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#1 2010-02-13 08:52:29
- JimmyThorn93
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Uhh... ridiculously easy D1 question or not?
This might sound like a stupid question, but I'm stuck on what appears to be an easy-looking question but I might be fooled. This is a question from the D1 Jan 2010 paper:
For 1(a), do I seriously just draw lines across? i.e. from A -> 1, C -> 3, D -> 4, and E -> 5?
If so, jeez... whats the point o.o
unless that's not what you do then im the dumb one here
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#2 2010-02-13 08:52:58
- JimmyThorn93
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Re: Uhh... ridiculously easy D1 question or not?
sorry, theres the image
#3 2010-02-13 08:55:38
- Ricky
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Re: Uhh... ridiculously easy D1 question or not?
If so, jeez... whats the point o.o
To give 1 point to people who at least understand the question.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#4 2010-02-13 08:59:23
- JimmyThorn93
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Re: Uhh... ridiculously easy D1 question or not?
so that's all i do? draw the lines across? lol
thanks.
#5 2010-02-13 09:06:58
- Devantè
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Re: Uhh... ridiculously easy D1 question or not?
I downloaded the Jan 2010 D1 paper (which was oddly leaked less than 24 hours from the exam), and a good portion of the question paper is just checking to see if you understand the basic concepts. That is what exam papers generally do, but this is blatantly obvious, particularly in question 2;
2. Prims algorithm finds a minimum spanning tree for a connected graph.
Explain the terms
(a) connected graph,
(b) tree,
(c) spanning tree.
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#6 2010-02-13 23:01:19
- mathsyperson
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Re: Uhh... ridiculously easy D1 question or not?
Nearly all of my University exams were like that. A typical question would look like:
(i) Define this/these term(s)
(ii) Prove this/these theorems
(iii) Answer this question that makes use of those definitions and theorems (you may remember doing something similar in lectures)
(iv) Answer this question that makes use of those definitions and theorems, but this time it's not like any exercise you've seen before. This time you have to think! 
It's fair enough really. If you don't know your definitions then you won't get anywhere, so it's a good thing that it tests you on them.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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