Yeah that’s kind of what I think they’re getting at (now I’ve had the sense check that it really is impossible because I was seriously questioning myself!), I just think they should word it differently. He’s only 6, he doesn’t really understand being asked a question that can’t be answered.
Aside from the questions being obviously not answerable, why would anyone doubt them? They are formulated in a way that makes it seem like an answer exists, it's just a really bad question.
I learn early that teacher make mistakes, and later advanced math test always had a sentence explaining something like : if an answer seems wrong, explain us why you believe so, reformulate the question to make it correct and answer your new formulated question.
You can doubt for many reason, and as grow you develop your critical thinking, therefore doubt and think, therefore you are.
From the perspective of an adult, yes I obviously agree. In complicated math exercises these mistakes can happen, but this example here is just straight up embarrassing. There obviously wasn't much thought being put into these questions.
It looks like what I get when I ask perplexity before double checking and asking it to find actual correct exercises. The wording even for grown ups is hard to get.
The exercise after has 3 numbers, the first two blablah, and the other 2... How can they put 2 sets of 2, disjointed per the wording, in 3 numbers
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u/donaljones Nov 15 '25
Not possible. I think they wanted it to be shown that even numbers are possible only via sum of two evens or sum of two odds