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Originally Posted by rocknation View Post
UPDATE 2: While taking a practice aptitude test, I came across this question:

A jar of sauce holds 32 ounces. How many ounces of sauce can a box hold?

It's of those trick information questions: the answer isn't a number but the fact that not enough information was provided to solve the problem. Needless to say, I burst out laughing -- did Jon and his father ever resolve that sauce versus gravy issue?
See, an engineer like myself would just make an assumption (and make a note that it is an assumption). I would assume that there are 12 jars in a case and calculate from there.
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