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andrewduckerThat's a good 12 points below my normal score.
On the other hand, I'm convinced that one of the questions didn't actually have a correct answer.
On the other hand, I'm convinced that one of the questions didn't actually have a correct answer.
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Hmmm
Date: 2005-07-20 12:04 am (UTC)Your Logical Intelligence is Genius
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Above Average
Spoilers
Date: 2005-07-20 12:27 am (UTC)2. Dimes are smaller than nickels (general knowledge required)
3. assumes that Jody "pays her ticket", if she doesn't then all bets are off. I'm guessing this must be like a parking ticket or something. Given that, then there is only one correct answer
4. Obvious
5. Obvious
6. A little more hesitant, but I think the answer is obvious
7. All four answers could be correct, depending on context. Without context one answer is obvious.
8. None of those words are the opposite of gregarious.
9. Obvious
10. Obvious
11. I can certainly find a simple pattern to give 17, but there are possibly other answers with equally reasonable patterns.
12. 29x3 certainly isn't prime
13. January 2001 wasn't in the 20th century, so obvious when you think about it.
14. Obvious
15. Russia (from 1941), China fought from 1937 and the French (while occupied) were allies from the time of the "phony war" and were on "our" side, therefore Italy
16. "widely spoken", well, according to this site Arabic comes after Hindi in both primary and primary+secondary language use. Seconded here
Putting in all those answers, I now get
Your Logical Intelligence is Genius
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Exceptional
Re: Spoilers
Date: 2005-07-20 01:02 am (UTC)Hmm, by that I did get it right the first time, but the test claims Hindi is the correct one.
Re: Spoilers
Date: 2005-07-20 07:40 am (UTC)(3) is the one that I think there's no right answer for. The question says "If not A, B" and the three options are:
"If not B, A.", "if A, not B" and "if B, not A", none of which are necessarily true from the original statement. Now, if it had been "If and only if A, not B" then "if B, not A" would be true, which is what I guessed they were looking for, but that's not what it says.
Re: Spoilers
Date: 2005-07-20 09:30 am (UTC)From left to right, those are a nickel, a penny and a dime, worth 5, 1 and 10 cents respectively. The ten cent dime is smaller and thinner than a penny, and both are smaller than the 5 cent nickel.
For the ticket question, the correct answer was the first one: "If Jody doesn't go to jail, she paid her ticket" and that indeed must be true.
It's saying something very similar to the second choice (ticket gets paid and no jail) but doesn't fail the "if and only if" test you point out eliminates #2...i.e., she could go to jail for some other reason besides an unpaid ticket.
In other words, we know she will go to jail if she doesn't pay her ticket--the original statement leaves no doubt of that. Since the first answer tells us she didn't go to jail, she must have paid her ticket.
what terminalmalaise said
Date: 2005-07-20 11:50 am (UTC)for (3) A=>B DOES IMPLY that NOT B => NOT A
so in this case A is NOT[PAID] and B is [JAIL]
so an original statement of
[NOT PAID] => JAIL does indeed mean NOT [JAIL] => NOT NOT [PAID] and the negation of a negation is an affirmation so
NOT [JAIL] => [PAID]
It's sometimes called a "contrapositive"
http://whyslopes.com/etc/ThreeSkillsForAlgebra/ch29.html
E.g. I drink therefore I am
[DRINK] => [EXIST]
If I don't exist, you don't need to buy me a drink!
not [EXIST] => not [DRINK]
:-)
Re: what terminalmalaise said
Date: 2005-07-20 09:51 pm (UTC)Re: Spoilers
Date: 2006-01-18 05:59 pm (UTC)Chinese != Mandarin
Date: 2006-01-18 06:57 pm (UTC)From Mongolian through standard Mandarin to Cantonese (in places like Hong Kong). So indeed there is no "Chinese" language the same way there is no "Indian" language (but there is Hindi, Urdu, and several others).
I have teh smarts!
Date: 2005-07-20 12:56 am (UTC)Spoiler!
A couple questions are a bit US-centric. For the coin one, if you don't know that a dime is physically smaller than a nickel you're going to go with one of the other answers, either thinking the trunks would be of equal worth (not thinking about physical size at all) or thinking (reasonably) that a dime would be bigger and concluding the full trunk of nickels would therefore be worth more. The president one has a little gotcha too--not the fact that it'll confuse people who forget we're in the 21st century, but the fact that Bush was elected in 2000 which you might (correctly) point out was the last year of the 20th. However he didn't actually assume office and begin serving till January 2001.
no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-20 08:08 am (UTC)I don't take them too seriously, although obviously I'm a tad competitive.
Me am smart person :->