My son sent me this from college. I thought you might enjoy.
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Forwarded message:
From: samhain@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Keeve E Nachman)
To: KMNTR6@aol.com (Kenneth Nachman), 74003.1040@compuserve.com (JAMES MOORE)
CC: hunter@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Holly L Hunter), le_phong@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
(Phong Q Le), moranbre@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Brendan J Moran),
kim@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu, mowens@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Michael R Owens),
slvestri@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Walter J Earls), pegasus@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
(Randal P Goldberg), jhpdis@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Josphine H Pearse)
Date: 94-12-16 16:17:07 EST
The City of Los Angelos in cooperation with the City of New York
has produced the following:
Standardized High School
MATH PROFICIENCY EXAM
#1) Johnny has an AK-47 with a 30 round clip. He squeezes off 12
rounds at each drive-by shooting and does one drive-by a day.
How many rounds will he use in a week?
How many clips will he use in a week?
#2) Jose has two ounces of cocaine. He sells an 8-ball to Jackson
for $180.00 and two grams to Billy for $85.00 per gram.
What is the street value of the cocaine if Jose
doesn't cut it?
#3) Rufus is pimping for three girls. The price is $65.00 for
each trick
How many tricks will each girl have to turn so Rufus
can pay for his $800.00 per day crack habit?
#4) Jerome wants to cut his 1/2 pound of heroin to make a 20%
profit.
How many ounces of cut will he need?
#5) Willie gets $200.00 for stealing a BMW, $50.00 for a Chevy,
and $100.00 for a 4x4. He steals two BMW's and three 4x4's.
How many Chevys does Willie have to steal to make
a thousand dollars?
#6) Raul is in prison for six years for murder. He got $10,000
for the hit. His common law wife is spending $100.00 per month.
How much money will be left when he gets out of prison,
and how many years will he get for killing the bitch that spent
all of his money?
#7) The average spray can covers 22 square feet, and the average
letter is three square feet.
How many letters can you spray with three cans of
paint?
SCORING:
7-2 CORRECT --------> PASS WITH HONORS
1 CORRECT --------> PASS
Go ahead and see how it went...
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| Daan De Brouckere | DeBrouck@UIUC.Edu |
| Computer Science | DeBrouck@DCL-NXT30.CSO.UIUC.Edu |
| University of Illinois| Daan@Stu.CI.Lexington.MA.US |
| Urbana-Champaign, IL | AH693@Freenet.HSC.Colorado.Edu |
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