not really. i spent about 5 mins on it.

1) i took the lower scores of 71 (which will be your minimum possible score) and 76. i gave them the most weight of 28% and 18% to lower the score the most.
2) i took the higher scores that would raise the score and tried to minimize their weight by using the minimum of each. 80 - 12%, 79 - 8%, 78 - 32%.
3) that only added up to 98% so i added 2% to 78 (since it was the lowest of the 3) for 34%.
4) it gave me 76 exactly.

there might be a faster way to figure it out but its just an optimization question in the end.

 

And 76.7 is the highest they can get.

 

correct. wheres mr. 5pm answer??

 

well this is what i got on one part of my CPA exam and they said i failed. which is below a 75. They said i got a 73, but I dont know how they came up with that number. I spent about 1.5 hours on the phone with NASBA and the AICPA trying to figure out how they came up with that percentage and no one could answer me. I figured that the lowest grade i could get was a 76 as well and i went through it with them and they said it doesnt come out mathimatically and that you cant use those numbers and its mathimatically impossible to compute your grade using those numbers.


Long story short I can argue and have them regrade it which will take another 8 week pluse another couple hundred dollars. OR i can retake the damn thing. So i think im just going to forget it and retake it.

 

Yeah I got 76 as well

 

76....77, whatever it takes.

 

i just looked at it and guess 76... maybe a 1/10th or two higher but thats about it...

 

where the hells the answer Mr. thread starter

 

its going to be something stupid like 0, thats the lowest percent you COULD see ....

 

Probably busy playing online poker.

 

OK SORRY GUYS...got caught up in work yesterday and left without coming back to my desk...


ANSWER:


As most of you concluded, the logical answer would have an unasserted assumption that the over all sum of percentages of each part would indeed add up to 100 points. If this were the case, the problem becomes quite trivial by setting the minimum percent to the sections with the highest scores and vice-versa using the middle score as the variable percent to get to 100pts. This would lead to the following results:

Part1- 71 @ 28% = 19.88
Part2- 80 @ 12% = 9.6
Part3- 78 @ 34% = 26.52
Part4- 79 @ 8% = 6.32
Part5- 76 @ 18% = 13.68

TOTAL- 76.0%


But in fact if you remove the assumption and then gain the knowledge that this was a test Shermie took, you would then probably ask what is the passing grade. Being at 75% you would then know that Shermie would have to be below that and therefore a 73% overall grade is completely plausible.

 

so basically the correct answer is that shermie keeps getting owned in life.

 

YES!!!
only shermie could pass 4 out of 5 parts and barely fail the 5th yet fail the test...

 

poor shermie. maybe you can use it to convince katie to let you go fi.

 

yeah the conversation might go...


"hey honey, you know that big raise I was going to get when I passed the CPA?"

"yeah"

"and you know how we were going to get a big house after that??"

"YEAH"

"well i failed the CPA test, so can I go FI instead??"

"DEFINATELY, NOW TAKE ME NOW!!!!"