Re: What's in an expression?
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- Subject: [mg132417] Re: What's in an expression?
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 03:36:08 -0400 (EDT)
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Assuming that answers are entered as strings; to exclude derivatives but
allow other alternative forms:
verifySolution[proposed_, actual_, cond_: {}] :=
StringFreeQ[proposed, {"Derivative", "'", "D["}] &&
Simplify[ToExpression[proposed] == actual, cond]
answers = {"Sin'[x]", "Derivative[1][Sin][x]",
"D[Sin[x],x]", "Cos[x]", "Sin[x]/Tan[x]"};
ToExpression /@ answers // Union
{Cos[x]}
verifySolution[#, Cos[x]] & /@ answers
{False, False, False, True, True}
If the answer must be literally the same as the intended answer:
verifySolution2[proposed_, actual_] :=
SameQ @@ (StringTrim /@ {proposed, actual})
verifySolution2[#, "Cos[x]"] & /@ answers
{False, False, False, True, False}
Bob Hanlon
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 4:38 AM, <sam.takoy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm building a little Mathematica system that checks answers entered by
> students. Suppose the question is "what is Sin'[x]?" ad the student
> responds: Sin'[x] which is "correct", but not the intended answer (Cos[x]).
> I'm wondering if there is a general way to approach this sort of problem.
> In particular, is there a way to find out whether a given expression
> includes certain elements (like Derivative)?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Sam
>
>
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- What's in an expression?
- From: sam.takoy@yahoo.com
- What's in an expression?