Re: Averaging Grades
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For real? Education is so dirtpoor today if even the teacher can't figure this out.
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It's better than it's ever been, sadly. Probably OP and his fiancee once solved problems like this using the "plug it in" approach and even got okay grades in high school math.
I've met many people who've passed calculus classes and are yet unable to grasp basic concepts. I mean, look at Monty Hall.
Oh, my mother and a few of her coworkers once spent an hour trying to explain a concept to another coworker. The other coworker was terrified of air travel after 9/11, and she wanted to find a way of bringing a bomb with her on a certain flight. Apparently she heard that the likelihood of two bombs independently being present on the same plane was extremely small, and so she thought that if she brought one bomb onboard, it would reduce the likelihood of another bomb being present. The attempts to explain her error failed, but she did give up on making a bomb.
Edit - coworker had a master's degree, btw. I think she made six figures.
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