Hi Mark, It looks like you are wanting to display the tolerance in the hint? This can be done if you set the tolerance as a variable in the script. In the test environment this works OK. I have not tried to include it in a course.
This problem provides hints if the answer is wrong but within 100% or 500%. Note that if the answer is within 100%, then both hints display because anything within 100% is also within 500%. msu/lira/loncapa examples/conditional hints.problem Code included here for quick reference: <problem> <script type="loncapa/perl"> #Enter the computations here $a=&random(1,10,0.5); $b=&random(1,10,0.5); $c=$a+$b; $Tolerance = "10%" </script> <startouttext /> What is $a + $b? <endouttext /> <part id="01"> <numericalresponse answer="$c" id="01a"> <responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" default="$Tolerance" description="Numerical Tolerance" /> <textline readonly="no" spellcheck="none" /> <hintgroup showoncorrect="no"> <startouttext /><endouttext /> <numericalhint answer="$c" name="err100" id="11"> <responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" default="100%" description="Numerical Tolerance" /> </numericalhint> <numericalhint answer="$c" name="err500" id="12"> <responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" default="500%" description="Numerical Tolerance" /> </numericalhint> <hintpart on="err100"> <startouttext />Your answer is within +- 100%. Required tolerance $Tolerance.<br /><endouttext /> </hintpart> <hintpart on="err500"> <startouttext />Your answer is within +- 500%. Required tolerance $Tolerance.<br /><endouttext /> </hintpart> <hintpart on="default"> <startouttext />Your answer is off by more than +- 500%. Required tolerance $Tolerance.<endouttext /> </hintpart> </hintgroup> </numericalresponse> </part> </problem> -----Original Message----- From: lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org [mailto:lon-capa-users-boun...@mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Lucas, Mark Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 10:43 AM To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org Subject: [LON-CAPA-users] Tolerances with Hints Hi, I am looking to include a hint in a problem that occurs if a response is inside a wider tolerance (5%) but not within the requested tolerance (1%). I created the following hint code and plugged this into a course to test it. When I look at the parameters for the problem, the tolerance for id=“11” shows 5% (the tolerance used in the numericalhint tags), not 1%. I found this out when I purposely entered an answer that was about 3% off and found that I got it right. I thought I had done something like this before, but may not have tested it as rigorously as I thought (or I just may be deluding myself that I’ve done this before). Has anyone else tried this before? Is this a feature or a bug? Thanks! Mark <numericalresponse unit="J" format="3s" answer="$W" id="11"> <responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" default="1%" description="Numerical Tolerance" /> <responseparam name="sig" type="int_range" default="3,6" description="Significant Figures" /> <textline /> <hintgroup showoncorrect="no"> <numericalhint unit="J" format="3s" answer="$dEPE" name="wrongSign" id="12"> <responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" default="5%" description="Numerical Tolerance" /> <responseparam name="sig" type="int_range" default="3,6" description="Significant Figures" /> </numericalhint> <numericalhint unit="J" format="3s" answer="$W" name="Tol" id="14"> <responseparam name="tol" type="tolerance" default="5%" description="Numerical Tolerance" /> <responseparam name="sig" type="int_range" default="3,6" description="Significant Figures" /> </numericalhint> <hintpart on="wrongSign"> <startouttext />Remember that this is the work done BY the electric field, not the work done by you.<endouttext /> </hintpart> <hintpart on="Tol"> <startouttext />In this calculation you are adding a number of different terms, some of which are positive and some of which are negative. There is some benefit to working this problem out algebraically and finding terms that might offset each other. Remember that your answer needs to be within a tolerance of about $Tolerance.<endouttext /> </hintpart> </hintgroup> </numericalresponse> -- Mark Lucas email: luc...@ohiou.edu 252D Clippinger Lab phone: (740)597-2984 Department of Physics and Astronomy fax: (740)593-0433 Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users _______________________________________________ LON-CAPA-users mailing list LON-CAPA-users@mail.lon-capa.org http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-users