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Investing 1: The Stock Market & Penelope The Cow

Planet Money Summer School

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How Much Do You Think That Cow Weighs?

"I don't even know how much my car weighe more than a cow," one boy says. "We put you on the tractor scale. Yes, a hundred and 65 pounds", another child replies. We find an older group of kids who also guessed on the low side. But they had this bigger problem, this this really more worrying thing. And it was this, the first kid said a number, and then all the other kids said basically the same number."

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