Quizmail Q1

[FLAK]

Is anybody else torn between 2 answers for this question ? The question asks "how many days to the NEAREST complete day" which would make the answer 72 as opposed to "how many complete days" which would make the answer 71.

I think 72 is correct unless anybody knows differently !

[boaw]

The difficulty is that there is no indication of rounding up or down.  It does seem that unless the day is COMPLETE that it does not count.  I have a feeling that this is going to be a question that will cause controversy for those who entered this quiz.  Good luck to you.

[Del424]

We are going with 72.  The nearest complete day can only be obtained by rounding it up as it was 71 days 14 hours.

[silly moo]

Surely , mathematically speaking , to the nearest complete day has to round either up or down depending on if more or less than 50%
In this case answer should be 72.

[alunrw]

This one has caused us the same problem , the way Im reading it is that the 72nd day wasnt actually completed and am therefore going for 71 as the nearest completed.
Im not at all convinced though !!

[Del424]

I think they may have made a rod for their own back with this one because although I believe that the answer they are after is 72, I like alunrw's thinking and if 71 is marked wrong then I think you have a valid argument for the result to be reversed bearing in mind the way they worded the question.

If 72 is marked wrong then we haven't got a cat in hells chance.