I'm not going to pretend to be the most intelligent person here or even that I'm more intelligent than all of those kids who came up with a number. But what I'v

I'm not going to pretend to be the most intelligent person here or even that I'm more intelligent than all of those kids who came up with a number. But what I've always been willing to do is question people. Like most kids, I was given plenty of word problems in school. And there were several times where I called out the teacher or the textbook author for either leaving out information or relying on assumptions that I couldn't comfortably make. In fact, now that I think about it, later in school there were multiple choice answers that went something like "not enough information to answer". I do not think a reasonable justification is "Well all the other problems I had that looked like this had an easy answer so this one should too". And the fact, that several students were unable to kludge an answer together supports that. >With the information given I can do no better. You can do a lot better! You can say that the question is unanswerable.