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To: JBW1949

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.


23 posted on 05/01/2016 11:57:34 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

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...


31 posted on 05/01/2016 12:02:44 PM PDT by JBW1949
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To: shelterguy

pie r squared?


33 posted on 05/01/2016 12:02:53 PM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: shelterguy
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.

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.

104 posted on 05/01/2016 1:42:12 PM PDT by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: shelterguy

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.


109 posted on 05/01/2016 2:07:08 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10 rounds 10 meters 10 seconds 10 centimetres)
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To: shelterguy

Think that is more of a geometry problem than one of algebra.


122 posted on 05/01/2016 2:36:11 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: shelterguy

It’s the pizza with the coupon.


127 posted on 05/01/2016 2:50:50 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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