Assessing the Complexity of Literacy Tasks
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Quantitative Literacy - Level 4

Most of the tasks at this level will involve multiplication and division, as well as more complex multiple operations. The numbers operated upon tend to not be adjacent, nor do they appear in the same row and column. The labels associated with the numbers are not provided, and the operations themselves must sometimes be inferred. Answers may need to be transformed in some way. Plausible distractors are present, but not in the same node as the answer.

The following question has a rated difficulty of 335 on IALS.

Calculate the total number of kilometres travelled in a trip from Guadalajara to Tecomán and then to Zamora.

Graphic of a table used to calculate the number of km between 6 destinations

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