• ebc@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    He meant 3/5 (the mother) plus 3/5 (the child), so a total of 6/5.

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        3 months ago

        Don’t feel too bad. I had to think about it hard after I wrote the sentence. Then I thought about it some more, triple checked my work using a fractions calculator, then finally hit the submit button 🤣

        Fractions are hard. Normal people don’t think in fractions (anymore; they probably used to in days of yore).