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What Time Does Class Start?

September 3, 2024From the book Math for English Majors

Three answers to "What time does class start?": a right answer, a wrong answer, and a category error, an answer that isn't even the right kind of thing.

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[Title] "WHAT TIME DOES CLASS START?" RIGHT ANSWER: "4 p.m." · WRONG ANSWER: "3 a.m." · CATEGORY ERROR: "two hours later"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-09-03-what-time-does-class-start/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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