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An OL-SAT question

post #1 of 5
5/3/03 at 11:44pm
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Koyaanisqatsi's SAT question made me remember this. I've been wanting to ask a big group of people about it for a while:

Remember the OL-SAT that you take in grade and high school? I think OL was for Otis-Lennon. Anyway, there was this question on it that a lot of people at my school got in full blown shouting matches over for weeks after the test. It happened my junior and senior years of high school. The question is:

An enclosure must have:

a. an entrance
b. sides

There were three other answers but we knew it was one of these. I say the answer is sides. Two of my best friends (who were valedictorian and salutatorian) say it's an entrance. We were very close to writing to Misters Otis and Lennon to find out what they considered correct.

Any thoughts?
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post #2 of 5
5/3/03 at 11:55pm
It has to be sides. Otherwise, it's not enclosed.
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post #3 of 5
5/4/03 at 1:46am
<<<<<<Whoa, incoherent, redundant post. DELETED.

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post #4 of 5
5/4/03 at 4:26am
A hamster ball is an enclosure. How many sides does it have? One?

Anyone who's ever tortured a Sim knows that an enclosure doesn't need an entrance/exit either. I doubt that occured to the people who wrote the test, though.
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post #5 of 5
5/4/03 at 3:13pm
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I interpreted sides as meaning a boundary that keeps you within the enclosure, not necessarily something like the walls of a room. My friends interpreted it as a straight line. I think they used the argument "What if it's a round room? Then it doesn't have sides."

This is starting to make me mad just thinking about it. Maybe I should just leave this question alone.
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