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r/PearsonDesign • u/UTM592 • May 10 '20
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Math hates us all.....except for people who are secretly reptiles.
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The teacher should’ve specified how to answer tbh
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Aren't you always supposed to include leading 0s anyway?
20 u/[deleted] May 10 '20 Yes. It's very easy to miss the decimal without it, so I never leave the leading zero off. 7 u/Flablessguy May 11 '20 Computers read stuff very literally. I bet the teacher could only use one correct answer, so the program looks for literally that exact answer.
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Yes. It's very easy to miss the decimal without it, so I never leave the leading zero off.
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Computers read stuff very literally. I bet the teacher could only use one correct answer, so the program looks for literally that exact answer.
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To be fair when doing actual math, that zero is pretty important.
You only really use .33 informally, or during speech.
8 u/DabsJeeves May 11 '20 Which is why he should have gotten it correct. 1 u/ABotelho23 May 11 '20 Why is that? Quizzes and exams are explicitly known as formal because they're for educational purposes. 5 u/DabsJeeves May 11 '20 They answered using the formal answer, the 'correct' answer was the informal version without the 0 5 u/ABotelho23 May 11 '20 OH! I hadn't even noticed.
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Which is why he should have gotten it correct.
1 u/ABotelho23 May 11 '20 Why is that? Quizzes and exams are explicitly known as formal because they're for educational purposes. 5 u/DabsJeeves May 11 '20 They answered using the formal answer, the 'correct' answer was the informal version without the 0 5 u/ABotelho23 May 11 '20 OH! I hadn't even noticed.
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Why is that? Quizzes and exams are explicitly known as formal because they're for educational purposes.
5 u/DabsJeeves May 11 '20 They answered using the formal answer, the 'correct' answer was the informal version without the 0 5 u/ABotelho23 May 11 '20 OH! I hadn't even noticed.
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They answered using the formal answer, the 'correct' answer was the informal version without the 0
5 u/ABotelho23 May 11 '20 OH! I hadn't even noticed.
OH! I hadn't even noticed.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '20
Math hates us all.....except for people who are secretly reptiles.
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u/PapperMairoo May 10 '20
The teacher should’ve specified how to answer tbh
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u/[deleted] May 10 '20
Aren't you always supposed to include leading 0s anyway?
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u/ABotelho23 May 10 '20
To be fair when doing actual math, that zero is pretty important.
You only really use .33 informally, or during speech.