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Can YOU pass this maths quiz without cheating? (tr)
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| Nov 21, 2017
| MARTHA CLIFF
Posted on 11/21/2017 12:58:35 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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A break from all of the politics for a little bit of fun. And before the grammar police show up I'll note that the Brits use maths instead of the American math.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
It's not letting me click on the answer. Is it supposed to?
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posted on
11/21/2017 1:06:23 AM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
(To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
To: BlessedBeGod
It's not letting me click on the answer. Is it supposed to?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.
To: Oshkalaboomboom
” 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”?
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posted on
11/21/2017 1:38:38 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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.
To: clearcarbon
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.
To: BlessedBeGod
It won’t record your answers, you have to write them down.
Waste of time.
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posted on
11/21/2017 2:09:51 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
It's trivial to cheat. Just open your browser's JavaScript console (in Chrome that's Alt-Cmd-J), type in whatever, and see the result.
Bu seriously. 18 x 18 = 325, 326, 323, or 324?? Obviously, the last digit has to be a four!
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posted on
11/21/2017 2:17:23 AM PST
by
cynwoody
To: cynwoody
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.
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posted on
11/21/2017 2:21:28 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: equaviator
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.
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posted on
11/21/2017 2:24:24 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: jiggyboy
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.Exactly the reason why "multiple choice" tests are for the lazy teacher's convenience, not for actually gauging the student's progress.
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posted on
11/21/2017 2:28:56 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Aced it... I just double checked my work with the answers below...
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posted on
11/21/2017 3:32:09 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: clearcarbon
Yes, and trust they got them right
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posted on
11/21/2017 3:33:02 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Lol.. I clicked on this just to pick on the Brit’s use of ‘MathS’
;^D
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posted on
11/21/2017 3:40:38 AM PST
by
Bikkuri
To: Oshkalaboomboom
Is using paper and pencil cheating?
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posted on
11/21/2017 3:50:28 AM PST
by
MNDude
(God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democratt)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
“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”.
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posted on
11/21/2017 3:57:35 AM PST
by
BobL
( I drive a pickup truck because it makes me feel like a man.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
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.
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posted on
11/21/2017 3:58:40 AM PST
by
BobL
( I drive a pickup truck because it makes me feel like a man.)
To: teeman8r
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.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I got most that way... not a very good test for figgering
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posted on
11/21/2017 4:11:20 AM PST
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: Oshkalaboomboom
I remember my joy the first time I solved for 6 unknowns.
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