A Math Challenge For You (1 Viewer)

[Leroy Hoard]

Usually when someone asks for a solution there actually is one.

 

[TennesseeJed]

Solution

Spoiler: Solution

0.0000, 0.0000, 0.9504

I don't think the word exactly means what you think it does

Based on the parameter set up in the original problem - I applied a percentage to each number, then add those numbers together to reach 8500....

Nothing in the original problem required the percentages to be > 0%

huh?

AFTER the percentage is applied to each number your total is 8500. You can also only take the percentage to 4 decimals.

Can you make this happen to get it to 8500 exactly?

your solution is 8500.3776

Hmmm when I plugged it into Google sheets it worked to 4 digits. I blame google.

ETA - it was showing 8500.0000

Do you even format cells brah?

I did - and I don't know why it was showing that....

But clearly user error in there somewhere....

 

[Yo Mama]

It’s easy if you add the Round function to your formulas.

 

[BassNBrew]

Sure shows the limitations of Chatgpt. Gives me hope of getting paid for another 10 years to surf FBG.com

 

[Scoresman]

It's not just Chat GPT, Excel Solver also throws its hands up. Took it a good 3 minutes and my laptop's fans were whirring at full speed, so it was really trying to solve it.

 

[jhib]

Usually when someone asks for a solution there actually is one.

It's just mean

 

[the moops]

OK had a younger brother of friends stay with us over the weekend. He is on his way west to UCLA to start a PhD in math program. Was one of the top high school math olympians? mathletes? in the country several years ago. Just got back from a masters program at Cambridge.

I gave him this problem, he spent 20 minute writing and using some crazy software that I was unfamiliar with. Tells me he solved it. Shows me, and I have no idea how what he wrote is considered a solution. Asked for him to dumb it down for me, yet I still have no idea.

Anyone know what this means or how it is a solution? I can reach out and get more clarity, but thought some of you nerds might like to decipher this

https://imgur.com/a/8k52oxV

 

[ChiefD]

OK had a younger brother of friends stay with us over the weekend. He is on his way west to UCLA to start a PhD in math program. Was one of the top high school math olympians? mathletes? in the country several years ago. Just got back from a masters program at Cambridge.

I gave him this problem, he spent 20 minute writing and using some crazy software that I was unfamiliar with. Tells me he solved it. Shows me, and I have no idea how what he wrote is considered a solution. Asked for him to dumb it down for me, yet I still have no idea.

Anyone know what this means or how it is a solution? I can reach out and get more clarity, but thought some of you nerds might like to decipher this

https://imgur.com/a/8k52oxV

I checked it.

Didn’t work.

 

[tri-man 47]

OK had a younger brother of friends stay with us over the weekend. He is on his way west to UCLA to start a PhD in math program. Was one of the top high school math olympians? mathletes? in the country several years ago. Just got back from a masters program at Cambridge.

I gave him this problem, he spent 20 minute writing and using some crazy software that I was unfamiliar with. Tells me he solved it. Shows me, and I have no idea how what he wrote is considered a solution. Asked for him to dumb it down for me, yet I still have no idea.

Anyone know what this means or how it is a solution? I can reach out and get more clarity, but thought some of you nerds might like to decipher this

https://imgur.com/a/8k52oxV

It looks like he used the same basic logic, but then he also broke down the first and last numbers (27,520 and 8,944) into smaller components and worked from there. I’m not sure that necessarily improves the odds of success, but what do I know.

@ChiefD is just chillin’ out in Wisconsin, enjoying his new-found peace and quiet and drinking some cold ones while a groundswell of America struggles to solve the impossible.

 

[the moops]

OK had a younger brother of friends stay with us over the weekend. He is on his way west to UCLA to start a PhD in math program. Was one of the top high school math olympians? mathletes? in the country several years ago. Just got back from a masters program at Cambridge.

I gave him this problem, he spent 20 minute writing and using some crazy software that I was unfamiliar with. Tells me he solved it. Shows me, and I have no idea how what he wrote is considered a solution. Asked for him to dumb it down for me, yet I still have no idea.

Anyone know what this means or how it is a solution? I can reach out and get more clarity, but thought some of you nerds might like to decipher this

https://imgur.com/a/8k52oxV

I checked it.

Didn’t work.

Good. He was a cocky little fellow

 

[El Floppo]

OK had a younger brother of friends stay with us over the weekend. He is on his way west to UCLA to start a PhD in math program. Was one of the top high school math olympians? mathletes? in the country several years ago. Just got back from a masters program at Cambridge.

I gave him this problem, he spent 20 minute writing and using some crazy software that I was unfamiliar with. Tells me he solved it. Shows me, and I have no idea how what he wrote is considered a solution. Asked for him to dumb it down for me, yet I still have no idea.

Anyone know what this means or how it is a solution? I can reach out and get more clarity, but thought some of you nerds might like to decipher this

https://imgur.com/a/8k52oxV

I checked it.

Didn’t work.

Good. He was a cocky little fellow

Lmao... That's all this kid probably has, and you want to crap on him the one time in his life he gets to flex?

 

[the moops]

OK had a younger brother of friends stay with us over the weekend. He is on his way west to UCLA to start a PhD in math program. Was one of the top high school math olympians? mathletes? in the country several years ago. Just got back from a masters program at Cambridge.

I gave him this problem, he spent 20 minute writing and using some crazy software that I was unfamiliar with. Tells me he solved it. Shows me, and I have no idea how what he wrote is considered a solution. Asked for him to dumb it down for me, yet I still have no idea.

Anyone know what this means or how it is a solution? I can reach out and get more clarity, but thought some of you nerds might like to decipher this

https://imgur.com/a/8k52oxV

I checked it.

Didn’t work.

Good. He was a cocky little fellow

Lmao... That's all this kid probably has, and you want to crap on him the one time in his life he gets to flex?

You didn't spend a weekend with the little ****