Question 1047267
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That is because most people desperately want to consider all given data regardless of relevancy.  The width and thickness of the steel are utterly irrelevant to the question asked.  This wasn't so much an arithmetic problem as it was a lesson in evaluating and prioritizing information.


John
*[tex \LARGE e^{i\pi}\ +\ 1\ =\ 0]
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
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