If a bat...

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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mine had the attitude, if you will get an A you get attention.

i remember asking why if a percentage was out of 100 you could have 125%. Her answer was Shut up Charlton.

[dogtired]

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I wonder if they were related!

[Sapphire]

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I popped in for a bit yesterday and saw this, its kept me awake all friggin night worrying about it, will someone please explain the answer to me in plain English msl:

[Turboman]

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See posts 3,18,20,22 Sapphy--as Morse said to Lewis "Yes Lewis-even second class post gets there in the end "eep:

Surely the spreadsheet in post 20 explains all possibilities

I popped in for a bit yesterday and saw this, its kept me awake all friggin night worrying about it, will someone please explain the answer to me in plain English msl:

[Sapphire]

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Sorry, I've tried and still can't get it.

[Turboman]

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Ball costs 5p
Bat costs £1.05p
Total Spent is £1.10
Cost of Bat more than Ball = £1.05p minus 5p----which means Bat cost £1 more than ball

Sapphy--I can do no more-lol

Sorry, I've tried and still can't get it.

[shell]

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Another way of putting it.................maybe......................

Now you know how much older you are than your child (I hope), so add your age and the childs age together, then subtract how much you are older by the child by, you should end up with twice the childs age, divide that by 2 and add to how much older you are and you will get to your age. You still with me?

Okay say you are 24 and your child is 3, that means you are 21 years older than your child. So add 24 and 3, gives you 27, now subtract how much older you are than the child, 21, leaves you with six. Divide by 2, is 3 and add to your age, gives you 24 and your child is still 3.

So if I said there are two people with a combined age of 27, one is 21 years older than the other. How old is the other person?

Hope I haven't confused you even more.

[dogtired]

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I will be all night working that one out!

[dogtired]

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Cheated and used my calculator!!!

[Monzter]

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Ok so I need a bit of distraction after the weekend I have had!! I have no idea how people come up with the correct formula's for maths, but I have looked and scratched my head and this is how I have explained it to myself, it may help, it may confuse more lol.

Bat and Ball.

After reading this I also came to the conclusion that the ball must cost 10p, but maths is logic and after re reading and pulling a few faces at the screen I explained it to myself like this -

The key part of the question is that the bat is £1 more than the ball, not a £1 straight. So what we know is that the total amount spent is £1.10 and the bat costs £1 more than the ball, right?

10p theory........
So if the ball is 10p and the bat is £1 more than the ball, that means that the bat alone costs £1.10 plus the cost of the ball which makes a total spend of £1.20, which is 10p over. So the ball cannot be 10p because that's 10p over the spend limit of £1.10. So I needed to 'lose' that 10p by reducing the cost of the ball until it was exactly £1 cheaper than the bat but I hadn't spent more than £1.10.

So then I thought maybe the ball is 5p (slightly encouraged by the answers lol) so -

5p answer

If the ball costs 5p and the bat is exactly £1 more than the ball, that means that the bat is the cost of the ball to start which is 5p, plus the £1 more that the question says which is £1.05, so if the bat costs £1.05 and the ball costs 5p that makes a total spend of £1.10.

Having said that I wouldn't have the faintest idea how to work it out from the start myself, I have just explained it to myself like that lol.

Shell's question........

So if I said there are two people with a combined age of 27, one is 21 years older than the other. How old is the other person?

If person A and person B ages add up to 27, and person A is 21 years older than person B that means that I take 21 away from 27 which leaves 6. So person A would be 6 and person B would be 21. Well it satisfies half of it, the combined ages add up to 27, but the age difference would be wrong -

If person A is 21 and person B is 6, then the combined age is 27 but the age difference would be 21 minus 6 which is 15, and we've been told that the age difference must be 21, so that can't be right. Using Shell's method I came up with this -

so add your age and the childs age together (combined age = 27), then subtract how much you are older by the child by(21 years given in question), you should end up with twice the childs age(27-21=6), divide that by 2 (leaves 3 {person B age})and add to how much older you are (21 age difference given in question)and you will get to your age (3+21=24{person a age}).

Person A age = 24 years
Person B age = 3 years

This satisfies the question as the age difference is 21 years (24-3=21) and the combines ages add up to 27.


So I can do maths, if given a formula lol, totally useless if I'm expected to find the formula myself. I am now going to rest in a darkened room. Thank you.

LMAO

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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HOW??
Just HOW?????

FIK totally FIK i am!!

[Monzter]

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Lol I know it ties me in knots too!

[cards down]

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Surely the simplest solution would be to 'google it'

[Hurricane Puffrose]

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easy way to solve math problems..

DARLING! work this out for me

[dogtired]

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My "darling" is almost as bad as me at math!