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If you're assuming that its path is parabolic and you are using some of the simple physics formulae then: v^2= u^2 + 2as (take out 'u^2' because you are calculating the vertical velocity once it reaches 1 meter above the ground after having accelerated from the point above the fence where...

It isn't necesarily predetermined that they get the answer x=5. They could have absolutely no algebra skills and write nothing. They could make a huge blunder and divide both sides by 'x' wrongly thinking that will leave 5=2 (which doesn't make very much sense). Were the question to ask them to...

So that there's something that can actually be compared in this thread I scored 149 on the WISC-III test 5 years ago when I was 11.

I think there needs to be a definition of what constitutes consciousness here to come to a decision. Don't you think that consciousness involves a certain sense of self and sense of an identity? eg. I am me. I am a squirrel. I like green nuts, not because I am a squirrel, but because I am...

Perhaps everything is pre-destined partly because we do have a choice. Just because everything is destined to be a certain way doesn't mean we don't have a say in all of it. We choose the life we want to live and we live it because we have a preference for certain things. Everything is a...