A bit of fun:
I drive from my house to your house at 30 mph. How fast do I have to drive back home so that my average speed for the round-trip is 60 mph.
It is not a difficult math problem, but it is stated in such a way that the reader doesn't get it.
I really am dumb...wouldn’t we need the distance between the houses.
60 mph, but that does not include the trip up at 30 mph-—and that is the key.
If it is one mile in each direction you cannot average 60 mph because it took you 2 minutes to get there and there is no time left to average 60 mph.
Hmmmm, 90mph?
Infinity. The answer is always infinity. Unless it’s a cat thing. ;)
90 on the return trip to average 60. Just be careful making that u-turn!
Too late
I’m going for 120 but that’s only because I like to drive fast.
150, but I’m factoring in the amount of time spent explaining the scientific method to the nice officer.
90 mph.
Regardless the distance, if you do 30 up and 90 back, the average is (30+90)/2.
= 120/2
= 60 mph.
That you doubled the original mileage probably tricks people into saying 30 mph, thinking that they traveled 30 miles one way and 30 miles back, so still 30 mph. Or maybe the trick is different. I don't know.
Either way, it is nice to see genius still exists, that the woman solved an age old proof. It is always fun to read about genius. It is so underappreciated in a world where most people only care about how far you can throw a football or which actress has a bigger rack.
I’m gonna say 90mph.
It’s a trick question. There is no answer because on the way home you are arrested for breaking quarantine.
You have to drive back doing 90.
That was clever. You managed to turn a story about a woman solving one of the big mysteries of math, and use it to have multiple people highlight their lack of math ability.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but Lisa looks kind of butch. One of the best mathematicians of all time, a chick named Emmy Noether was called Herr Noether by her students.
90.
I thought this would be about why Kellyanne Conway tied the knot with Roger Conway.
I guess some problems will never be understood.
Tooo bad Tim Conway is dead. They could have asked him.
I don’t think Lisa Piccirillo would be interested in meeting me for drinks..........