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How did everyone find the exam today? I accidentally didn't do weeks I left it as years but ahh welll
I mean, I hope everyone didn't do well because otherwise the grade boundaries will be really highhhhh :frown:

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Reply 1

it was really easy

Reply 2

Original post by swarbyyy7
How did everyone find the exam today? I accidentally didn't do weeks I left it as years but ahh welll
I mean, I hope everyone didn't do well because otherwise the grade boundaries will be really highhhhh :frown:
There were lots of estimation questions which threw me off a little

Reply 3

did anyone else get like £207 something for the question about exchange rates?

Reply 4

Original post by xelisewise
did anyone else get like £207 something for the question about exchange rates?
No😭😭 howd u get that

Reply 5

Original post by xelisewise
did anyone else get like £207 something for the question about exchange rates?

yes!

Reply 6

Original post by User172839300
yes!


okay ahahaha thank god

Reply 7

Original post by beverlxyyy
No😭😭 howd u get that


basically i think i changed her money into pounds using new exchange rate, then once i did that i took 3% off by multiplying the 214 i got after exchanging to pounds by 0.97, which for me 207 ish

Reply 8

Original post by xelisewise
basically i think i changed her money into pounds using new exchange rate, then once i did that i took 3% off by multiplying the 214 i got after exchanging to pounds by 0.97, which for me 207 ish

i did mine the other way and i still got the same answer, did the 3% in Won took it off the amount of money she had and divided by 1680

Reply 9

Original post by swarbyyy7
How did everyone find the exam today? I accidentally didn't do weeks I left it as years but ahh welll
I mean, I hope everyone didn't do well because otherwise the grade boundaries will be really highhhhh :frown:

£750 for the difference between the pay so she was incorrect as it was less than £825 needed for the car? Seems to be 50/50 between that answer and 857

Reply 10

Original post by Jtilbury
£750 for the difference between the pay so she was incorrect as it was less than £825 needed for the car? Seems to be 50/50 between that answer and 857

I got 857 for the difference

Reply 11

Original post by Jtilbury
£750 for the difference between the pay so she was incorrect as it was less than £825 needed for the car? Seems to be 50/50 between that answer and 857

i said she was correct got 857, but i got that she wasnt correct before i went over the national insurance

Reply 12

Original post by xelisewise
basically i think i changed her money into pounds using new exchange rate, then once i did that i took 3% off by multiplying the 214 i got after exchanging to pounds by 0.97, which for me 207 ish
I did it the other way round I probably got the same answer I js can’t remember lmao

Reply 13

Original post by User172839300
i said she was correct got 857, but i got that she wasnt correct before i went over the national insurance


i got 857 too

Reply 14

Original post by User172839300
i said she was correct got 857, but i got that she wasnt correct before i went over the national insurance

Yea same

Reply 15

also opinions on the pre release? what did you guys do considering the question didn't have a year on it (waste)

Reply 16

for the last question about mean and standard deviation we were just supposed to work out the mean and standard deviation for the other one and compare right?there were no more steps we had to do right?

Reply 17

What did everyone get for the estimate cumulative frequency and histogram ones??

Reply 18

Original post by xelisewise
also opinions on the pre release? what did you guys do considering the question didn't have a year on it (waste)

i just said i assume it was built in 2023 and estimated based off of that.what did you do?

Reply 19

Original post by User172839300
i just said i assume it was built in 2023 and estimated based off of that.what did you do?


i think i just said that recycled waste would be around 44%, so residual waste would be around 56%, then i think i said that waste per person a year was 400kg, just by looking at the 1st graph if you know what i mean

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