# Answer this quickly (and hopefully correctly) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040 "2012-06-13T18:21:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/41 "2012-06-14T13:54:30Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > 42 > > Because that is the answer to any math question. It gives me time to think about a better answer. Hey! You totally copied that off of my paper! (I gave that answer in the other math thread yesterday, which I am too lazy to look up.) Actually, us copying off each other probably isn’t the best idea for our math grades - how about we go to the cafeteria and eat french fries and gossip instead? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/42 "2012-06-14T13:56:05Z")
Math. Not even once. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/43 "2012-06-14T14:00:04Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Math. Not even once. You can join us in the cafeteria if you like (especially if you have some good gossip). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/44 "2012-06-14T14:07:41Z")
I hate you people. I’m going to the cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/45 "2012-06-14T14:14:01Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/46 "2012-06-14T14:26:40Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I hate you people. I’m going to the cafeteria. Wait for me! I wanna come too, it’s pizza day! And I’m getting chocolate milk…I don’t care what “society” says! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/47 "2012-06-14T14:43:46Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Wait for me! I wanna come too, it’s pizza day! It’s not Sicilian pizza is it? If so, then pie are squared. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/48 "2012-06-14T14:47:09Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > It’s not Sicilian pizza is it? If so, then pie are squared. You can’t sit with us. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/49 "2012-06-14T14:53:17Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > You can’t sit with us. Fine, more square root beer for me. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/50 "2012-06-14T14:56:21Z")
- sigh \* The clearest sine of a trainwreck thread is unbounded tangents. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/51 "2012-06-14T15:26:34Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Fine, more square root beer for me. RDRR, so derivative. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/52 "2012-06-14T16:55:47Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > I was in Sydney long ago, and the bank teller didn’t understand me when I asked for nickels in change so I could make a phone call. Apparently “nickel” isn’t globally universal for “5-cent piece,” and it wasn’t obvious to this Yank. Stupid foreigners. > [@GuanoLad](#): > > You would’ve been totally out of luck if you’d wanted it in quarters. When I was in Australia, I joked around wondering whether they called their 20 cent pieces “fifths.” Nobody appreciated my humor. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/53 "2012-06-14T17:42:46Z")
I wouldn’t have got this if it wasn’t explained. Though I knew it couldn’t be .10 because that _seems_ like the answer. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/54 "2012-06-14T18:21:39Z")
Two things. 1. I suspect people are overthinking the question. It’s so simple, really. I think people are looking for a trick or something. I suck at math, didn’t take any more math classes than I had to, had MAJOR issues in algebra because I had to prove my work…which is the whole point and lesson, and I couldn’t do it. Could get the answer, sure, but couldn’t tell you HOW. So I practically failed. But this question is so simple, no algebra or anything else required. Well, knowing what a ‘nickel’ is helps. 😉 2. Everyone’s going to the cafeteria, and nobody’s getting hot dogs? WTF. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/55 "2012-06-14T19:56:38Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > If it makes folks feel any better, half of students at Harvard, Princeton and MIT got this question wrong when asked. Whether you get it right or not is not really correlated with your intelligence. > [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I knew MIT wasn’t worth my time. I knew math wasn’t worth my time. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/56 "2012-06-14T20:13:44Z")
> [@Snickers](#): > > When I was in Australia, I joked around wondering whether they called their 20 cent pieces “fifths.” > > Nobody appreciated my humor. When they were two-shilling coins, they were tenths, and were called “florins”. Do you call dimes “tenths”, and nickels “twentieths”? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/57 "2012-06-14T22:45:53Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > When they were two-shilling coins, they were tenths, and were called “florins”. What happened to the guilders? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/58 "2012-06-14T23:13:22Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I knew math wasn’t worth my time. Yeah, but then you go to Mars, crash land and math saves your life. And then pirannha locusts attack you and a Russian engineer that now runs a deli in New York gets you off that fucking planet. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/59 "2012-06-14T23:29:59Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > What happened to the guilders? Framed for kidnapping a Princess. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040/60 "2012-06-20T17:54:13Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I must be dumb too, because I instantly said “ten cents.” If the soda was 10c the hot dog would be 90c more than the soda. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answer-this-quickly-and-hopefully-correctly/625040.md?page=4)