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I don't agree with your complaints about 2 or 11, assumptions are a part of everyday communication. Anyway, wouldn't the question would be unanswerable if some

• glenra 13y ago
  > Anyway, wouldn't the question would be unanswerable if some of the jelly jars could have peanut butter? No, the question is answerable but it's answerable with a range rather than a specific number. > We know the question is answerable How do we know that? Lots of real-world questions aren't answerable and even if the author meant this one to be, textbook authors are fallible. So I don't think that's a fair assumption. And yeah, I nitpicked exactly like that back when I was in grade school too. :-)
• ghshephard 13y ago
  Could you accept that these assumption are frequently made incorrectly? Let us say I went shopping, and I know that I purchased eight jars of sandwich spread. I know that six of the jars had a mixed peanut butter/jelly stuff that you can squeeze out, and I remember the other two had peanut butter in a glass jar, but I can't remember if they were mixed or not, and I say, of those eight jars, "Six of the jars had jelly, the rest had peanut butter" - because that's all I was certain of - that somebody then inferring that the six jars did NOT have peanut butter, and that the other two jars did NOT have jelly -would be wrong in doing so? It's entirely possible that the question was poorly put together, and the answers provided were not sufficient to correctly answer the question. Test makers aren't all perfect beings - as clearly demonstrated by this test.