How are you in maths?

[pkfox]

100% no calculator or pen and paper, cmon guys this is primary school stuff.

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[piyush_singh]

Scored 90/100. :cool: (Inspite of using the calculator after Q5 :^) )

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[Simon ORiordan from UK]

Taylor Series Expansion is Maths. This just Arithmetic, chaps.

[Sander Rossel]

:sigh:

It's an OO world.

public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

[Lost User]

The less you answer the higher the mark you get, this will decrease the possibility of errors.

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[Stefan_Lang]

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)

[Pete81E]

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

[Pete81E]

Sorry, missed "down at twice that speed..." Oops...

[greldak]

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.

[Stefan_Lang]

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)

[Stefan_Lang]

Actually none of the answers were correct, not even mathematically, unless the question had been "how many people could pass the door in 30 minutes on average?" My point is that if people start entering at T0=0 no one is in either compartment, and it will take about the time of half a rotation (~7.5s) before the first pair of persons will emerge on the other side. After that 2 persons will exit the door every 5 seconds (1/3rd of the time of a full rotation). At T1=30minutes, 30*60=1800 seconds have passed, but only 1792.5 seconds have passed since the emergence of the first pair, so only 358 pairs will have time to pass after the first one (taking 358*5s=1790s), for a total of 718 people, not 720! I am well aware that this answer is even less practically useful than 720, but if this is supposed to be a math test, such a subtlety should be considered! A similar, but less complex question would be this: You want to build a fence that is 30m long, and you need to put a fence post every 2m. How many fence posts do you need? This is a typical "one-off" question, where you need to consider the exact starting and stopping conditions to make sure your count is not one off the actual number. It should be well known to programmers too, when it comes to counting loop iterations!

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)

[Stefan_Lang]

The text was a bit confusing as the "18km" imply the total of both ways, but each half was to be calculated differently. Like pretty much every other question here it was more of a reading comprehension test than maths. :doh:

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)

[MikeD 2]

Thanks for posting this, it was a welcome distraction. Of course the 10/10 helped (yes, I used a calculator, why do the heavy lifting yourself if you have a crane handy :) )

[Sander Rossel]

I think you are replying to the wrong message. I never said anything about what you said...

It's an OO world.

public class Sander : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

[matt314hew]

Got a 10 out of 10. Was pretty simple, but it should have been simple for someone that majored in Mathematics in college.

[musicm122]

Lazy..... Too lazy to take a math test willingly to see how good I am at math.

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[grgran]

I refuse to take part is such a travesty. Imagine being tested by a country that pluralizes Math and sells weight in stones in monetary units of pounds ... it's just crazy. :laugh:

[RafagaX]

I used to be good in math, and let it be that way... ;P

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[BrainiacV]

I was always the weird one in math class because I preferred the word problems. Most just wanted the formulas laid out to solve. I had one memorable day when I was the only one who got the correct answer and this exercise required class consensus. I learned how tough it was to fight peer pressure with everyone else telling you a different answer was the correct one. I managed to convince one other student before the teacher declared I had the correct solution. You never see formulas laid out in real life, it will always be word problems. I also scored 100% on the test.

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[BrainiacV]

I agree there was a logistical component to the problem that I pondered as well, while I was doing the math. I pondered that 2 people would be trapped when it stopped, but that would be if the were 4 divisions, with 3, they'd still be able to squeeze out single file, so I went with the accepted answer.

Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.