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can you solve this???
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:23 pm
by unknown
[size=24][color=red]im a kid in year 5
im stuck on a question from nfer paper
Dr Shah's car is 5m long thats the average of all 4 cars in the parking bay.The council wants to build a new bay leaving 2cm each side in each car space.
How long is the new bay going to be
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:53 pm
by Guest
Hi kid,
what are you doing up on the internet at 10.23pm???
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:19 pm
by SteveDH
Anonymous wrote:Hi kid,
what are you doing up on the internet at 10.23pm???
Asking maths questions I Guess.
unknown wrote:
Dr Shah's car is 5m long thats the average of all 4 cars in the parking bay.The council wants to build a new bay leaving 2cm each side in each car space.
How long is the new bay going to be
On the whole I think its quite a nasty question.
right 4 cars
now they could mean 5x4 + 3x0.02, ie 4 cars with 2 cm between them..
but it does say 'in each car space' which to me means one of those white rectangles .. so each space would be 5m + 0.04m (2cm each side
so the total would be 5.04 x 4 or 20.16m
hmmm.....
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:28 pm
by katel
I seem to remember this question. Hasn't it got the word aproximately - or soemthing like that in it? I think we got the answer wrong because we were too exact!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:05 am
by Guest
would you really loose the mark for being sxact rather than approximate? It does seem rather pedantic to me!!!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:29 am
by Mike
Hi Guest
It depends on whether the question is multiple-choice or not. There are quite a few estimate, approximate, roughly type questions that come up, but the actual correct answer does not occur in the answer options.
Regards
Mike
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:08 pm
by sj355
I remember this question: it DOES depend on whether it is multiple choice. The latter provides a rough (approximate) answer which you have to choose. Because I did not provide my kid with the multiple choice answer booklet on the day that he did this question, he gave me the exact answer along the lines developed above.
Regards,
It depends on whether the question is multiple-choice or not. There are quite a few estimate, approximate, roughly type questions that come up, but the actual correct answer does not occur in the answer options.
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:14 pm
by Guest55
It is a very poor question - how could cars park in such a space!! Totally unreliastic - the sort of 'everyday' probelm that just hasn't been thought through!!
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:58 pm
by Guest
I think the added space per car was about 1.5m. The answer from memory is 27.5m, but the approximate answer is 28m. The trick to this is to read the question.
