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@00dani The question might as well read "fuck you for being autistic and answering the question I asked rather than making a bunch of assumptions" @Rasp what the hell else is the point of the question even meant to be, if "a smaller fraction of a larger whole may be a bigger total value than a larger fraction of a smaller whole" apparently is incorrect marty ate 4/6 of his pizza and the remaining sixth of luis' pizza as well, but then got the other 2/6 out of the fridge later and ate that too?? what do you want from us @Rasp i've seen this post before and it embodies everything i hate about school these days, there's nobody who would ever answer that it's impossible because it isn't, it's just meant to trick kids, the question should have been "john and jane have two pizzas of the same size, john eats 4/6 and jane eats 5/6, is it possible that john ate more?" @Rasp oh, I hated these "definitional assumption" gotchas. I learned to anxiously try to read the mind of the teachers or authors to figure out which particular clever thing they wanted me to say. It was a coin flip. Sometimes they wanted the whole class to be wrong so that they could say we didn't get it.  @kaedechan I know it hurts my brain too the leaps of logic and assumptions that have to be made... |
@Rasp wtf was the intended answer supposed to be