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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,494 |
| | Posted: | | | | My wife just phoned me and she needs an answer and I can't figure out how to get the answer..
Total cost of 'X' is $844.90 INCLUDING 6% tax..
how much was said item before tax..??
afvter 10 minutes of trying to guess the answer I figured I'd try here and see who is the smartest in the land ..
Help she's on hold almost at the office..
Terry | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 906 |
| | Posted: | | | | 844.90 / 1.06 = 797.08  | | | 
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| | Posted: | | | | Great thanks
I was trying to to subtract 94%...
LOL | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | Its nice to know we can depend on others for things that are not DVD related..  Thanks Reybr  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| | Posted: | | | | No problem | | |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | What's 1+1-1*0?
Out of dozens of people online I asked a couple years back, the vast majority said zero. That is wrong. The correct answer is 2. When they realize they forgot the Orders of Execution, they tended to face-palm. | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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 | Dan W | | Registered: May 9, 2002 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 980 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
My wife just phoned me and she needs an answer and I can't figure out how to get the answer..
Total cost of 'X' is $844.90 INCLUDING 6% tax..
how much was said item before tax..??
afvter 10 minutes of trying to guess the answer I figured I'd try here and see who is the smartest in the land ..
Help she's on hold almost at the office..
Terry If the total cost is $844.90 including tax then your answer is $797.08 with a tax of $47.82 already having been added to give you the total of $844.90. If the total is 844.90 plus tax then your answer is $895.89 with a tax of 50.69 being added to the $844.90. | | | | Dan |
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| Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 5,459 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
What's 1+1-1*0?
Out of dozens of people online I asked a couple years back, the vast majority said zero. That is wrong. The correct answer is 2. When they realize they forgot the Orders of Execution, they tended to face-palm. Try telling that to Blockbuster - when I went for a job interview there once, they gave me a math test, and one of them was something like: £3.50 - £1.29 x 2 Well I was told I'd got it wrong because they'd got the answer by subtracting 1.29 from 3.50, then doubling it! | | | | Last edited: by northbloke |
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| Dan W | | Registered: May 9, 2002 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 980 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sorry for the above post. I misread the post left by reybr. | | | | Dan |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 181 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
What's 1+1-1*0?
Out of dozens of people online I asked a couple years back, the vast majority said zero. That is wrong. The correct answer is 2. When they realize they forgot the Orders of Execution, they tended to face-palm. Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally is a mnemonic to remember the order of execution. Parentheses, exponent, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.........in that order. |
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| | Posted: | | | | My favorite math question from when I was a kid in the stone age., er scratch that, Rock&roll age., was the scenario: Three men want to rent a conference room for the afternoon at the Holiday INN, they are quoted $30.00.., So they each pay $10 bucks each and proceed to set up their charts and graphs.. few minutes later a knock on the door and the bellman is there apologising to say that the front desk made a mistake and the room is only $25.00.. Bellhop hands over 5 single ones., in which he receives a two dollar tip. First man hands back a buck each to the other two, and says" That's not bad,, Room only cost us $9 dollars each" , in which the other two men said "but that's $27.00 and the two dollar tip, What happened to the missing dollar????  | | | In the 60's, People took Acid to make the world Weird. Now the World is weird and People take Prozac to make it Normal.
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| Registered: May 10, 2007 | | Posts: 418 |
| | Posted: | | | | When I was in school wasn't good at math. My math teacher he said that's why they invented the calculator. |
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| Dan W | | Registered: May 9, 2002 |
| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 980 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
My favorite math question from when I was a kid in the stone age., er scratch that, Rock&roll age., was the scenario:
Three men want to rent a conference room for the afternoon at the Holiday INN, they are quoted $30.00..,
So they each pay $10 bucks each and proceed to set up their charts and graphs.. few minutes later a knock on the door and the bellman is there apologising to say that the front desk made a mistake and the room is only $25.00..
Bellhop hands over 5 single ones., in which he receives a two dollar tip.
First man hands back a buck each to the other two, and says" That's not bad,, Room only cost us $9 dollars each" , in which the other two men said "but that's $27.00 and the two dollar tip, What happened to the missing dollar????
They are adding the tip twice. There is no missing dollar. The charge was $25 and they gave the man a $2 tip which is $27. The $27 added to the three they kept make $30. | | | | Dan | | | | Last edited: by Dan W |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 181 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
My favorite math question from when I was a kid in the stone age., er scratch that, Rock&roll age., was the scenario:
Three men want to rent a conference room for the afternoon at the Holiday INN, they are quoted $30.00..,
So they each pay $10 bucks each and proceed to set up their charts and graphs.. few minutes later a knock on the door and the bellman is there apologising to say that the front desk made a mistake and the room is only $25.00..
Bellhop hands over 5 single ones., in which he receives a two dollar tip.
First man hands back a buck each to the other two, and says" That's not bad,, Room only cost us $9 dollars each" , in which the other two men said "but that's $27.00 and the two dollar tip, What happened to the missing dollar????
the room was 25 and they tipped him 2. making the total for the room 27. there is no missing dollar. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting widescreenforever: Quote:
What happened to the missing dollar???? My brain is in pain. Edit: I see it now. Trickery by reversal. | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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