How are you in maths?
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The answer for question 2 (answer: 20) is questionable. How can the exact minutes be determined using an average speed?
TOMZ_KV
You don't get jokes either? :laugh:
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All in my head - the footsteps one nearly had me check the calculator - but 225 * 4 = 900 so it was a question of a stride being 0.4cm or 40cm... :-D
speramus in juniperus
I'm getting too old to think of that: I just refused to do 900000 / 22500 in my head! :laugh:
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No, it makes you 'poor'
speramus in juniperus
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The answer for question 2 (answer: 20) is questionable. How can the exact minutes be determined using an average speed?
TOMZ_KV
Why would that be questionable? How do you think the speedometer calculated the average speed? Obviously it took the total 6 km and divided it by the total time of 1/3 hour to arrive at 18 km/h.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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I was fine until the car questions. I'm behind a websense firewall and couldn't see the picture (I assume there was a picture) so had to guess those!
Nope, no picture, just a table - the same table for two "car" questions
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Why would that be questionable? How do you think the speedometer calculated the average speed? Obviously it took the total 6 km and divided it by the total time of 1/3 hour to arrive at 18 km/h.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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Here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10490243/OECD-education-report-Test-your-maths.html[^] I had some errors..
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Will Rogers never met me.
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The answer for question 2 (answer: 20) is questionable. How can the exact minutes be determined using an average speed?
TOMZ_KV
Average doesn't mean approximate... The speeds and times did add up suspiciously neatly. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Before being allowed to use one rotted my brain I was able to do problems like 98*76 or 9*876 in my head faster than anyone could tap the buttons on the idiot box and win about half the time with problems like 98*765 or 9*8765. If I wanted to show off I could do problems like 9876*54321 too but had no chance of beating a button masher. My informal test for how clueful grade school teachers were was to see how long it took before they realized that if they were going to offer a prize for a basic in class math-game (generally flashcard speed) that unless they offered them for the top two spots they might as well just save some time and give it to me at the start of the day.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Average doesn't mean approximate... The speeds and times did add up suspiciously neatly. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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You don't get jokes either? :laugh:
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ok how did I miss 2. I think the answer to # 7 is wrong. I chose what they said was the correct answer but.. You could not Physically have 6 people coming in at the same time. 4 at the most. I think # 9 was wrong also. I could have sworn I chose the smallest number. Is 26.5 larger or smaller than 26.58 ?
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Are you sure we are doing the same quiz? I only had 10 questions
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Nope, no picture, just a table - the same table for two "car" questions
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ok how did I miss 2. I think the answer to # 7 is wrong. I chose what they said was the correct answer but.. You could not Physically have 6 people coming in at the same time. 4 at the most. I think # 9 was wrong also. I could have sworn I chose the smallest number. Is 26.5 larger or smaller than 26.58 ?
On #7, that's a very astute observation! The obvious solution, and the one most of us used and were scored as correct, is that all three compartments are full. But of the three, only two will be entering; one will be filled with people leaving. Your answer is technically correct in a real world sense, but when has a mathematician concerned himself with reality? :-D On #9, I don't know which you picked, but 26.58 is clearly 0.08 larger than 26.5. It is normal practice to omit trailing zeroes unless a fixed width format is specified.
Will Rogers never met me.
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On #7, that's a very astute observation! The obvious solution, and the one most of us used and were scored as correct, is that all three compartments are full. But of the three, only two will be entering; one will be filled with people leaving. Your answer is technically correct in a real world sense, but when has a mathematician concerned himself with reality? :-D On #9, I don't know which you picked, but 26.58 is clearly 0.08 larger than 26.5. It is normal practice to omit trailing zeroes unless a fixed width format is specified.
Will Rogers never met me.
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10/10 All very easy.
speramus in juniperus
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Scored 90/100. :cool: (Inspite of using the calculator after Q5 :^) )
Piyush K Singh
