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#27 Jun 19 2012 at 8:45 PM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
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I got all of the questions posed correct, but went into it expecting to get tricked.

Had I not known they were going to be trick questions, I probably would have gotten the one about the lily pads covering the lake wrong.


Opposite for me. I would have gotten the ball and bat one wrong if I hadn't already known it was a tricksie question. Just one of those where the "first glance" answer looks right until you actually stop and do math. The lily pad one I got immediately and didn't even think of as a trick. But I suspect that years of dealing with binary progressions helps a lot with that.


Like somebody said earlier, when reading a word problem, I immediately picture an equation, so that one was easy. I haven't done a lot of work with half-lives, so the lily pad one would have been somewhat obscure for me.
#28 Jun 20 2012 at 7:30 AM Rating: Good
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gbaji wrote:
The lily pad one I got immediately and didn't even think of as a trick. But I suspect that years of dealing with binary progressions helps a lot with that.
Or just reading the question.
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#29 Jun 20 2012 at 7:45 AM Rating: Good
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My brain got the first one right pretty quickly, with just a moment's thought. The second question, I read it, I knew the correct answer, "Oh, the day before the 48th day...", but the words "Half" and "48" were still on the screen, and my brain said "24", even though I knew that was wrong. It was weird. I suppose I can't complain though because I wouldn't be as good at Jeopardy if my brain didn't quickly fire and create logical answers from key words.
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