Algebra is essential to many of our yutes. When they get a career job at a pizza shop a customer might ask them which will give them more pizza, one 16 inch pizza or two 8 inch pizzas.
They don’t even need math...I once went to a chain restaurant and they closed temporarily because their computer was down and the cashier didn’t know how to make change...
pie r squared?
Believe it or not, I witnessed a live performance of that recently. I was with my wife and she asked the worker exactly that question
The answer was... two 8-inchers.
The logic?
Two 8-inchers gives you 12 pieces.
The 16-incher gives you only ten...
I just bit my tongue and said, we'll take the 16-incher.
That’s so easy I can do it in my head. The answer is the one who pays.
See the guy who pays always gets more pizza unless he opts out and takes instead the last slice.
It’s an economic theorem.
Think that is more of a geometry problem than one of algebra.
It’s the pizza with the coupon.