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"Mistakes.  Plural.  The divisor is 6, not 4, and you're also looking for the added product rather than the total product.  If it's ordered 5-3-2, that's a marginal product of 5.  If it's ordered 5-2-3, that's a marginal product of 5.  If it's ordered 2-5-3, the product starts at 2, and goes to 10, which is a marginal product of 8.  3-5-2 goes from 3 to 15, marginal product 12.  2-3-5 and 3-2-5 go from 6 to 30, marginal product 24 repeated twice."  Asmodia has been writing down these numbers, thank you, she is not trying to keep it all in her head without a Fox's Cunning.  "5 + 5 + 8 + 12 + 24 + 24 = 78, divided by 6... 13."

She quickly checks the other two numbers to make sure she's got it right.

2:  2 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 15 + 15 = 42 / 6 = 7
3:  3 + 3 + 4 + 10 + 20 + 20 = 60 / 6 = 10

13 + 7 + 10 = 30.  Okay, she didn't just make a (tiny bit, unimportantly, bigger) fool of herself.

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"Mistakes.  Plural.  The divisor is 6, not 4, and you're also summing the marginal production rather than the total production.  If it's ordered 5-3-2, that's a marginal production of 5.  If it's ordered 5-2-3, that's a marginal production of 5.  If it's ordered 2-5-3, the product starts at 2, and goes to 10, which is a marginal production of 8.  3-5-2 goes from 3 to 15, marginal production 12.  2-3-5 and 3-2-5 go from 6 to 30, marginal production 24 repeated twice."  Asmodia has been writing down these numbers, thank you, she is not trying to keep it all in her head without a Fox's Cunning.  "5 + 5 + 8 + 12 + 24 + 24 = 78, divided by 6... 13."

She quickly checks the other two numbers to make sure she's got it right.

2:  2 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 15 + 15 = 42 / 6 = 7
3:  3 + 3 + 4 + 10 + 20 + 20 = 60 / 6 = 10

13 + 7 + 10 = 30.  Okay, she didn't just make a (tiny bit, unimportantly, bigger) fool of herself.

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"Mistakes.  Plural.  The divisor is 6, not 4, and you're supposed to sum over the marginal productions rather than the total productions.  If it's ordered 5-3-2, that's a marginal production of 5.  If it's ordered 5-2-3, that's a marginal production of 5.  If it's ordered 2-5-3, the product starts at 2, and goes to 10, which is a marginal production of 8.  3-5-2 goes from 3 to 15, marginal production 12.  2-3-5 and 3-2-5 go from 6 to 30, marginal production 24 repeated twice."  Asmodia has been writing down these numbers, thank you, she is not trying to keep it all in her head without a Fox's Cunning.  "5 + 5 + 8 + 12 + 24 + 24 = 78, divided by 6... 13."

She quickly checks the other two numbers to make sure she's got it right.

2:  2 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 15 + 15 = 42 / 6 = 7
3:  3 + 3 + 4 + 10 + 20 + 20 = 60 / 6 = 10

13 + 7 + 10 = 30.  Okay, she didn't just make a (tiny bit, unimportantly, bigger) fool of herself.