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To: kosta50
You do believe 2+2=4, right?
No I don't believe it, I KNOW it. No faith required here.

And do you know that if a store has 224 dozen eggs, they have 2,688 eggs? How?

69 posted on 04/12/2010 12:26:35 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr
And do you know that if a store has 224 dozen eggs, they have 2,688 eggs? How?

By knowing that a "dozen" represents a set of 12, and then either by adding them or by taking the shortcut—multiplying them! Multiplication is just fancy short-hand addition. This particular problem has a real-world counterpart and can actually be proven as a natural fact.

72 posted on 04/12/2010 1:17:16 AM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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