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Re: preparing multiple choice questions

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg63378] Re: preparing multiple choice questions
• From: "Baris Erbas" <berbas at anadolu.edu.tr>
• Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 06:15:45 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Anadolu University
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Thank you very much all, all the solutions work quite nicely. 
I will read all the help about the functions you used.

regards

baris

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ggroup at sarj.ca [mailto:ggroup at sarj.ca]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Sent: 27 Aralýk 2005 Salý 02:06
>To: Baris Erbas
>Cc: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg63378] Re:  preparing multiple choice questions
>
>On Monday, December 26, 2005 at 04:59 GMT -0500, Baris Erbas wrote:
>
><snip>
>> I want to automatically assign the question numbers and and the
>> correct answers using mathematica. All correct answers should be in
>> equal quantity, i.e. 6 a, 6 b, . 6 e.
><snip>
>> Is there a way of doing this in Mathematica?
>
>Try the RandomPermutation function in the Combinatorica package:
>
><< DiscreteMath`Combinatorica`
>ans = Table[Mod[i, 5], {i, 30}] /. {1 -> a, 2 -> b, 3 -> c, 4 -> d, 0 -> e}
>randAns = RandomPermutation[ans]