This Chinese math problem has no answer. Actually, it has a lot of them.

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Fifth-graders in China's Shunqing district were recently asked to answer this question: "If a ship had 26 sheep and 10 goats on board, how old is the ship's captain?" The apparently unsolvable question sparked a debate over the merits of the Chinese education system and the value it places on the memorization of information over […]

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