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Confusion in a multiple choice question |
2008-11-14 |
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From BJ:
My son got this math problem which he could mostly solve. Here it is:
The highest location in a certain country is 4525 m above sea level. The lowest point in the same country is 192 m below sea level.
a) Find the difference of the two elevations. His answer: a-(-b)= a+b or 4525-(-192)= 4525+192=4717 m. No problem.
b) A city is 2221 m above sea level. Is this elevation closer to the highest point or the lowest point?
His answer: highest point because: 4525-2221= 2304 m (closest to the highest point) and 2221-(-192)=2221+192= 2413 m. (farthest to the lowest point). OK so far.
But then he was given 4 choices for this question with no other information:
a) 4717 m; lowest b) 4333 m; lowest c) 4333 m; highest d) 4717 m; highest
What does it mean? What's the connection with the rest of the problem?
Answered by Harley Weston. |
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A multiple choice exam |
2008-09-13 |
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From Phalange:
A multiple choice exam consists of 12 questions, each having 5 possible answers. To pass, you must answer at least 9 out of 12 questions correctly. What is the probability of passing if:
a. You go into the exam without knowing a thing, and have to resort to pure guessing?
b. You have studied enough so that on each question, 3 choices can be eliminated. But then you have to make a pure guess between the remaining 2 choices.
c. You have studied enough so that you know for sure the correct answer on 2 questions. For the remaining 10 questions you have to resort to pure guessing.
Answered by Harley Weston. |
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Guessing multiple choice answers |
2007-07-24 |
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From carla:
You are taking a multiple choice quiz that consist in 3 questions, each question has
3 possible answers only one is correct. To complete the quiz you randomly guess the answer
to each question . Find the probability of guessing exactly 2 answer correctly. b) at least to answer correctly . c)less than two answer correctly
Answered by Stephen La Rocque. |
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A Multiple Choice Test |
1999-08-31 |
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From Cintra Ramnarine:
I have ten questions. There are two multiple choice answers to each question. What are the chances of answering all questions correctly.
Answered by Harley Weston. |
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