More thoughts. Firstly the word “average” redundant, and only there to cause confusion. Secondly, though concocted in a real scenario it is far from the real questions faced by anyone doing what Natasha is doing. Artficial is the word I am looking for. Question clearly written by someone who has never been involved in this type of activity. Still, what does one expect these days. At lest the famous question about a man and a half, a hole and a half and a day and a half had some connection with reality!
Perhaps the intellectual content of these questions is of a lower order than Pearson’s efforts, not demanding the same level of secrecy.
[…] level of difficulty. Eric refers to question 24, a compound inequality problem which you can find here. Eric is correct when he says this topic was previously taught in New York’s Algebra […]
[…] level of difficulty. Eric refers to Question 24, a compound inequality problem which you can find here. Eric is correct when he says this topic was previously taught in New York’s Algebra […]
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(4) if you know what you are doing, otherwise best to skip to next question.
More thoughts. Firstly the word “average” redundant, and only there to cause confusion. Secondly, though concocted in a real scenario it is far from the real questions faced by anyone doing what Natasha is doing. Artficial is the word I am looking for. Question clearly written by someone who has never been involved in this type of activity. Still, what does one expect these days. At lest the famous question about a man and a half, a hole and a half and a day and a half had some connection with reality!
Perhaps the intellectual content of these questions is of a lower order than Pearson’s efforts, not demanding the same level of secrecy.
[…] level of difficulty. Eric refers to question 24, a compound inequality problem which you can find here. Eric is correct when he says this topic was previously taught in New York’s Algebra […]
[…] level of difficulty. Eric refers to Question 24, a compound inequality problem which you can find here. Eric is correct when he says this topic was previously taught in New York’s Algebra […]