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Is this Common Core math question the worst math question in human history?
Daily Caller ^ | Dec 12, 2013 | Eric Owens

Posted on 12/12/2013 8:47:50 PM PST by Innovative

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To: Pikachu_Dad

That doesn’t follow at all.

number of friends minimum bags
1 4
2 4
3 6
4 4
6 6

Hmm...if she is able to buy 4 bags or 6 bags, the store must sell them in packs of 2. So if she has only one or two friends, she could buy 2 bags of stickers and be done.

So she must have either 3, 4, or 6 friends.

I’m inclined to eliminate 6 friends too. If she had 6 friends, she wouldn’t consider buying 4 bags of stickers.
By the same reasoning, if she had 4 friends, she would know to buy 4 bags of stickers.

I’m guessing that she has 3 friends, and the answer they’re looking for is 6 bags. But as you see this takes a couple of huge assumptions.


101 posted on 12/13/2013 5:49:02 AM PST by scrabblehack
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To: Pikachu_Dad

Do you really think this was a “least common multiple” question?

I really can’t see lefties actually valuing the ability to do that.


102 posted on 12/13/2013 5:54:07 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: scrabblehack
Sorry, no.

3 Friends, 4 bags does not work even if the stickers are sold two to a bag.

While Mythbusters proved you can polish a turd, nobody can polish this one.

103 posted on 12/13/2013 5:58:22 AM PST by stormhill
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To: Innovative
Juanita should have a number of friends that is a multiple of 12. That way she can use up whole packages of stickers and give each friend the same number of stickers. If she wants stickers for herself, she should dump one friend.

Another possible answer....Juanita should give each friend one sticker and keep the rest for herself.

The answer the respondent writes can then be sent to the mental health review board for evaluation.

Geeze, you guys are just SOOOO 20th century!

104 posted on 12/13/2013 6:04:40 AM PST by grania
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

The answer is “farther.”


105 posted on 12/13/2013 6:22:21 AM PST by goldi
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To: Delta Dawn

Only homophobe lines self identify as straight!

Oh, and they’re racist against gays!!


106 posted on 12/13/2013 7:24:27 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Innovative

First of all she needs to set up an exchange. Then she needs to outlaw all her friends stickers. Then she makes a deal with the sticker company to sell her stickers at 4 times the old price but you don’t get any stickers at all until you giver her a deductible of 6000 bucks. For those with no money she will have to add a surcharge to those with money so she can dole out a sticker here and there to the “needy”.


107 posted on 12/13/2013 7:31:14 AM PST by jwalsh07
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

In current terminology, the task is to:

Make X the subject of the number sentence.

Subjects and sentences belong in English class, not math class.


108 posted on 12/13/2013 7:48:53 AM PST by Bob
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To: jwalsh07

The key is “It doesn’t matter what they answer - they will move on to the next grade regardless”.


109 posted on 12/13/2013 8:04:20 AM PST by savage woman (if we lose communication - see ya at the local library)
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To: ETL
Sets of solutions! Sets!

It's all differential equations these days...

...maybe you need a refresher course?

110 posted on 12/13/2013 8:18:58 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: expat1000
What age/grade is that for?

5th grade. It is straight out of the State of California approved/mandated math workbook.

111 posted on 12/13/2013 8:23:24 AM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Proportionally, Ft. Hood is to Ft. Worth as Washington Navy Yard is to Arlington, VA.)
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To: Innovative

AN answer is six bags ... 4 cannot be divided by an odd number (3), so if she has three friends, having four bags will not work out without leftovers.


112 posted on 12/13/2013 8:23:27 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Rodamala
Is that a joke... are these hoax questions? Regardless, if I have kids they will be homeschooled.

Its not a hoax. That was actual homework that my daughter was assigned.

113 posted on 12/13/2013 8:24:21 AM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Proportionally, Ft. Hood is to Ft. Worth as Washington Navy Yard is to Arlington, VA.)
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To: goldi
The answer is “farther.”

I agree.

114 posted on 12/13/2013 8:25:37 AM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Proportionally, Ft. Hood is to Ft. Worth as Washington Navy Yard is to Arlington, VA.)
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To: dr_lew
Exactly. Whoever created this problem did not understand that both lines need to be equal (1 = 1).

They also blew away any advantage of using metric distance measurements by breaking meters into sixths and eighths.

115 posted on 12/13/2013 8:27:49 AM PST by Half Vast Conspiracy (Proportionally, Ft. Hood is to Ft. Worth as Washington Navy Yard is to Arlington, VA.)
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To: MHGinTN

“the same number of stickers “

It’s the same number of stickers, not same number of bags, of course we don’t know how many stickers are in a bag..


116 posted on 12/13/2013 8:29:28 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: dr_lew

When teaching Chess to kids I used that problem and the kids had to solve it in their heads then tell me how they did it. The key is that the farmer can come back empty to the original side ... take fox over, go back get grain, take fox back and pick up goose, take goose over and pick up grain and bring back, then pick up fox and take over and bring back grain, then return empty and bring goose over to where grain and fox are waiting ... except the goose would wander off when the grain is gone anyway.


117 posted on 12/13/2013 8:43:47 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN
BTW the correct answer will always have the fox and the grain left together since foxes do not eat grain ;^)
118 posted on 12/13/2013 8:52:12 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN

Goose over return for the fox, take fox over return with the goose, take grain over return empty and take goose to the waiting fox and grain


119 posted on 12/13/2013 8:55:41 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Your problem is actually valid.

x=10-y


Someone will have to call Bill Ayers and ask him to explain the Common Core problem.


120 posted on 12/13/2013 11:00:06 AM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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