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20 Nov 2012, 12:18 am

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Fast enough to get a woman pregnant. :wink: :lol:


I ROfFLed at this. Mick Jr is on a roll latelyjavascript:emoticon(':lol:')


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20 Nov 2012, 6:38 am

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Think of it this way- The bus covers 1 mile less than the car over 11.5 miles. At 73 mph it takes the car takes ~.1575 hours to cover the 11.5 miles therefore in 1 hour the bus travels ~6.3492 miles less than the car. Since you are using mph and the bus travels ~6.3492 miles less per hour than the car. Now you know the bus is traveling 66.65 mph.


:lol: That's okay. I slept on it and woke up realizing what I'd done. And it's not an unusual flip-flop in logic for me. I'm usually very good with math, but I do have an incessant need to find mental shortcuts. Unfortunately when I do that I often do reverse certain things. I've always thought of it as a form of mental dyslexia. Essentially I compared distances when I should have been comparing times. :shrug:


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20 Nov 2012, 8:11 am

MrXxx wrote:
Rascal77s wrote:
Think of it this way- The bus covers 1 mile less than the car over 11.5 miles. At 73 mph it takes the car takes ~.1575 hours to cover the 11.5 miles therefore in 1 hour the bus travels ~6.3492 miles less than the car. Since you are using mph and the bus travels ~6.3492 miles less per hour than the car. Now you know the bus is traveling 66.65 mph.


:lol: That's okay. I slept on it and woke up realizing what I'd done. And it's not an unusual flip-flop in logic for me. I'm usually very good with math, but I do have an incessant need to find mental shortcuts. Unfortunately when I do that I often do reverse certain things. I've always thought of it as a form of mental dyslexia. Essentially I compared distances when I should have been comparing times. :shrug:

i guess that is the price of second guessing one's self.

i solved the problem as follows: 21/23 x 73 mph is 66.65217391 mph. it is as simple as that.



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20 Nov 2012, 8:18 am

:lol: Yeah, but that's too conventional for me. I'm always compelled to find my own ways I can do in my head. I may screw it up once in a while, but the failures are worth the trade off. I have found many simpler ways to solve a lot of problems much faster, with accuracy to boot!


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20 Nov 2012, 8:44 am

correctness is of the essence in any successful consideration of a quest.
sorry.



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20 Nov 2012, 9:31 am

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-Assume my speedo and the bus speedo were both calibrated to the exact MPH



I try to avoid making assumptions about people's Speedos. And I don't even want to imagine a bus in a banann hammock.

P. S. Although I barely passed Alghebra I and badic geometyr, my teachers had lots of fun grading my tests--espcily on the workd porblemas. :lol:


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20 Nov 2012, 9:44 am

thechadmaster wrote:
2wheels4ever wrote:

-Assume my speedo and the bus speedo were both calibrated to the exact MPH



I try to avoid making assumptions about people's Speedos. And I don't even want to imagine a bus in a banann hammock.

P. S. Although I barely passed Alghebra I and badic geometyr, my teachers had lots of fun grading my tests--espcily on the workd porblemas. :lol:


i have the impression that you are drunk.



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20 Nov 2012, 9:59 am

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correctness is of the essence in any successful consideration of a quest.
sorry.


Correctness yes. But unconventional doesn't equate to incorrect if it's done correctly. :wink: There is always more than one way to solve a math problem, or any problem for that matter.


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20 Nov 2012, 10:10 am

b9 wrote:
thechadmaster wrote:
2wheels4ever wrote:

-Assume my speedo and the bus speedo were both calibrated to the exact MPH



I try to avoid making assumptions about people's Speedos. And I don't even want to imagine a bus in a banann hammock.

P. S. Although I barely passed Alghebra I and badic geometyr, my teachers had lots of fun grading my tests--espcily on the workd porblemas. :lol:


i have the impression that you are drunk.


Nope, just on the edge of a brrelk down. i don't give a crap about uytyypoie s when a am this miesrable. I am about to get meor meds, thol .


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21 Nov 2012, 8:18 am

Mindsigh wrote:
b9 wrote:
thechadmaster wrote:
2wheels4ever wrote:

-Assume my speedo and the bus speedo were both calibrated to the exact MPH



I try to avoid making assumptions about people's Speedos. And I don't even want to imagine a bus in a banann hammock.

P. S. Although I barely passed Alghebra I and badic geometyr, my teachers had lots of fun grading my tests--espcily on the workd porblemas. :lol:


i have the impression that you are drunk.


Nope, just on the edge of a brrelk down. i don't give a crap about uytyypoie s when a am this miesrable. I am about to get meor meds, thol .

well i wish you well. that is all i can do.