Could you pass a Cambridge University interview?

[suityou01]

I'm not smart enough..

Could you pass a Cambridge University interview? - Telegraph


Lost on this question:

Q.8 An unbiased cubic die has numbers 1 to 6 inscribed on each side. On average, how many rolls will you need in order to get a 6?

Well I answered 1 instead of 6 given that the numbers 1 through 6 and inscribed on each side? But no...

Thickos can't even write the question properly.

I took question 2 as bollocks frankly as none of the options were valid.

[doodab]

That is a fun site.

Like dhoog I've already tried and failed the interview. These days they would have to let me in cos I was poor.

[Spacecadet]

I got 80%

But then I DID pass a Cambridge interview, back in 1988

Did you bribe the cleaner to change the results once the prof had left?

[Dactylion]

If it didn't have side it's wouldn't be a dice ergo they are wrong, each/every in this context still means the same thing their argument is still invalid

"If it didn't have side" - What on earth does that mean?
"it's wouldn't" - it's!!! it's!! it shirley!
"a dice" - OK common usage might be a dice but really it is a die!

[Churchill]

"If it didn't have side" - What on earth does that mean?
"it's wouldn't" - it's!!! it's!! it shirley!
"a dice" - OK common usage might be a dice but really it is a die!

Either way, it is cast!

[doodab]

Got them all right except the balloon one (which is exactly the sort of sneaky clever question that filters the really clever people out and proves I'm not) though I did have to google for the density of air.

[mudskipper]

Got them all right except the balloon one (which is exactly the sort of sneaky clever question that filters the really clever people out and proves I'm not) though I did have to google for the density of air.

That was one of the four I guessed right! I knew the socks

[MyUserName]

Alright, I have never pretended to be clever - I got the others but could someone explain the balloon one to me?

[scooterscot]

As you say it's a trick question, they say it has 1 to 6 inscribed on each side

So the answer has to be 1,as each roll is guaranteed a six

If they don't mean that their question is invalid

I agree. But they give the answer as 6.

[d000hg]

Horrid.

I remember doing this one some years ago.


64.42 -- Resistor cube

Balls; if I'd laid it out as simple 2D it probably would've been fine



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