Close to Home by John McPherson for April 22, 2009

I don’t suppose there is a third option? Those answers are nowhere NEAR the correct one.

I think I’ll apply elsewhere…

Some University. It looks like Mathematics is the only college they have!

-8,327,683 is correct if you make a rounding error on the square root of 32 (5.6 instead of 5.7)

I got -8,332,202.912834

I got what wizard got - maybe there’s a trap door for us for actually doing math.

A=true

actually -8,332,282.10879414

KingRat says: -8,327,683 is correct if you make a rounding error on the square root of 32 (5.6 instead of 5.7)….. Sounds like the voice of experience bro. LOLOLOL

I got -8,332,202.913. My question is, how did he get the second option? Random number or did he mess up doing the equation on purpose to get that number?

No rational answer at all… Don’t think this would happen on Foxtrot! I agree with KingRat that you have to make a pretty bad rounding error to get (A). Doesn’t McPherson’s calculator have more than two digits? Perhaps we should chip in to get him a better one!

I think the Door A/Door B question will put engineers through door A, liberal arts majors through door B, and collect math majors in the hallway.

math was not good to me! cant even add without a calulator

Pentium CPU designers thru door A, Political Science majors through door B (they’ll skew the numbers however they want)

he should have showed up with his scientific calculator :-)

Really like this cartoon. Why not have more math and science on the funny pages!!

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