Posted by Peter Ceresole on February 26, 2007 at 22:55:45 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Humorous Math posted by Lyn on February 26, 2007 at 22:33:01:
Just to turn the conversation back to the serious side:
Ah...
As an editor for a standardized test publishing company in the US, I can assure you the student would not have received any credit for the obvious observation.
So I should hope. But I remember a question in an Oxford scholarship entrance examination that went 'How would you know that you were at the South pole?' I put 'A gyroscope would not precess' which was probably right, but the answer which (I was told) would have got max marks was 'I'd look for the beer cans'.