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10/10 but I "reasoned" one question. I forgot what "^" means.;)



' salright -

I guessed at one - reasoned if you will - I knew it didn't sound like the other three - so - it had to be the only one left - right - left - right?
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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9/10

Darn it, I wish they told you which one you missed!



I *almost* said that the negative number was a whole number, but I called it an integer instead and got it right. WHEW that was scary!

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9/10, which was better than I expected to do since I didn't use a calculator and I went through it as fast as I could (as fast as I could count fingers and toes).

Post the correct answers so I can figure out which one I got wrong. Wasn't one of the ones mentioned so far...

Dave

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^ means to the power.. so ^2 means squared basically.



it depends... ^2 could also mean, "flip the second least signifigant bit"

I always forget where MATLAB draws lines in it's syntax with C, and a little while ago I couldn't remember if ^ was "to the power of" or "exclusive or'ed with" so to check, I typed at the prompt "3^6" and it comes back with something, I don't remember... 700-something, and I stared at it for a second and thought, "wow, that was useless, I really should have tried an example I knew the answer too."

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9/10

6. # 2, 2, 3, 4, 5
Given the above set of numbers "2" is the:
* Average
* Mode
* Median
* Standard deviation

What the hell is a mode? Pie-a-la? I don't see pi as a choice!
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I'm thrilled that I passed with 7/10... but I had to think hard about almost every one.

The last math class I took was 9th grade algebra... I got a 'D'... I'm a total math phobic.

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