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brooklynite

(94,679 posts)
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 07:25 PM Feb 2018

High School Quiz...

You are an armed and trained teacher in a school. An active shooter alert is called. You pull out your gun and check the hall, where you see an armed person running towards you.

1) If the hallway is 200 ft long and the person is running a 6 MPH, how long will it take the person to reach you? (10%). How long will a bullet from the person’s gun take to reach you? (10%)

2 Essay: how will you determine if the person running towards you is the shooter, another armed teacher or a plainclothes police officer? (30%)

3. Short answer: How will the other person determine if YOU are the shooter, another armed teacher or a plainclothes police officer? (50%)

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High School Quiz... (Original Post) brooklynite Feb 2018 OP
Looks like the New Math Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #1
Answers ProudLib72 Feb 2018 #2
You forgot to mention this is a timed test central scrutinizer Feb 2018 #3

ProudLib72

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2. Answers
Sat Feb 24, 2018, 07:37 PM
Feb 2018

1)a. Pretty soon; b. A lot sooner

2) It's not my job to determine such things. I'm just going to start shooting randomly and hope a bullet finds the bad guy.

3) They'd better damn well know who I am or else I'm gonna sue their ass off!

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