Who's the idiot that WROTE the test? It should say "Solve for X", I'd have given the the person the points for the question, just for pointing out how stupid the test was.
I have been laughing my ass off at all the people I've showed this to today that can't solve it with out a calculator... and some couldn't even do it with one...
I even started asking them to solve for x on this 3,4,5 triangle and that didn't work.
And you though the younger generation's English skills sucked..!
I have been laughing my ass off at all the people I've showed this to today that can't solve it with out a calculator... and some couldn't even do it with one...
I was demonstrating a problem yesterday to some students (college freshmen) that required them to determine the length of a diagonal for a triangle with bases of unit length. They all told me that the answer was 2.
I scratched my head and asked them if they had heard of the Pythagorean theorem. Pythago-what?
I'm about to finish my BS (finally) and the professor was asking the class about some issues they had with the school or other classes and a bunch insisted that the Algebra class was not effective.
Here's an example of a problem on a multiple choice exam they were asked to solve...
X=4 X=5
I told them there was no probem there to solve and they insisted there was..... It turns out the proper answer was (D) No solution. Uh, yeah..... basically what I said.
Now the bad part, these are professionals who are attending class after work to complete their degree. Ouch.
Who's the idiot that WROTE the test? It should say "Solve for X", I'd have given the the person the points for the question, just for pointing out how stupid the test was.
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