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Feb 15, 2019
2:13:45pm

Tare All-American

100% certainty is wrong.

Highly likely, yes, but true 100% certainty? Nope. Too many variables in the equation.

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Tare

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It's shocking to me that a high majority failed this question

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 1:35pm

What's the correct answer?

IceBlueCoug

2/15/19 1:38pm

100%

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 1:41pm

They’d meet at the mid point at the exact same time

IceBlueCoug

2/15/19 1:47pm

Not necessarily at the midpoint, but it is 100% that there will be a spot where she is at the same time each day

cheezedawg

2/15/19 1:49pm

I don't care where they meet, nor what time. All I know is that it is guaranteed

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 1:51pm

Anything that is not mechanical, with repeatable precision

Borg

2/15/19 4:17pm

It will happen every time, without fail.

spoxjox

2/15/19 4:26pm

The image that works for me is thinking of two beads on a single string. Place one bead at each end of the string and

Cosmodiar

2/15/19 4:34pm

0%

Dread Pirate Westley

2/15/19 1:44pm

It's a semantics disagreement. Some people are reading it as "pick any place

swimbro

2/15/19 1:38pm

Could be, but that's not what was asked.

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 1:44pm

That's exactly what was asked.

Dread Pirate Westley

2/15/19 1:51pm

The question does NOT ask you to pick a point.

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 1:53pm

once they intersect then they're at the same point and time

The Shazad

2/15/19 1:54pm

RE: once they intersect then they're at the same point and time

swimbro

2/15/19 2:03pm

Do they intersect at the same point and at the same time on consecutive days?

Dread Pirate Westley

2/15/19 2:13pm

try this:

The Shazad

2/15/19 2:26pm

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MMCougIII

2/15/19 6:54pm

velocity is a function of the first two variables, and is irrelevant

The Shazad

2/15/19 7:17pm

Sunrise sunset exact times don’t matter

2/15/19 2:28pm

I agree with this.

BYUNITED

2/15/19 2:12pm

Question below

swimbro

2/15/19 1:55pm

I get what you're saying, but the question asked for the probability of some

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 2:00pm

That's obviously not what the question is asking though

2/15/19 2:03pm

How precise are we meant to be with the time?

2/15/19 1:48pm

Oh. Never mind. I was just reading the responses. Now I get it.

2/15/19 1:52pm

CB and critical thinking aren't always best friends.

Kauai

2/15/19 1:49pm

It was the “at the same time” that got me

USMCdad

2/15/19 1:50pm

It comes down to how you interpret "same time"

2/15/19 2:03pm

Nope, the first option is still 100%

Left Shark Coug

2/15/19 2:06pm

Yep, it finally clicked.. overthinking strikes again

2/15/19 2:11pm

The answer as so eloquently posed via a question,

blau56

2/15/19 2:24pm

RE: It comes down to how you interpret "same time"

swimbro

2/15/19 2:09pm

I'm reading the question as: If there's a rock on the side of the path, what's

jaredm

2/15/19 2:24pm

For any given rock? Highly unlikely. That there will be 1 rock this holds. 100%

Warner

2/15/19 2:34pm

100% certainty is wrong.

Tare

2/15/19 2:13pm

Nope. It's 100%.

shimmy

2/15/19 2:21pm

No, it's 100%

whirl

2/15/19 2:30pm

What's fascinating is that the example given for the correct answer is

2/15/19 2:24pm

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MMCougIII

2/15/19 4:44pm

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