This is obviously dependent on how you interpret the question:
I interpret it as them giving us half the pole in the ground...then an additional 1/3<---which has nothing to do with the half in the ground. This leaving 2/3 of that remaining half not the whole.(treating the remaining half not in the ground as fractions. Then solve by multiplying my 2.
I interpret it as 1/3 of the remaining half. You say it's 1/3 on top of the 1/2 this is where the math changes. I am not going to say that I don't understand math because that would be an understatement. I just think we are interpreting(reading into) this problem at different angles.
I interpret it as them giving us half the pole in the ground...then an additional 1/3<---which has nothing to do with the half in the ground. This leaving 2/3 of that remaining half not the whole.(treating the remaining half not in the ground as fractions. Then solve by multiplying my 2.
I interpret it as 1/3 of the remaining half. You say it's 1/3 on top of the 1/2 this is where the math changes. I am not going to say that I don't understand math because that would be an understatement. I just think we are interpreting(reading into) this problem at different angles.