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A book costs $1 plus half its price. How much does it cost?

Your answer:

  • $0.50

  • $1

  • $1.50

  • $2

  • $3

  • Other (please respond)

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RainWaiv said:
The best way to word the problem would be "the price of the book is 1$ plus half of its final price" but the general consensus is that it's equal to 2. Not sure who voted 1.5 ngl
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yeah you have to to distinguish whether $1 is the books normal price and the book is being sold at a premium or whether $1 is a fraction of its final price. If you don't specify you end up with rage-bait, which I think is probably the purpose of the question to begin with (just like that stupid 6 ÷ 2 ( 1 + 2 ) equation that goes viral on Twitter every few months).

I voted 1.5 on reflex when I first saw it, but upon reflection I think 2 makes more sense with how I subjectively read it. Can't go back and change my vote though, so I'm stuck in the 1.5 crew.
 
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heartbreaking.

Feel unworthy and completely incompetent as ChrisPBacon has mocked the 41.4% of you so foolish and unworthy to have underpaid the cashier.

How do you let this happen to yourself. For shame.
 
CaffeineBoost said:
damn, most people here were so sure that it was $2...

but donphan fan was brave enough to stand up and give us an alternative account.
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my hot take is that the off-topic boards on here have always been carried by alts. if you look in smogon gallery/sgh, a ton of the best threads come from troll alts and their banter with the regulars. everyone with a proper account on here is too preoccupied with being normal
 
cityscapes said:
my hot take is that the off-topic boards on here have always been carried by alts. if you look in smogon gallery/sgh, a ton of the best threads come from troll alts and their banter with the regulars. everyone with a proper account on here is too preoccupied with being normal
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you know that quote that's like "we are the universe experiencing itself". well smogoff is 1 million faint alts talking to themselves
 
cityscapes said:
my hot take is that the off-topic boards on here have always been carried by alts. if you look in smogon gallery/sgh, a ton of the best threads come from troll alts and their banter with the regulars. everyone with a proper account on here is too preoccupied with being normal
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There is something to be said for an elite shitposter willing to burn their account for a bit, I'll give you that. I do have to wonder how often it's on purpose, though.
 
adjectivenoun said:
There is something to be said for an elite shitposter willing to burn their account for a bit, I'll give you that. I do have to wonder how often it's on purpose, though.
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im ngl i've never passed 1500 on a single ladder gamemode. i've long since given up being good at competitive pokemon and am now exclusively here to shitpost on smogoff and pretend to understand gen 9 ou (which i'm actually kind of good at doing somehow)
 
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Since we found the answer to this question, let's answer another question!

Three customers eat at a restaurant and their meal costs $30, so each of them pay $10. However, the restaurant notices that the meal actually cost $25 and they overcharged the customers. So they tell a waiter to return $5 to the customers. But the waiter realizes that the customers don't know the exact price and gives each customer $1 back while keeping $2.

So we have $9 + $9 + $9 + $2 = $29
But we started with $30.
Where did the extra dollar go?

Like Aura Guardian said, this is the wrong equation. The trick is that the waiter should not be counted with the customers, but rather with the restaurant. The customers in total paid $30 - $3 = $27. $25 of that went to the restaurant, and $2 went to the waiter.

$9 + $9 + $9 = $25 + $2
 
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Magic Mayhem Maiden said:
Since we found the answer to this question, let's answer another question!

Three customers eat at a restaurant and their meal costs $30, so each of them pay $10. However, the restaurant finds out that the meal actually cost $25 and they overcharged the customers. So they tell a waiter to return $5 to the customers. But the waiter decides that they can give each customer $1 back and keep the extra $2.

$9 + $9 + $9 + $2 = $29

Where did the extra dollar go?
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The extra dollar is in the waiter's pocket, obviously. Didn't you read the setup?
 
Magic Mayhem Maiden said:
Since we found the answer to this question, let's answer another question!

Three customers eat at a restaurant and their meal costs $30, so each of them pay $10. However, the restaurant finds out that the meal actually cost $25 and they overcharged the customers. So they tell a waiter to return $5 to the customers. But the waiter decides that they can give each customer $1 back and keep the extra $2.

$9 + $9 + $9 + $2 = $29

Where did the extra dollar go?
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Wrong transaction.

After the restaurant was paid $30, the $5 refund was taken from that.

$30 - $5 is the next transaction; restaurant now has $25
Each customer received $1; waiter pocketed $2

$30 - $5 = $25, restaurant has the right amount
$1 +$1 + $1 = $3, the amount the waiter returned
$2 = what the waiter pocketed.
25 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 30.
 
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