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A student taking up mathematics answered a series of non-mathematics questions and got a grade of 0. If you are his mathematics teacher who would check the test paper, would you have given him the same mark?
Below are the questions and his witty and funny answers.
Three men are in a hot-air balloon. Soon, they find themselves lost in a canyon somewhere. One of the three men says, “I’ve got an idea. We can call for help in this canyon and the echo will carry our voices to the end of the canyon. Someone’s bound to hear us by then!”
So he leans over the basket and screams out, “Helllloooooo! Where are we?”
(They hear the echo several times).
Fifteen minutes later, they hear this echoing voice: “Helllloooooo! You’re lost!” The shouter comments, “That must have been a mathematician.” Puzzled, his friend asks, “Why do you say that?”
“For three reasons. First, he took a long time to answer, second, he was absolutely correct, and, third, his answer was absolutely useless.”
Source: Math 2.0 Forum (Please inform me if you know the original author.)
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