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Actress Patricia Heaton Dumbfounded by Simple Math Question on "Millionaire" - Video 8/17/09
Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 18, 2009 | BrianinMO

Posted on 08/18/2009 12:22:39 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot

Here is video of Actress Patricia Heaton on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?", playing for charity. The scene that unfolds you will not believe if you have not seen it. On the very first question, Heaton is asked a simple math question that just dumbfounds her. It's painful to watch! Host Regis Philbin was exhausted by the time it was over! . . . . (Watch Video)

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: patriciaheaton; regisphilbin
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To: domenad
e = cos θ + i sin θ

Duh!

61 posted on 08/18/2009 12:57:04 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Bob

If you can get to 7.50 then 25 (25 cents) goes into 75 3 times add the zero to get 30 quarters.


62 posted on 08/18/2009 12:58:59 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Pistolshot

That’s what I got, too.


63 posted on 08/18/2009 12:59:17 PM PDT by lonestar (Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
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To: Federalist Patriot
Sometimes a person can get raddled. A friend of mine went shopping with an aunt who instructs endlessly. She is usually level-headed and does okay under pressure, but this time she got so rattled that when the cab driver asked for her address she could not recall it.
64 posted on 08/18/2009 1:00:12 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: Crusher138

There are many who don’t understand “inverse” or its use in mathematics. That’s not uncommon. No use getting frustrated by it...


65 posted on 08/18/2009 1:00:37 PM PDT by bcsco (How's that hopey-changey thing going?)
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To: Gideon7

Beautiful, no? My friends in engineering school always wondered how I could integrate the most complex sinusoids without knowing any identities. Euler was the man who proved God existed, and will forever be crown prince of awesome.


66 posted on 08/18/2009 1:01:34 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: theFIRMbss; All

“If a Euro is worth $1.50, five Euros is worth what?”

Her choices are A.) 30 quarters, B.) 50 dimes, C.) 70 nickels, and D.) 90 pennies.

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Ummm ... lessee ...

1 Euro = $1.50 ... 5 Euros = $1.50 x 5 = $7.50 ...

90 pennies = 90 cents ... ummmm NO ...

70 nickels = 70 x .05 = $3.50 ... ummmm NO ...

50 dimes = 50 x .10 = $5.00 ... ummmm NO ...

30 quarters = 30 x .25 = $7.50 = the price of the 1017 page healthcare bill we can use if we run out of toilet paper ... CORRECTOMUNDO !!!


67 posted on 08/18/2009 1:01:39 PM PDT by Lmo56
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To: cripplecreek

I have a PhD in engineering. I can do calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, statistics and design of experiments.

But I have ALWAYS had trouble with arithmetic.

Go figure :)


68 posted on 08/18/2009 1:01:59 PM PDT by chesley ("Hate" -- You wouldn't understand; it's a leftist thing)
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To: theFIRMbss

Doing it the long way is tricky. Doing it the short way is easy. You know 5 Euros is worth at least 5 dollars. Obviously, it’s not D. Everyone knows 90 pennies is less than even one dollar. It can’t be C either because...process of elimination.

She got caught up in the minor details.


69 posted on 08/18/2009 1:03:06 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (Evil-Mongering Angry Mobster)
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To: theFIRMbss

I’m surprised she didn’t pick:

E) all the above


70 posted on 08/18/2009 1:03:15 PM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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To: Federalist Patriot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws


71 posted on 08/18/2009 1:03:44 PM PDT by maggief
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To: definitelynotaliberal

I was in Wal Mart a few years ago right around this time of the year. A girl and her mother were shopping for her back—to-school supplies, and it was obvious from the conversation that the girl had spent at least one year away at college. Daughter was charged with keeping tabs on their spending and had a calculator for said job. They had just put something in the cart, and there was a little complaining from the daughter. Mom said, “Well, it was 4 of them, so just put in 4 times 7.” The daughter proclaimed, without so much as lowering her voice, that she could not do this, explaining that she was out of school for the summer.

Now, I am a math moron and I am embarrased by my lack of skills. but, next to this girl, I felt like Einstein.


72 posted on 08/18/2009 1:04:13 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012)
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To: cripplecreek

Seventy nickels being $3.50....

Sigh...

I cannot do math in my head after lunch.


73 posted on 08/18/2009 1:06:51 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: IYAS9YAS

oh, i agree- in enough time I did it a different way- 10 quarters is $2.50, times 3 = $7.50

But the others were so obviously wrong, process of elimination was the easiest way

Making her look stupid must have been set up by the liberals- she is a staunch conservative.


74 posted on 08/18/2009 1:07:41 PM PDT by Mr. K (THIS ADMINISTRATION IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY DAMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT!!!!!)
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To: Crusher138

That one has me stumped too! It seems some people are good with numbers, while others are good with words. And a few are good with both.


75 posted on 08/18/2009 1:10:26 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: DTA

Post 17

I know what you mean. Sometimes I will give a cashier $23.53, for a 18.38 purchase, (don’t have the right change and don’t want dollars and pennies back) and it confuses the heck out of many of them.


76 posted on 08/18/2009 1:19:06 PM PDT by Peter Horry (Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded - John Randolph)
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To: Peter Horry

If possible, I go further and give them $25.63 and avoid those dimes and nickles also.


77 posted on 08/18/2009 1:21:31 PM PDT by Ingtar (Americans have truly let America down. A sad day.)
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To: chesley
everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. I once called a man to see if he could give me a quick easy measurement over the phone to save a long drive. He told me "Mr. Rightly_Dividing, I have a whole alphabet after my name, I speak 7 languages fluently, but I do not have a technical mind, I can not operate a tape measure"
78 posted on 08/18/2009 1:23:42 PM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: Crusher138
I’d argue that the problem is really you. Yes, you are correct, but spending an hour trying to explain the reason why is your own fault.

Next time do this math equation in your head:

Irritating my wife for an hour = ________?

Your marraige mathematics needs some work.

79 posted on 08/18/2009 1:24:52 PM PDT by Diplomat
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To: chesley

I am *so* relieved to hear you say that. Math nut here, have that intuitive sense for probability and everything, bomb arithmetic regularly, was a mess the first month of game theory.


80 posted on 08/18/2009 1:24:55 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (So how about, in honor of the American soldier, ya quit making things up? - Gov. Palin)
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