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Published: 2008-09-26 22:41:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 276; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 2
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You are walking into the most important maths exam in your life. You sit down in the hall at your designated desk and put all your eqipment on it. 5 minutes later the examiner demands silence and begins to hand out the test papers. He instructs you to write your name and school on the front. He then tells you to start the test. You open the 30-page booklet. You look down at question 1. it reads:-"You have two cows"
followed by a page of lines to write the answer on. Confused you turn to the next page. All that is on there is lines for the answer to question 1. Confused you check the rest of the book. Every single page has lines on it.
Stumped you look around at your fellow examinees. all two hundred of them are busy writing their answers to the question. One is drawing complex graphs and diagrams. Another has a giant abacus setup on his table. Three are walking up and down the hall measuring the size of it. The girl infront of you has started throwing paper balls around at other students measuring the velocity and impact of each of them. Another girl on the other side of the hall tinkered with a complex looking machine that emitted strange beams of light, which she appeared to be recording on her answer paper.
The examiner comes down the hall towards you handing out small chocolates. You take one, thanking him. Just as you are about to eat it he turns to you and shouts
"DONT EAT IT! IT'S FOR THE QUESTION!"
You decide to risk failing the exam and ask the person next to you what the question is about. He reply's
"Well it's obvious isnt it?"
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well the rest of the class seems to think so
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It's okay Rachel...I'm confused too.
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But how can be there an answer if no question exists?
That'd make a cool quote actually. Remind me to copyright it before it's too la...
Damn, it's too late.
The only way that they're getting an answer is if 'You have two cows' has a question mark at the end of it. And if it did then I'd answer:
"Yes, I do."
Just give me the A+ distinction now...
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Wrong comment box.... oh well.
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Actually if I remember my Business Studies lessons from last week correctly (and I probably don't) anything you write down is given copyright to you automatically...i think...or something:\
If it had a question mark at the end, then there would be no problem and it wouldn't be mildly humorous ^^
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Very true, very true.
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I'd be sad and go into a detailed critiqué about how what was presented was a statement and not a question thus eliminating any 'exam' type qualities of the paper.
Then I'd argue that such an exam would be impossible to fail because of this. To fail you'd have to answer incorrectly yet if there's no question to get wrong technically you cannot therefore put down a bad answer.
After I made that point I'd then award myself 100%, eat the chocolate as a reward and test all of my cheap biros in the 'for official use only' parts of the paper.
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Well all the other students seem fine with it, why should you be the exception?
heh heh
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The random methods show that they really have no idea on how to answer the puzzle. They're scared of showing this and so make up some 'answer finding technique' by themselves to try and hide this.
If they really did know what it was all about then why are they all tackling the problem in completely different, non-connective ways? Surely mathematics is conformist and therefore everyone should require similar methods to answer the 'question'?
Mwahaha
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the question can be answered in a multitude of ways depending upon how you decide to tackle it. However a chocolate is vital to the correct answer of the question and therefore all of the methods must have sections in relation to the other methods of working it out. (as you can tell I have no idea where i'm going with this).
As some people are doing the same thing it shows they are using the same or similar methods, but your own personal method which you will have revised before coming into the exam should work. (i'm tired and have no idea what i'm going on about right now ^^' )
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