It looks ok but it just doesnt add up…

Wrote to the teacher…

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    there’s no evidence here.

    Besides the fact that neither problem shown is actually solvable. Which is absolutely a mistake a clanker would make

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      12 days ago

      Making mistakes is also a human problem, unfortunately. If you change the 8 to a 6, everything works, 300, 220, 350, 100, -50. My guess is a transcription error: the editors cleared the problem, but the typesetter fat fingered it when making a graphic.

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        12 days ago

        OP mentioned that their Kid has not been taught the concept of negative numbers yet. So the -50 for the lower right part of the right “brick wall” wouldn’t make sense either.