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If we have small boxes and medium boxes in the ratio 2:5 does this exclude certain numbers of each box?
E.g, we could have;
2 small, 5 medium
or;
4 small, 10 medium
or;
200 small, 500 medium
Or any combination as long as there are 2.5 as many medium as there are small.
Does this mean we can't have, for example, 3 small (as that would mean 7.5 medium, and we can't have .5 of a box)?
Or, 1 small, 2.5 medium, or 5 small, 12.5 medium, etc, for the same reason?
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In this exercise, the words 'a number of boxes' is equivalent to 'a natural number'.
So, as you found out already, we can't have small boxes or medium ones whose number is not natural, even if the ratio 2:5 is satisfied.
Every living thing has no choice but to execute its pre-programmed instructions embedded in it (known as instincts).
But only a human may have the freedom and ability to oppose his natural robotic nature.
But, by opposing it, such a human becomes no more of this world.
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Thanks
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