Posted on 11/21/2017 12:58:35 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
For most of us numeracy tests are a distant memory, so you may need to swot up before taking on this tricky quiz. The new test shared by Playbuzz challenges your knowledge of maths, and only a select few will make it to the end unaided. The quiz's creator, Michael Rodgers, claims just three per cent of the population will be able to ace his test without the help of a calculator. The 15 sums include multiplication, subtraction, percentages and division - taking you straight back to childhood maths lessons. Think you're smart enough to pass? Scroll down to take the test. Answers are at the bottom... and no cheating!
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You scroll down for the answers. I got one wrong using pencil and paper. Probably would have done worse if I tried doing them in my head.
” The 15 sums include multiplication, subtraction, percentages and division”
If the problems to be solved are to include multiplication, subtraction, percentages and division, won’t there be products, differences, fractions and quotients as well as “sums”?
Did them in my head, but not quickly. The trick is to look for look for shortcuts given the choice of answers and good estimating.
My wife did them in her head and got one wrong. I gave her a pen and paper to write down the one she got wrong and she got it right when she worked it out.
It won’t record your answers, you have to write them down.
Waste of time.
Bu seriously. 18 x 18 = 325, 326, 323, or 324?? Obviously, the last digit has to be a four!
A bunch of them are quickies via those kinds of tricks. This “quiz” might be more for showing you how you can sometimes take a short-cut during a math test than than for showing how good at math you are.
5. an arithmetical problem to be solved, or such a problem worked out and having the various steps shown.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/sum?s=t
I had to look it up myself. This particular usage is probably used more in England than it is here.
Exactly the reason why "multiple choice" tests are for the lazy teacher's convenience, not for actually gauging the student's progress.
Aced it... I just double checked my work with the answers below...
Yes, and trust they got them right
Lol.. I clicked on this just to pick on the Brit’s use of ‘MathS’
;^D
Is using paper and pencil cheating?
“Can YOU pass this maths quiz without cheating? “
Agree...sounds like they need to spend more time learning the English language before worrying about “maths”.
LOL...read you comment. I’ve seen it too, I just like to have fun with them - kind of like calling Puerto Ricans Illegal Aliens.
You can get a few of them just by assuming that one of the choices is correct and figuring the last digit.
41 x 21 = (40 + 1) x (20 + 1) = 800+ 40 + 20 +1.
Only one of the choices ends in 1. Don’t bother doing the sum. And, no, I didn’t need paper and pencil.
I got most that way... not a very good test for figgering
I remember my joy the first time I solved for 6 unknowns.
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