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  • To add to this, “Where is the missing sheep?” is an example of a leading question. The question is based on the assumption that there is a missing sheep, when in fact there isn’t, leaving you flustered as you try and reconcile that.

    This assumption is emphasised by framing the erroneous 29 you’ve created (where you’ve added this random extra 2 sheep) against the original 30.

    If you paired up the actual number (27) against 30 instead, you would have the total number of sheep given back to the shepherders (3).

    All sheep are accounted for here, as long as you do your maths correctly.


  • Shepherders Troll Sons
    30
    30
    25 5
    3 25 2

    Everything is fine, up until this bit:

    Twenty-seven plus two is twenty-nine.

    The total amount given to the troll and sons were 27 sheep (25 and the sons kept 2).

    Where it gets confused is saying “The trolls kept 2” as if this were 2 more sheep on top of the 27 sheep. This leads to you erroneously getting to 29 sheep somehow. The 2 sheep are part of the 27, you can’t do this.

    The 3 other sheep out of the original 30 are now with the shepherders after the sons came and returned them.