Algebra? Hmmm.....

[rickthefightguy]

I just registered for the GRE. And I went through the example questions. The verbal stuff was no problem (though I did get one of them wrong). The essays look doable. But the math problems were ... challenging. Not most of them, but a few definitely. I am going to have to do a little...studying!

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[be_well_lowell]

I'll make a note to check on the current state of that exam. It's been a while, but I recall that a lot of skills relevant to your gaming habits were also useful in gaming the test.

Back when I took the GRE, there was a "logic" subtest newly added (and, I understand, long deleted now). I remember walking out of the test, behind some football player (I think I might have been on the Seton Hall campus) complaining "who cares if the third sailboat was blue or orange" and thinking that was the kind of thinking I did for a living...

[mermaidlady]

"logic" subtest newly added (and, I understand, long deleted now)

That's too bad. That was the section in which I scored the highest.

[palegreenthings]

I KNOW. This GRE stuff is nutty.

[corwyn_ap]

let me know if you need any help, or have questions.

[rickthefightguy]

Heehee...thanks all! If I need actual help figuring things out, a) I will be horribly embarrassed, and b) I live upstairs from a High School math teacher.

No, it is mostly just reviewing the basics. I wasn't sure, for example, that x+y/ab = x/ab + y/ab. I looked it up and it does. (I could have worked it out too. 1+2/3 = 1/3+2/3, duh!) Stuff like that. It will come back quick, and I have some stuff from the GRE website to review that should get me on the right path. I will take a practice exam soon and find out.

[jamey1138]

BTW, the left-hand side of each equation above is untrue, unless you add parentheses:

(x+y)/ab = x/ab + y/ab
(1+2)/3 = 1/3 + 2/3

But, 1+2/3 should be read as "one and two thirds" (equivalent to five thirds)...

I imagine that on the practice test, the fraction bar wasn't a slash (/) but rather a horizontal line:

x+y
---
ab

?

[corwyn_ap]

How can the left side of an equation by untrue? :-)

[jamey1138]

Response 1: Excellent point. I ought to have said, "The left side of the equation is erroneous, making the equation untrue. The left side ought to have read..."

Response 2: Bite me.

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