Word problem

[Pancakes2020]

I have 6 eggs I broke 2. I fried 2. I ate 2. How many were left?

 

[Deleted member 4993]

I have 6 eggs I broke 2. I fried 2. I ate 2. How many were left?

Did you break the eggs to fry those and eventually eat those?

 

[Pancakes2020]

Did you break the eggs to fry those and eventually eat those?

I don’t know. ? Please help.

 

[skeeter]

use your common sense ... you have to break eggs before you fry and eat them.

 

[Pancakes2020]

use your common sense ... you have to break eggs before you fry and eat them.

So would it be 4?

 

[Pancakes2020]

Did you break the eggs to fry those and eventually eat those?

I think the answer is 4. Will you tell me if I’m right or wrong?

 

[lev888]

I think the answer is 4. Will you tell me if I’m right or wrong?

I would say it's 4. But you should note that this is not an arithmetic problem. It's a riddle. It's never a goal of real math to confuse a student by ambiguous problem statements.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

I think the answer is 4. Will you tell me if I’m right or wrong?

You can have 0 eggs left.

You said " I broke 2" you did not say - I broke only 2.

Then you said "I fried 2" - you did not say - I fried the two I broke in step before 2. Now you could have broken 4 eggs

but fried 2 out those​

And so on - very faulty question for Math......

 

[Steven G]

Let's see, you started with 6 eggs and ate 2. Let me think about this a bit. ......Ah, you have 4 left. It does not matter what happened to these 4 eggs (unless you ate them, but you did not).

Another argument is you still have 6 eggs, two in your stomach and 4 others.