Wonderbra much bettah.
Posted on 01/31/2018 10:42:17 PM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Mother is left stumped by her seven-year-old daughter's maths homework question (but could YOU work it out?)
A mother was left scratching her head after trying to help her seven-year-old daughter with her maths homework.
Angie Werner was stumped when she tried answer the conundrum and turned to social media to help her out.
The problem asked how many entrants were in a dog show and while at first the answer appeared to be simple - in fact it left many parents completely miffed.
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Isn’t it simple addition — 49 plus 36? No mention of percentages or anything. Or am I missing something?
36
It is not a whole number....even if one does the math, the half dog makes one doubt the answer.
Total dogs T = 49
Small dogs = 36
Large dogs = ?
L + S = T
L + 36 = 49
L + 36 - 36 = 49 - 36
L = 49 - 36
L = 13
However since the answer is given in the question, there’s no point in solving anything unless you want to know how many large dogs are in the show.
Wonderbra much bettah.
The answer is not dumb.
But the question?
That’s another matter.
49 (”total”) dogs signed up to compete. 36 more small dogs were signed up to compete than large dogs. How many small dogs? That was the question. The answer is 36 small dogs.
I think the writer meant to say “ how many large dogs” but took a hit on his or her bong and in a smoky mind altered mist bungled the question.
49(total dogs were signed up to compete)=
36(more small dogs signed up to compete)
+ X(large dogs to compete)
49-36=X
13=x(large dogs competing)
therefore 36(small dogs) + 13(large dogs)=49(total competing dogs)
Yep.
It sounds more like a grammar problem than a math problem.
I’d say the answer is zero because it implies that the dogs signed up themselves and since dogs can’t write, none are competing. (But that’s the second grade rebel in me)
The grammatical problem is 36 MORE dogs. It should just say 36 small dogs.
This question is part of the lib agenda.
To accept the mathematical answer, you have to accept the false premise that a half dog can exist without questioning it (or you get the wrong answer).
Sort of like presuming AGW is settled science or that there are more than 2 sexes.
Agreed- to think that it is an algebraic equation is to think that a second grader would be taught algebra- gotta think like a 2nd grader here. Poorly worded and confusing problem, unless you parse it like a 7 year old would. It should b e worded more like this:
If there are 49 dogs entered in a contest, and there are 36 small dogs entered, how many large dogs are entered? 49-36=??
And we actually pay teachers like these?
I am glad we homeschooled our three- they all a have MA/MS etc and can do math.... I only would have liked to see them all attend Hillsdale or some other non-state funded schools.... Me too.
Education- teaching students how to think, not what to think.
Indoctrination- teaching students what to think, and not how to think....
I’ll just say that I don’t have a dog in this fight.
But I do have half a dog.
You and I both think it’s a grammar problem, just form different perspectives. I think yours make more sense, but it’s obviously a typo of some sort.
I had a professor in college who screwed up a Scan-Tron test. Every student in the class got the same four questions wrong.
He got furious when we called him on it and said that he’d re-check it but if he was right, we’d all lose double points. He didn’t know that nearly everyone in the class had the next class together, taught by the dean of the Business Department. He got quite the earful and our tests got corrected.
It happens, deal with it.
Easy stuff for every 7 yo kid. /s
No, your answer gives only 23 more small dogs than large dogs. The break down in the article confused me, when people here wrote the equation using X for large dogs it made sense.
Like another said, using dogs in this problem messes with your mind. Solving for X to then find the total makes sense.
It is easy when you start chopping the dogs in half. You have to think outside the box on this one.
2x + 36=49
2x=49-36
2x=13
x=6.5
42.5 small dogs and 6.5 large ones.
whoever set up the problem should have realized that dogs come as whole numbers. You don’t have half a dog.
1/2 dog excels at SIT and STAY.
Not so much at FETCH.
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