Found the actual answer here: http://mathresources.anderson5.net/Sunshine Math/Grade 2 Sunshine Math.pdf image included in pdf /thread please.
30 minutes, already answered (a cut takes 10 minutes, you need three cuts to get four pieces). (Unless, of course, you make up additional stuff about how you cut the board and how it is shaped, then you can do it in less or more time.)
If you stack, you need twice the time. So you cut once = 10 minutes, then you stack, need twice the time for one cut = 20 minutes, total result = 30 minutes.
I say it is about $40. Because that is what it would cost to hire the day worker to make those cuts. DD
LOL So wait...wait a minute here. LOL The correct answer is in fact 20 minutes per this sheet but the grader got it wrong himself. This is a second grade problem and we had members of this board trying to argue it really was 15 minutes. HO HO HO That's rich! Too much! AHAHAHA! Edit: Epic Quote Maybe some people on this BBS should give this a try. Just act it out or draw a sketch! And lol at the guys arguing it was OBVIOUS what the teacher wanted you to do and based on that the correct answer should be 15 minutes.
I think we are both right because of the fact that there a not enough parameters in the question. So really, it's just a bad question if there is only one expected answer.
Not supported by the drawing next to the question (and next to the answer key). Once again, your proposed solution adds facts to the question the question does not contain. But yes, that is of course one way to get to 4 pieces in 20 minutes. If you waive the requirement that the pieces be equal, I can give you four pieces in 10 minutes and 10 seconds just by moving the vertical line almost completely to the left and then cutting that thin piece I get with the first horizontal cut. But that is clearly not what was being asked for.
No, you aren't right. You are wrong. It is 20 minutes and there are enough parameters to get to that result. There is only one answer. Any way to attempt to justify another answer is just illogical, obtuse, trolling, ignorant or all of the above. .
Not sure if you're serious... since there have been many proposals of new boards... but... the OP image says it's a long board... That's what I thought immediately. I will admit I FAIL'd.
Swoly, it's one thing for your mind to just jump to the algebraic idea of 2 pieces=10, so 5 per piece, 3=15. It's another to continually argue it is correct after the logic has been explained. I fault no one who immediately thought the wrong answer. What is ridiculous is the argument that has gone on for this many pages with people refusing to accept simple logic.
