"The cup is non-sequitur to the question, and cups hold fungible materials while the pennies are enumerated."
Exactly. It's not clear what's being compared. The pics indicate a comparison between discrete items (coffee beans, I think, not pennies) to a continuous quantity (the drink made from the beans) whereas the numbers (5 and 6) indicate a comparison between discrete items (beans and beans).
The 6 on the cup is particularly confusing. What does it refer to? The number of beans that go into a full cup? Number of ounces? If beans to beans, it's still confusing: If the beans have been processed into a cup of coffee, they're not really (discrete) beans anymore, so now how do compare?
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"The cup is non-sequitur to the question, and cups hold fungible materials while the pennies are enumerated." Exactly. It's not clear what's being compared. The pics indicate a comparison between discrete items (coffee beans, I think, not pennies) to a continuous quantity (the drink made from the beans) whereas the numbers (5 and 6) indicate a comparison between discrete items (beans and beans). The 6 on the cup is particularly confusing. What does it refer to? The number of beans that go into a full cup? Number of ounces? If beans to beans, it's still confusing: If the beans have been processed into a cup of coffee, they're not really (discrete) beans anymore, so now how do compare?