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Due to poor penmanship, a reporter cannot tell whether the number written is 1 or 7. If the reporter knows that the number is > than 4, which number must it be?

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The number could be 1 or 7.

The symbol ">" means "greater than".

Consider the expression below:


a>b

This means that the value "a" is greater than "b".

From the question, the number is "greater" than 4.

Between 1 and 7, only 7 is greater than 4.

Therefore, the number the reporter sees is 7.

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