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Here’s your shmoop du jour…

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Mark’s wife is convinced he doesn’t really know her… so she’s insisting he take a test all about her.

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For Mark’s sake, we hope he passes. Assuming he still wants to be married.

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It took two and a half hours to complete.

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Mark spent an average of five minutes on each question. Not a good sign, Mark.

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A few days later, when his wife tallied the results,

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she found that he had missed three of the questions.

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Based on this information, which of the following can be determined?

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And here are the potential answers...

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OK, so this question is mainly just testing whether we can read carefully.

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We have to approach the answers one by one. Take A.

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Can we determine the total number of questions?

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Well… yes – if the test took 2 and a half hours or 150 minutes to complete and he AVERAGED

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5 minutes a question, then we can divide 5 into 150 and glean that the test was 30 questions.

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So A is a true.

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B. They give us that he missed 3… so 30 minus 3 is 27. Checkarooni for B.

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C. Sure. 27 out of 30 is 91ish per cent.

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So the answer is D – we know ALL of these.

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By the way, if there was a choice E… “Mark is in the doghouse”… that one would have been true, too.

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In marriage, an “A minus” doesn’t cut it…

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