• dragontangram88@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    But there would only be one variable to examine, since there is only one type of fruit in this vehicle.

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        3 months ago

        Well technically it would be, if you weren’t just basing a problem on this scenario, where you wanted a person to solve for the number of fruit. If you’re actually in this scenario, and not just writing a problem about it, then you could just count the fruit.

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          3 months ago

          why count the fruit when i could simply write a math textbook, include this as one of the problems, and then have students calculate it for me instead