Friday fun: could you pass 8th grade math?

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2. You Passed 8th Grade Math

   Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

   Could You Pass 8th Grade Math?
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3. There were admittedly two I answered by process of elimination, which sort of puts a giant asterisk by my score.

   1. Which, you didn’t give us, so we don’t know if you passed 🙂

      1. 10 of 10. But in particular trying to divine what functional difference there is between an “integer” and a “whole number” was entirely a guess.

         1. Whole numbers are non-negative integers.

            1. “Whole number” actually doesn’t have a precise and consistent definition in mathematics. It is a layman’s term which can apply alternatively to natural numbers, to non-negative integers, or to all integers. Yes, I took the time to look it up after the quiz….

4. I got 9/10 – but it doesn’t tell me which one I missed or how to solve it! How am I supposed to pass 9th grade math now???

   1. Ha! 😆

      Actually, I know which ones I missed: #2 and #6. I took the quiz again and guessed those two answers and got them right 😉

      1. I’ll have to try that. Didn’t answer one,didn’t know what a “^” was.

         Wish they gave the answers rather than making us use your method.

         1. That is a caret.

         2. The caret is used in programming languages for exponentiation. Very little code is written in rich text, so you can’t use superscripts.

5. I know as much math as I need to: Just enough to keep my editors from adding every number in a story together to arrive at an impressively large number for a headline, that bears no relationship to anything happending in the real world.

   1. Um, does that mean you failed the test? 😀

      1. Nope. Didn’t take it. I have a child who was in the 8th grade about sbout seven years ago. I already knew I’d lost all my higher math skills.

         1. Gotcha 😉

6. While I cannot remember what 8 grade math was like very many years a go I do remember I had trouble with it. So I am pleased to say I passed!

   1. Good for you! 😀

7. 8/10. I didn’t actually hit the wall with math until 11th grade, but that was a looooong time ago.

   1. But you passed. Congrats 🙂

   2. Hilbert Spaces were a bear:

      Click to access HSQM2006.pdf

8. Easy…who’s the CPA again?

   You Passed 8th Grade Math
   Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

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   1. Contrary to popular belief, CPAs are not math whizzes.

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