I don't understand these fractions. What's one third of sixty? That's a fraction, I don't...
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Brad Neary:
I don't understand these fractions.
Roy Neary:
What's one third of sixty?
Brad Neary:
[bewildered]
That's a fraction, I don't understand them.
Roy Neary:
[using a model train as an object lesson]
Alright, let's say that this boxcar is sixty feet long, OK?, and one third of it is across this switch here, alright... And now another train is coming... Now, how far do you have to move this boxcar so that the other train doesn't smash it? Quickly Brad, there are thousands of lives at stake... Brad any answer...
[CRASH]
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I don't understand these fractions
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All right What's one third of 60
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That's a fraction I don't understand them
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All right look
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Let's say
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that this boxcar is 60 feet long okay
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And one third of it is across this switch here All right
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Okay And now another train is coming
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Now how far do you have to move this boxcar off the track
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so that the other train doesn't smash it
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Quickly Brad there are thousands of lives at stake
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Brad any answer
Clip duration: 53 seconds
Views: 339
Timestamp in movie: 00h 14m 56s
Uploaded: 20 November, 2022
Genres: drama, sci-fi
Summary: Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
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