Grade help (20% final)!!??!!??!!?

Question

Hey guys! I'm super desperate now, so if ANYONE could help, you are my hero! BTW, finals are worth 20%.

Ok, could you see if I bump up my grade to an A.

Class #1=85.99%

Class #2=86.6%

If so, what would be the best grade I need on my final so that I could get an A for the semester!

Thank you so much!!

Answer 1

i never understood these questions. Asking or not asking, wouldn't you still do your best to get the higher numerical grade? It would be completely different to see if you will pass or fail, but for an A?

as for your questions, it doesn't make sense. you have 2 classes with grade percentage next to it. what do those percentage represent? Your test average? your assignment average? finals will be 20%? wat will homework be? wat will midterms be? wat will quizes be?there's no way you can accurately calculate this. My advice is to talk to the professor. They always bump your grades a little higher if they see that you are serious about your grades enough to go have a talk with them.

Answer 2

What's an A for you all the grade scales are different?

Answer 3

a 92%-95%

Answer 4

you already have an A, but here is how you do it:

multiply your current grade by .8

then multiply what you want to get on the exam by .2

then add those two numbers together to get your final grade

play around with those numbers till you get a score above 90

Answer 5

A few variables we'd need to know:  I get that your final is 20% of the grade, but do class #1 and #2 account for the other 80% (and are they each 40% or does one of those count for more than the other)?  I'll make that assumption to answer your question.  Secondly, I'm also assuming that an A is anything more than 90% (sometimes it's higher).  With those assumptions, you would need a 104.82% to get an A (90%).

Here's how I figured it out (again, I'm not a math person, so I'm sure there's a quicker and perhaps more accurate way to get to this):

1) I assigned your final exam a point value of 100.  This means that the other two assignments are valued at 200 points (because they account for 40% each, twice as much as the final).

2)  I doubled your previous percentages (because they are currently on a scale of 100 and under my twisted math, have to be on a scale of 200).

3)  I added the total number of possible points together (200+200+100=500) and then subtracted ten percent to figure out how many points you would have to have to get a 90% (10% of 500=50, so you'd need 450 points total for an A).

4)  I added up the adjusted points for your first two classes (171.98+173.20) and then substracted that from 450, which left me with 104.82 (the score you would need on the last assignment to get a 90%).

EDIT:  I read your edits and I'm still confused.  Are these two different classes?  Even so, the grades are so similar that I think you would still need a perfect score (or really close to it) to get an A in either class.