#Is the question incorrectly worded?

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surreal pelican
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How can width by twice the length. it would become the length in that case; would it not?

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surreal pelican
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is it a trick question that in some places width/length means something different?

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or is it just an incorrect question?

proud galleon
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I guess incorrectly worded but don't worry bout it

muted sapphire
austere pollen
strange moon
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I've been teaching math for a while and I've never even heard of the idea that length and width should be the longer or shorter side.

surreal pelican
surreal pelican
surreal pelican
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well not math teacher but yeah

surreal pelican
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usually with rectangular things u just assume l > w

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at least thats what we were always taught

proud galleon
surreal pelican
agile acorn
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It’s worded correctly

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Just w=2l what is lw?

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Idk if I’m missing something

surreal pelican
agile acorn
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Doesn’t have to be

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And here width is bigger

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Ignore convention

surreal pelican
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well. its mathematical convention in most places

agile acorn
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And just solve

surreal pelican
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well i am in-tune with conventions so i ended up making a "mistake"

agile acorn
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…

agile acorn
surreal pelican
agile acorn
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Also there is only one right answer even following convention

surreal pelican
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so if GRE doesnt follow convention

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its a bit worrying

agile acorn
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Then use negative side lengths

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And solve it

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Still gets the same answer

surreal pelican
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negative side lengths?

agile acorn
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Idk if you want it to follow convention

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It gets the same answer

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But it seems really dumb

surreal pelican
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thing is. im not so much worried about "how to solve it" but rather "will i solve it "wrong" because in some other topic they again do not follow mathematical conventions" and i wanted to know if this was indeed incorrectly worded

surreal pelican
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so i ended up getting a different answer

agile acorn
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Oh

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Just forget everything you learned

surreal pelican
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lol

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that wont help much either i think

agile acorn
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Good luck

surreal pelican
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but yeah maybe some things

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thnx 👍

agile acorn
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Also why does the problem look like it’s from algebra 1

surreal pelican
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its also sometimes annoying that they tell u "u cant assume if something is the center or origin" just because its drawn that way, but then draw a cartesian plane without marking (0,0) and then assume its (0,0) some inconsistencies ig. i have even seem some completely wrong answers afair

agile acorn
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Also reread all questions

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Can you show me some

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That seems really bad for the GRe

surreal pelican
# agile acorn Also reread all questions

i sadly always read questions a couple times because it takes me a while to process. but then u run out of time. i have adhd too so silly mistakes is rather easy for me

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its not like im bad at math but yeah

surreal pelican
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this was one ig

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tho i dont remember if they got the answer wrong in the book or just that i had a doubt

agile acorn
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What is it asking for

surreal pelican
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which quantity is greater

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or are they equal

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or if it cannot be detemined

agile acorn
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Oh

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Just equal

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I think

surreal pelican
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i forget whats the correct answer and what the book said

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there was also this. again. not sure if i got it wrong or book did or something

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agile acorn
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E

surreal pelican
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but they draw it in a way to juke u. afaik i did get it correct but i was confused a bit

agile acorn
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And D

agile acorn
surreal pelican
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then again u dont know if y is a right angeled triangle

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i dont remember what the correct answer is tbh

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u could end up with something odd like this

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whether it would still be equal idk

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base is same. height.. not sure 🤔

agile acorn
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It’s always equal I think

surreal pelican
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🤷‍♀️

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i cant find the answers rn anyways

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been a while

surreal pelican
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or even B?

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btw i think it can only have one answer

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but again. dont remember too well and cant find it

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idk why i cant find it now. odd

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@agile acorn ah. just got one example while practicising

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asks in least std dev to highest. but none of the options have Z first

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forget that

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all options are same lol

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reading explanation helps sometimes

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so errors like this happen in the book once every 2-3 chapters

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even the book itself likely wouldnt get a perfect GRE score 😂

agile acorn
surreal pelican
surreal pelican
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@agile acorn just took a diagnostic test. got all answers correct except ones based on this chart. I did not know/understand that federal debt is considered a subset of public debt (in our country its considered seperate)

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so i lost 2 questions. my predicted score is 165/170

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but in real test, there are 3-4 questions based on charts. so i should probably focus mainly on that perhaps. though the real test was also much much harder from what i remember so idk...

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if i make a fundamental mistake in understanding the chart. my score can easily fall to 160...

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i will probably complete more data interpretation tasks ig

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wish i had more practice tests but i dont think i do

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also have a headache

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wtf is federal debt held by public and held by federal debt held by government accounts anyways?