<p>After looking at my math section, I found one answer that can be interpreted two ways. I don’t want to say the question (yet) so I will know if anyone was thinking the same thing. </p>
<p>Has anyone found any other questions on any section that may be argueable?</p>
<p>Thanks. :)</p>
<p>The Question in math that I was talking about it the sticks overlapping one.</p>
<p>Can you post it on here for others to see please (later, if you want)?</p>
<p>Five 6-inch rods are shown lying end to end in the top row of the figure above. If the total span of the rods is reduced to 22 inches by overlapping the rods equally as shown in the bottom row of the figure, how long in inches is each of the overlaps</p>
<pre><code> _ _ _ _ _ _ each bar is 6 inches here
_ _ _ this is after overlapping
_ _ pretend these bottom 2 are under the middle of the top
</code></pre>
<p>Choices:</p>
<p>A) 8
B) 6
C) 4
D) 2
E) 1</p>
<p>The correct answer is D (2) but I put C (4) because of the overlap, 2 inches of the bar is “showing” while 4 inches is “hidden” thus 4 inches is overlapping in each bar and therefore each overlap.</p>
<p>It is pretty clear to me…</p>
<p>30-22=8 lossed
there are 5 sticks so 4 overlaps
8/4=2 each</p>
<p>In the question is says the rods overlap equally, so you can’t just have 2 overlaped section.</p>
<p>True but each stick on the bottom gets overlapped by 4</p>
<p>Ahh… I see. This is kind of ambiguous. </p>
<p>But if they wanted the total overlap of the bottom sticks they would have specified that. Here is picture:</p>
<p>[==|====|==]</p>
<p>The “|” mark represents an overlap. The overlaps are length 2 each. The net overlap is length 4, but they didn’t ask for the net overlap.</p>
<p>I put .33 for one of the student response questions, the answer was .333… I got that wrong -__-</p>