Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

First Graders Can Solve This Math Problem, But Most Adults Can't. Do You See The Answer?
Little Things ^ | May 10, 2016 | Rebecca Endicott

Posted on 01/11/2022 7:58:27 AM PST by SouthernClaire

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-168 next last
To: seowulf

Grant???

How many animals did Moses take on the ark?


121 posted on 01/11/2022 8:50:38 AM PST by SouthernClaire (God Bless America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

The answer is 42. Always.


122 posted on 01/11/2022 8:51:18 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

Gone for a while to calculate in the shower.


123 posted on 01/11/2022 8:51:51 AM PST by SouthernClaire (God Bless America)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 121 | View Replies]

To: Deaf Smith
I frequently when paying with cash, give bills & coins together to round off to where I will get quarters back while reducing the smaller coins I have.

Ditto, but I have gotten into the habit of always telling the cashier how much I am handing them and how much the change will be. They still give me puzzled expressions, but it usually saves time over having to correct them afterwards when they hand back incorrect change.

124 posted on 01/11/2022 8:52:45 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 109 | View Replies]

To: OKSooner
[...] or there’s some clever subtlety in the way the question is worded to throw the testee off [...]

Keep your hands off my testes!

Regards,

125 posted on 01/11/2022 8:56:39 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: seowulf

How many know where is Grant’s tomb without cheating?


126 posted on 01/11/2022 9:00:16 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

It is simple accounting. Just keep track of the debits and credits.


127 posted on 01/11/2022 9:00:41 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jmcenanly

128 posted on 01/11/2022 9:04:08 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

The conventional way is to say that after the stop in question, 2 less people were on board than before that stop, so adding 2 to the 63 still on board would yield 65.

However, what exactly is meant by “to begin with?” (and let’s not forget that this “brilliant” question ended with a preposition - a BIG no-no). If it is a clever way of trying to trick people into a quick and simple answer (65), and was really aiming at reason- and experience-based logic, then the answer would have to be 0, since no one lives on a train.

Stupid problem, either way.


129 posted on 01/11/2022 9:04:13 AM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

This is pathetic.


130 posted on 01/11/2022 9:06:13 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WinMod70
Hard to believe any adult can’t figure that out.

Libs cannot figure it out because they get hung up on figuring some way to label the train racist while worrying that the train is powered by fossil fuel engines rather than electric drive.

Also they are concerned that with 57 genders and 65 people on the train there is no way to ensure every gender is equally represented. Therefore train service must be halted and a commission formed to look into the problem.

Finally, libs are concerned that no-where was it specified that anyone was vaccinated nor wearing a mask, so no-one should be riding the train.

There, that about covers it, why so many "adults" have a hard time doing simple math in their heads. Their heads are too full of screwy ideas.

131 posted on 01/11/2022 9:06:17 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

Depends on who was wearing a mask.
The maskless would all die and would not be able to get off the train.


132 posted on 01/11/2022 9:08:07 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

The older we get, the more we tend to overthink things.


133 posted on 01/11/2022 9:10:02 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Justice

“The conductor got more than he bargained for.”


134 posted on 01/11/2022 9:11:24 AM PST by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: GingisK

“I had seniors who couldn’t work Ohm’s Law problems.”

Was it the E (I guess some use V), I or R that tripped them up?


135 posted on 01/11/2022 9:12:10 AM PST by WinMod70
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 114 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

Good grief! But that is considered so difficult we really are in trouble.


136 posted on 01/11/2022 9:13:17 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WinMod70
Hard to believe any adult can’t figure that out.

Not if you've ever seen the vids of 'adults' being asked, "if you drive at 60MPH for one hour, how far have you traveled?"; or the gal asked whether she wants her pizza cut into 8 or 12 slices.

137 posted on 01/11/2022 9:13:20 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: ClearCase_guy

Who
Who cares?


138 posted on 01/11/2022 9:14:57 AM PST by keving (We the government )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SouthernClaire

Impossible to find the answer, since we don’t know how many, if any, were conceived or aborted aboard the train.


139 posted on 01/11/2022 9:17:41 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WinMod70

If they had to solve for anything besides E they were dead in the water.


140 posted on 01/11/2022 9:26:59 AM PST by GingisK
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 135 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 101-120121-140141-160161-168 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson