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- From: epstein@rene.ma.utexas.edu (Paul Epstein)
- Subject: Re: Another GRE question for you folks
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- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:26:17 GMT
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- hougen@vision.csl.uiuc.edu (Darrell Roy Hougen) writes:
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- >Given the discussion this question has generated, I would suggest to
- >the original poster that he write to ETS and complain that the
- >question is poorly worded. GRE questions should not designed to be
- >tricky, ie., to depend upon knowing that the positive root was
- >intended. I certainly don't remember having it impressed upon me that
- >the surd always implies the positive square root. In fact, I remember
- >equations being solved by taking *the* square root of both sides.
- >There were invariably a positive solution and a negative solution.
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- >Darrell
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- Why is it wrong to ask a question which depends upon the reader
- understanding common mathematical notation?
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