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To: Fundamentally Fair

The differing scales are misleading. Certainly 4/6 > 5/8.


6 posted on 09/15/2010 8:47:28 PM PDT by plymaniac (2010=1994)
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The differing scales are misleading. Certainly 4/6 > 5/8.

Yes, the drawing is confusing. .6667 > .625, but according to the drawing, the line segement representing 5/8 of the top line is longer than the line segment representing 4/6 of the bottom line.

Either the drawing was meant to decieve, or the person that wrote the math book is an idiot. Or possibly, both.

40 posted on 09/16/2010 6:16:55 AM PDT by meyer (Tax the productive to carry the freeloaders - What is it with democrats and slavery?)
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I think they are meant to be misleading. When using number lines, it’s specifically taught that they are not to scale, so students should not just try to “eyeball” a comparison like this. They’ve had similar visually misleading questions on the SAT for years.


44 posted on 09/16/2010 7:07:12 AM PDT by Boogieman
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