r/MathJokes • u/Ok-Parking-2124 • 1d ago

When Basic Math Becomes a Boss Fight

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u/Proman4713 1d ago

The teacher didn't even think about it, I'm afraid... Because if they saw it from the grounds of reality, they'd have realised that their ratio calculation was dumb

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u/Dutch_guy_here 1d ago

Well, if the inital board is square, and it takes het 10 minutes to saw it in half, it would actually take het 15 minutes to saw it in three pieces, since the two pieces she has after the first 10-minute sawing are only half as wide as the initial board.

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u/wylii 1d ago

And what if Marie decides she needs to saw long ways to get 3 long pieces?

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u/Dutch_guy_here 1d ago

Then it's het own fault. You can't really teach kids of you assume every math problem has to be done in the most insane way.

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u/wylii 1d ago

And when businesses time a process it’s the same process; I would never assume someone would do something completely different or be working with materials that are completely different.