Off to Cambridge?

Yes

 

I realised just after I'd shut my computer down for the night

I could say it was one of my famous trick questions where I'm testing to see who spots my mistake, but really it was more a case of 'I'm tired, my brain isn't on, but I know its not the most obvious 80% answer

My point was though, its just a big con. I bet loads of people turn up at the shops expecting to save a whopping 80% when its actually less than that.

 

And stuff like '25% extra free' sounds better than 'save 20%'. Another favourite 'VAT free!' is not save 20%, but a less than 17% saving.

 

@shiney Here's a really simple test http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...43/OECD-education-report-Test-your-maths.html

The reason I'm posting it is because I reckon (using the information strictly as shown) that the answer to Q7. is 718 (not 720). Do you agree with me?

 

The first thing I did was look at the position of the compartmental dividers relative to the entrance and exit and as it states "there is room for a maximum of two people in each sector" that gives an indication of scale and it's obvious that if it revolves in a clockwise direction, after the final 120 degrees of revolution there will be an inadequate width gap (arrowed) for numbers 719 and 720 to get out of compartment B into the building. It would have to start from a different position (shown orange) to that shown in the question diagram to get 720 through the doors. A badly drafted and ill thought out question in my opinion.

 

I got 40% right which isn't bad for someone who is blonde and hasn't got a clue of what half the questions were asking The only university I have ever been to is the university of life which has held me in good stead all these years

 

Boris Johnson (who went to Oxford) got all of these wrong them despite them being really simple.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...ke-the-IQ-quiz-that-Boris-Johnson-failed.html

(I got all of them right, but despite that I disagree with their analysis of why one of the answers is correct)