<h1>Questions which are just photographs of your homework sheet or old exam paper</h1>

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<h2>Why these questions are closed</h2>

<p>We have a <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/tags/self-study/info">policy on self-study questions</a>, which says that:</p>

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  <p><strong>It is okay to ask about homework.</strong> Homework is included in this self-study tag. This site exists to help people learn and provide a standard repository for questions in statistics and machine learning, both simple and complex, and this includes helping students.</p>
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<p>However, we ask that you fulfil certain conditions, including:</p>

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  <ul>
  <li><p>Make a <strong>good faith attempt</strong> to solve the problem yourself first. If don't seem to be making a genuine attempt, your question might be voted down or closed.</p></li>
  <li><p><strong>Be honest about the source of the question.</strong>  Do this by adding the self-study tag and mentioning whether it is for some class in the question text.</p></li>
  </ul>
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<p>Just showing us a picture of the question doesn't show us what you've tried or where you're stuck, or indeed that you've made a good faith attempt at the question at all. Also, if you haven't typed anything, then we won't know what the original source of your question is. If your homework comes from a textbook, for instance, you should give a full reference (citation) to acknowledge its authorship. </p>

<p>Photographs of your question are also inconvenient for other reasons. They can be difficult to read, particularly if the quality of the photograph is poor. The text is inaccessible to users using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_reader" rel="nofollow noreferrer">screen readers</a>. Moreover, the text is not searchable, either through our site search or external search engines &mdash; this goes against our objective of producing a high quality repository of statistics questions and answers that future readers can learn from. If your question can't be found, then other people will not be able to learn from it!</p>

<p>Sometimes people resort to taking a photograph of their homework because they do not feel able to copy the formatting. Our site has typesetting features for text and equations (using LaTeX) &mdash; see our <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/editing-help">editing help</a> for further information. There are situations where photographs are appropriate, for instance if you want to ask what an unclear piece of notation means (and because it's not clear to you what it is, you can't typeset it), you are struggling with how to use LaTeX for an equation or table (some of our helpful users may edit your question to assist you with this), or you need to show us a graph or diagram. However, even in these cases it's best for your question not to just consist of a photograph! Type the question you have, and show us a picture of what you can't type. </p>
