Timeline for "Expect to" vs. "Expect will"
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| Nov 4, 2012 at 4:06 | answer | added | gam3 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 7:56 | answer | added | chharvey | timeline score: -1 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 7:40 | comment | added | chharvey | My question wasn't about translating a mathematical statement into a realistic application, it's about the usage of the word "expect." In fact, I shouldn't have had to post the context of the test in the question in the first place. My question is independent of the math problem. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 7:06 | comment | added | Fortiter | You have demonstrated clearly how difficult you find the task of translating your (eminently clear) mathematical statement of the task into something that purports to be a "realistic application". Why do you believe that your students will be able to translate it back without difficulty? | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/264259650051002369 | ||
| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:46 | history | edited | chharvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:43 | comment | added | chharvey | @coleopterist It doesn't matter. The intent of the problem is this: Given a normal distribution with a mean of 400 and a standard deviation of 70, find the probability that any randomly selected data value will be greater than 470. I'm just giving it a real-world context. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:37 | answer | added | Chris | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:36 | comment | added | coleopterist | I find that the use of sales is ambiguous here. Are you talking about individual items sold or total sales of many items? IOW, I might expect three sales to make more than $470 (each) or I might expect three to earn me more than $470 in toto. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:31 | comment | added | Jim | How about something like, "How many sales do you expect to be made at a sales price of more than $470?" | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:29 | history | edited | chharvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2012 at 6:13 | comment | added | chharvey | @FumbleFingers see my comment on Fortiter's answer below. The test requires knowledge of the normal distribution and predicting values any particular sale will "make". Or "earn" I guess would be a good substitute. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 5:53 | answer | added | Fortiter | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 5:44 | answer | added | user21497 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 5:39 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | As given, I guess they mean the same, so it's a "stylistic choice". But I feel the first is a bit ungainly/potentially confusing, in that it could grammatically end after the word "make". So you've got to discard that potential interpretation - which doesn't arise with the second example, since it can't finish before the actual end of the sentence. | |
| Nov 2, 2012 at 5:31 | history | asked | chharvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |