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Comment on QC Strategy - Plugging in Numbers
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Is there any time when
Sometimes the Plugging in
Sometimes the Plugging in Numbers is the approach when you can't see how to apply the other approaches.
That said, if there are several complicated operations involved, sometimes it's faster to plug in some "easy values" (e.g., 0, 1, -1, etc) to see if you can reach a solution faster.
Just wondering... Is it a
That's a good strategy.
That's a good strategy.
Of course, if you get the same outcome with 1, -1 and 0, try 1/2, -1/2, 10 and -10, to see if you get a different outcome.
As mentioned in the video, plugging in numbers has its limitations since you will never by 100% certain of your answer UNLESS you're lucky enough to get two different outcomes (which means the correct answer is D).
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"Without two contradictory
Is this a grammar or logic mistake here? Don't you mean "with" two contradictory results? With 2 contradictory results (say you get A for one result and B for another result...these are contradictory), then you don't know what the answer is. So you should be saying "with" instead of "without."
Let's say we have the
Let's say we have the following question:
x > 0
QUANTITY A: x
QUANTITY B: x²
Now let's test two different values of x.
case i: If x = 2, we get:
QUANTITY A: 2
QUANTITY B: 4
In this case, Quantity B is greater
case ii: If x = 0.5, we get:
QUANTITY A: 0.5
QUANTITY B: 0.25
In this case, Quantity A is greater
Now that we have two contradictory results (in one case, Quantity B is greater, and in the other case, Quantity A is greater), we can be certain the correct answer is D.
In other words, with two contradictory results, we can be certain of the correct answer.
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Now let's say we have the same question...
x > 0
QUANTITY A: x
QUANTITY B: x²
...but we test different values.
case i: If x = 2, we get:
QUANTITY A: 2
QUANTITY B: 4
In this case, Quantity B is greater
case ii: If x = 3, we get:
QUANTITY A: 3
QUANTITY B: 9
In this case, Quantity B is greater
Since we don't have two contradictory results, we can't be certain whether the correct answer is B or D.
In other words, without two contradictory results, we cannot be certain of the correct answer.
Does that help?
Cheers,
Brent