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I was like “Hum… That should do like more than 3.5, but 4 at maximum…”
Then he shows options, and I was like “What ? There’s nothing between 3.5 and 4”; then thought about it a bit more, and found Exactly 4 as an answer; then continued to watch the end of the video to see why my calculations were wrong (they wer’nt)
I’m proud to say that I got 4 as the answer in the beginning. HOWEVER, the options threw me off, which made me watch the rest of the video :(
I was like “Hum… That should do like more than 3.5, but 4 at maximum…”
Then he shows options, and I was like “What ? There’s nothing between 3.5 and 4”; then thought about it a bit more, and found Exactly 4 as an answer; then continued to watch the end of the video to see why my calculations were wrong (they wer’nt)