incorrect sum

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The Maine attorney general’s office pointed out that the letter cited an incorrect sum of federal funding that flows to the state.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2025

If the child merely names an incorrect sum without saying anything to indicate how he arrived at his answer, it is well to tell him to figure it up aloud.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson