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Lesson: Intermediate Problem Solving - 19

Unlikely Answer Choices

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Common Math Traps: Certain answer choices may seem to make sense, but the math behind the choices is not correct. Know your math operations, and don't let these three common traps fool you.

Oddball Answers: Choices that are different from ALL the others (i.e. an integer among four fractions, a radical among four integers) are correct far less than 20% of the time. If you must guess, oddball answers are good options for elimination.

Repeated Values: On difficult problems, choices will repeat numbers that appear in the question stem. Why? A test taker who is in a bind will sometimes just choose a number that is included in the question for lack of a better approach. The Test maker knows this, and uses such choices to snag unprepared test takers.

Let's check out some examples of these unlikely answer choices.

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