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Three Statements VII
Which of these three statements are true?
1. Suppose you begin reading a book on page B and end on page E. If you read each page completely and the pages are numbered and read consecutively then you have read (E - B) + 1 pages.
2. Christina has 60 apples. Anna has 85 and Dana has 148. Together Christina and Anna have more apples than Dana.
3. If you write the words DOS, TAM and MAN with DOS on top, TAM in the middle and MAN at the bottom then the names DAN and SAM can be formed diagonally.
1. Suppose you begin reading a book on page B and end on page E. If you read each page completely and the pages are numbered and read consecutively then you have read (E - B) + 1 pages.
2. Christina has 60 apples. Anna has 85 and Dana has 148. Together Christina and Anna have more apples than Dana.
3. If you write the words DOS, TAM and MAN with DOS on top, TAM in the middle and MAN at the bottom then the names DAN and SAM can be formed diagonally.
Answer
Statements 1 and 3 are true, statement 2 is false.In statement 1, the beginning page and the ending page are also included, so you have read (E - B) + 1 pages.
In statement 2, 60+85=145<148.
In statement 3, the grid looks like this:
D O S
T A M
M A N
The names DAN and SAM can be formed diagonally.
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I love these! Good job!
what was the point of this? this was ridiculously easy... and this got 1 and a half gears? this shouldn't even get half a gear
This was probably the easiest of the three statements ones so far. I normally do like these but this was too easy.
That was so easy, I expected a trick answer!
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