LogFAQs > #949522452

streamofthesky posted...

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*

that's because this is not an MIT question, it's a 6th grade math problem that someone just didn't translate properly. Meaning, whoever can't solve this, never passed 6th grade

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