This particular word problem is a clever one that can be sold a with different mental models (variable in an equation, imagining a brick being split, and probab

This particular word problem is a clever one that can be sold a with different mental models (variable in an equation, imagining a brick being split, and probably other ways I haven't thought of). But it's a dumb problem with no reasonable analogy to real life. Who weighs things in comparison to a fraction of themselves plus a basic weight unit? I wonder if the problem is confusing not because of the wording, but because people rely on inferred context to understand language. This context is asinine, so people might think, "Clearly, that cannot be the intended meaning. I must have misread it."