[JamesP81]

Two automobiles start out in opposite directions. Each go 40 miles; make 90-degree left turns and go 30 miles. How far apart are they?

What is this, a quiz? I can't believe we're on a serious thread about homeschool vs public school and you're asking little math questions.

And to answer your math question, pythagorean theorem would be the appropriate method to solving the problem. I imagine even most of those amateur homeschoolers you so deride could get that one.

[meandog]

And to answer your math question, pythagorean theorem would be the appropriate method to solving the problem.

Correctomundo...but in my class you would have gotten a zero for cheating by the providing solution when the question wasn't directed to you.

[Monterrosa-24]

The real scandal is that public schools and private schools are graduating students who would have trouble reading the English in that math problem.

What percentage of public school graduates will miss... "If you have four students and three pizzas and each student receives an equal share of pizza then what percentage (or fraction) of a pizza does each student receive?

Brentwood Academy is a fairly well-respected private school in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Brentwood graduated a football player who was unable to read basic paragraphs and three months later committed suicide. The timing of the suicide coincided with the start of fall semester. He had lied to friends and family telling them he had a university football scholarship.