Sunday, October 09, 2005

Math Problem.

I though of an awesome math problem for a math test. Didn't have anywhere else to put it, so it goes here. see if you can figure it out...

Part 1
The price for an desk was $10 but it was discounted by 20% and then Betty bought it for that price and sold it to a rich landowner in Afganistan for 20.00 plus tax (5%), Shipping(at a cost of approximately PI times the average monthly rainfall of the Amazon rain forest in 1990) and handling (50.5 times the square root of 2 yen, converted into dollars on the exchange rates of October 2004, with 2.635% commision, compensating for the inflation rates of the Yen but not the dollar.) In August of 2005, she bought it back from him, with Californian tax rates and exactly the square root of pi times the square root of 7 in shipping charges.

Ready for the second part? I doubt it...

Part 2
Taking into account these numbers(integers, real numbers, and imaginary numbers, as well as numbers in conventional surd form, belonging to the set E), as well as the average tunafish consumption rates for 3-5 year olds in South Dakota, and the Pythagorean theorem, calculate the IQ required to evaluate and explain (i.e. contemplate) the social and economic values, in relation to Homo Faber, of the consequences(i.e. effects) that this question may have on the future of paperback(softcover) vs. hardback(hardcover) textbooks in the northern(southern) hemisphere, specifically between 32 degrees and pi times r squared degrees of longitude and (as well as or) latitude.

Think you've got the answer? tell me!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Being the Mathlete I am, I got through most of part I, then realised you were NUTSO and gave up. You cruel cruel being. Making such a mockery of arithmatic.
It's a good thing you're adorable, or else I'd be genuinely upset. (not really)
-Maya

11:56 PM  

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