# Questions asking to check answers to end-of-chapter exercises. Appropriate or not?

I like to answer end-of-chapter exercises in various econometrics textbooks. Most of the time, there's no solution manual for me to check my answers. I wonder if it is appropriate for me to post such questions as well as my suggested answers or is this type of question not welcome on Cross Validated?

I note that the self-study tag says:

A routine question from a textbook, course, or test used for a class or self-study. This community's policy is to "provide helpful hints" for self-study questions.

The issue is that I'm really looking for corrections or improvements or confirmation that my suggested answer is correct rather than for helpful hints per se. Please note that this is done as a past-time as opposed to as part of formal study at a University.

Any help that could be provided would be much appreciated. I don't want to post questions that are against the rules.

• I meant to include my suggested answer as part of the question. More or less to say, here's the problem and here's my work so far. Dec 30 '14 at 16:46

I think it's fine to ask these questions, just be clear about what you're doing. You should include the [self-study] tag, and show your work, state what you understand thus far, etc. Despite the fact that this isn't actually for a university course, people may choose to provide hints only.