Two editors, Ed and his boss Ada have just finished the proof-reading of a new book prior to its publication.
Working independently, Ed detected 25 errors and Ada ended up only with 19.
Provide your estimate (assume what you may) regarding the quantity of errors still remaining after their inspection.
As the problem refers specifically to proof-reading, I suspect this is what is referred to:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ProofreadingMistakes.html
We are not given the number of errors found by both, but assuming Ed missed 3, as suggested by Charlie, then between 14 and 15 would have been found by Ada as well:
a b c
25 19 19 0
25 19 18 0.388888889
25 19 17 0.941176471
25 19 16 1.6875
25 19 15 2.666666667
25 19 14 3.928571429
Beyond that, I don't think there's much to be said. For example, Ed could be American and Ada could be British, in which case many of the 'errors' could reflect simple differences in spelling usage. Or one of them could be a fan of the Oxford comma, while the other was not.
Edited on December 5, 2019, 7:31 am
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Posted by broll
on 2019-12-05 07:24:13 |
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