An Identical Example in the Textbook
A student vows to solve a problem from first principles, stalls, and gratefully finds an identical example in the textbook.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-12-06-an-identical-example-in-the-textbook/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
"All right! Time to solve this problem from first principles!" … [silence] … "Oh, thank goodness, there's an identical example in the textbook."