Posted on 01/04/2023 7:26:21 AM PST by CFW
Social media users have been left bewildered after discovering that 550 divided by two is 275 - and not 225 as many seem to instinctively assume.
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My sarcasm meter is off today. LOL
Bingo.
And, anyone’s “instincts” that tell them it is not 275 need to just wander off an die. They are worthless.
You know it’s odd but when I looked at the headline my mind quickly calculated the answer to be 225, weird.
I didn’t realize I had screwed up until I read a few lines of the article.
I’m certainly no genius but I have a BS in Agri-Business and have taken two college level math courses (algebra and calculus} so I’m not an idiot.
I think with that small problem it’s just how some peoples mind works spontaneously at a glance.
This is why I never pay for anything with a $550.00 bill.
I try to keep it on the abuse side. Use aint no fun.
When I first saw Ideocracy, I bought in on the time period concept.
I now believe it was written knowing full well it had already happened,
but that the public would have been outraged if it had been written as
taking place now.
Sounds like some of the numbers are off.
A caterpillar crawls onto an infinitely elastic rubber band.
The initial length of the rubber band is 8 inches.
The inchworm moves forward along the rubber band at a rate of 1 inch per minute
At the end of each minute, the rubber band instantaneously stretches in length by 8 inches
How long if ever will it take for the inchworm to reach the end of the rubber band?
End of Minute 1:
Band = 16 inches (8 inch original plus 8 inch stretch)
Earthworm travel = 1 inch
End of Minute 2:
Band = 24 inches
Earthworm travel = 2 inch
End of Minute 3:
Band = 32 inches
Earthworm travel = 3 inch
Or, if you consider the inchworm moved slightly each time the band stretched:
End of Minute 1:
Band = 16 inches (8 inch original plus 8 inch stretch)
Earthworm travel = 1 1/8 inch (1 inch of crawling and 1/8 of position change due to the stretch).
End of Minute 2:
Band = 24 inches
Earthworm travel = 2 1/4 inch
End of Minute 3:
Band = 32 inches
Earthworm travel = 3 3/8 inch
Yep ... 275 lb each!
Sad. My 8-yr-old (soon to be 9) granddaughter got the correct answer right away. She said half of 500 is 250 and half of 50 is 25, 250 and 25 is 275.
“250+25=25025
Right?”
Well, obviously that’s correct, but you need to show your work and how you arrived at the correct answer.
Agreed, and solid advice. Kids these days...
Come on now. In today’s world, 550/2 is anything you want it to be if it makes you “feel good”. Proper math rules mean nothing to American students, even less to social media “influencers”.
And some people wonder why we are losing technical jobs to the rest of the world...
“Are we really producing students out of school so brainwashed with POC and PC that they cannot do this?”
++++++
Yes. We are. Every teacher and school administrator should be sent a copy of this article and asked if the ten year old students in their school could immediately get the correct answer. If their answer is “No”, then they need to explain why and what they plan to do to correct that problem in the next six months.
Anyone else remember the meltdown that feminists (ugly women who can't get dates) went through when Barbie said "Math is hard?"
Just me?
So if I reply, I am a.... Witch burn me.
Let's see: "t" is the 20th letter of the alphabet, "w" is 23rd, and "o" can be 15 or zero. There are 2 fives in "550", so you drop the twos out of "20" and "23", giving you a "0", a "3", and another "0" (or "15"). The "15" is divisible by the "3", so you do that, which gives you a "5"; then divide "550" by "5", which gives you "110". There are two ones in "110", so you multiply "110" by "2", giving you "220". Finally, you take the two fives from "550", add that "55" to the "220", and the answer is...
275
'Easy peasy'!
;>)
And we wonder why we have to have Chinese/Koreans here on h1b/h2b visas.
Groups?
If you're talking about sets, then unions and intersectionality are perfectly fine in woke math. Minus is forbidden, however, unless under $950 is taken away from the set.
In woke math, inequalities are banned. Nobody is less than or greater than another. Only equal outcomes are acceptable.
-PJ
“So if I reply, I am a.... Witch burn me.”
HUH
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