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[ewein2412]

You paid attention during 100% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

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It is true that some of the answers to these questions I learned much more recently than in high school.

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[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

i got two wrong. I think it was the first one (area of a triangle - f*ck you geometry) and the dangling modifier, which just sounds dirty.

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

The area of the triangle is the half the base times height. I got the dangling modifier right, but I don't know how to describe it.

I got the religions wrong. I took it again, and guessed something else, and was right.

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

where'd you find the answers? i couldn't find them. it would be sad if I actually got different ones wrong than I think. lol

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm good at geometry, when I don't overthink it (I took a class in hyperbolic geometry, and I will occasionally mix it up with the standard Euclidean geometry). I figured, if I took the test twice, and the second time around I answered only one question differently and got 100%, that is the one I got wrong.

[ewein2412]

any right angle triangle is half a rectangle--you get the area the same way you do for a rectangle, by multiplying length times width (and dividing by two). You don't have to be good at geometry, you just have to be logical. all that about the hypotenuse is just a red herring to confuse you.

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

OK, that's the one I got wrong, because even though I did pay attention during geometry (and even passed it), I can't remember numbers or anything to do with them worth a tinker's curse. Plus, I'm not really logical, not around numbers, anyway. Hell, I'm totally irrational. Math anxiety? Oh, yeah.

[ewein2412]

well, that's exactly what I mean. It's embarrassing to realize you've forgotten simple geometry, but it doesn't detract at all from being a poised and functional grown-up who isn't logical. (Does that make sense? I'm TRYING to be complimentary, but it's coming out all Spock-like!)

[tiboribi.livejournal.com]

I'm almost entirely sure that that's essentially the steps Euclid walks through when proving how to find the area of a triangle.