Bally (bally) wrote, @ 2009-06-03 10:18:00

Here be Maths.

Heh heh heh.

	eileen 2009-06-03 10:48 (link)
	I got six out of seven, and I guessed one of the ones I got right (the angle). Poor showing! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drummergirl 2009-06-03 11:52 (link)
	I got 6/7! I was thrown by the algebra on question 5, I couldn't remember what to do at all. But it is a long time since I did GCSE Maths! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drummergirl 2009-06-04 18:13 (link)
	Also, barely any of my answers matched the actual answers, but they were close enough that I could pick from the multiple-choice. Apart from the algebra! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

cyril 2009-06-03 12:31 (link)

From Q2: The working: 3.56/7 = 0.509 NO! NO NO NO NO NO! 3.56/7 ≈ 0.509. IT DOESN'T EQUAL ANY TERMINATING DECIMAL WHATSOEVER! And Q4 is unsoluble as it stands because it never states that the angle at x and y is the centre of the circle, so the working can't justify the assumption that z = 0.5y. This article is indicative of everything that's wrong with mathematics today. :-p (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bally 2009-06-03 13:59 (link)
	I didn't check their working for Q2 there, but I do remember being irked that Q4 was improperly stated. Pshaw. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kirielle 2009-06-03 17:43 (link)
	Woah. I suck. 3/7 I failed miserably. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cosmicavatar 2009-06-04 05:50 (link)
	5/7. Oooops. (I really hope I was allowed a calculator for that, otherwise my result would have been even worse.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-07 11:05 (link)
	I got 7/7 Liz (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bally 2009-06-08 01:54 (link)
	But of course; I would have expected nothing less. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)