** Using WeBWorK **

I actually wrote an extensive routine that will let you choose random variables, in a systematized way, to defeat that sort of thing. The invocation is kind of nightmarish -- I chose it the way I did for a reason, although I'm no longer convinced this was the right way -- but if you don't mind cutting and pasting you can do something like this:


which would let you pick three new numbers $aConst, $aPower and $aRoot from 2-7 such that a) at least one of them is different from their original/current value [that's the byOr function call] and b) aPower and aRoot are relatively prime [that's the gcd part]. If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to provide the code for it.

[The random loop terminates stochastically, btw; in general, I've found that if the right combination of random numbers can't be found in 100 guesses, I probably programmed the condition wrong.]