Funny Grading Stories
I came across this on Science Blogs.
A question from yesterday’s final exam, paraphrased slightly:
Element X decays into Element Y with a half-life of 30 minutes. You are given a sample containing three times as many atoms of Y as X. If the initial sample was pure X, how long ago was it prepared?
One student wrote:
It seems like a lifetime ago…
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