> it took me a couple of minutes

Are you in the 8th grade? Those of us a couple of decades past the 8th grade are maybe slower at algebra than someone who is actively drilling it...

n6242 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I must be getting old as well because I had to write it down in a piece of paper to do it, but I did get it pretty quick.

Jtarii 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is more a test of reading comprehension than algebra. Figuring out what the questions is even trying to ask is like 90% of the question.

When I was that age, we practiced a lot of word problems. The folks who wrote the tests really favoured this kind of slightly underhanded logic

	▲	Jtarii 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They aren't allowed to make the mathematics too difficult so they make up for it by making the questions hard to understand.