Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving skill evaluation tool

Re:Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving... by SamReidHughes on Friday July 24, 2020 @12:35PM (#23941502)

The messed up question I was referring to, and I think bloaf was referring to, is a later one, the second one involving random answers:

> Assuming that every question in this 20-question test has only 1 right answer and you choose to guess the answer of each question randomly, then in terms of the number of correctly-guessed answers, approximately 68% of them will fall between:

> A. 2.2 and 5.8

> B. 0.8 and 7.2

> C. 6.8 and 12.5

> D. 7 and 13

> E. None of the above

Another messed up question was the one early on asking whether the dot product operator is "associative/commutative on addition" or not. That's not a thing that actually means something.

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Re:Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving... by tromp on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:21PM (#23944591)

I answered none of the above precisely because associativity doesn't apply to an operator that maps 2 vectors to a scalar. But it still felt wrong.

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Re:Higher math proficiency test: An extended-problem-solving... by SamReidHughes on Saturday July 25, 2020 @02:10PM (#23951241)

Oh, I was parsing the responses like "(Non-associative, commutative and distributive) on addition". And no, the dot product is not commutative on addition. But it's meant to be "Non-associative, commutative and (distributive on addition)".

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