Why do you like math?

[tourist]

I like math because I am a calculating person.

 

[DuchessAimee]

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[MidniteWelder]

Three friends go to a hotel to rent a room.
The desk clerk says there is a 3 bed suite and offers it for $30.00.
Each person pays $10.00 and goes to the room.
The hotel manager questions the desk clerk.
The hotel manager tells the desk clerk, the room is only $25.00,
and gives the clerk 5, one dollar bills to pay them back.

On the way to the room the clerk realizes 5 one dollar bills can’t be split 3 ways.
Dishonestly, he keeps 2 dollars and gives each person back one dollar.

So now the 3 friends have paid a total of $27.00 for the room, and the clerk has 2 dollars.

Where did the other dollar go? $27.00 + $2.00 = $29.00!

 

[tourist]

The hotel clerk took the $2 he stole and bought an instant lottery ticket that won a million dollars. He then told his boss to stick it where the sun don't shine and gave the guys in the room who were drinking and playing loud rock music another dollar bringing the total cost for the room to the $27 in your equation. I am unable to resolve this mystery but can only surmise that the missing dollar is in the dishonest clerk's pocket but cannot prove by a mathematical equation. He was later observed buying a $1 Slim Jim at the nearest 7/11 but this has not been substantiated. The 3 guys in the room were later arrested for being drunk and disorderly and were liable for trashing the room as well.

 

[MidniteWelder]

The hotel clerk took the $2 he stole and bought an instant lottery ticket that won a million dollars. He then told his boss to stick it where the sun don't shine and gave the guys in the room who were drinking and playing loud rock music another dollar bringing the total cost for the room to the $27 in your equation. I am unable to resolve this mystery but can only surmise that the missing dollar is in the dishonest clerk's pocket but cannot prove by a mathematical equation. He was later observed buying a $1 Slim Jim at the nearest 7/11 but this has not been substantiated. The 3 guys in the room were later arrested for being drunk and disorderly and were liable for trashing the room as well.

.............................You get an E = for Effort

 

[zeroturbulence]

Three friends go to a hotel to rent a room.
The desk clerk says there is a 3 bed suite and offers it for $30.00.
Each person pays $10.00 and goes to the room.
The hotel manager questions the desk clerk.
The hotel manager tells the desk clerk, the room is only $25.00,
and gives the clerk 5, one dollar bills to pay them back.

On the way to the room the clerk realizes 5 one dollar bills can’t be split 3 ways.
Dishonestly, he keeps 2 dollars and gives each person back one dollar.

So now the 3 friends have paid a total of $27.00 for the room, and the clerk has 2 dollars.

Where did the other dollar go? $27.00 + $2.00 = $29.00!

They didnt pay 27, they paid 28.

 

[BananaPie]

They paid $27.00, but their change was $3.00; not $2.00.

 

[MidniteWelder]

They didnt pay 27, they paid 28.

They paid 30 total ...and the three were each given one dollar back...

 

[MidniteWelder]

They paid $27.00, but their change was $3.00; not $2.00.

They initially paid $30 and their change was $3.00
making the total paid by the friends $27.00
So now...what of the other $2.00 ?

 

[BananaPie]

- $25.00 ......cost
- $02.00 ......tip the guy concealed
- $27.00 ......total expense the 3 guys paid
+$30.00 ......amount tender
+$03.00 ...... change. There aint no missing dollar.

 

[MidniteWelder]

Haha here ya go BananaPie, you've earned it

 

[zeroturbulence]

Ok, here's what really happened...

Amount paid initially: $30
Amount refunded: $3
Total paid after refund: $27

Cashier keeps: $2
Total paid after refunds AND cashier pocketing: $25



In a nutshell:
3 + 2 = 5
...and 30 minus 5 = 25

 

[maxwel]

I don't think math is nearly as certain as people believe

Let's take a simple problem.
2 + 2 = 4

Okay, so it equals 4... this time.
But what if halfway through the problem, the entire universe shifts in some strange way?
Hmmm?
Yeah, what if the entire known universe, along with all properties of space, time, and physics,
has some enormous shift right in the middle of YOUR math problem?
Then what?

Whenever I'm going through my checkbook, paying my bills, I think about that.

I add the numbers SO slowly... stalling .. waiting...
hoping for some interdimensional cataclysmic rift that will rend the fabric of space and time...
changing my checkbook balance FOREVER.

So far, nothing.

But I keep hoping.

: )

 

[MidniteWelder]

Ok Maxwell, try this
Upon the last day of this month give yourself an hour to reconcile your checkbook.
Next month challenge yourself and divide that time in half to git'er done.
and repeat every consecutive month thereafter by dividing the time factor in half
.......which can be done an infinite number of times.
Thereby you will have created an opportunity to calculate a finite number of products
.......an infinite number of times

There's your reality shift

 

[MidniteWelder]

Right on Zero...
Time for burnouts during recess

 

[iTOREtheSKY]

Pretty much sums (get it) it up how I feel after doing my taxes.