Question 75
EasyOriginal questionMr Iyer wrote the sum on the board, worked it out, and drew a box around the answer: 48.
Priya looked at her notebook. She had got 42. She worked it again. Still 42. She looked at the board and followed each line, and there it was: in the third line, Mr Iyer had written 7 × 6 as 48.
Her hand went halfway up and stopped. Mr Iyer had taught for twenty years. Nobody corrected Mr Iyer.
She put her hand down. Then she thought of Rahul in the back row, who copied everything from the board and never checked, and who would learn the wrong answer. Her hand went up again, all the way this time.
"Sir," she said, "I think in the third line, seven sixes might be forty-two."
The class went silent. Mr Iyer turned to the board and looked at it for a long moment. Then he picked up the and the 48.
"Forty-two," he said. He wrote it in. "Thank you, Priya." And then, to the class, "Checking is not rude. Not checking is."
After that, whenever he finished a sum on the board, he would turn around and ask, "Well? Who is going to check me?"
"Checking is not rude. Not checking is." What does Mr Iyer mean?
Show the answer and explanation
Correct answer: B
Explanation
He thanks Priya and turns her correction into a class rule: checking is good, and failing to check is the fault.
Afterwards he asks the class to check him after every sum.
Worth noting
He thanks Priya, so he does not think she was rude.
- Concept
- Understanding a short saying in context
- Typical timeTypical
- 30 s
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