How are you in maths?
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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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Here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10490243/OECD-education-report-Test-your-maths.html[^] I had some errors..
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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
My Name in English[^] Translation done By OriginalGriff
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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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Here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10490243/OECD-education-report-Test-your-maths.html[^] I had some errors..
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10/10 All very easy.
speramus in juniperus
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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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Here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10490243/OECD-education-report-Test-your-maths.html[^] I had some errors..
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Scored 90/100. :cool: (Inspite of using the calculator after Q5 :^) )
Piyush K Singh
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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
Taylor Series Expansion is Maths. This just Arithmetic, chaps.
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It's an OO world.
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That's the only one I got wrong, as I missed the "in cm" bit at the end. Not really math, more reading. Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
Yep, I almost missed that one, too. But then I'm used to specifications arriving late ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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It's an OO world.
public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}9/10, but surely the right answer here is 8am? 18km at 1.5 km/h will take 12 hours? The Gotemba walking trail up Mount Fuji is about 9 kilometres (km) long. Walkers need to return from the 18 km walk by 8pm. Toshi estimates that he can walk up the mountain at 1.5 kilometres per hour on average, and down at twice that speed. These speeds take into account meal breaks and rest times. Using Toshi’s estimated speeds, what is the latest time he can begin his walk so that he can return by 8pm? 10am 11am 12pm 1pm
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9/10, but surely the right answer here is 8am? 18km at 1.5 km/h will take 12 hours? The Gotemba walking trail up Mount Fuji is about 9 kilometres (km) long. Walkers need to return from the 18 km walk by 8pm. Toshi estimates that he can walk up the mountain at 1.5 kilometres per hour on average, and down at twice that speed. These speeds take into account meal breaks and rest times. Using Toshi’s estimated speeds, what is the latest time he can begin his walk so that he can return by 8pm? 10am 11am 12pm 1pm
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so you don't own a mobile phone - I haven't seen one, not even a dumb one that doesn't include a calculator - or a PC - Windows comes with one, every version of Linux I've seen also does, I suspect Macs do as well. So I'll go with the poor option as well.
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I agree. This was less of a maths tests than a reading comprehension test.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
