Omar had to read articles 26 through 50 for homework last night.

If Omar read all of the articles he was assigned, how many articles did he read ?

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Omar had to read articles 26 through 50 for homework last night.

If Omar read all of the articles he was assigned, how many articles did he read ?

moongazer · Answer

Why us the answer here 25 not 24?

anonymous · Answer

That is because article 26 is counted as one.

Take for example Omar read 26 to 28 articles.

If we just minus the total from the article number we get 2, but he read number 26, 27 and 28 which is 3.

anonymous · Answer

Hope that makes sense :)

moongazer · Answer

ok thanks
I just got confused 
:)