Do I get points for creativity? Actual exam answers.

A budding journalist here. This person did not approach the question in the obvious manner but looked for the unusual answer.
Now I know that journalists are not supposed to be math wizards, but even I can see that this is not the way to solve this problem.
Or this...Or this way..Or you can use the Discovery Institute "And then a miracle happened" method and insert whatever you want to make the answer come out the way you want it to...


But my favorite is...