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1
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- I am going to calculate what the imaginary student, Suzie Que, must do
to make the grade she seeks in this course.
- To see what you must do, just follow the calculation, but use your
grades in place of Suzie Que’s.
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2
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- First I am going to determine how many bonus points Suzie will get.
- Remember there are more than enough attendance checks to get a maximum
of 40 bonus points.
- I am going to assume that Suzie’s attendance gets her 35 points.
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3
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- Next I am going to determine how many pop quiz points Suzie will get.
- Remember there are more than enough pop quizzes to get a maximum of 40
pop quiz points.
- I am going to assume that Suzie’s pop quizzes gets her 30 points.
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4
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- Next I need to estimate what Suzie’s lab experiment average will be at
the end of the semester.
- I estimate that to be 97.
- So far she has 35+30+97=162 points.
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5
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- Next I add in the points from her first lab exam.
- Suzie got 9 out of 15 questions correct. The number of points she gets
is
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6
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- Now I must add in her lecture exams so far.
- For example, let’s assume Suzie got 25 correct on the first test and 29
correct on the second.
- Let’s see how many points that gets her.
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7
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- Suzie only got 23 questions correct on test 3. This gives her
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8
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- Let’s assume that she wants to make a “B.” That requires 640 (actually 630)
total points.
- 630-463=167
- 167 points on the remaining exam is required to make a “B.”
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9
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- There is still 190 points available on the remaining exam.
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10
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Notes
