Anyone willing to take a stab at the high school math exam, Russian style?

[onodera]

This is basically the Russian equivalent of SAT. You need to answer the first 12 questions to qualify as an educated human being, and really try to answer the remaining six if you want to major in something math-related. If you can correctly solve all 18 in 4 hours, you're a bloody genius.
Feel free to blame me for any translation mistakes.

[The Mad Monk]

In Soviet Russia, math exam takes YOU!

[The Mad Monk]

Assume access to tables?

[BeBMan]

How are people supposed to solve this??? The writing's so small in the thumbnail, I can hardly see anything! /genius

[Al B. Sure!]

4 hours seems like a lot of time for 18 questions.

I can't try it though. I have no recollection on how to do cos/sin/tan, logs, etc.


1. Buying roses for teachers? 148 roses.
2. 13 degrees in commie measurement
3-4. don't remember how to do this
5. A
6. 18 cmsquared
7-11. don't remember how to do this
12. 30% solution
13-18. don't remember

The arithmetic ones are a joke. I just don't know remember how to do all the geometry, trig, etc.

[Al B. Sure!]

American tests have a lot of word problems in which the difficulty is in evaluating the problem and determining what to do to solve it. I notice our Soviet counterparts do not get tested on thinking in such an indirect manner.

Once again, the Russian system produces a bunch of (respectful) drones in contrast to the American system...

[dannubis]

So basically, you suck.

[Al B. Sure!]

So basically, you suck.

Do you know the trigonometric functions off the top of your head, *******?

I haven't even seen that **** since high school eight years ago

[loinburger]

Do you know the trigonometric functions off the top of your head, *******?

sohcahtoa
There, now solve the rest of them

Once again, the Russian system produces a bunch of (respectful) drones in contrast to the American system...

The American system produced you

[rah]

is 9 242?

[loinburger]

Yup

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Test doesn't seem unreasonable.

[onodera]

Yup

Yup?
It's not the face diagonal, it's the space diagonal.
UPD: checked the answers, it IS the face diagonal. I expected this to be harder than it was.

[VetLegion]

I never liked it how communist countries select and classify people.

In Croatia you can solve none and still be president or premier

[rah]

I used the space diagonal.