Video Transcript
Matthew is taller than Daniel and
shorter than Benjamin. Who is the shortest?
In this question, we need to
compare the heights of three different boys. There’s Matthew, Daniel, and
Benjamin. The question asks us, who is the
shortest? But we aren’t given any pictures or
measurements to help us. How can we compare these three
children’s heights? Well, we’re given one sentence to
help us here. And in this sentence, we’re given
two facts. We know what two children’s heights
are compared with Matthew. And we can use this to help us find
the answer. To help us solve the problem, let’s
draw a line. And we’ll go from left to right,
shorter to taller.
So the first part of our sentence
compares Matthew with Daniel. And we’re told Matthew is taller
than Daniel. There we go. So we’ve written the letters M and
D on our line. Because we know Matthew is taller
than Daniel, we’ve written the M to the right of the letter D. The second fact that we’re told is
also to do with Matthew. But this time we’re comparing
Benjamin’s height with Matthew. So Matthew is taller than
Daniel. But he’s shorter than Benjamin.
Now, if Matthew is shorter than
Benjamin, we’re going to have to write the letter B for Benjamin somewhere here. Benjamin is taller than
Matthew. And because Matthew is taller than
Daniel, Benjamin is the tallest. But our question asks us, who is
the shortest? We can use the diagram we’ve drawn
to help us. The shortest out of the three boys
is Daniel.
