Today, a person I know IRL asked me this on Facebook:
"What is the answer to question #4, 5, and 6?"
I replied that the answers were obvious, since you have to look at the graphs for the answer, but he/she gave me his/her answer and badgered me with:
"Is it right?"
"Is it right?"
I told him/her to look at the graphs again, and he/she gave up.
I did not reply my own answers to the questions, because they either require you to think by yourself or are given in the graph. This person who asked me this is in an
Honors class, meaning you have to think more (yes, I am in his/her class). In addition, just because I am smart does not mean I am right all the time, so he/she could be copying off answers that are wrong if I had given him/her the answers.
Also, notice that he/she asked for
the answers to the questions, not for help on the questions. Had he/she asked something such as "I need help on Questions 4, 5, and 6, I would have given him/her advice on how to tackle the problem.
Plus, Rahkshi8000
clearly stated in the rules of this board:
2. Note that this board is a place to request help, not answers to your work. This is not a repository for answers. We are more than willing to help you, however we will not allow cheating here. You will most likely fail a class if you try to cheat your way through it - so please do not even try.
Really, his/her struggle to think outside the box can catch up to him/her in his/her later years of education and bite him/her.
Anyways, I do have some regrets since I did not explain why I did not give him/her my own answers, and perhaps he/she might be upset at me for not giving him/her my answers.
Unfortunately, he/she is not the only person who asks for answers on homework. There are others I know IRL who ask for homework answers, which disappoints me.
Is it the right choice? In my opinion, I have mostly done the right thing, because I have many reasons above as to why I did not give him/her my answers.
