To: ConservativeMan55
The Question was: If a Euro is worth $1.50, five Euros is worth what?
Answer: $7.50
6 posted on
08/18/2009 12:26:03 PM PDT by
sr4402
To: sr4402
I got the $7.50 easy but that isn’t the correct answer.
8 posted on
08/18/2009 12:27:28 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: sr4402
No, the question was
a multiple choice, answers
a little tricky:
“If a Euro is worth $1.50, five Euros is worth what?”
Her choices are A.) 30 quarters, B.) 50 dimes, C.) 70 nickels, and D.) 90 pennies.
To: sr4402
But the answer wasn’t $7.50, it was 30 quarters.
12 posted on
08/18/2009 12:29:17 PM PDT by
rednesss
(fascism is the union,marriage,merger or fusion of corporate economic power with governmental power)
To: sr4402
Answer: $7.50 Wrong. The answer was 30 Quarters, which required two math problems to be solved. Albeit both very simple.
21 posted on
08/18/2009 12:36:10 PM PDT by
SampleMan
(Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
To: sr4402
25 posted on
08/18/2009 12:38:50 PM PDT by
swarthyguy
(MEAT, the new tobacco. Your right to eat meat ends where my planetary ecosystem begins.)
To: sr4402
Well, $7.50 was not offered as one of the answers. The real answer was 30 quarters as opposed to 90 pennies, 50 dimes, and some amount of nickles.
It wasn’t that hard, but I can see how performance anxiety could get in the way. She did say she was terribly nervous before she got the question.
This mid-western girl is going to give her a big break because just before the question she said that middle America is nicer than people on the coast.
29 posted on
08/18/2009 12:39:40 PM PDT by
keats5
(Not all of us are hypnotized.)
To: sr4402
which in fact is 30 quarters ( 5x6)
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