Math For 12 Year Olds

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Quote from Son of a Gann:

Total purchase

Choc 308
Sweets 68

Each has only Half

Sweets 34
Choc 154

Brilliant ! Now try this :

Obama, Clinton, & Bush had snacks for a miniscule $30. Each paid $10 to the waiter. Waiter gave the $30 to cashier. Cashier said bill should only be $25, asks the waiter to return $5 to them. Waiter thinks "how to split $5 among the three of them". Never mind, keep $2 to himself, returns $1 each to Obama, Clinton & Bush. Thus each of them paid $9, waiter keeps $2, total $29. What happened to the missing buck?

 

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Quote from ngkh:

Brilliant ! Now try this :

Obama, Clinton, & Bush had snacks for a miniscule $30. Each paid $10 to the waiter. Waiter gave the $30 to cashier. Cashier said bill should only be $25, asks the waiter to return $5 to them. Waiter thinks "how to split $5 among the three of them". Never mind, keep $2 to himself, returns $1 each to Obama, Clinton & Bush. Thus each of them paid $9, waiter keeps $2, total $29. What happened to the missing buck?

Obama gave it to the Waiters Union as part of the stimulus package the way he gave GM and Chrysler to the auto unions...

 

[nutmeg]

Quote from ngkh:

Brilliant ! Now try this :

Obama, Clinton, & Bush had snacks for a miniscule $30. Each paid $10 to the waiter. Waiter gave the $30 to cashier. Cashier said bill should only be $25, asks the waiter to return $5 to them. Waiter thinks "how to split $5 among the three of them". Never mind, keep $2 to himself, returns $1 each to Obama, Clinton & Bush. Thus each of them paid $9, waiter keeps $2, total $29. What happened to the missing buck?

That is known as tax cut.

 

[aegis]

Quote from ngkh:

Brilliant ! Now try this :

Obama, Clinton, & Bush had snacks for a miniscule $30. Each paid $10 to the waiter. Waiter gave the $30 to cashier. Cashier said bill should only be $25, asks the waiter to return $5 to them. Waiter thinks "how to split $5 among the three of them". Never mind, keep $2 to himself, returns $1 each to Obama, Clinton & Bush. Thus each of them paid $9, waiter keeps $2, total $29. What happened to the missing buck?

The missing dollar doesn't exist. Every dollar can be accounted for.

$25 went to the restaurant, $2 went to the waiter, and $3 went back to the customers. $25+$2+$3=$30.

 

[Son of a Gann]

Quote from ngkh:

Brilliant ! Now try this :

Obama, Clinton, & Bush had snacks for a miniscule $30. Each paid $10 to the waiter. Waiter gave the $30 to cashier. Cashier said bill should only be $25, asks the waiter to return $5 to them. Waiter thinks "how to split $5 among the three of them". Never mind, keep $2 to himself, returns $1 each to Obama, Clinton & Bush. Thus each of them paid $9, waiter keeps $2, total $29. What happened to the missing buck?

Are you doing your homework?

waiter keeps $2 which is part of $27
Total bill $25 + $2 = 27 not $29

 

[ngkh]

QUOTE]Quote from aegis]

The missing dollar doesn't exist. Every dollar can be accounted for.

$25 went to the restaurant, $2 went to the waiter, and $3 went back to the customers. $25+$2+$3=$30.

Quote from Son of a Gann:

Are you doing your homework?

waiter keeps $2 which is part of $27
Total bill $25 + $2 = 27 not $29

Bravo to both ! Quiet markets bore me..........so.......


Tom Cruise flies his F14 from Hollywood at Mach 2.5 to battle it out with The Red Baron coming in from Berlin at, well you know the speed ! As they pass each other, who's further from Hollywood ?

 

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Quote from ngkh:



Tom Cruise flies his F14 from Hollywood at Mach 2.5 to battle it out with The Red Baron coming in from Berlin at, well you know the speed ! As they pass each other, who's further from Hollywood ?

Answer-

Tom Cruise is flying to meet the two fruitcakes in the original post who were giving each other chocolate candies.

What did I win?

 

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--- Tom Cruise

 

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Question-

Stock_trad3r blew out his $3000 Ameritrade account buying mega beta stocks at their 2007 highs. If he averages $.70 cents a week from each of the 200 houses on his paper route, how long would he need to continue being a paperboy in order to refund his account?