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I read it as “A third of a third plus a third is a half.” Which makes sense to me. What an I missing?
It's wrong.
1/3 + (1/3 * 1/3) = 3/9 + 1/9 = 4/9. It's close though.However, one third plus one half of a third is correct.
1/3 + (1/2 * 1/3) = 1/3 + (1.5/3 * 1/3) = 1/3 + 0.5/3 = 1.5/3 = 1/2I'm guessing whatever it scraped to generate this was intended for divvying up food rather than doing actual math. 1/3 plus a third of a third is close enough to a half if you're talking about portioning out pizza or leftovers or what have you.
Yep, the difference between .444... And .5 is only .0555...
Who notices 5 nintieths of something? That's going to be within the error of sloppy measuring anyways
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