Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Sum
Sum noun - A complete amount of something.
How words are described
| right | right answer | right sum |
| original | original answer | original sum |
| reasonable | reasonable answer | reasonable sum |
| real | real answer | real sum |
| Other adjectives: possible. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Then, you subtract your casualties from their casualties, and "if the answer is a positive sum, it was a glorious victory".
Source: The Neidermeyer -
The kids' movie Five Children and It features a scene in which an eccentric math teacher is about to discover that kid-related shenanigans have been going on, while one of the kids is desperately trying to distract him by finding the answer to a complicated sum.
Source: Critical Research Failure -
On the Finn version, it depended on the format- in the first definition-based format, spinning a Joker tripled the question value (the sum of the amounts in the two other windows) and gave the player 15 seconds to answer as many as possible.
Source: Bonus Space
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