Question

one child has 3 1/3 sand piles and another has 1 2/3 .On combining them how many sand piles does one have .
the answer is one sand pile but how . please let me know.​

Answer 1

Answer:

One sand pile.

If you combine two sand piles, you have one sand pile.

If you combine three sand piles, you have one sand pile.

It is nonsensical to say a child has 6 2/3rds sand piles. That child has 7 sand piles, one of which is smaller than the other six… assuming the other six are all the same size as each other, and even that isn’t necessarily so.

Similarly, the second child has 4 sand piles, one of which perhaps happens to be smaller than the other three.

If you combine the smaller sand pile from the first child and the smaller sand pile from the second child, you would have one sand pile… but that, again, would be true no matter WHICH two piles you combined.

Now, if you did that, and left the other 6+3=9 piles as discrete piles (instead of combining them as the question suggests) you would then have 10 sand piles, and perhaps each is the same size as the other piles.

But that’s not what the question says, it says combine them, and so the actual answer to the question as asked is one pile.

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