Reply to: Probability question

[Churchill]

I'm not working!

I'm just dossing about on here trying to screw with peoples minds



Mindlessness

A bit more practice and you'll be fine.

[Diver]

Show your working!

I'm not working!

I'm just dossing about on here trying to screw with peoples minds



Mindlessness

[Churchill]

Please ignore all preceding posts as the answer is still about 4.86% +/- Blah Blah Blah

Show your working!

[Diver]

Please ignore all preceding posts as the answer is still about 4.86% +/- Blah Blah Blah

[TimberWolf]

Yes it was a statement to clarify the question.

Thanks for the exercise, I'm getting bored now.

Actually I'm pretty sure you were saying they were statements all along anyway, and I've forgotten which side I'm on now

[Churchill]

Surely that was a statement too?

Yes it was a statement to clarify the question.

Thanks for the exercise, I'm getting bored now.

[TimberWolf]

If you look, the question is at the beginning.

Which of the following statements is true?
Blah
Blah blah
Blah blah blah

Surely that was a statement too?

[Churchill]

Okay, but is blah a statement or a question? If it's a statament then you are answering a statement in each case?

If you look, the question is at the beginning.

Which of the following statements is true?
Blah
Blah blah
Blah blah blah

[TimberWolf]

But surely a multiple choice question would be presented in the following manner(or some derivative there of...) :

Which of the following statements is true?
Blah
Blah blah
Blah blah blah

Okay, but is blah a statement or a question? If it's a statament then you are answering a statement in each case?

[Churchill]

I didn't know the Spanish did that. Your point raises a 'question mark' over whether multiple choice papers should contain multiple choice statements or multiple choice questions though

Yeah, natural languages is bollocks, it's what makes them rich, carp, powerful, weak, and ambiguous. Humans especially love the ambiguity, or jokes as we sometimes call it. That wasn't one incidentally, because you aren't laughing Ambiguity is also lacking in multiple questions/statements requiring (True/False) answers, hence why they are not funny. So why isn't sasGurus question funny? (It has a 'insufficient Data' option). Maybe because a joke is funnier presented as a statement rather than a question

But surely a multiple choice question would be presented in the following manner(or some derivative there of...) :

Which of the following statements is true?
Blah
Blah blah
Blah blah blah

[TimberWolf]

Well, if we analyse your post...

With the lack of a question mark at the end of the text I would infer a statement. However, your use of the "Is" at the beginning of the text supposes a question.

In the end, it's all bollocks anyway.

That's why I like the Spanish language, not because of the bollocks, but because of the upside down question mark at the beginning of a question.

I didn't know the Spanish did that. Your point raises a 'question mark' over whether multiple choice papers should contain multiple choice statements or multiple choice questions though

Yeah, natural languages is bollocks, it's what makes them rich, carp, powerful, weak, and ambiguous. Humans especially love the ambiguity, or jokes as we sometimes call it. That wasn't one incidentally, because you aren't laughing Ambiguity is also lacking in multiple questions/statements requiring (True/False) answers, hence why they are not funny. So why isn't sasGurus question funny? (It has a 'insufficient Data' option). Maybe because a joke is funnier presented as a statement rather than a question

[Churchill]

Is this a statement or a question

Well, if we analyse your post...

With the lack of a question mark at the end of the text I would infer a statement. However, your use of the "Is" at the beginning of the text supposes a question.

In the end, it's all bollocks anyway.

That's why I like the Spanish language, not because of the bollocks, but because of the upside down question mark at the beginning of a question.

[Diver]

It's about 4.86%.

[TimberWolf]

Is this a statement or a question

Also, please state whether this statement is a question. (Answer True, False, or Insufficient Data).

[TimberWolf]

Erm, I don't wish to appear pedantic(no more than usual anyway), but the above are two statements, not questions.

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Is this a statement or a question