# LMD Async Tutoring

**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933
**Category:** Tutoring
**Created:** [April 23, 2024, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933 "2024-04-23T00:05:39Z")
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### Author: ![Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/elliot/32/14_2.png) [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/lmd-async-tutoring/1933/977 "2025-04-30T18:03:11Z")

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> [@LMD](#):
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> After reading the MFDM article, I realised one of my confusions with this problem was that I didn’t know if y and x were or weren’t of the same dimension. They weren’t defined. But now I realise in math it’s just standard to assume x and y are of a different dimension; they are unlike terms after all. I’m not sure why this happened.

Yes x and y represent different dimensions in general. But also, where did x and y come from? They symbolically represented and generalized stuff from the economics discussion. So what were the actual factors originally being talked about?

> [@Milton Friedman and Maximizing Profits](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/milton-friedman-and-maximizing-profits/1991/37):
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> Like I think they should maximise profits and care about other things too like, making a great product/service, being a great place to work for employees.

x = profits  
y = great product/service  
z = great place to work

I’m guessing you already know whether those are the same dimension or different dimensions.

> [@LMD](#):
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> I think what didn’t ‘seem right’ to me was that I knew on one hand that you can’t add like terms,

Typo? Did you mean to write “unlike terms”? If it’s not a typo you may be confused.

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