Answer this quickly (and hopefully correctly)

[Cat_Whisperer]

@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?

[Inigo_Montoya]

Math. Not even once.

[Cat_Whisperer]

@Inigo_Montoya

Math. Not even once.

You can join us in the cafeteria if you like (especially if you have some good gossip).

[Anaamika]

I hate you people. I’m going to the cafeteria.

[Inigo_Montoya]

nm

[Sir_T-Cups]

@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!

[tdn]

@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.

[TriPolar]

@tdn

It’s not Sicilian pizza is it? If so, then pie are squared.

You can’t sit with us.

[tdn]

@TriPolar

You can’t sit with us.

Fine, more square root beer for me.

[Inigo_Montoya]

• sigh *

The clearest sine of a trainwreck thread is unbounded tangents.

[Gangster_Octopus]

@tdn

Fine, more square root beer for me.

RDRR, so derivative.

[Snickers]

@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.

[MyFootsZZZ]

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.

[Taomist]

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.

[Boyo_Jim]

@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.

[Giles]

@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”?

[Musicat]

@Giles

When they were two-shilling coins, they were tenths, and were called “florins”.

What happened to the guilders?

[billfish678]

@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.

[GuanoLad]

@Musicat

What happened to the guilders?

Framed for kidnapping a Princess.

[Lukeinva]

@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.