Re: TI-M: math class

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Subject: Re: TI-M: math class
From: Nick Disabato <nickd@nickd.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:30:08 -0500
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At 01:20 AM 8/31/2000 +0200, you wrote:

>Umm, a five is not absurdly high.  Lots of people get them :).  Honors
>calculus will be a lot of fun, I'm sure.

40% of the nation's juniors and seniors take the AP calculus test at one 
time or another.
Of those, about 8% (give or take) take BC instead of AB.
Of those still, 12.9% get 5's every year due to the College Board's bell 
curve restrictions.

So... doing the math... (.4)(.08)(.129) = 0.4128%. Being generous and 
rounding up, that means 1/2 of 1% of the nation got a 5 in BC calculus.

Not to be pompous, but that's statistically not very many people. :P
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