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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (31903)	1/28/2021 10:55:23 AM
From: Graystone	1 Recommendation Recommended By FBN MarCom Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32917

Pairs of shoes or Mythomatics As I pointed out the provided answer can in no way be correct. You have assigned the same value to each shoe, that is not possible. You can see the left and the right shoes are obviously different. When you make them both 5 you are introducing a bias error. The error is magnified in subsequent steps. The left and right shoe cannot both be 5. If that was the case the shoes would be interchangeable and they are not. ie 5=5 The basis of my objection can be easily confirmed in your own home with your own shoes. I wish these puzzles were be more realistic, those are likely finger splints, not laces. The finger splints make sense because you would fall quickly if running along in two right or two left shoes. This puzzle would be unsolvable in economically depressed areas where people went barefoot. In those places the finger splints would probably just be duct tape and some straight sticks as well. When the math for that first line is 3ab=30 there is range of possible solutions. Clearly if the shoes were socks I wouldn't have a foot to stand on. I think we might have to run this over to an AI to run the complex calculations. Perhaps we can have the AI graph the set of solutions that satisfy the equation. What was the question again?