Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
What’s the tensile strength of a rainbow?
If you go 80 mph on the way there, and immediately turn around and go 60 mph on the way back, what is your average speed for the 160 mile trip?
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68.6 mph
Instructions unclear. Tried to do a 180 degree turn at 80 mph. Trip was much shorter than expected.
Damn. Did you survive?
Nah that’s their ghost commenting.
I’m horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I’m wrong, right? Because it’s math and I’m always wrong.
But she will better college than any college in india
Eight hundred thousand years. You just move the decimal to get the answer. Once you know that trick, a lot of math is really easy.
Reminds me of the old “how much does a tonne of feathers weigh?”
Feathers are heavier because you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those birds.
It is quite devastating when you see people lacking even the most basic or common of knowledge. No wonder the world is in a state that it is in. You can’t expect people to make changes when they barely even know how the world works.
I mean some people just freeze up around numbers. That’s not the end of the world as long as they know suck at that.
Like I’m a programmer and I’m like comically bad at math. Like 3 Stooges bad. If I’m forced to do math on the spot I will expand a lot of energy figuring out exactly the wrong thing.
Same! Senior dev here with both dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Numbers literally transpose for me, for example when I’m filling out a restaurant receipt and calculating tip+total. It’s wild.
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
Okay, but what if the car was also 80 miles long?
Instantaneously!
Well let’s see. If I’m 5’11" and I can run a mile in 8 minutes…
Ride that snake.
He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.
I couldn’t get past her starting the mental math. “If I run a mile in 8 mins…” This lady can vote, drive a car, and purchase a firearm. We’re so fucked.
Ahh, haven’t seen this in a long time.
Though you kinda have to give to her, that her initial guesstimate was 58 minutes. That’s just 3.3% error, not bad considering the ridiculous way she arrived at that number. Maybe she’s really good at estimates but can’t do any precise math. She might even be an engineer.
Based on the title, it seeks like the question was 80 mph. Not 60
You’re right, it would take an hour to go 60 miles at 60mph. Try the math again with 80 miles at 80mph.
I did. 58/80 != ~3.3%
If you’re traveling 80 miles PER HOUR, you will travel 80 miles in an hour, or 60 minutes. She guessed 58 minutes.
I see! I misread their comment! I thought it was 80mph for 60 minutes
Oh lord
You are leaking American education all over this comment man
Think about this really hard again.
Getting to recreate the video in the comments really is special.
1hr, I refuse to watch the video.
The best part is “the wheels must turn 400 times per mile” hauahauhahah
yeah I can do without watching a YT video to listen to someone say stupid things.
it’s bad enough knowing that some people literally make better money creating bullshit YT and TV shows than I make at my job.
And yet it didn’t keep him from marrying her. True love
I’m sure she’s a nice girl, but I don’t think I could bear such a large intellectual gap for too long. Stuff like this becomes frustrating quite quickly. But then again, in their case it might not be too big of a gap anyway. Understanding the basic principles behind measuring units does not make him Einstein.
Or he had the same reaction as her. Had it explained to him and is now passing on the fun.