Comment on Tracey fucked around and found out

luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• miseducator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, should be something along the lines of “… asks for a quarter of the remaining chocolate bars”. Or maybe not. Who knows?

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• dalekcaan@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This sounds like some SAT “make questions harder by making them more confusing” bullshit.

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  • Shizzymcjizzles@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That shit drove me insane. You’d think they would vet the questions better. I spent more time trying to understand what it was they wanted solved than actually solving it. Once that was clear finding the answers took no time.

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  • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wait until no one is proofreading Ai tests.

    If Tom has four apples and Jeff is invisible, how far is it to Perth Australia?

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• rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s a trick question. Tracey purposely asks for “the remaining quarter”, which is inherently unclear. She then exploits Rachel’s confusion to run off with all 16 chocolate bars.

  People like Tracey should be behind bars (pun not intended).

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• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  While we are at it, the teacher needs a slap too.

  That was obviously the correct answer.

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• AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  OK, start with 16 and she takes 4, so you have 12 left.

  Now of that 12 she wants a quarter of them, 1/4 x 12 = 3.

  Add that 3 to the 4 she took at the start and you have 7 total.

  The wording makes the question confusing.

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The wording doesn’t make the question confusing, the wording is incorrect in the English language. The “remaining quarter” implies only a quarter (4) remains of the original total (16) after the described transactions. It should say she asks for “a quarter of the remaining”.

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• JayDee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The ‘remaining’ quarter means a quarter of what is remaining of Rachel’s pile. The phrasing is odd but there really isn’t any way to misconstrue it without turning the meaning into nonsense that you can’t do math on.

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    A quarter of the remaining total ≠ the remaining quarter

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    • JayDee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It absolutely is 1/4th of what remains. Rachel will be left with 9 and Tracey will have 7. They’re not going to say ‘what remains of the quarter tracy took’ because it’s nonsensical. Tracy took a quarter so there’s nothing that remains of the quarter tracy took. they’re not going to mean ‘there is only one quarter left and tracy takes It’ either, because that also is nonsense. The only meaning that makes any possible sense, then, is 'tracy takes one quarter of what remains, which is 12/4 = 3. Tracy takes 3, that’s the only answer that makes logical sense.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A quarter is 25% of anything. If she has 12 left, 25% is 3.

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes but that isn’t a remaining quarter. That’s another quarter.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes. It’s worded very strange.

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• cantaloup@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe it’s like Tracey ends up with 4 chocolate bars and ¢25

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• Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The quarter wasn’t about candy, Rachel slings all types of dope.

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