Fun with math

“Yawl not ya'll,yawl.”

“it's not ya all, it's ya'll”

“Hey, I thought this was a math thread.”

“If you want/need help with stats basics, I may be able to help break it down for you.”

“maybe it's simpler to just write/say "youins" or "youinses"”

“Rosey, heavy weed use isn't good for you.”

“There's a water tower in SC that says "FLORENCE Y'ALL" on it, too.”

“LOL that's funny tree!”

“Somehow, I just can't get a good visual on Dutchess using "yall" or "darlin" correctly in a sentence.

It has to flow from the lips like butter melting across a hot biscuit.

Darlin, yall just can't do that up north.”

“LOL
true so true”

“Yawl; a two-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel having a large mainmast and a smaller jiggermast or mizzenmast stepped abaft the sternpost.

Which means; if you're a yawl you have a smaller stick up your rear. Bye yawl.”

“SOH CAH TOA, what fun.”

“Integrate this, beotch!”

“Please find the Lowest Common (whole number) Multiple of the following numbers so I purchase the least wasteful combination of ingredients:

18 (pairs of marshmallows per bag)
13.5 (pairs of graham crackers per box)
6 (chocolate bars per pkg)



http://www.helpwithfractions.com/least-common-multiple.html”

“its over 9000!”

“argh! We're going to need more guests.”

“i almost broke my brain until i realized you said least common multiple, not denominator”

“Definitely not LCD, nor LSD (non-British American spelling).”

“How many guests are you having? How much will everyone eat? Is anyone diabetic? Will everyone eat a s'more or will some have just plain marshmallows? Plain crackers? Plain candy bars? How big are the candy bars? Is there a mandatory recipe to follow? C'mon, give us something to work with.”

“This needs to be manageable, so the guests will all be required to eat one full s'mores, consisting of 2 graham crackers, one chocolate bar, and 2 marshmallows. To keep this efficient, we're going to invite the number of guests necessary to eat one s'mores without wasting any ingredients.

I could still use that answer if anybody has got it.”

“Define "wasting any ingredients."”

“4 boxes of grahams
3 bogs of marsh mallows
9 pkg chocolate bars


54 people
"
last edited: 5/05/10 5:43:36 AM”

“3 bags marshmallows"
last edited: 5/05/10 5:39:08 AM”

“"wasting any ingredients":

In this case I mean not having a leftover marshmallow in the bag, for example, after making the s'mores (nor a leftover chocolate bar, or graham cracker). All products bought must be used for making the s'mores as defined above.”

“LOL! I saw that before the edit, baume.”

“4 x 13.5 = 54 (graham crackers)
3 x 18 = 54 (marshmallows)
6 x 6 = 36 (chocolate bars)


Very close - adjust your chocolate bars and you got it.

BTW, what method did you use?”

“Does the bag of marshmallows list the contents/servings in an exact quantity or an approximate quantity?”

“adjusted, i knew that”

“doubled the grahams to get an even number. knew it was 3 pkgs of choc per bag of mallow.
find out/see what multiple fit 18 and 27 together.

divide choc wrong "
last edited: 5/05/10 5:46:55 AM”

“Does the bag of marshmallows list the contents/servings in an exact quantity or an approximate quantity?

Both the marshmallow bag and the graham cracker box list approximate quantities (actually, servings). I added what was actually in my box/bags and used those here as an average. It is possible that one or more package/box would not contain the amount figured, but this is beyond our control for purposes of this exercise.”

“Congratulations to baume 66. baume, you're welcome to join us. If you don't mind bringing something, we're going to need hot dogs. We'd rather not having any buns or dogs go to waste though.”

“lol”

“i take it your dog of choice is the 7 pack of hebrew nationals.”

“Crap, I was just breaking out the calculator.

Congrats, baume---I guess the rest of us will just have to stay home.”

“"
last edited: 5/05/10 5:55:17 AM”

“Screw all that smores stuff. Serve pi instead.”

“We prefer S'mOreos. Something we invented a few years ago when we were car camping and forgot the graham crackers and chocolate. Twist open an Oreo and sandwich the roasted marshmallow in-between. The creme gets all gooey and you still get the cracker+chocolate taste. Mmmmmmm.

Don't ask me how many bags of Oreos and marshmallows are necessary for an even mix. Math has never been my forte'.”

“Math has never been my forte


If you're talking math it's spelled "forty."”

“A group of backpackers goes on a hike starting at a trailhead.

At the first intersecting trail half of them peel off for home, plus half a backpacker.

At the second intersecting trail half of them peel off for home, plus half a backpacker.

At the end of the trail half of those left head for home, plus half a backpacker.

All of the backpackers have headed home. Only whole backpackers headed for home. No backpackers were chopped in half. How many backpackers started from the trailhead?”

“At the first intersecting trail half of them peel off for home, plus half a backpacker.

This isn't a sentence. "Plus half a backpacker" what? It reads as if half the them headed for home where there was already half a backpacker waiting. Please rewrite using proper grammar. Thanks.”

“That bought you some time but it won't work for long my pretty... Bwaaaaahahahahaha



A group of backpackers goes on a hike starting at a trailhead.

At the first intersecting trail half of the backpackers, plus half a backpacker, peel off for home.

At the second intersecting trail half of the backpackers left, plus half a backpacker, peel off for home.

At the end of the trail half of the backpackers left, plus half a backpacker, head for home.

All of the backpackers have headed home. Only whole backpackers headed for home. No backpackers were chopped in half. How many backpackers started from the trailhead?””

“dont forget to mention the 2/3 who signed up on the trip page but bailed”

“Now THAT'S a funny one-liner, crash.


Can't anybody solve that simple little math problem?”

“That looks more like an English problem than a math problem because the grammar is almost incomprehensible.

"At the end of the trail half of the backpackers left, plus half a backpacker, head for home."

Who talks like that?

Do you mean to say "At the end of the trail, half of the backpackers plus half of a backpacker, left for home."??”

“That looks like obfuscation and red herring instead of logic.


For those like Humberto Pedro Delgado, who are confused by English:

Do you mean to say "At the end of the trail, half of the backpackers plus half of a backpacker, left for home."??”


You almost got it, Pedro!

It's half of the backpackers who are left after the other backpackers peeled off earlier and went home.


Reading is not difficult. Repeat after me:

See spot run.


I believe it's the conceptualization that's confusing you.”

“Let me be clearer:

It's half of the backpackers who are left after the other backpackers peeled off earlier and went home... plus half a backpacker.”

“That is NOT clearer.

The part in question is to what part of the sentence are you attributing "plus half a backpacker"?

Does "plus half a backpacker" go with "half of the backpackers who are left", or with "the other backpackers peeled off earlier and went home"?

You are not using proper Engrish.”

“You don't have to be patronizing arclite just because your writing is not understood. (or do you?)”