• Lightor
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    5 days ago

    Marty ate more than Luis, that was she lie, in the problem not the answer. That’s if the teacher is saying the answer isn’t right.

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      15 days ago

      The teacher didn’t write OR understand the question. It’s about reasonableness - that is, not just mindlessly solving math. The solution is that Marty’s pizza was bigger, so 4/6 of that was more than 5/6 of Luis’, smaller pizza.

      There is no lie. The teached is just dumb. Or more likely overworked, but wrong nontheless.

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        5 days ago

        This is not that level of reasoning. This is basically 4 < 5 if they’re both over 6. This is introducing fractions… It’s not that deep.