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I got 16 but I’m notoriously lousy with numbers.
In the third equation there are two fries in each place after the +. So those would have to be one each. Also, the last equation has a x, not a +, before the cup. So I think the answer is 60.
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My attention to detail, as usual, is my weakest side. 🙂 Great catch on the x sign!
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I feel like I needed a victory. This week (and weekend) has me feeling like a complete loser, moron. Impostor Syndrome and a weekend full of insanely scheduled minute-to-minute BS has me feeling like shit. This genius thing makes me feel slightly relieved that I can at least still do algebra. 😉
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Or… maybe not algebra, but at least some math.
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But you story has been published. They have been coming out one after another recently. That’s a major victory.
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I know it’s good to have stories published. There’s another one coming out sometime soon, too, but I am starting to feel like short stories are not enough. My dream has always been to be a writer, and by that I mean — live off of my writing. The most I’ve ever been paid for a short story is $10 (for that second-person story that you read). I have a couple of novels written that I want to revise and try to get published. Since I’m working on my Shakespeare book, I worry I’ll never get to them. But the truth is, I know I’ll never be a famous Shakespearean (not that there’s money in that!), but I sure wish I could be a famous (money-making) novelist.
It’s not all about money, obviously. But until/unless I were to make money off of my writing, I’m not sure I’m ever going to feel like I’m truly being validated for the work.
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I think it has to be 60.
If 3 cups = 30, then the cups have to be 10 each.
If cups are 10, and adding two burgers = 20, then the burgers have to be 5.
If a burger is 5, and you add 4 fries to equal 9, then fries have to be 1 each.
So 5+1 x 10=60.
I nearly missed the “multiply” sign before the cup on the last one, but caught it just as I was double checking what I’d written.
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Fie’s right, and I should put on my reading glasses before taking visual tests on my screen this late at night!
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You’re forgetting order of operations on the last line. 5 + 1 * 10 = 5 + (1 * 10) = 50
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The convention is that multiplication takes precedence over addition, so I think the answer is 5 + (1 x 10) = 15.
(NB I totally missed that there were 4 packs of fries until I read the comments above.)
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Isn’t it 70? (5+2) x 10? There are parentheses missing here
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Kola = 10
Burger = 5
Chips = 2
5 + 2 * 10 = 25
If they offer another answer, they are the ones mistaken. 🙂
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Ok, I missed that the third equation has 4 fries, not two.
So each chips = 1.
5 + 1*10 = 15
The Final Answer = 15.
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Yes, it’s got to be 15. I wasn’t that mistaken, it seems like. 15, 16, it’s all the same. 🙂
Details are not my passion. 🙂
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As I was lying down to go to bed I realized I screwed up the order of operations, but was too lazy to get up and fix it. But yes it should be 15.
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