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April 21st, 2016 
Awake Goy The problem is that to claim that the student “ignored a given/assumption (that the pizzas are the same size) to make an unreasonable answer seem reasonable” is an assumption. There’s no evidence in the question to suggest that the students were taught as much.
Moreover, this doesn’t address the fact that what this student’s answer hinges on — that Marty did, in fact, eat more pizza than Luis — would have to be a gross deception.
Is it reasonable to believe that the data on a test may be false and that you should navigate all test questions accordingly? I’d say it’s not.
If the question was “if both pizzas are the same size, is this possible?” then it would have approached reasonability — it would, at the very least, have left the possibility open.
Naturally, Reddit caught fire over this. Read the entire thread here.
What do you think? Who’s right in this situation? Should the student have been marked wrong? Let us know in the comments below.
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By: K.S. Anthony
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Source Article from http://worldtruth.tv/heres-the-math-problem-that-enraging-the-internet/
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