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Well now, come on. This is basic algebra, and you can also use a calculator, although it's not even necessary for any question here.

I feel like these are good questions that test a student's ability to reason about the problem, rather than just apply a formula.

If you can't do pretty well on a test like this, you're probably not going to get much out of college, and are probably wasting your time and money by going there. Either do something else or prepare for college better.

Not everyone should go to college, and it shouldn't be a prerequisite for living a good life in our society. I work with plenty of excellent people with no degree and besides a mostly self-imposed stigma about not going to college, they're doing just fine.



I agree these questions are very basic, convert theses sentences to an algebra equation.

I'm not sure doing well on this quiz is necessary to "get much out of college." College usually has courses other than algebra.


I think the commenter is suggesting that algebra skills are a reasonable heuristic for the applicant's ability to perform well in an academic context. In other words, if after four consecutive years of mathematics training centered on algebra, you still can't do algebra, you're probably not going to be able to deal with Shakespeare or Heidegger either.




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