Can GD do basic MathS? :p

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Just add up the fruit and post your answer below, simples :)







(just put 'Math' in the title to be annoying and get your attention)
 
mmj_uk said:
You can work out the value of the apple though, the coconut and banana images on the bottom could represent any number at all without clarification,
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Why are you able to work out the value of three apples but not three or four bananas?
 
mmj_uk said:
It could be a picture of anything really, I'm only describing it as an an apple because that's what is. Picture A (apple) has a given value, Picture B (half a coconut) and Picture C (3 bananas) don't.

If a single apple has a value of 10 then you can't take the number of fruit literally.
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I'm not following your argument here - there are three apples on the first line and you accept you're able to assign a value to them

But you've got an issue with there being three or four bananas, why?

If you know that 3 apples equal 30 and you're happy to accept that an individual apple is 10.

You know 4 bananas equal 4 but you're not happy to assign a value to three bananas???
 
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mmj_uk said:
Say it was written in algebra:

a + a + a = 30
a + b + b = 18
b - c = 2
y + a + z = ?

y and z are not given, therefore it's not possible to answer.

For all we know two of the four bananas could have been worth 1.5 and the other two 0.25 so taking one away results in 3 or 3.5, or like someone else said how do we know it's exactly half a coconut? and not two pieces valued at 0.4 or 0.6?

You can make an interpretation as to the answer but that's all imo.

/Sits on fence. :p
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the coconut is a bit pedantic - it is clearly meant to be half a coconut

the bananas on the other hand - there were four of them now there are three - are you just having trouble with the fact they're bunched together rather than laid out in a row like the apples?

you can write it as

3a = 30
a + 8b = 18
4b - c = 2
0.5c + a + 3b = ?

you know what a banana is - assigning a different variable because there are three of them instead of four makes no sense
 
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Haggisman said:
Wrong.

A picture of a single apple is a symbol to display a value of 10
A picture of 2 pieces of coconut is a symbol to display a value of 2
A picture of a bunch of 4 bananas is a symbol to display a value of 4

It's an assumption to think that a picture of 1 piece of coconut means a value of 1, or that a bunch of 3 bananas means a value of 3; there is no evidence to show that this is in fact the case.

After all, if you have the number "11" which means a value of 11, and take away one of the "1" leaving you with "1", it doesn't then mean 5.5 does it? ;)
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Lol it's not like these are abstract symbols and suddenly seeing 3 bananas instead of 4 is a completely different thing. It's a test of observation. You know what a banana is and you're capable of recognising that in one picture there are three of them and in another there are four so that line of reasoning doesn't work.

You're happy to assign a value to an individual apple when there are three of them but you're not happy to assign a value to eight bananas because they're arranged in two bunches...
 
MookJong said:
But we have no way or telling what a single coconut or 3 bananas are worth. The logical answer would be 13 but there is no way to know.
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the logical answer would be 14

and why are you OK with being able to assign a value to a single apple but not a single banana?
 
Haggisman said:
There are no single bananas in the image...

For all we know, there may have been a bulk discount on bananas!
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I didn't state there were single bananas in the image

you're overthinking it a bit too much and again the silly objection applies to apples as well...
 
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