“…Distracters were constructed using the same procedures used for the BET. MET-B response alternatives, rounded numbers that differed from one another by a power of 10 (e.g., 40, 400, 4,000), represented a response format often used in tests of estimation (R. E. Reys, 1986;Schoen, Blume, & Hoover, 1990). For all three estimation tasks, the position of the correct answer within the multiple choice alternatives was varied systematically so that all three positions were regularly used.…”