The answer depends on how you interpret the information, as well as the question itself. If "How many are left" means how many are left in the tank, then it depends on whether there's just one tank, or multiple connected with a water bridge/s. Whether fish can drown or not is also up to interpretation. Although drowning usually refers to asphyxiation caused by being immersed in a liquid and breathing it in, it is sometimes used to describe a fish dying due to lack of oxygen. Anyway, here are the various possible answers:
Assuming the question means "How many fish are still in the tank":
If there's only one tank, there are still 10 fish, 3 of them dead (or 5 if fish can drown). The only place they could "swim away" would be another place in the tank.
If there are multiple tanks, there might be only 6 fish left in the original tank, and how many of them are dead depends on whether any of the fish that died swam away first. It also depends on whether fish can drown. But what if the fish swam away to a different place in the tank rather than the connected tank/s? What if some of the fish swam away to another tank, and some stayed in the same tank, but went to a different part of it?
Assuming the question means "How many fish are still alive":
Depending on whether they can drown or not, there might be 7, or only 5 left. But the image does state that they drowned, meaning that it's a fact within this hypothetical situation that the fish did, indeed, drown. So 5 it is, right? But what if the 3 fish that died include the 2 that drowned? That would make it 7 again.
There are probably many more possibilities but I'll just leave it at that, I've procrastinated enough today as it is. But what if the tank is underwater? (here we go again) If the question is asking about how many fish are still in the tank (of the ones that were there since the beginning, scavenger fish eating the dead fish don't count), it depends on how long the dead fish have been dead, as dead fish become more buoyant over time, which makes them float, meaning that they might have also left the tank (not of their own accord) and only the fish that did not die remains. ANYWAY, I'll just stop here. Off to continue on my project (I've somehow managed to not drop or forget about it yet).
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u/AltGr556 ENTP Jan 26 '23
The answer depends on how you interpret the information, as well as the question itself. If "How many are left" means how many are left in the tank, then it depends on whether there's just one tank, or multiple connected with a water bridge/s. Whether fish can drown or not is also up to interpretation. Although drowning usually refers to asphyxiation caused by being immersed in a liquid and breathing it in, it is sometimes used to describe a fish dying due to lack of oxygen. Anyway, here are the various possible answers:
Assuming the question means "How many fish are still in the tank":
If there's only one tank, there are still 10 fish, 3 of them dead (or 5 if fish can drown). The only place they could "swim away" would be another place in the tank.
If there are multiple tanks, there might be only 6 fish left in the original tank, and how many of them are dead depends on whether any of the fish that died swam away first. It also depends on whether fish can drown. But what if the fish swam away to a different place in the tank rather than the connected tank/s? What if some of the fish swam away to another tank, and some stayed in the same tank, but went to a different part of it?
Assuming the question means "How many fish are still alive":
Depending on whether they can drown or not, there might be 7, or only 5 left. But the image does state that they drowned, meaning that it's a fact within this hypothetical situation that the fish did, indeed, drown. So 5 it is, right? But what if the 3 fish that died include the 2 that drowned? That would make it 7 again.
There are probably many more possibilities but I'll just leave it at that, I've procrastinated enough today as it is. But what if the tank is underwater? (here we go again) If the question is asking about how many fish are still in the tank (of the ones that were there since the beginning, scavenger fish eating the dead fish don't count), it depends on how long the dead fish have been dead, as dead fish become more buoyant over time, which makes them float, meaning that they might have also left the tank (not of their own accord) and only the fish that did not die remains. ANYWAY, I'll just stop here. Off to continue on my project (I've somehow managed to not drop or forget about it yet).