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Topic	MIT Applicants were asked to solve this VERY DIFFICULT MATH QUESTION..Can you???
streamofthesky 01/15/21 1:50:09 AM #5:	InfestedAdam posted... No one has voted for ~~48 and 16~~? I voted for ~~50 and 18~~ but since the question ask what were their ages, would ~~48 and 16~~ be the correct response? The whole word problem is written poorly. It switches from "I" talking to "you" abruptly to 3rd person (their), and in doing so makes it linguistically unclear if the use of "were" (also a poor choice for clarity) is inferring the past state of 2 years ago or...since it's now a purely a clinical 3rd person narrative, is simply asking in the sense of "what were the ages (now) to make both the past and future conditions possible?" I could see it going either way but logically makes the most sense to be asking what age they are in the present. If you showed all your work and the teacher tried to not give you credit b/c you didn't understand his failed attempt at English, he's a dick. shrug <cite>streamofthesky posted [p:949519426] in MIT Applic... [t:79239814]...</cite> <quote>InfestedAdam posted... </cite> <quote>No one has voted for 48 and 16? I voted for 50 and 18 but since the question ask what were their ages, would 48 and 16 be the correct response?</quote>The whole word problem is written poorly. It switches from "I" talking to "you" abruptly to 3rd person (their), and in doing so makes it linguistically unclear if the use of "were" (also a poor choice for clarity) is inferring the past state of 2 years ago or...since it's now a purely a clinical 3rd person narrative, is simply asking in the sense of "what were the ages (now) to make both the past and future conditions possible?" I could see it going either way but logically makes the most sense to be asking what age they are in the present. If you showed all your work and the teacher tried to not give you credit b/c you didn't understand his failed attempt at English, he's a dick. shrug </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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