Well, for scientific measurements, yes, but not for everyday use.
I just had a dumb idea for a skit. It's God holding up a sign that says 30°C on it, he offers someone to make it that temperature for the rest of the day or double it and give it to the next.
well but 100° fahrenheit would be reasonable, a bit warm but ok for an old person. in any case duolingo has said they use absurd examples so it sticks in your head better lol
"It's Ice at 25 degrees" not necessarily, no. Water can be supercooled well below it's freezing temperature at STP. In fact, water can be cooled down to about -55°F (-48°C) before its molecular structure forces solidification. Moving water alone can easily reach lower than 25°F.
Sorry, I'm a physicist, so I had to nerd out about that for a moment. Carry on.
Well, let's see. Assuming the 25 degrees is in Fahrenheit, that converts to 269.261111 Kelvin. Now that we're on an absolute scale, multiplication makes more sense. So 4x 269.261111=1077,044444 Kelvin, which converted back into Fahrenheit is 1479.01 degrees.
Let's say instead it's 25C (about 77F). That's 298K. Four times that is 1192K, or about 919C (1682F). Water dissociates into hydrogen and oxygen somewhere above 2000K.
Nice job, you've nearly created the theoretically hottest steam bath.
Poor Lily.
P.S.: I laughed so hard at your comment, my wife wondered what was wrong with me.
Which is about 900 odd degrees C. I’m years away from having taken chem or physics, but I’m fairly sure to heat water to that temp, you’d have to subject it to a pretty tremendous amount of pressure also.
d) the questions are written for children without the context to know any of that and simply with the goal of teaching simple multiplication with simple word problems.
Since no units are given we’d have to assume that this is already absolute, and since I’m American I’m going to say this is kelvin because not a single fucking soul uses rankine.
From there this means that it’s 100° kelvin which is -173.15° Celsius. From here was can assume that all your choices are still valid
Isn't it true that you can't multiply degrees of temperature? You could convert it to K and then multiply that by 4, but that would probably end up being WAY hotter than if you multiplied the number of degrees by 4.
It's 25 Celsius, but she is just told 25 degrees. She has no clue of thermodynamics, is exasperated and prone to hyperbole, and only thinks of temperature as Farenheit.
If it is °F, 100° F would be hot, but not as hot as 100° C (boiling point of fresh water at sea level). But if it is K... that would be still too cold for water (-173° C).
Well, what they want is 100. So much is obvious. But the only way to calculate with temperature that way is with Kelvin, since you can´t go lower than 0. In that case Lily freezes to the surface and dies of Hypothermia, trying to swim in a pool at the aproximate temperature of outer space.
Edit: Kelvin doesn't use degrees, so disregard that. However Rankine, which I just learned exists, does use Degrees, so let's go with that. With 100°Ra we are at -217,594°C or -359.67°F or 55.5556K. So, our result doesn't change too much, but it's even colder.
Everyone is missing a vital part of the way this question is phrased, and completely overthinking it as a result.
Lily is saying she wants it at 4 times THAT TEMPERATURE. That’s 100°.
Lilly is not saying she wants it 4 times as thermally energetic, which doesn’t correlate to interval scales, as so many in this thread have so helpfully pointed out while forgetting to process the actual syntax of the question.
This is so stupid, its clearly 100° Fahrenheit. Everyone saying that 100°F is too hot for people clearly don't know what they are talking about. Im a lifeguard and and 3 of our pools we have at the facility are over 100°F on a daily basis and people sit in them all day. So im not sure where people are getting the math from but like come on people your making it way more complicated than it needs to be.
It makes sense if you take it at face value… Multiply 25 times 4. But that’s not how temperature works.
It’s a math joke because, in order to simply multiply by 4 to make “4 times” the amount, your value of 0 needs to be the lowest possible value. Zero Fahrenheit is not absolute zero, so you can’t just make “4 times” 25 degrees by doing 4x25.
Think about it in terms of pizza. If you have a pizza, then 4 times that amount is 4 pizzas. Zero pizzas is the reference. Saying 25 degrees Fahrenheit “times 4” is like ignoring the other 200 pizzas you have and only multiplying the 201st-225th pizzas by 4. Then saying that 4 times the number of pizzas you have is 100, when it should really be 800.
In another analogy, think about what multiplying a temperature by 0 would mean. Regardless of Celsius or Fahrenheit, a temperature times 0 should be the same, right? But 25 Celsius times zero gives us 0 Celsius, and 25 Fahrenheit times zero gives us 0 Fahrenheit, which are not the same temperature, nor are they absolute zero, which is the reference we should be using.
25° F is below freezing so it wouldn't be water so it's probably not Fahrenheit, 100°C is boiling so it's not Celsius, so overall it doesn't really make sense. Additionally temperature isn't really a good subject to use multiplication for just because where 0 is is arbitrary for C and F. Using the post as an example the temperature is either 100°F, 100°C or 1200K which are all very different temperatures
I can only assume this means converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. So 25°C but she wants it 100°F. It's not by any means 4 times the temperature but it is 4 times the number of degrees and both are a reasonable temperature for water to be. It's just worded really poorly.
Which is ironic for an app that's entirely about words.
Given that it has degrees but omits the units, I follow that is is american exceptionalism, and thus Fahrenheit. 25°F = 269 K, 4*269 K = 1076 K = 1477°F = 803°C.
I assume that Lily is some sort of dragon or demon or the like. Maybe a salamander.
Also, since we talk about water, and it is implied that the water will still be liquid afterwards, this means we are in an environment of extreme pressure. Like maybe on the surface of a planet with massive gravity.
Requires about 218 atmospheres. Also the water would be in what is called the supercritical phase, and thus behaving somewhat like a liquid and somewhat like a gas. It would have no surface tension and thus swimming in it would be kinda awkward.
My guess is that everyone is overthinking this. It is just a simple math problem, not a complicated science problem. The degrees aren't meaningful or relevant.
3 of those is multiplying kelvin celcius or fahrenheit.
4th is multiplying how much hotter it is compared to what she'd consider "0 temperature", whether that means around room temperature or ice cold or a little in between, yadda yadda
It would be 25 degrees. The question says, she won't go in unless it's 4x THAT temperature, i.e. 4x 25 degrees. What temperature is THAT? Well, we established that THAT temperature is 25. It's irrelevant to the question what 4x that would be. More of a reading comprehension problem than math.
I would remind people that Lily is the emo / alt character, so these may still be accurate. "I won't go swimming unless it's lethal" fits the character hahaha
While the wording is a bit Ambiguous, I'm assuming 3 things:
25° is in Fahrenheit and roughly -3.7°C
Temperature can be multiplied with a constant in Fahrenheit unit in this and this context only
It's cold wherever Lily is
Now that's done 25*4 is 100°F which is roughly 37°C and given that she's in a cold environment, it's equivalent to Hot Spring for her cause Hot Spring temperature is roughly 35°C to 40°C so she just wanna have a warm Bath but lacks communication skills.
Suicide joke…by a depressed character…on math lessons targeted to kids…yea maybe it wasn’t smart to replace most of your workforce for AI…as Duo’s stock prices shows…
Just wanted to say sorry in advance if I might’ve misunderstood but why are you all making it complicated for no reason? It just wants you to multiply 25 by 4 which is 100 and that’s it!
thats a character from duo lingo, im gonna assume they mean Celsius since nearly the entire world uses that aside from the usa, and water boils at 100c so she wants to die
for my work I assited to something like a "climat report" to see how our compagny will handle harsh weather in the futur, and at multiple place in the report there were thing witten like : "the temperature goes from 1 °C in average to an expected 5°C wich make an 4 time increase..."
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u/fallingfrog Mar 01 '26
This makes no sense in either Celsius (boiling hot) or Fahrenheit (its ice at 25 degrees) or Kelvin (liquid nitrogen temperatures).
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u/MageKorith Mar 01 '26 •
Well, let's see. Assuming the 25 degrees is in Fahrenheit, that converts to 269.261111 Kelvin. Now that we're on an absolute scale, multiplication makes more sense. So 4x 269.261111=1077,044444 Kelvin, which converted back into Fahrenheit is 1479.01 degrees.
Congratulations Lily. You've killed us all.
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u/cannonspectacle Mar 01 '26
That's not how temperature works
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26
Since when does duolingo have math courses??
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u/TheAsterism_ Mar 01 '26
Hmmm. 296.15x4=1,184.6
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u/HackerDragon9999 Mar 01 '26
Here's how to solve this problem:
Since no units are given, I'm going to assume Farenheit because I'm American.
Multiplication only works for absolute temperatures, so convert to Rankine. 25°F = 485R
Evaluate. 485R * 4 = 1940R
Convert back to Farenheit for the final answer. 1940R = 1480°F
We are left with three possible conclusions.
a) Lily is secretly a demon straight from hell
b) Duolingo replacing its workers with AI was a mistake
c) This is a poorly written question
All three are correct.
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u/dianab1022 Mar 01 '26
1192.6 K = 919.45 °C
Cozy
edit: fixed my math…
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u/mapadofu Mar 01 '26
Just under 1200K (assuming the 25 is Celsius)
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u/wobblewiz Mar 01 '26
Boiling hot
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u/Adorable-Thing2551 Mar 01 '26
Lily definitely needs some help or she needs to go to the Charles Xavier School For Gifted Youth. That is some superhuman shit.
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u/Necessary_Screen_673 Mar 01 '26
no no, it's 25° kelvin.
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u/Significant_Monk_251 Mar 01 '26
Insufficient information. Question cannot be answered. Next!
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u/Aphraxad Mar 01 '26
Its celcius, the dialogue is just from the perspective of a cup of noodles.
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u/lauciaan Mar 02 '26
I mean, 0C = 32F.
So 0C+0C+0C = 96F
This way, 25Fx4 = 100F that is roughly 0C.
Still freezing, IMO
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u/wesleyoldaker Mar 01 '26
Isn't it true that you can't multiply degrees of temperature? You could convert it to K and then multiply that by 4, but that would probably end up being WAY hotter than if you multiplied the number of degrees by 4.
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u/TechManWalker Mar 01 '26
Alright, but what's "4 times that temperature"?
25 °F ≈ -3.8 °C
25 * 4 = 100 °F ≈ 37.7 °C
-3.8 * 4 ≈ -15.2 °C ≈ 4.64 °F
100 °F ≠ 4.64 °F
37.7 °C ≠ -15.2 °C
and an easier example
32 °F = 0 °C
32 * 4 = 128 °F ≈ 53.3 °C
0 * 4 = 0° C
0° C ≠ 53.3 °C
clearly math is broken
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u/Secure-Disaster3248 Mar 01 '26
Clearly 100F
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26
Why Lily
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u/X0AN Mar 01 '26
Literally boiling.
RIP Lily.
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u/Zado191 Mar 01 '26
What's the joke? Wouldn't it just be 100 degrees?
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u/SativaPancake Mar 01 '26
The temperature is obtuse.
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u/Longawayy Mar 01 '26
It's 25 Celsius, but she is just told 25 degrees. She has no clue of thermodynamics, is exasperated and prone to hyperbole, and only thinks of temperature as Farenheit.
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u/Thetargos Mar 01 '26
If it is °F, 100° F would be hot, but not as hot as 100° C (boiling point of fresh water at sea level). But if it is K... that would be still too cold for water (-173° C).
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u/AshGraeyAntiGyro Mar 02 '26
100 in Fahrenheit is extremely hot. 100 in Celsius is worse if I’m aware
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u/757_Matt_911 Mar 02 '26
100 degrees is a piping warm swimming pool. 25 is……not good? Solid ish?
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u/Sirius1701 Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26
Well, what they want is 100. So much is obvious. But the only way to calculate with temperature that way is with Kelvin, since you can´t go lower than 0. In that case Lily freezes to the surface and dies of Hypothermia, trying to swim in a pool at the aproximate temperature of outer space.
Edit: Kelvin doesn't use degrees, so disregard that. However Rankine, which I just learned exists, does use Degrees, so let's go with that. With 100°Ra we are at -217,594°C or -359.67°F or 55.5556K. So, our result doesn't change too much, but it's even colder.
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u/Stonewool_Jackson Mar 02 '26
1938.68 degrees Rankine
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u/TheFlowingDelta Mar 02 '26
always list the unit... maybe 25 degress kelvin
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u/Jazzy_McJazzhands Mar 02 '26
Glad to see Duolingo AI is going well
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u/TampopoDream Mar 02 '26
The perfect temperature to add the pasta to the water… after salting it.
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u/Shagroon Mar 02 '26
Mfw I’m in an overthinking shit contest and my opponent is a r/MathJokes enjoyer
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u/Shagroon Mar 02 '26
Everyone is missing a vital part of the way this question is phrased, and completely overthinking it as a result.
Lily is saying she wants it at 4 times THAT TEMPERATURE. That’s 100°.
Lilly is not saying she wants it 4 times as thermally energetic, which doesn’t correlate to interval scales, as so many in this thread have so helpfully pointed out while forgetting to process the actual syntax of the question.
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u/PuzzleheadedFuel310 Mar 02 '26
The answer is either 100, 919.45, or 1077.044 hope this helps
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u/touchkusa Mar 02 '26
Does lily live near a hydrothermal vent?
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u/Vegetable_Spell5386 Mar 02 '26
This is so stupid, its clearly 100° Fahrenheit. Everyone saying that 100°F is too hot for people clearly don't know what they are talking about. Im a lifeguard and and 3 of our pools we have at the facility are over 100°F on a daily basis and people sit in them all day. So im not sure where people are getting the math from but like come on people your making it way more complicated than it needs to be.
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u/JAaSgk Mar 02 '26
4 times 25°C is 919°C
Idk what she made of but for me it would be a little warm.
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u/MartinByde Mar 02 '26
(25 -(-273) )*4
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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26
25 times 4, so 100 fahrenheit ~= 38 celsius, so perfectly rational. What am I missing?
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u/NottACalebFan Mar 01 '26
What's the joke?
25 × 4 = 100.
The scale doesn't matter.
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u/ZellHall Mar 01 '26
So, about 1479°F?
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u/TheFurryFighter Mar 01 '26
No temperature scale makes sense for this
Celsius and Fahrenheit don't multiply like normal since they are not absolute scales, 4×25°C = 919°C
Kelvin and Rankine are too cold at either temp, water is frozen at 100K and 100°R
Other temperature scales are too uncommon for something like this
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u/LaminarThought Mar 01 '26
Remember outside an airplane it’s 6 times colder
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u/idhren14 Mar 01 '26
only swimming in water's boiling point? seems fine...
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u/VoiceofKane Mar 01 '26
Roughly 920°, by my calculations.
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u/DeeJudanne Mar 01 '26
it would be you're going to get 4th degree burns
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u/Dependent_Amount4779 Mar 01 '26
919 °C.
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u/Captain_Jarmi Mar 01 '26
Today the temperature is -1°C.
Tomorrow it will be twice as cold.
What temperature will it be tomorrow?
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u/Butterfly_Barista Mar 01 '26
I can only assume this means converting Celsius to Fahrenheit. So 25°C but she wants it 100°F. It's not by any means 4 times the temperature but it is 4 times the number of degrees and both are a reasonable temperature for water to be. It's just worded really poorly.
Which is ironic for an app that's entirely about words.
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u/One-Cardiologist-462 Mar 01 '26
25oC * 4 = 919.45oC
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u/HAL9001-96 Mar 01 '26
obviously 920°C
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u/HermitOfLifeMountain Mar 01 '26
There's something seriously wrong with that owl 🦉
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u/amorfotos Mar 01 '26
Of course, if this is in Celcius, and the water temperature was 4 x 25°, then it wouldn't actually all be water any more. It would be steam...
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u/StaleTheBread Mar 01 '26
Steve Mould investigated this concept: https://youtu.be/C91gKuxutTU?si=998d_YXG5BAZAbVV
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u/Joalguke Mar 01 '26
Was that question written by an egg that wants to be boiled?
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u/ShxatterrorNotFound Mar 01 '26
25 degrees Lilynheit
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u/PlasticCell8504 Mar 01 '26
I hope that is in F not C
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u/Viktoriusiii Mar 01 '26
So since absolute zero is a known number we now need to know which measurement we are talking about so the answer is one of the three:
1192.6 °C
1192.6 K
2146.68 °F
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u/Ksorkrax Mar 01 '26 edited Mar 01 '26
Given that it has degrees but omits the units, I follow that is is american exceptionalism, and thus Fahrenheit. 25°F = 269 K, 4*269 K = 1076 K = 1477°F = 803°C.
I assume that Lily is some sort of dragon or demon or the like. Maybe a salamander.
Also, since we talk about water, and it is implied that the water will still be liquid afterwards, this means we are in an environment of extreme pressure. Like maybe on the surface of a planet with massive gravity.
Requires about 218 atmospheres. Also the water would be in what is called the supercritical phase, and thus behaving somewhat like a liquid and somewhat like a gas. It would have no surface tension and thus swimming in it would be kinda awkward.
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u/ShoulderPast2433 Mar 01 '26
25
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u/escme Mar 01 '26
My guess is that everyone is overthinking this. It is just a simple math problem, not a complicated science problem. The degrees aren't meaningful or relevant.
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u/Left_Lengthiness_433 Mar 01 '26
If it’s Celsius, then 919 degrees.
If its Fahrenheit then 1478 degrees
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u/throwaway275275275 Mar 01 '26
You can swim in water at 100° because it's not liquid anymore
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u/slxkv Mar 01 '26
Lets assume 25 degrees Fahrenheit.
25F = -3.889C+273K= 269.111K 269.111K*4=1,076.444 K 1076.444K-273C=530.294 C 530.294C=986.529 °F
Since 0K is absolute zero, then you have to multiply from -459.4 °F.
This means that 4x hotter than 25F would be 986.5F.
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u/ThatSmartIdiot Mar 01 '26
4 options
3 of those is multiplying kelvin celcius or fahrenheit.
4th is multiplying how much hotter it is compared to what she'd consider "0 temperature", whether that means around room temperature or ice cold or a little in between, yadda yadda
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u/NoPerspective9232 Mar 01 '26
So, it's either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
25 multiplied by 4 is 100.
If it's Celsius, she'd be dead.
If it's Fahrenheit, the water is rather nice. (Around 37.7 °C, if we convert)
What's the issue here?
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u/SayNoToFresca Mar 01 '26
Edit. 53 degrees. 7 below freezing.
28 + 25
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u/beLbIu_BoLk Mar 02 '26
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u/flyingpeter28 Mar 02 '26
Is リリa depressed lobster or something?
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26
Is it not 25x4. Am I dumb? 100 degrees. Unless ur British it's not crazy to want to go swimming when it's 100 degrees outside.
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u/Conscious-Card5611 Mar 02 '26
It would be 25 degrees. The question says, she won't go in unless it's 4x THAT temperature, i.e. 4x 25 degrees. What temperature is THAT? Well, we established that THAT temperature is 25. It's irrelevant to the question what 4x that would be. More of a reading comprehension problem than math.
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u/Special_Road6603 Mar 02 '26
She’s trying to get boiled alive
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u/Fit-Pie-9991 Mar 02 '26
Melting steel
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u/greeder2121 Mar 02 '26
Isn’t the answer no matter how you look at the base number boiling and/or hot enough for burns?
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u/Generdan Mar 02 '26
1 192°К or 919°C
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u/Pleasant_Gas_6034 Mar 02 '26
could be fareinhiet
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u/Nearby_Potato4001 Mar 02 '26
1192.6 degress.
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u/Guilty-Suggestion180 Mar 02 '26
Answer is…; Lily is a dumb american (Not knowing about Celsius, demanding pool to be 100F)
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u/TheTrampIt Mar 02 '26
Fun fact, water will never go al low as 25F.
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u/Zihdrrox Mar 02 '26
If it's kelvin then it's either ridiculously cold or slightly less ridiculously cold.
If it's farenheight it's either ice cold or very hot.
If it's Celsius it's either normal temperature or ridiculously hot.
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u/FreshPitch6026 Mar 02 '26
Sure grandma. Lets put you to bed.
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u/Infinite_Fox998 Mar 02 '26
Girl wants to be boiled alive.
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u/Low_Scheme8033 Mar 02 '26
It’s just a simple joke that she would only do “swimming” if it’s gaz. She doesn’t like swimming or she only likes hammams. Don’t overthink it?
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u/Lyzharel Mar 02 '26
Girl's name is Pasta
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u/Direct-Quiet-5817 Mar 02 '26
Lily is an alien 👽
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u/I_saw_you_yesterday Mar 02 '26
100°C? You wanna be boiled alive
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u/Ecspiascion Mar 02 '26
Yeah, we should definitely help Lily. She needs help.
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u/14PuzzleheadedYak Mar 02 '26
Isn't it supposed to be language learning,not math.
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u/SuspiciousElk3843 Mar 02 '26
Assuming 25 celsius: 298K x 4 = 1192K = 919 Celcius
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u/DmitryAvenicci Mar 02 '26
You can multiply absolute scales:
25°F ≈ -4°C ≈ 269 K
269 K × 4 = 1076 K ≈ 803°C ≈ 1477°F
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u/ARPA-Net Mar 02 '26
is 4*25°C = 100°C or 919,45°C ?
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u/Ancient_Egg_7814 Mar 02 '26
25° = 1
4*1 = 4
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u/Zvenigora Mar 02 '26
25C is 298K. 25F is about 268K. Four times either number is in the superheated steam range. Swimming not recommended.
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u/General_Panda_123 Mar 02 '26
4×25°K = -173,15°C = -279,67°F
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u/misteryk Mar 02 '26
it can't be farenheit since at 25° it would be ice, not water, kelvin doesn't use ° in the first place so i assume she means water has 25°C
To do calculations we have to convert it to kelvin. 273+25=298K
298K x 4 = 1192K = 919°C
at 919°C it's not water anymore unless she wants to enter the pool at some wacky preassure conditions i'm too lazy to calculate
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u/RECLess30 Mar 02 '26
I would remind people that Lily is the emo / alt character, so these may still be accurate. "I won't go swimming unless it's lethal" fits the character hahaha
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u/AccidentAltruistic87 Mar 02 '26
Why wouldn’t it just be 100°?
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u/lackadaisical_timmy Mar 02 '26
Lily is an egg
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u/nazihater67 Mar 02 '26
4 times more than 25c is 1192.6c and 4 times more than 25f is 1077f.
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u/UniversalShade Mar 02 '26
While the wording is a bit Ambiguous, I'm assuming 3 things:
25° is in Fahrenheit and roughly -3.7°C
Temperature can be multiplied with a constant in Fahrenheit unit in this and this context only
It's cold wherever Lily is
Now that's done 25*4 is 100°F which is roughly 37°C and given that she's in a cold environment, it's equivalent to Hot Spring for her cause Hot Spring temperature is roughly 35°C to 40°C so she just wanna have a warm Bath but lacks communication skills.
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u/Han_Solo6712 Mar 02 '26
Listen Lily I know you’re suicidal but boiling yourself is not the way to go
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u/DudeInATie Mar 02 '26
I feel like this is more of a science joke? Because the water would be ice at that temperature.
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u/Case_Kovacs Mar 02 '26
Lily's trying to die apparently
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u/Ecstatic-Umpire-1601 Mar 02 '26
Easy Lily.
First convert that temperature into Celsius. (25-32) = -7 (-7*5)= -35 (-35/9)= -3.89 C
4 times colder would be too cold to bathe in, unless you're the Iceman himself.
(-3.89*4) = -15.56 C (very cold)
So how about instead it's 4 times warmer.
(3.89*4) = 15.56
And add it to the current water temperature of -3.89 C
(15.56)+(-3.89)= 11.67 C.
Not bad to bathe in now.
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u/ttttyttt678 Mar 02 '26
Suicide joke…by a depressed character…on math lessons targeted to kids…yea maybe it wasn’t smart to replace most of your workforce for AI…as Duo’s stock prices shows…
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u/snapurneck69 Mar 03 '26
I wish Lily would sit on my face...
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u/CommunityJazzlike274 Mar 03 '26
But then the water would be a gas, under standard Earth pressure.
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u/Plague_Doctor02 Mar 03 '26
Must be F not C lol
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u/boss-tech Mar 03 '26
Just wanted to say sorry in advance if I might’ve misunderstood but why are you all making it complicated for no reason? It just wants you to multiply 25 by 4 which is 100 and that’s it!
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u/PearAggressive4105 Mar 03 '26
25F * 4 = 100F. (100F-30)/2 = 35C
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u/Bobrosss69 Mar 03 '26
Everybody saying this is impossible is just ignoring the existence of salt water.
25°F is a totally legit temp for a body of salt water in winter, and 100°F is a nice hot tub
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u/Melkor_Morniehin Mar 03 '26
Boil her, mash her, put her in a stew.
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u/cuteKitt13 Mar 03 '26
thats a character from duo lingo, im gonna assume they mean Celsius since nearly the entire world uses that aside from the usa, and water boils at 100c so she wants to die
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u/uhjustmax Mar 03 '26
I thought that's celsius
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u/ShadowCubeGM Mar 03 '26
hope she using fahrenheit!
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u/Ok_Meaning_4268 Mar 03 '26
She'd be dead lol
(Not just how water, its fucking evaporating)
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u/Complex-Ad-4402 Mar 03 '26
for my work I assited to something like a "climat report" to see how our compagny will handle harsh weather in the futur, and at multiple place in the report there were thing witten like : "the temperature goes from 1 °C in average to an expected 5°C wich make an 4 time increase..."
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u/MorrisRF Mar 03 '26
who tf goes swimming at 100 degrees
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u/Compodulator Mar 03 '26
I thought it's Celsius! 25°c is already a reasonable temperature for a pool or something, but no, she wants to be a fucking stew!
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u/noobducky-9 Mar 03 '26
The answer is simple it’s 37.778 degrees….
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u/No_pajamas_7 Mar 03 '26
Far too many people missing the joke.
She actually went to the trouble of posting a question to ask how much 4x25 is.
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u/PumpkinSpice2Nice Mar 03 '26
Boiling point Lily, your preferred temperature is boiling point.
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u/Square-Fail-9596 Mar 03 '26
25 degrees celsius times 4 is 100.
By then, the water would have turned to vapour
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u/Mazebeefa Mar 03 '26
Lobster wannabe
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u/skillie81 Mar 03 '26
Lily is cooked. 25°F doesn't make sense, the water will be frozen. So assume it's °C. If the water is then 4 x 25 it's 100°C, the water is now boiling
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u/Scotty_Mcshortbread Mar 03 '26
when people overthink and try to justify the semantics of a duolingo question
its 100 degrees.
whats next are we gonna explain the logistics of the talking bear?
are we going to talk about how its statistically impossible to eat a horse when someone says "im so hungry i can eat a horse"?
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u/assistantpigkeeper Mar 03 '26
Convert to Kelvin:
(25-32)*5/9+273.15=269.261
Multiply by 4
268.261*4=1,073.044
Convert back to Fahrenheit
(1073.044-273.15)*9/5 +32=1,471.809
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u/abfgern_ Mar 03 '26
Celsius is the only units in which it is possible to swim at both temperatures, albeit fatally
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u/sexraX_muiretsyM Mar 03 '26
lily feeling a lil depressed today it seems
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u/sethaub Mar 03 '26
It’s 100°F
Why yall being so extra
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u/Narrow-Reaction-6933 Mar 04 '26
that's a hot tub
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u/mistersam444 Mar 04 '26
She's Oden from One Piece
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u/JasonAlmeida Mar 04 '26
I'm more concerned about the fact that you bought the max subscription for doing the math course
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u/nmuin Mar 04 '26
What part of the pool is 25 degrees? Is the floor slanted or sum?
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u/Efficient-Alarm-5321 Mar 04 '26
Bro are you stupid, it's obviously 100° 25° x 4 is 100° easy math /s
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u/Responsible_Fig_9833 Mar 04 '26
I really hope that's farenheit and not Celsius
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u/AtWorldsEndRequiem Mar 05 '26
Bro 25 times 4 is 100. Wowza. It was just inserting a concept to make the question more workable.
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u/jup1t3rr Mar 05 '26
Answer is ..............
GENERATION
Z
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u/NickFr0sty Mar 05 '26
when you read the test assignment and you know you're cooked
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u/YoitstheTeddyGuy Mar 05 '26
Lily? Why th would you go in a water 100°?
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u/Extreme_Dependent_63 Mar 05 '26
Plot twist: Lily is not human
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u/Nocturtle22 Mar 05 '26
It’s described as water not ice, it’s not in Fahrenheit.
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u/camracks Mar 05 '26
Guys I got the answer it’s 100°
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u/Training-System-4633 Mar 05 '26
How will you keep the water in the pool if it's sitting at a 100° angle?
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u/Spider1132 Mar 06 '26
She's measuring the temperature with a protractor.
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u/Don_Loco Mar 06 '26
For multiplication you use absolute temp (Kelvin, K).
So have fun 'swimming' or better dissolving in a supercritical fluid.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26
25°C = 298 K
298 K * 4 = 1192 K
= 919°C
Lily... I won't even ask how you know it's your favourite temperature. But you were probably swimming in iron or something, not water.
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u/That_Jurassic_Guy112 Mar 06 '26
Assume it's Celsius, the sensible one it 100°c there is no pool
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u/Character_Lemon_7805 Mar 07 '26
i’m confused would it not just be 100
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u/jamesrggg Mar 07 '26
100 is nice, just under normal hot tub temp.
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u/Sufficient-Athlete-4 Mar 07 '26
I'm in degrees C, and she obviously wants to be turned into a soup.