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Background Pony #9810
A bat and ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?
The hard part is realizing that it says “the bat costs $1.00 more than the ball” and not just “the bat costs $1.00”.
Longer explanation:
This problem is basically:
(There is no emoji for baseball bat, so I’ll use the wood emoji: 🪵.)
🪵 + ⚾ = $1.10
🪵 = ⚾ + $1.00
⚾ = ?
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Yeah, but you’d be surprised how many people really do get that one wrong. Of course, it’s easier to miss when it’s not among a bunch of other math problems which means you are already in a state of mind looking for the details.
Such as me, apparently. As I see it only as “110-100”, which of course would instead equal “10”.
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@Background Pony #AC4B
Yeah, but you’d be surprised how many people really do get that one wrong. Of course, it’s easier to miss when it’s not among a bunch of other math problems which means you are already in a state of mind looking for the details.
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@Background Pony #AC4B
@Background Pony #7D54
(OP of that 🍔🍟🥤 image here.)
There are complex solutions to it, but I don’t know if there are closed forms for them.
🍔=6 is simple.
If you know some basic complex number, 🍟=±i (or ±j as some might prefer) isn’t too hard either.
The thing is
🥤^(±i)
which really means
exp(±i * Log(🥤))
or equivalently
exp(∓Arg(🥤)) * exp(±i * log(|🥤|))
exp(∓Arg(🥤)) * (cos(log(|🥤|)) ± i*sin(log(|🥤|)))
assuming we only take the principal value.
This is as far as I can do myself. I don’t know how to solve it, though I would guess that there are solutions, just from the looks.
I did link a source on that image, do check the discussion out if you’re interested.
🥤1 ≒ -2.97983 + 0.0388569i
🥤2 ≒ 0.27972 - 0.74861i
(This feels a bit off-topic now. Sorry about that. :d)
Background Pony #7D54
@Background Pony #AC4B
From a basic knowledge of math (it was never my strong suit) I don’t think it can work. The problem is the second equation.
Burger = x
Fries = y
X + X + X = 18, so X=6
But X + (Y * Y) = 5
In order of operations, you do parenthesis (and multiplication) before addition. And since we know X=6, for the equation to equal 5, (YY) has to equal -1. But a negative times a negative equals a positive and a positive times a positive equals a positive. So there is no way for YY to equal a negative number.
Now, I realize there is probably some sort of high-flying advanced math that would answer this puzzle, but that’s beyond me.
Background Pony #9810
@mirolord
TBH this one is so simple that you don’t even have to treat it as an equation system. You can just do it top to bottom.