What am I missing about puzzle 5?

There’s an unwritten hierarchy to tsumego solutions: If you can live outright, that’s the answer, if you can’t but you can get seki, that’s the answer, and if you can’t but you can get ko, that’s the answer. Then within each category there can be better or worse solutions by points, and some less common categories, but those 3 are the basic idea

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