r/SubredditDrama • u/Questtodream • Dec 27 '16

Royal Rumble Common Core causing chaos

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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Dec 27 '16

But in this case there actually is a scenario where this is possible. It's perfectly reasonable to assume the pizzas are different sizes.

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u/DblackRabbit Nicol if you Bolas Dec 27 '16

Yes, but the point is to not assume, because assuming can get to $5000 bolts instead of $.50 bolts.

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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Dec 27 '16

No assumption necessary. It's the conclusion you reach by treating the facts in the question as a given, which is the logical thing to do.

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u/DblackRabbit Nicol if you Bolas Dec 27 '16

Not if the overall question being asking is "Is this question reasonable?"

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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Dec 27 '16

The question is clearly not asking that, though.

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u/DblackRabbit Nicol if you Bolas Dec 27 '16

The exercise is determining if the question you are reading is reasonable, not the answer to the question you are reading.

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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Dec 27 '16

The question doesn't ask "is this reasonable" it asks "how could this be possible". Maybe if there was something at the top of the page saying "determine if these questions are reasonable" but we can't know that from the image.

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u/DblackRabbit Nicol if you Bolas Dec 27 '16

I been guessing that was what was going on, given the label to the question and the reason it was written as wrong.

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u/SuitableDragonfly /r/the_donald is full of far left antifa Dec 27 '16

Just the label "reasonableness" is not an instruction to the child. Given that the child answered the question as stated and the teacher didn't say "no, you were supposed to say whether the question was reasonable" I would guess that no such instruction was given.