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answer key vs key answer

The correct term is "answer key." This term is widely used to refer to a set of correct answers to questions or exercises. "Key answer" is incorrect.
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Last updated: August 02, 2024

answer key

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

The term 'answer key' is used to refer to a document that contains the correct answers to questions or exercises.

Examples:

  • The teacher provided an answer key for the practice test.
  • You can check your answers using the answer key at the back of the book.
  • So, if you're right, then this answer key was left in Messner's classroom for Turk to find.
  • This answer key matches your test.
  • See, you mock up a fake label with an answer key on it, no one looks twice.
  • Okay, so, if your answer key is right, then all Moriarty tried to pass along in these sketches is a bunch of numbers.
  • You'll pick up a few cues here and there, but don't expect an answer key.
  • With DMSO acting as a skin absorbent for the cyanide... anybody who touched that answer key was doomed.
  • You may be aware, I keep an answer key to every exam locked inside this office.
  • This is a teacher's answer key to a chemistry test.
  • That I sold the answer key to someone.
  • Didn't skip to the answer key in the back?
  • Then how do you explain the midterm answer key being found in your fraternity room?
  • That number that you found is not a phone number; it is the answer key.
  • She put the answer key on the back?
  • [Suki] Wouldn't it be great if what we end up finding is a copy of the test with an answer key?
  • This is the answer key to Mr. Messner's Chem IV final, which was left in a drawer for his worst student, Rob Turkla.
  • And the best part here, or one of the better parts is that we don't get our answer from the answer key in the back of the teacher's edition.
  • because the theoretical models that always work out in the answer key in the back of a teacher's edition, that's great, but it's scary to talk about sources of error when the theoretical does not match up with the practical.

Alternatives:

  • solution key
  • key to answers
  • correct answer guide
  • answer sheet
  • answer guide

key answer

This phrase is not commonly used in English.

  • This answer key matches your test.
  • Maybe enough that he sold S.A.T. answer keys.
  • This key is the answer to our problems.
  • She promised me all the answer keys to...
  • And whether you like it or not, Angelo Sorrento is key to that answer.
  • See, you mock up a fake label with an answer key on it, no one looks twice.
  • Okay, so, if your answer key is right, then all Moriarty tried to pass along in these sketches is a bunch of numbers.
  • You'll pick up a few cues here and there, but don't expect an answer key.
  • Bet he didn't have the S.A.T. answer keys, though.
  • This is the answer key to Mr. Messner's Chem IV final, which was left in a drawer for his worst student, Rob Turkla.
  • So, if you're right, then this answer key was left in Messner's classroom for Turk to find.
  • With DMSO acting as a skin absorbent for the cyanide... anybody who touched that answer key was doomed.
  • You may be aware, I keep an answer key to every exam locked inside this office.
  • This is a teacher's answer key to a chemistry test.
  • That I sold the answer key to someone.
  • We actually need to answer some key questions to be able to do this.
  • Didn't skip to the answer key in the back?
  • Then how do you explain the midterm answer key being found in your fraternity room?
  • In the meantime, the EPC has published «Questions & Answers clarifying key aspects of the SEPA Cards Framework» (June 2008), as a result of discussions with the European Commission.
  • The proposal fails to answer the key question of the extent to which the retention of data is actually necessary and expedient.

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