AirDime wrote:
The question is made too simple by the answer choices. It's easy to guess D because it is the only answer that falls between 2/3 (~67%) and 3/5 (60%) - the answer has to be within that range, given the constraints in the problem. The answer choices could have been something like 60%, 67%, 64%, 62% and 68%, which would have forced people to actually do the calculation.
Hello,
AirDime. I would argue that a key component to any PS question is understanding the available information in the answer choices, and sometimes official questions do, in fact, isolate correct answers in obvious fashion to anyone who knows how to spot them. If you got the question right in 30 seconds or so, good job, but looking at the statistics to the question, if 2:02 is the average time it has taken most question-answerers to arrive at the same conclusion, then many such people might not be as attuned to the test as you may be. This is not to even mention the number of people who missed the question. Perhaps you could share your approach, particularly if it is unique, to help the community, rather than take the time to post nothing more than a criticism.
Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
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