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Originally Posted by june82000
Math is important and all, but how many people in the world get by without any basic common sense; practical common sense to be more precise. Ask the average teacher a simple question such as to point to the item on their vehicle that charges the battery - see what kind of answers you get.
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Knowing about the alternator and where it is just knowledge.....it has nothing to do with "common sense". "Common sense" is, as Wikipedia puts it: a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people, and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without any need for debate.
The point of the word problem is to teach you how to use the knowledge you have...to think logically.