A teacher was helping her students with a math problem. She recited the following story: “There are three birds sitting on a wire. A hunter shoots one of the birds. How many birds are left on the wire?”
A boy pauses. “None,” he replied thoughtfully.
“No, no, no, let`s try again,” the teacher says patiently.
She holds up three fingers. “There are three birds sitting on a wire. A hunter shoots one,” she puts down one finger, “how many birds are left on the wire?”
“None!” the boy says with authority.
The teacher sighs. “Tell me how you came up with that.”
“It`s simple,” says the boy, “after the gunman shot one bird, he scared the other two away.”
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