I’m inclined to say “A nickel,” meaning that the ball costs 5 cents and the bat costs a dollar and five cents, making the bat cost a dollar more than the ball.
Nothing, their free thru 0bamaballs :-)
Got it right! Simple algebra.
Must be in a right-to-work state. In a union-thug state, they would cost $47.50.
(2 * X) + 1 = 1.10
That's racist. Probably homophobic too.
2X + (1.00- 1.00) = 1.10 - 1.00
2X = .10
X = .10/2
X = .05
Do they not teach math at Harvard?
Is that $1.10 before or after sales tax?
The bat cannot possibly be a dollar more than the ball, because the value of both together after taxes is about $.40. The question is flawed.
Damn, I’m stoopid
My first instinct was to say 10 cents then it struck me that would mean the bat cost 90 cents more.
Of course it is a nickle.
The ball is 0.05
The Bat is 1.05 which is 1.00 more than 0.05
The total is 0.05 + 1.05 = 1.10
Is this before or after taxes?
It’s not right that some should have bats and balls when others cannot afford them nor should bats only be viewed as being paired with balls. It’s perfectly acceptable that you can have 2 balls without bats and it is also acceptable that you can have two bats without balls. This question is just a product of linear male thinking.
Bat and ball? Racist code words.
I was engaged to a little cutie who lived in Texas. We had met and spent the Summer at a mountain retreat.
Just before classes began, I drove to Texas from Florida to visit her parents. Her Father was a genius who held a large number of patents, He was a chemist for Dow Chemical.
The first morning after I awoke but she was still asleep, Her Mother made me breakfast. Her Father was fiddling with a magazine which had a bunch of brain teasers in it. He asked if I liked doing them and I said truthfully that I did.
We worked several of them and I realized the whole thing was a test to see how smart his future Son-in-Law was.
Anyway one of the questions was this: You have 5 pieces of chain. Each piece has 3 links. You decide to make them into a single long chain.
You take them to a blacksmith and he says he will charge a penny to cut a link and 2 cents to weld a link back together. What is the cheapest you can have the job done.
The answer is 9 cents. I guess I passed as he said I was the only person who had ever given the correct answer.
Here’s another logic test Harvard grads fail:
You are spending 40% more than your income. Should you
a. Increase Spending
b. Decrease Spending.
c. make your own dollar bills.
The bat costs $1.05 and the ball costs 5¢. That was easy...
Urkel would say “The ball represents centuries of oppression and is probably made by the criminal 1%. It should cost nothing and I am introducing a bill that everyone below the poverty line receives a new ball every week.”
a=b
a² = ab
a² - b² = ab - b²
(a – b) (a + b) = b (a – b) (a – b) (a + b) = b (a – b)
(a + b) = b
But a = b, therefore
a + a = a
2a = a
hence
2 = 1
So we can double the taxes on the rich and they come out OK. Got it?