<p>gstein, I am NOT defending 2 being a valid answer. The entire point of my argument is that there is NO valid answer at all because, if translated as an argument, the statement commits the fallacy of ambiguity and has no deductive form that can be tested for soundness.</p>
<p>My point is that those saying 288 is an absoulte right answer are wrong, not because 2 is right, but because saying that 288 is the right answer implies that a singular true statement can be derived from the given problem, and that is not the case. </p>
<p>Of course, that’s all academic talk as I happen to be really into my logic class right now. Practically speaking I would tell someone to rephrase the question before attempting to answer it. Someone brought up the example that if you were a nurse reading someone else’s instructions in that form and mistakenly assumed that the doctor prescribed 288 cc of a medicine and he really meant 2 cc, there would be grave consequences.</p>