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Evie

AddedFriday, March 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Do you have to be good at math and reading to be an engineer

Hi my sister wants to be an engineer but she is not very good at math and such, would she still be able to be an engineer. Also she thinks that an engineer builds but they don't, right?
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