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Two Plus Two Equals Five (Posted on 2022-11-29)

Provide two distinct fallacy methods thereby "proving" the undernoted false equality:

               2 + 2 = 5

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

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Solution #2

| Comment 2 of 4 |

Charlie has provided 1 solution.

This proved that 4 = 5.

Subtract 3 from each side to get:

1 = 2.

So in reality Charlie has already proved 2 solutions.

Posted by Larry on 2022-11-29 19:31:10

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