I take onsite courses at college, however I still end up with so much online work to do… i swear there are some problems that they programmed false answers for. like this one:
what do you's think?there's also this one, which seemed like it didn't offer a valid answer so i randomly guessed:
the answer they say is correct still doesn't seem right to me.
Their answers kinda make sense actually…
The first problem, you're adding 2 to x each time because it's three consecutive odd numbers. (although solving the equation doesn't seem to give an integer…lol)And on the second problem, it's the wording I think - 5 acres yield 84 bushels, so 78 acres will yield a lot more bushels. So the selected answer would only give the right answer if the right side of the equation was flipped (x/78 instead of 78/x)I understand the first one but question 15 does seem weird. I thought it would be 84/6 = x/78…
In the first question both answers would've found an answer, but your answer would've made the second two integers even so they wouldn't be 'consecutive odd integers' anymore. Say x is 125, if you +1 then it's 126, not odd. But +2 and it's 127. Then 129. However… If you run the equation you get an even number with a fraction to begin with for x hah. It seems like they arbitrarily picked random numbers for every part of the equations. Maybe it's an anti-cheating measure, or something to make re-tests just as difficult?Edit: Aw dang colseed posted firstTheir answers kinda make sense because they are right.
pidgin maths:84/5=bpa (beans per acre)bpa*78=xbpa=x/7884/5=x/7884/x=5/78cool fact - i actually got this wrong the first time asdsgfsbdgsfsjdghs durpGood job, [insert school name here]. Adding three odd integers does not make an even.
for no. 7 i was taught by my professor that consecutive odd integers would be 1,3,5… thus they are odd integers so it just completely confused me when it said that the correct answer has even integers…
for no. 15 i kept getting:84/5 = x/78which solving it givesx = 1310.4this just seems logical to me but maybe my A's in math just means im a good boy and not actually smart at all.84/5=x/78 is right, times both sides by 5/x.
You're insane. ;)
Because all the questions and correct answers make 100% sense! It's just that everything is formulated in a very tricky way.lol damn well i guess it doesn't matter. i took the final today and got a 97% i only got 1 question wrong. i'm really curious as to what the question was though =\
I'm guessing you got "bushels" and "acres" mixed up on q15, which is understandable.
now question 7…given: X = oddwhich makes the possible aswers:odd + (odd+odd) + (odd+odd) = evenorodd + (odd+even) + (odd+even) = evenboth of them are impossible.1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 (odd)
1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 = 7 (odd)so Soldaat i'm not sure what your getting at o_o