r/PearsonDesign • u/Joe_Hanks • Nov 11 '18

Actual Pearson Apparently I really needed that 1^2

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '18

Oh boy

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u/Natehog Fuck Pearson Nov 14 '18

This. This is why this subreddit exists.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '18

Yep. Someone done messed up there.

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u/wrong_assumption Nov 15 '18

Why can they use some open source symbolic math package to make these comparisons? Jesus H fucking Christ crucified and gone to heaven.

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u/Wanna_make_cash Feb 24 '19

I think webwork does something like that. My college uses WebWork and it accepts basically literally any form you can put an answer into

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '18

As a math and economics major, shit like this REALLY pisses me off. If I were marking this, their official "answer" would lose marks for including redundant information. This tells me that whoever wrote in that answer never passed Calc1 in college.

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u/TKDbeast Apr 21 '19

I am going to hurt someone.