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A simple question

loaferyloafery
edited November 2014 in General
From the university aptitude test. You have to pick one sentence thats wrong. This question has been a really big issue over here.

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  • Easter BunnyEaster Bunny
    I think 5 is wrong. An 18% increase from 2% would be 2.36%?

    Wait until somebody smarter comes along to answer.
  • MissMeadowsMissMeadows
    It's probably an unintended wording issue :P
  • Easter BunnyEaster Bunny
    Is it a fact checking issue? Like one thing is false? Or is one of the sentences not said correctly.
  • loaferyloafery
    One of the five sentences is false and rest are true.

    So yes fact checking
  • MissMeadowsMissMeadows
    4 is the one that's intended to be wrong I'd imagine, wheras 5 is worded so that it could be read how Cory said.
  • Easter BunnyEaster Bunny
    OK now that I re-read them #4 isn't true. 53% is not 3times 29%.

    I feel like this is a test and I'm failing.
  • loaferyloafery
    Yes 4 is the intended answer but ppl like cory thought 5 was the answer so the establisment acknowledged both as answers. The wording is a bit iffy. Meadows knows her stuff
  • IxtaccihuatlIxtaccihuatl
    This makes me wish I had some pictures of the ridiculous questions I've seen on Taiwanese exams. I don't think American students would be able to pass at all over here, even disregarding the language barrier. I teach some exam prep classes for the English language certification tests, and they have some tasks even I struggle with. I've seen some really weird riddles offered up as "English" questions, and solving for the answer has nothing to do with English at all, besides being able to read the question.
  • WallsOfFireWallsOfFire
    #5 is fine

    it says an '18 percent increase "IN THE CATEGORY" of cell phone numbers.

    where as if it said just an 18 percent increase from 2006, then it would be wrong.
  • WallsOfFireWallsOfFire
    and just fyi

    #2 is grammatically wrong, LOL.
  • loaferyloafery
    Yea they put one too many the s.
  • PsychonautPsychonaut
    Stupid english.
  • Easter BunnyEaster Bunny
    An 18% increase can mean two things in my mind...but whatever. My skimjob first time through that caught my eye first.
  • WallsOfFireWallsOfFire
    Yea they put one too many the s.
    no, the too many 'the' just makes it awkward, but that is still grammatically fine
  • loaferyloafery
    Then wats gramatically wrong?
  • loaferyloafery
    An 18% increase can mean two things in my mind...but whatever. My skimjob first time through that caught my eye first.
    Have u ever heard of the expression 'percent point'
  • Easter BunnyEaster Bunny
    If they used that same sentence and wrote 900% instead of 18%, would it be wrong?
  • loaferyloafery
    The units are in percent so it makes sense to me as 18 percent but if you think mathematically it really is 900 percent increase. The wording just ambigious...stupid english
  • WallsOfFireWallsOfFire
    i don't see why people wud get it wrong

    i mean #4 is so blatently wrong. even if 5 were wrong too, 5 at least 'could be right'
  • ZealityZeality
    i don't see why people wud get it wrong

    i mean #4 is so blatently wrong. even if 5 were wrong too, 5 at least 'could be right'
  • loaferyloafery
    Hey most of us dont have the privilege of fluent english. And u know some ppl read backwards and read number 5 first and then move on because they thought it was the answer having not read all of the passage...
  • ZealityZeality
    Fair. But any one who read the whole thing would realize 4 is ridiculous lol.
  • loaferyloafery
    Indeed
  • Rohan CastleRohan Castle
    edited November 2014
    #2 is wrong.

    "Highest of all the catagories"

    "Highest of all of the catagories"

    That would be correct ;)
  • loaferyloafery
    Nobody mentioned this on the news lol
  • FlazerFlazer
    nah that isnt

    it is what they stated

    learn english fool
  • UnreliableUnreliable
    #5 isnt clearly wrong, anyone who marked that as wrong also thought #4 was right and those people deserve to fail the question...
  • Rohan CastleRohan Castle
    edited November 2014
    nah that isnt

    it is what they stated

    learn english fool
    Are you telling me that they developed the question stating something is wrong in the sentences when really there wasn't?

    That's jewish shit right there...


    Edit, nvm, I see it, it's #4 -_-
  • rsoultinrsoultin
    Eh, 5 could've been more clear yeah cause it's true if you're talking an 18% increase of the total surveyed, but not if you're talking an 18% increase of the ones who gave cell phone numbers 6 years ago.

    Still, any test proctor (military, GRE, advanced placement, etc.) will tell you to pick the most correct answer, and if you're quibbling over semantics, you've already lost that argument. Not reading all the answers is also not a good excuse.

    No 4 is the obvious answer here.
  • Easter BunnyEaster Bunny
    I kinda skipped over the middle 3. #4 is absolutely wrong and is the correct choice, I agree with that.
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