Wednesday, March 19, 2014

A student adds 1.347 + 3.68 on a calculator and gets 50.27 as the answer. Without adding the number yourself, is this the right answer? Please...

The student is adding 1.347 and 3.68 which is the same as
3.680


The result cannot be 50.27 because 7 is the third
digit after the decimal point, not the second. Also 8 + 4 = 12 which implies that 2 is
the second digit after the decimal point in the result not the first. Again, 6 + 3 + 1 =
10 making 0 the first digit after the decimal and the number before the decimal is
5.


Apart from this, the student is adding small numbers
like 1.347 and 3.68, the answer is a number around 5 not a large number like
50.


The result the students gets by adding
1.347 and 3.68 using a calculator is wrong.

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