Maths quiz on the BBC website

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:19 pm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 699177.stm

I'm ashamed to say I only got one right.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:24 pm

2 and both guesses

Daxter · Post by **Daxter** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:27 pm

Verbal wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 699177.stm

I'm ashamed to say I only got one right.

Me too.

And it was a guess.

Athers · Post by **Athers** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:28 pm

5 but guessed the last one.

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:30 pm

Verbal wrote:http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/ne ... 699177.stm

I'm ashamed to say I only got one right.

I got four correct although the last one was not for the right reason. I got the shape wrong though I still have my doubts about their answer!

Gertie · Post by **Gertie** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:31 pm

I got 2 right but only because I guessed and I really, really don't understand the explanations to the answers I got wrong.

I would love to understand maths, but the whole thing scares me to death, I hated the subject at school struggled with even basic concepts can't do simple sums in my head and I feel a right wally. I can't even work out percentages because I don't know which number you put first into a calculator then do you divide by 100 or multiply????

I once had a job interview for a fairly decent job and had to do maths and verbal reasoning test. Later they told me that I got the lowest ever score for the maths test that they'd ever had, so needless to say I didn't get the job I'm just a huge maths failure that I'm tempted to go on one of those gremlin courses they have advertised on telly because I need help to be less stupid. Yet I passed maths GCSE first time with a grade c, so not worth the paper it's written on.

Yet my dad passed A level maths and statistics I must be the milkman's child.

BWFC_Wyles · Post by **BWFC_Wyles** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:47 am

1!!! I'm ashamed!

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:09 am

4.

I got the tennis one wrong ... I never could serve.

lovethesmellofnapalm · Post by **lovethesmellofnapalm** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:17 am

3 right. (3,4,5)

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:32 am

3. Got the sequence and the shape wrong. Give me A Level maths any day over that!

Lord Kangana · Post by **Lord Kangana** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:35 am

If someone asked me for £1000 plus half the price for something, and then proceeded to charge me two grand he'd get a smack in the mouth. It might be a maths quiz, but theres an argument for him to take an English quiz.

jaffka · Post by **jaffka** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 9:42 am

Lord Kangana wrote:If someone asked me for £1000 plus half the price for something, and then proceeded to charge me two grand he'd get a smack in the mouth. It might be a maths quiz, but theres an argument for him to take an English quiz.

too right

davroduk · Post by **davroduk** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:11 pm

jaffka wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:If someone asked me for £1000 plus half the price for something, and then proceeded to charge me two grand he'd get a smack in the mouth. It might be a maths quiz, but theres an argument for him to take an English quiz.
too right

Got to agree that I dont understand this one.
Same with the tennis one. "Doubles maybe ????"

a1 · Post by a1 » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:21 pm

its 2 grand

1000 + half X = X

1 grand plus half the price of the bike (2 thou divided by two is a further grand) = 2000

they were all piss compared to the impossipuzzle in the BEN .

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:38 pm

davroduk wrote:
jaffka wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:If someone asked me for £1000 plus half the price for something, and then proceeded to charge me two grand he'd get a smack in the mouth. It might be a maths quiz, but theres an argument for him to take an English quiz.
too right
Got to agree that I dont understand this one.
Same with the tennis one. "Doubles maybe ????"

Tennis was pretty straight forward. If there is one winner in a straight knockout competition, all the other entrants must lose one game - so it has to be one less than the number of entrants regardless of the number of people who enter.

Montreal Wanderer · Post by **Montreal Wanderer** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:43 pm

a1 wrote:its 2 grand

1000 + half X = X

1 grand plus half the price of the bike (2 thou divided by two is a further grand) = 2000

they were all piss compared to the impossipuzzle in the BEN .

For the old folk I think your equations should be a little longer

X = X/2 + 1000
Therefore X - X/2 = 1000
Therefore X/2 = 1000
Therefore X = 2000

The last one was not a piece of piss in my view (even though I guessed it correctly) - few people think in base 7 etc.

a1 · Post by a1 » Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:49 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
For the old folk I think your equations should be a little longer

X = X/2 + 1000
Therefore X - X/2 = 1000
Therefore X/2 = 1000
Therefore X = 2000

The last one was not a piece of piss in my view (even though I guessed it correctly) - few people think in base 7 etc.

no one thinks in base seven.. eight maybe , sixteen maybe, twelve maybe .. NEW MATH was DA Suxxorxz .

Zulus Thousand of em · Post by **Zulus Thousand of em** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 7:59 am

I have always hated maths. Maths has always hated me. So, I haven't done the test!

davroduk · Post by **davroduk** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:21 am

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
davroduk wrote:
jaffka wrote:
Lord Kangana wrote:If someone asked me for £1000 plus half the price for something, and then proceeded to charge me two grand he'd get a smack in the mouth. It might be a maths quiz, but theres an argument for him to take an English quiz.
too right
Got to agree that I dont understand this one.
Same with the tennis one. "Doubles maybe ????"
Tennis was pretty straight forward. If there is one winner in a straight knockout competition, all the other entrants must lose one game - so it has to be one less than the number of entrants regardless of the number of people who enter.

Prob due to the fact that I am shite at maths, and had a few beers inside me.
Not a great combination.

mummywhycantieatcrayons · Post by **mummywhycantieatcrayons** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 5:32 pm

Got the first three right then crashed and burned on the last two.