Care with wording problems

[Jeanette]

I have been going through the math threads and I would like to thank those who posted problems. It is helpful to me to try to solve them and to see some of the ingenious methods that other posters have come up with.

But please, please, when you write out a problem, please use the original words, symbols and answer choices that were in the problem! It is very frustrating to try to solve a problem and come up with the wrong answer, and not know if that's because my answer is wrong or because the numbers weren't put in correctly or the directions are not clear.