[USNBandit]

Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?

Crazy hypothetical questions like this only confuse children and slow down the reading process. What child would read a question like this and not wonder why you need more than one slave to pick 56 oranges?

[gogogodzilla]

Not to mention:

Another math problem read, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

Is that a work week (Monday-Friday), or a full week? Does that include beatings on the Sabbath, which is a day of rest. For a religious beater would rest on that day, thus not beat Frederick.

:-P

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or, why have all eight going at the same tree even if it’s a big orchard? You’d think they’d section off the orchard, one section for each picker.

[Salamander]

Obviously a Dem plantation owner who was showboating his overwhelming surplus of slaves to his neighbors, of course.

[the bigger question is whether or not they could pick the oranges whilst laden with coconuts]

[D Rider]

Crazy hypothetical questions like this only confuse children and slow down the reading process. What child would read a question like this and not wonder why you need more than one slave to pick 56 oranges?

So children learn that slaves were lazy? Did former Senator Byrd write that question?

[Michael.SF.]

LOL