Re:Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving...
by SamReidHughes on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:26PM
(#23951343)
It looks like the "correct" answer was supposed to be "2.2 and 5.8" -- another poster mentioned the server sends answers to the client. But P(X=3 or X=4 or X=5) is .598.
It looks like they used the normal cdf approximation of the Bernoulli distribution, which would give .6857.
Re:Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving...
by tromp on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:25AM
(#23963194)
That is some horrible approximation then!
The closest range sum to 68% is for {3,4,5,6} summing to 70%, but even if available as an answer, the only correct answer remains "none of the above".
Yup. It sounds like they were assuming that you would use some specific simplifying approximation.