# 8th grade math question...please help

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 12, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8th-grade-math-question-please-help/539144 "2010-05-12T03:43:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/8th-grade-math-question-please-help/539144/21 "2010-05-13T00:23:02Z")

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Luckily I’m not being graded on this at all. In addition to that, I have taken 5 or 6 college placement tests and none of them had open-ended questions so I doubt I’ll have to deal with stuff like this on the test.

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