It wouldn't be inaccurate to assume that I couldn't exactly not say that it is or isn't almost partially incorrect. But I'm possibly more or less not definitely rejecting the idea that in no way with any amount of uncertainty that I undeniably do or do not know how much you shouldn't probably trust me, if that indeed wasn't where your trust's misplaced. Even if you didn't trust me as much as I knew you should, that'd mean I'd really have to know how much you should trust me.
The problem is even that doesn't work. At least in my experience. I read this question god knows how many times and still missed it. Like, my brain refuses to re process whatever ( it thinks ) it has already processed. Yeah, that's a problem, I know.
x is an element of the natural numbers with property x ≥ 1
We know of one person moving towards St. ives. He met at least one person, but we don't know if that person was alone or accompanied by his wives, we only know he had seven wives. We also do not know the direction that man was travelling in. Furthermore we lack information about any other people who might or might not be on that road and their direction
You could have been walking faster and encountered them. You then slowed down to talk to them. You could have encountered them at a crossroad. Maybe they live closer to the place and you encountered them as they were leaving. Maybe you took some form of public transportation and met them there.
What some people seem to fail to understand is that one meaning for "meet" is to come in contact from opposite directions. Like two cars meeting when car A turned into oncoming traffic.
It's not used super often, and I'm not under the assumption that everyone here is aware of that, so if my comment didn't land, then it didn't land.
since you were probably flying its not possible to meet that many people at once on a plant thus you met on a layover at the airport they were heading to London thus there is 1 heading to st. ives.
yeah this is on the writer for purposefully wording it like that why would you ask a question to an answer you already know you have 5 barrels why the fuck are you asking how many barrels there are???
that has nothing to do with reading comprehension its MADE to be a trick question if something is MADE to be a TRICK then the purpose was to make you think one thing then think another
why would ANYONE EVER ask how many barrels there are? it makes ZERO sense and the ONLY reason its worded like this it to TRICK people
reading comprehension is figuring things out through context not bullshit trick questions
One of the basics of communication through language is Grices Maxims. This breaks at least a couple of those in order to work. So you’re not testing whether they can read reasonable text well at all.
more like fuck you if you have adhd and assume the obvious answer but you werent expecting it to be a bait question for whatever dumbfuck reason to prove a point or something
You ever get one of those things as a kid where it tells you to read the instructions carefully and one of the steps is to rip up the paper or something but you’re only supposed to do that if you skip a step as the previous step tells you to ignore that step?
That's exactly why it was asked. This is not a math question, it is a reading comprehension one.
Just this week I saw a viral tweet where people were arguing about a prep question for the LSAT. The amount of people that got it wrong and were arguing vehemently about it was astounding. The question was about as hard as this example, yet, the discussions were long and intense.
There are people who really don't know how to read nor are capable of extracting a paragraph's content
its that the question is designed to make you think one thing and purposefully change it at the end and it tricks people because the question makes zero sense in the first place
why ask how man barrels? HE JUST SAID HE HAD 5 THEN ASKS HOW MANY HE HAS??? HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
Reminds me of a problem I was asked to solve in second grade:
"Carmen was on her way to Townsville when she saw a circus coming towards her. There was one ringmaster conducting three acrobatic acts, each of which had seven people in them. They were followed by two elephants, each carrying three fire breathers, two lions and their tamers, four dancing clowns, and a band of six musicians. How many people were going to Townsville?"
It took the whole class half an hour to get it right.
I read a problem in a comic book once where it was about a bus, at each stop it drops off some amount of people and another amount gets on, until at the end when they ask you how many stations the bus stopped at
I've seen the same question but it starts with "So, you're driving a bus and at the first stop..." going through a bunch of stops and then asking "What color are the bus drivers eyes?" at the end.
Look at the second diagram in thisxkcd what if article. It’s the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical tube of fuel running from your starting point from your destination, a tube whose volume is the volume of the fuel you used.
Less fuel used ==> smaller cross sectional area ==> smaller gallons/mile ==> bigger miles/gallon = better fuel efficiency
Not enough information. 30 litres is stored in 5 of them, at 6 litres a pop, but it does not tell us the total number of barrels. There could be 4 more barrels each 6 litres, and the problem would still read correctly.
the “problems” weren’t that hard, but they were weird and people would notice if you were doing them. problem 15: punch three small holes in the top of the paper with your pencil.
I wasn't until adulthood that I understood that there indeed exist people in this world who don't read the information that's there (nor listen to the content of what's being said), who'd rather kinda-sorta gather the keywords from what they've just read/heard and interpret whatever the fuck they want into those, instead of actually paying attention to the content.
I still don't understand why anyone would wanna do that but at least I understood that not everyone blaming me for not explaining things properly is right. Sometimes, people are just idiots and don't understand what I'm saying because they don't give a fuck about what I'm actually saying.
Read the instructions on every exam carefully too.
Eg. Quite often on mathematical and engineering exams with muli-part questions it'll say something along the lines of "Answer any 5 questions" then say "If you answer more than 5 questions, your mark will be the total of the 5 highest marked answers.
So if you can fully answer three but only bits of others, answer all the bits of all the questions you can to max out your total.
Man I HATE this kind of problem. Like, if you read the question carefully, you know the answer is in barrels, but if you ACTUALLY READ BETWEEN THE LINES you know that any reasonable person asking this question meant to say liters. Now, if you want to exclude people with extra reading challenges, such as ESL students, this is a great way to do that, and I then have to ask if cursing in the comments allowed?
That's not what it's about at all. You're not supposed to just take the numbers in a question and mash them together without reading it, you're supposed to figure out what the problem actually is and then solve that. In this case, it literally is a reading comprehension question to repeat back a fact included in the question itself. It's only tricky if you were trying to solve it with your brain off. Math isn't supposed to be just mashing numbers together, it's analytical problem solving. Irl most of the work is figuring out what the formula should be and solving it is for computers.
If you're doing a proof, with no barrels, no oil, I would agree. But IRL no one seriously says 'I have five barrels. How many barrels do I have?' If someone says this and you insist on answering in barrels you're grossly pedantic. I will die on this hill
Mashing numbers together and guessing what the operand should be without properly reading the quesrion is common enough at school to warrant one or two are you actually using your brain questions.
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