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What would you even do with 25 Mangoes? (feddit.de)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is where you add layers to the problem by giving away mangoes. You give Alice two more mangoes than you give Gunther, and the dog steals one but you still have twelve mangoes. How many mangoes did Gunther get?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Five.

Started with 25, still have 12, need to account for 13.

Dog took one, so that's 12.

If Alice and Gunther got the same number it would be 6 each.

But she got 2 more than him, which is just a +1/-1 adjustment.

So Alice got 7 and Gunther got 5.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They did the math

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Did the dog steal from me, Alice, or Gunther?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well doggonnit now I'm confused