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  • Originally posted by Kassiopeia
    Jaguar fail math? That's unpossible!
    I took it again, but my results only got worse.

    You Failed 8th Grade Math



    Oh no, you only got 3/10 correct!

    Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?

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    • Damn! 90%

      I think I know what I messed up anyways.




      You Passed 8th Grade Math



      Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct!

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      • I don't agree with the point of the article. UNless a child has a demonstrable learning empediment, there is no reason why they should not know at least algebra by the time they graduate from high school. Calculus is probably not necessary for 95% of jobs out there, but anyone can use basic algebra in their every day life, even in menial tasks such as shopping.

        That said, if the only issue is one of being capable of being a good cog in the economic machine, good communication skills are certainly more valuable then mathematical skills.
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        • You Failed 8th Grade Math



          Oh no, you only got 3/10 correct!



          ABACADABA failed me
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • You Passed 8th Grade Math



            Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!



            I seem to recall 8th grade math being harder then that...
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            • Hmm, how old are 8th graders?
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              • 13 or 14ish
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                • Originally posted by GePap
                  Damn! 90%

                  I think I know what I messed up anyways.
                  A lot of people make the mistake of saying that -7 is a whole number (because the question is ambiguous).
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                  • Originally posted by loinburger

                    A lot of people make the mistake of saying that -7 is a whole number (because the question is ambiguous).
                    Yes; I've never seen the word "whole number" used past like 9th grade math.

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                    • 8/10

                      I made that mistake of selecting the whole number as well. Also wasn't too sure about question 6 and 8. "^2" is supposed to denote "to the power of 2", right?
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                      • 10/10

                        I would be surprised if KH got less than 100%
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                        • Originally posted by KrazyHorse
                          I have 100 dirtbikes. I ship 15 dirtbikes a month. It is unacceptable to have less than 8 dirtbikes in stock at any time. It takes 6 weeks from time of order to time of receipt for dirtbikes. When do I need to place my next order for dirtbikes?


                          And your employees need to do this, as opposed to say, the manager? You're changing the parameters.
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                          • Originally posted by Asher

                            You have 12214 boxes of dildos in your warehouse, each pallet can hold 200 boxes of dildos. How many pallets is that?

                            200x = 12214, solve for x.
                            That's only algerbra cuz of the way you wrote it. 12214 / 200 = x because a simple math equation.
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                            • 10/10
                              question 2 is ambiguous as some ppl pointed out.
                              -7 is certainly an interger so I put that.
                              The whole number thing has already been mentionned.
                              Under some definitions it is also a prime number, though.
                              Last edited by Lul Thyme; March 3, 2006, 21:11.

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                              • -7 isn't a prime number. It is divisible by -1.

                                You Passed 8th Grade Math



                                Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct!

                                Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?



                                I got the 2,2,3,4,5 queion wrong. I missed that lesson in school (seriously).
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