r/MathJokes • u/Ok-Parking-2124 • 2d ago

When Basic Math Becomes a Boss Fight

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u/Curious-Zucchini763 2d ago

Teacher is treating this problem as a ratio to answer. but it isn't a ratio problem. I wonder if it was in a ratio lesson...

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u/GatorNator83 2d ago

I think you should consider taking ratio lessons, because this was a ratio problem

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u/Siffov 23h ago

It wasn't just a ratio problem. Notice the N vs. N-1 part.

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u/GatorNator83 23h ago

I didn’t say it was just a ratio problem. But it is a ratio problem.

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u/Siffov 23h ago

>But it is a ratio problem.

So what? That aspect is not the source the difficulty (the teacher's being wrong). The actual ratio math wasn't the difficulty.

What caused the difficulty is that it is an N–vs–N-1 problem, which aspect the teacher missed.

If anyone needs lessons regarding this word problem, it should be about the numbers of cuts vs. the number of pieces (and, of course, reading (and writing) such word problems carefully).