Why not, indeed
When a student doesn’t know the answer and doesn’t bother to look for it, you can expect answers like this. We don’t know whether the problem stems from a lack of motivation to study or hatred for a subject. For all we know, this kid might’ve just wanted to play COD all night after class.
But to be fair to this kid, we couldn’t answer this either. Chemistry is a weird subject, and we pretty much stayed away from it in junior high and high school. That said, we never gave half-butted answers for the heck of this. Kids these days…