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It isn't the way I would phrase it, but it should work. Is there anything else in the text relating to that question, such as a percentage, or a fraction? And remember to use commas, not periods.
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I'm confused. Isn't the answer just "combien"? You're trying to fill in the blank right? Or are you looking for how to phrase the answer to the fill in the blank question?
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quote:Originally posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick: That would have been my guess originally, but that would be a horrible fill-in-the-blanks question.
In my experience, most automated online homework that isn't multiple choice tends to be pretty bad to use. Questions that require an exact numerical answer such as math or science questions can be ok, but even then my experience with them has been less than ideal.
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quote:Originally posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick: That would have been my guess originally, but that would be a horrible fill-in-the-blanks question.
In my experience, most automated online homework that isn't multiple choice tends to be pretty bad to use. Questions that require an exact numerical answer such as math or science questions can be ok, but even then my experience with them has been less than ideal.
That's actually my experience as well, in a chemistry class no less. The questions would never tell us the degree of significant digits required, which wouldn't be bad except the number of SD's in the answers were seemingly chosen at random. Combine that with limited answering ability and BINGO, you've got half the class failing it.
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quote:Originally posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick:
quote:Originally posted by ricree101:
quote:Originally posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick: That would have been my guess originally, but that would be a horrible fill-in-the-blanks question.
In my experience, most automated online homework that isn't multiple choice tends to be pretty bad to use. Questions that require an exact numerical answer such as math or science questions can be ok, but even then my experience with them has been less than ideal.
That's actually my experience as well, in a chemistry class no less. The questions would never tell us the degree of significant digits required, which wouldn't be bad except the number of SD's in the answers were seemingly chosen at random. Combine that with limited answering ability and BINGO, you've got half the class failing it.
Yep. This professor has given us unlimited attempts for fill-ins, which allows me to play with the wording. My math class allowed for 3 attempts. If you couldn't figure it out then it would force you to walk through example problems and you'd earn 3 more attempts. Time consuming but you could usually figure out how they wanted the answer to look with the example.
My professor sent an email onto the Vista company regarding my original question. Hopefully they'll add more correct answers to the program.
And now I know I can get help from you guys! If for no other reason than to confuse you all with the odd phrasing used in online fill-in-the-blank questions.
quote: Isn't the answer just "Millions"? Not precise, but it fits the grammar.
quote:Originally posted by Jon Boy: Really? I thought "le français" meant "the French," as in "the French people."
"The French people" would translate as "les français." "Le français" should be used when speaking about the language itself, which is why French speakers sometimes say "I speak ze French" when talking about their native language.
Also, the French DO NOT use commas when separating the thousands place from the hundreds place. They use periods. They use commas to separate decimals. Thus, the number 186,185.346 would be written as "186.185,346." Hope this helps.
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