Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for May 18, 2011

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    pksampso  over 13 years ago

    “…in sales, where we just make up numbers.”

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    DarkHorseSki  over 13 years ago

    3xy=2(xy-2) 3xy=2xy-4 xy=-4 3x(4y)=12xy=12(-4)=-48Math is your friend.

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago

    The answer is 42.

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    grossvatter  over 13 years ago

    Go ask your mother????

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    rw1h  over 13 years ago

    I get something different:3XY = 2(XY-2)3XY = 2XY-43X= 2X-4/Y3X4Y=4Y(2X) -4Y(4/Y)3X4Y=8XY-163X4Y=8(XY-2)

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    hippogriff  over 13 years ago

    42 is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

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    tlc1012  over 13 years ago

    Math is NOT my friend.

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Technically, hippogriff, “42” is not the meaning of life, the universe, and everything per se. It’s the answer to the ultimate QUESTION of life, the universe, and everything…(How does one italicize now? I’ve seen people do it…)

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    tedcoop  over 13 years ago

    Use standard HTML tags for text formatting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html_tags

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Thanks, tedcoop. I’d tried using brackets rather than arrows ([i], [/i]), which didn’t work, but I was on the right track.

    (And yes, math and I have never been exactly on a FRIENDLY footing, but given time I could have wrestled the above into submission…)

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    momazilla  over 13 years ago

    The Problem is, the answer’s worng!

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    fritzoid Premium Member over 13 years ago

    I’m convinced “42” is the right answer. It’s the question that’s…questionable.

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    1effinday  over 13 years ago

    This was on my young friend’s PSAT: 3y = x and w = 3; solve wy – x.

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    Math is your friend when you only have * one variable* to solve for.

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    Majicou  over 13 years ago

    Yes, but this problem doesn’t ask you to solve for any variable, just find the value of 3x(4y), and it is indeed -48.

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    Seeker149 Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Never mind how easy it is to find the answer, the problem does not look like anything I’ve ever seen in any school curriculum. The joke is great, but I would ask the artists in the future to please open a textbook for a more realistic example. Before this goes up on the wall of my math class, I’m gonna have to change the problem.

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