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To: SampleMan

Yes, I know its been around for a long time (metric system)...but strange that it would be used on a question dealing with lumber (I assume late 19th century lumber was a domestic product, and wouldn’t be quantified in meters). I just question these ‘old tests’ that pop up in e-mail chains, etc. every once in a while.


46 posted on 03/30/2009 11:10:53 AM PDT by lacrew (Obama and cabinet: Fool and the Gang)
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To: lacrew
...but strange that it would be used on a question dealing with lumber (I assume late 19th century lumber was a domestic product, and wouldn’t be quantified in meters).

Perhaps, but then again when is the last time that you had a real world problem with the space time relationship of two trains leaving Chicago? I suppose that even in the olden days test questions were designed more to test knowledge than imitate life.

50 posted on 03/30/2009 11:23:12 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism and Liberty are mutually exclusive.)
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To: lacrew
...but strange that it would be used on a question dealing with lumber (I assume late 19th century lumber was a domestic product, and wouldn’t be quantified in meters).

Perhaps, but then again when is the last time that you had a real world problem with the space time relationship of two trains leaving Chicago? I suppose that even in the olden days test questions were designed more to test knowledge than imitate life.

51 posted on 03/30/2009 11:23:28 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism and Liberty are mutually exclusive.)
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