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- Date: Monday, 12 Oct 1992 19:52:23 EST
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- Subject: Re: Another GRE question for you folks
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- i took the gre's about one year ago. the problem that i couldn't decide
- upon an answer for was part of the general math, not the math subject.
- it was a "a if the first thing is greater, b if the second is greater,
- c if it can't be determined, and d if they're equal" type. there was
- a picture of a circle, and four points on it (A, B, C and D). there was
- a line segment AB, and a line segment BD. they wanted to know which, if
- either, was longer.
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- the correct answer, of course, is that it can't be determined; they never
- said that the line segments intersect in the center of the circle or not.
- this is the answer i put down. however, the picture that they gave with
- the problem sure looked like the line segments intersected damn close to
- the center; this led me to believe that they wanted the answer "the two
- segments are equal".
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- to this day, i don't know whether i was credited with a correct answer
- or not.
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