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The England cricket team.

 

[larmen]

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Our little one has this exact question on his gold certificate math thing (year 3) and we don’t really understand what the question is supposed to be.
Is it 3/12 or 4/16 to add to her 4 already taken?

 

[Orikoru]

Our little one has this exact question on his gold certificate math thing (year 3) and we don’t really understand what the question is supposed to be.
Is it 3/12 or 4/16 to add to her 4 already taken?

It's actually worded very badly. 'The remaining quarter' doesn't make sense when there would be three 'remaining quarters' having taken a quarter in the first place. It should say 'another quarter' or 'a quarter of the remaining'.

Probably why the examinee felt comfortable enough in putting a joke answer down. Ask a silly question...

 

[YandaB]

Our little one has this exact question on his gold certificate math thing (year 3) and we don’t really understand what the question is supposed to be.
Is it 3/12 or 4/16 to add to her 4 already taken?

It's a rubbish question IMHO. I can think of 4 answers and they all require assumptions to be made:
1) Assume that the question is meant to be "asks for a quarter of the remaining chocolates", secondly assume that they are given (as opposed to the aforementioned slap), then the total would be 7
2) Assume that the question is meant to be "asks for another quarter of all of the chocolates", secondly assume that they are given, then the total would be 8
3) Assume that the question means that 12 is the remaining quarter of the total number and that the greedy so and so Tracey has filtched 36 chocolates already. Then the remaining quarter is the 12, so bullying Tracey would end up with all 48!
4) A slap

 

[Whereditgo]

It's a rubbish question IMHO. I can think of 4 answers and they all require assumptions to be made:
1) Assume that the question is meant to be "asks for a quarter of the remaining chocolates", secondly assume that they are given (as opposed to the aforementioned slap), then the total would be 7
2) Assume that the question is meant to be "asks for another quarter of all of the chocolates", secondly assume that they are given, then the total would be 8
3) Assume that the question means that 12 is the remaining quarter of the total number and that the greedy so and so Tracey has filtched 36 chocolates already. Then the remaining quarter is the 12, so bullying Tracey would end up with all 48!
4) A slap

Also, who is "she"?

 

[YandaB]

Also, who is "she"?

Good point, another assumption made. Mind you, my granny always said she was the cat's mother.

 

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Yes. 10mm sockets seem to flee regularly

 

[rulefan]

New York (CNN). At John F. Kennedy International Airport today, a Caucasian male (later discovered to be a high school mathematics teacher) was arrested trying to board a flight while in possession of a compass, a protractor and a graphical calculator.
According to law enforcement officials, he is believed to have ties to the Al-Gebra network. He will be charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.

 

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Not only did I wonder, I gave it a great deal of thought.

 

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