I can't believe the instructor marked my answer as wrong!!


http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/7061/findxnr9.jpg

Imagine that! In his/her place, I think I'd have to have at least given you a little credit ... for creative thinking.

Hmmm ... if I can remember back that far to my HS math classes, isn't the answer 5?

Nope. The answer is not 5. It's 5 cm :p

I've had way to many math instructors that would have marked that wrong for not writing the "obvious" units.

Nope. The answer is not 5. It's 5 cm :p

I've had way to many math instructors that would have marked that wrong for not writing the "obvious" units.

Touche!

The question never asks to solve for the value of x or to find the value for x... simply "find x".

If this is a legit answer someone put on the test/assignment (and not just a photoshopped joke), I could only imagine the student trying to argue with the teacher about this...

This has to be a question on an employment application for a Hummer engineer:-)).

I emailed this to a few of my friends. Only one of them even got the joke.;)