<p>Take the following scenario: Every time a batter reaches first base, the next batter hits a double. Every time a batter hits a double, the runner on first scores. Jon reaches first base. What can you deduce about Jon? </p>
<p>The answer is that he scores, but how can this be? Wouldn’t Jon be on third base if the next batter hits a double?</p>
<p>This is an example of a question that would never make it onto an SAT, because anyone not interested in the classic American pastime would take one look at this and go O_O</p>
<p>Why would Jon be on third base?</p>
<p>Right after he reaches first base, the next batter hits a double. When that happens, Jon is on first base, so he scores.</p>
<p>If you’re on first base and someone hits a double, then you go to third base…</p>
<p>1+2=3</p>
<p>If someone hits a double, that doesn’t necessarily mean that the man on first does not score. It’s actually quite common for a man on first to score with a double. Therefore, theoneo wins!</p>
<p>I don’t get this. It might be either I have no deductive reasoning or I never understood baseball.</p>
<p>“Take the following scenario: Every time a batter reaches first base, the next batter hits a double. Every time a batter hits a double, the runner on first scores. Jon reaches first base. What can you deduce about Jon?”</p>
<p>Alright…you already know the guy reaches first base right? EVERY TIME a batter reaches 1st, the next batter hits a double. EVERY TIME a double is hit, the person on first scores; so basically if someone gets on first, they score…what is there not to understand? Do you want to know how a person on 1st scores in a real life game off of a double? If you dont know that then you dont watch baseball</p>
<p>I don’t watch baseball at all.</p>
<p>the runner on first base and the batter who hits a double act independently of each other. if the batter only goes to second base, this does not preclude the runner from moving farther than third.</p>
<p>If A is on first, B hits double.</p>
<p>If B hits double, A scores.</p>
<p>Thus, if A is on first, A scores.</p>
<p>Doesn’t a double mean the batter makes it to second? Nothing says the first base guy can’t make it home…</p>
<p>Why is baseball so hard for people to understand?</p>
<p>If for some reason Jon doesn’t make it home from first off a double (possibly because he fell, tripped, saw a mirage, got lost, etc…), then I’m going to have to say that he stole home.</p>
<p>Jon doesn’t seem to know what he was doing on first base, he should have stayed out of the field, that way you wouldn’t be asking this question.</p>
<p>Deductive reasoning doesn’t quite work in baseball. The whole 1+2=3 doesn’t work because it doesn’t take into consideration how fast the runner is. Jon can be a very fast guy…you never know.</p>
<p>One way that Jon would scored if there was already two outs(cuz the runner always runs whenever the ball’s hit when there’s 2 outs) and the hitter hit a fly ball but the outfielder failed to catch it so by the time the outfielder recovers the ball, Jon is prolly rounding 3rd base and going for home.</p>
<p>Another scenario is if Jon is still a fast guy and he ran for home and was safe due to a bad throw by the outfielder or the catcher fails to catch the ball.</p>
<p>And Jim Bob’s right, this type of question would never be in the SATs.</p>
<p>OHH, I didn’t know that a player could take more than 2 bases when someone hits a double.</p>
<p>What a dumb problem.</p>
<p>Whether you understand baseball or not, just read the goddamn question and “deduce” the answer.</p>
<p>Okay nodnard:</p>
<p>If 4=3+3 and 1+1=3, then what’s 1+1+3?</p>
<p>Yeah you can deduce it’s 4, but it should really have been 5. My concern was why the baseball question was so illogical. To me, that baseball question was just like 1+1+3=4.</p>
<p>Heh, I don’t watch baseball or anything. I just used what the riddle gave me. It’s really simple if you don’t think about it too much.</p>
<p>hahha worst riddle ever. your adding reasoning is funny as well as ■■■■■■■■.</p>