Posted by Lyn on February 26, 2007 at 22:33:01 from 198.45.18.37 user LynMellone.
In Reply to: Re: Humorous Math posted by Peter Ceresole on February 26, 2007 at 18:47:54:
Just to turn the conversation back to the serious side:
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.
But then probably neither would any of the students who took the test if it was deemed that the test question was worded ambiguously. At the least it should have said, "Find the value of x."