paper where you dont know what is on the underside (the side that you can't see). That way you know the fold can only be one way.

 

[rmm30]

I stand corrected on the hole punch. answer is E. scaling on pic through me off. I was trying to fold rectangles in my head (duh). Anyway it can be done answer is E. And to answer your question on the hole punch. There is only one way to make that last fold (by taking the top left corner and folding diagonally bottom right). But it CAN be folded in real life.

 

[amalgamgrillz]

I stand corrected on the hole punch. answer is E. scaling on pic through me off. I was trying to fold rectangles in my head (duh). Anyway it can be done answer is E. And to answer your question on the hole punch. There is only one way to make that last fold (by taking the top left corner and folding diagonally bottom right). But it CAN be folded in real life.

Thank you everyone for your responses. But for hole punching...how many layers do you fold back on the last step? According to the answer, it would just be the first layer, but how would folding the first layer look different than folding back 2 or 3 layers and just leaving the fourth layer?

I understand how you get E, but I still don't see why it can't be A. If you fold back the first three layers, you would just expose the ORIGiNAL top left corner and punch it out. And from my understanding, folding the three layers back (or even the first two layers) would NOT have any dotted lines since the original corner is still there in place. Am I right?

 

[JamesBourne]

Thank you everyone for your responses. But for hole punching...how many layers do you fold back on the last step? According to the answer, it would just be the first layer, but how would folding the first layer look different than folding back 2 or 3 layers and just leaving the fourth layer?

I understand how you get E, but I still don't see why it can't be A. If you fold back the first three layers, you would just expose the ORIGiNAL top left corner and punch it out. And from my understanding, folding the three layers back (or even the first two layers) would NOT have any dotted lines since the original corner is still there in place. Am I right?

I see where your confusion comes from and choice A is certainly possible if you do 3 folds going from step 3 to 4 like you mentioned. I personally always assume one fold going from previous step to the next, hope this clears up your confusion. Btw, I have to say these questions are !@#$%^&*(%^&*