Even I don’t “know” how many “R”s there are in “strawberry”. I don’t keep that information in my brain. What I do keep is the spelling of the word “strawberry” and the skill of being able to count so that I can derive the answer to that question anytime I need.
For many words I can't say the number of each letters but I only have an abstract memory of how they look so when I write say "strawbery" I just realize it looks odd and correct it.
Right. The equivalent here, for this problem, would be something like asking for context. And the LLM response should've been:
"Well, you need your car to be at the car wash in order to wash it, right?"