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Gabbafella

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It's really badly written, but I agree with everyone else that the answer is 24°.
I'd like to see the workings for their incorrect answer.
 




schmunk

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OK, we've solved that one. Next?

5. What colour is this dress?

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PILTDOWN MAN

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Hurst Green










GT49er

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Indeed.


The answer given is 29. Now for the last hour a lot of work colleagues, Asahi UK, have looked at it and my daughter, a teacher and we believe not only is it a badly written question the answer is wrong, unless we are all missing something.

Regardless of how badly the question is worded, 29 is the wrong answer!
 










Doonhamer7

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Apart from being badly written, if it was as a creativity of thought question it is a good question. In life you get lots of irrelevant facts, so the answer is ignore them and google the answer and find temperature (but Australia is a continent sized country so there is no one answer). Mathematically it is poor, doesn’t state when the coldest time was, is the temperature rise linear, when is now etc, what are weather factors (is it cloudy, storm front, wind)
 












PILTDOWN MAN

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Somebody please tell me How did they arrive at 29

My work colleague lives near Leeds and his son goes to the local school. So it's upt'north this is probably the answer. As he said they always add 4 degrees to the actual weather as it's grim up there.
 






GT49er

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Actually, looking at it again, it's a grammatical error. 'Was' (past tense) can't be used in that context with 'now'.(present tense) - so it's either 'What is the temperature now' - in which case the answer is google it (unless you are in Sydney and have a thermometer), or - as it should have been, 'What was the temperature THEN'! .............. which would have been fine.




... but the answer still wouldn't be bloody 29 though!
 




Stat Brother

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Well lush

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schmunk

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Actually, looking at it again, it's a grammatical error. 'Was' (past tense) can't be used in that context with 'now'.(present tense) - so it's either 'What is the temperature now' - in which case the answer is google it (unless you are in Sydney and have a thermometer), or - as it should have been, 'What was the temperature THEN'! .............. which would have been fine.




... but the answer still wouldn't be bloody 29 though!

It was a bigger error than that - it was supposed to read "Think of a number..."
 


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