How are you in maths?

[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.

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}

[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.

I haz a Blog. It is Delicious.

[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

CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

[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.

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.

[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.

[BotReject]

I looked at the first problem only, so apologies if I am jumping to conclusions, but this question was what I expected. I am rather fed-up with people calling basic numeracy and trivial logic problems 'mathematics'. OK, you can solve some of these problems with elementary algebra, and they do involve 'mathematical' skills of some sort. However, as someone who has studied quantum mechanics I would say that mathematics is solving things like differential equations and complex algebra. I am not saying that trivial numeracy or algebra is easy, because some people can solve these problems faster than others. However, these types of questions only test one very narrow and elementary mathematical skill. Incidentally, solving many types of equations requires as much intuition as logic. Schrodinger arrived at his wave-equation by intuitive deduction and not by logical proof. Mathematics is so much more and the most important skills of mathematics are not tested by this type of question.

[Mathew Crothers]

I got 100%, while having a catch up with the boss :-D

[KP Lee]

I was trying speed and not fully think through the answer, failed to be very fast and got 80 percent. I still can't believe I blew it on engine capacity. I remember taking a class and I had complete contempt for it. It was required, I couldn't get out of it, and it wasn't teaching anything I didn't already know. One test, I got an 80% because I'd missed a question. I couldn't see a single thing I had done wrong. I asked if someone had gotten that answer right. In the class of 30 one student had gotten it right. I asked to see it and we exactly matched, step by step. I agreed to not say anything if our answer turned out to be wrong, but when the teacher came in, he was really unhappy because in three classes and 90 students, one had gotten an 80% and no one else had gotten above 40%. When he got to my "wrong" answer, I made him change the score to 100%. Since I completely ignored what he said during class, I have no idea if they did so badly because they didn't do their homework or he couldn't teach. I do have to admit that attitude was my downfall, because they finally got into subject matter I didn't know and I was so set in my ways, I totally blew that test.

[KP Lee]

I had two wrong. With the first question, I resolved to not actually do the math, just answer with the first thing that comes to mind. (Too simple to take seriously.) I really have no idea how I managed to get the engine capacity wrong.