Mi Profesor De Espanol Es Un Super-Pesado February 7, 2008
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I took a spanish test last week, and it was a two part test. The first part, we graded in class. The second part was us writing sentences describing pictures, and we did not grade it in class. Mr. Alva graded it himself. Please note that Mr. Alva is not a math teacher and probably should never pursue that field, because he can’t count.
The first half of the test, I didn’t miss anything. -0. 100%. So I thought I was good to go. But then Mr. Alva hands my test back today and I have a 82% on the whole thing.
Part One: 23 questions (worth an unknown amount of points)
Part Two: 4 questions (worth 5 points each)On part two, he didn’t count off the full amount of the question, but minused 3 or 2 points from each sentence depending on how “right” it was. I got a minus two on every question. And they’re 5 points a piece, so I made 3 points on every problem. You know what, let’s just work this out.
23x+4(5)=100
x is the amount of points that each question on part 1 is worth. There are 5 available points for part two, and 4 questions, and added together, they should equal 100. Right?
23x+20=100
I multiplied 4 and 5 together to get
20…23x=80
Then I subtracted 20 from each side.
x=80/23
Then I divided 23 from both sides. Dividing 80 by 23 gives you
x=3.478. Or, in test taking terms, 3.5. So, all of the part one questions are worth 3.5 points. Let’s put that into my score. I didn’t make 5 points on all the part 2 questions, I only made 3 a piece. So my equation looks more like this.
23(3.5)+4(3)79.994+12
ABOUT 92.
Not 82. I win. Mr. Alva doesn’t want to hear about it though, he just assumes he’s right and continues to ignore me. I hope you’re reading.
