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MathAlbania

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Let suppose you are a store owner. You have 3kg Sugar. You have a balance . You have a weight stone of 250gr. Your costumer only wants 100gr of sugar. How you will measure 100 gr ?
 
MathAlbania said:
Let suppose you are a store owner. You have 3kg Sugar. You have a balance . You have a weight stone of 250gr. Your costumer only wants 100gr of sugar. How you will measure 100 gr ?
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Its a question. But for example : you can measure 250 gr of sugar by the help of weight stone. So you got 250 gr sugar . Now by the help of balance you can divide 250 gr into 125 gr each . Thats where it get stucks.
 
MathAlbania said:
Its a question. But for example : you can measure 250 gr of sugar by the help of weight stone. So you got 250 gr sugar . Now by the help of balance you can divide 250 gr into 125 gr each . Thats where it get stucks.
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I will tell you without fear of contradiction at almost none here will know anything about the use of a weight stone. In fact, this is the first ever that I have ever heard of it.
 
pka said:
I will tell you without fear of contradiction at almost none here will know anything about the use of a weight stone. In fact, this is the first ever that I have ever heard of it.
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It's just a known weight, doesn't matter what it is.
 
Put it on one side of the balance scale, put stuff on the other side until the scale is balanced. The amount of stuff will be 250g.
 
MathAlbania said:
Its a question. But for example : you can measure 250 gr of sugar by the help of weight stone. So you got 250 gr sugar . Now by the help of balance you can divide 250 gr into 125 gr each . Thats where it get stucks.
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Try something else. You can measure 250g multiple times, subtract amounts, divide by 2, etc.
 
MathAlbania said:
Its a question. But for example : you can measure 250 gr of sugar by the help of weight stone. So you got 250 gr sugar . Now by the help of balance you can divide 250 gr into 125 gr each . Thats where it get stucks.
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It does not matter what I think. That said, I think that this question is a perfect example of what is the matter with present day mathematics education.
My wife is the CEO of an old fashion girls summer camp. The camp has no cell service for a radius of thirty miles. When a new camper wants to call home with a complaint of home-sickness, the camper is lead into the office and allowed to use the office phone. But of course that phone is an rotary phone; so more often than not rather than admit not knowing how to use such the girl simply leaves.
Frankly, I feel that way about this question. Who could care? I have rejected many questions with a simple "WHO CARES".
 
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