Question

If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?

Answer 1

I have 6 apples because 2 apples in bowl are also mine and I took 4 of them.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is 6,4,2 apples.

Explanation:

Given: you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four

To find: how many do you have

Solution:

Method1:

Apples in bowls =6

taken away apples =4

Thus you have 4 apples and the bowl has 2 apples.

Method 2 :

The answer is 6,2, or 4 depending on how you interpret the information. As presented, this question is ambiguous. So, the answer is unclear.

Here are some possibilities:

• If there are 6 apples, then presumably, you start with 6 apples
• Or-If you take away 4 apples, do you then start with 2 apples, not including the 4 you took away?
• Or- If you take away 4 apples, do you then start with the 4 apples you took away, not including the 2 that you left?
• The possibility that comes closest to a discrete answer with fewer assumptions is that you have 6 apples to start with. So that's my guess.

Method 3:

• Puzzle/trick question-wise, if there are 6 general apples that belong to no one in particular, and I take 4, that means the 4 I took are now in my possession — I have them. So the answer is 4.
• Puzzle/trick question-wise another way, if all 6 apples are mine and I separate 4 from the group but they’re still mine, the answer remains 6 apples.
• Simple math question-wise, if this is just weird wording for a word problem that is supposed to mean 6 minus 4, the answer is 2.