On Thu, 25 May 2017 23:52:14 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

On 25/05/2017 21:34, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/05/17 21:27, Bill Wright wrote:
On 25/05/2017 19:16, misterroy wrote:
found this test lurking in the filing cabinet at work, some of the
questions might need a bit more context.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_U...2bnN1c0U/view?
usp=sharing


Is the gate question a trick? H has the brace the wrong way round.

Bill
tesnd to work either way.

There were more than one question however where there seemed to be
insufficient information.

The car skid for example.

The butchers hook one as well... depending what you want to achieve -
least load on the supports, then in the middle. Least bending of the
rail, then right at the end.

Or, as I was forced to conclude, a question of ergonomics relating to
reduction of fatigue induced stress on that classic and timeless
mechanical system, the musculoskeletal system of the butcher himself! :-)

Nothing else made any sense due to lack of information in regard of the
rail and its supports. One was left to make far too many completely
unwarranted assumptions about the non biological content leaving only the
biomechanical and mindset assumptions of the butcher himself as the least
contentious of all the possible assumptions that could be made from the
cunningly disguised content of that question.

If you analyse that question very closely and carefully, you'll realise
it was actually a cunningly disguised question of an ergonomically driven
common sense based solution to a problem faced by the butcher rather than
anything to do with what was least stressful to the hook rail and its
supports. Even so, it did beg the question as to why the butcher wasn't
clever enough to slide all the hooks to the right hand end of the rail
beforehand to ease the load even further but I guess this may have made
the required answer all too obvious for the examiner's liking. :-)

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Johnny B Good