Question 940680: The word problem below has too little information. Read carefully, then choose the fact or facts needed to solve the problem.
Some of the animals that you can ride on the jungle carousel are lions, tigers, and elephants. How many more lions than elephants are there on the carousel?
A. The elephants move faster than the lions.
B. The lions are always beside the tigers.
C. There are 6 lions on the carousel.
D. The 2 elephants don't go up and down.
Answer by richard1234(7193)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! ...What? If we knew A, B, C, D, we still can't solve the problem for sure.
However, C and D are plausible, if D implies that "there are exactly two elephants." This is a silly problem though.
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