Posted on 08/25/2014 11:19:44 AM PDT by econjack
A difficult math question. One would hope that these two did not finish high school. If they did, public education needs to refund our money.
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Are you sure they’re doing it on purpose? I’m not.
“I like to drive 80 because it makes the math easier. Just divide the miles-to-go by 4 and multiply by 3 to get the minutes-to-go. :)”
That extra 5mph is worth the math complications.
“Until a policeman pulls you over and gives you a ticket...”
There are a couple western states including Texas and Utah that have 80mph speed limits
“The Idiocracy is here, folks.”
dysgenics is the word.
Morons are breeding/being imported, making us stupid as a group.
They just raised the speed limit on rural interstate sections to 80 MPH here in Idaho. I did hear that the state police are enforcing it pretty strictly, too - the "5 MPH rule" doesn't apply any more.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
As a contract programmer, I went wherever there was a job. A couple of long runs were FL to TX or MI to FL. On the MI run coming home (I had seen momma only once every couple of months), I wrote down the distance in 300-400 mile segments on a Post-It note and stuck it in the lower left of my windshield. I left Rochester Hills at 4 a.m and dragged into Navarre, FL at 10 pm (missed the turn South at Milton, FL) - 18 straight hours with only 4 pit stops.
I played mind games like you did: "OK, Bowling Green KY is only X hours away, I can do that; OK, Atlanta, GA is only X hours away; OK, Navarre, FL is only X hours away, Hell, piece of cake".
I was so wired I couldn't sleep but my brother had come down from SC and we had a beer - and that was the last I remembered until the next morning.
I was amazed I pulled it off, but by breaking the trip down into "short" segments, it wasn't bad at all.
At the North Pole.
No, this is why they think one man = multiple votes and some precincts turned in 100% for hussein.
When has it ever been a 5 MPH rule? I have been driving interstates for many many years and gone through speed traps and as long as I am not 10MPH or more over have never been stopped. In fact a NY State trooper (a friend of mine) once told me that that was the "unwritten" rule almost everywhere except maybe Mayberry RFD.
African. :-)
Where I live you can get away with 10 MPH over the speed limit, but they nail you at 15.
Are we factoring in the time it takes to get that speeding ticket?
Either above or beneath the ice.
Ever since I can remember. Maybe it's different out east.
Uphill or down?
Now that we have had our math test for today, let’s move on to history class. What color was the white horse that George Washington was riding at Valley Forge?
MPH is just a term man! How long will it take!? Don’t hold out! Pass the pipe bro!
School wouldn’t help. They can’t understand plain English. The guy asking the question was a bit smarter.
In my neck of the woods I have to 70mph as my baseline in calculating travel time and I use a percent method.
Say 50 miles left on a trip at 70mph. I use common core math and round down to 49 as it’s a multiple of 7.
7 is 10% of 70. So It’s gonna take me roughly 70% of an hour to go 50 miles, somewhere around 42 min. or so.
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