Quote: Original post by cowsarenotevil
Resolved in the sense that you got points back, or, say, in that they decided to sentence you to death? You didn't really say.

Resolved as in he offered double the points I lost (I refused them though) with the conclusion that we're both wrong (or right) because both sides can be justified (I didn't want to be annoying with the whole "well, majority says I'm actually more right"). That plus he mentioned the fact that in the many years he's been teaching and using this test, this debate has come up ... never, until now [lol]

Yea that is a dumb question. I would have said it is decreasing at an increasing rate as well. The 'rate' is increasing in the negative direction. Rate doesn't have a sign so I'm with you on this.

Send him a link to this forum lol.

Quote: Original post by dpadam450
Yea that is a dumb question. I would have said it is decreasing at an increasing rate as well. The 'rate' is increasing in the negative direction. Rate doesn't have a sign so I'm with you on this.

Send him a link to this forum lol.

technically rate can have a sign, but as he said that it was "Decreasing at a decreasing rate" the negative is implied. One could probably argue that, since it starts in an upward direction, it's increasing at a decreasing rate and that that rate eventually becomes negative.

I'm taking rate to be defined as the second derivative of the graph. I'm not sure if it has a specific definition in which case I could be completely wrong.