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Re: CALCULATOR SYNTAX???
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2009, 04:22:49 pm »
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Cool. I'm really hoping that the VCAA will retire Methods with some sort of elegance and grace (ie. NOT give us a bitch of an exam). Am I asking for too much...? :(
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Re: CALCULATOR SYNTAX???
« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2009, 04:25:29 pm »
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It's OK if the exam is a bit harder than usual because if it's too easy then careless errors can have too much impact for my liking. We'll see how it goes I guess.
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Re: CALCULATOR SYNTAX???
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2009, 09:15:01 pm »
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so waht do we write for the binomcdf, normalcdf etc ?

this what i do
say for an eq it says find Probability that a mass weighs more than 100kg

i'd do Pr(X_>100) = then write the probability here
Why did you include _?

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Re: CALCULATOR SYNTAX???
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2009, 09:28:05 pm »
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Re: CALCULATOR SYNTAX???
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2009, 09:29:00 pm »
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so waht do we write for the binomcdf, normalcdf etc ?

this what i do
say for an eq it says find Probability that a mass weighs more than 100kg

i'd do Pr(X_>100) = then write the probability here
Why did you include _?

Well, you can't evaluate Pr (X = 100), because of the nature of finding singular points in an integral.
Hence, Pr(X_>100) = Pr (X=100)
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Re: CALCULATOR SYNTAX???
« Reply #20 on: October 13, 2009, 06:20:56 pm »
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TSFX mentioned how you can lose marks with Calculator syntax in this document (or something like that, i only skimmed thorugh it).

Hope this helps anyhow