[LON-CAPA-users] factoring problems, source code

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

On May 3, 2007, at 12:32 PM, James Sullivan wrote:

> A related question. Is there any current support for something like  
> an "equationresponse"?
>
> For example, an answer like
>
> "x > 7+y"


No, mathresponse should work for that. If you have sufficient  
information built up in Maxima to do the evaluation, a final

isTrue("x>7+y")

- or, since you want to take the actual student answer -

isTrue(RESPONSE[1])

should do the trick.

- Gerd.