Any mathmeticians around? Whackers and Whacker-Boss needs help ASAP!!!

[leah_mpa]

Hi fellow terbites!!! Any mathmeticians around here? Whackers and Whacker-Boss here needs help ASAP with penny-counting riddle before we all kill each other!!!

Here's what happened...

I haven't really felt like working these days... with the nice weather and all... so after pretending to be sick for the past week, I finally decided it's time I showed up for work. Gotta be responsible you know.... (that, and because I ran out of money.)

So I go into work, and what do you know?... One of my favourite clients was already waiting for me. He's always a big tipper so... YIPPEE!!! Money!!! I go in and start massaging him, when he asks me what I've been doing with myself for the past week because he's been trying to book me but was told I was sick. And of course, since he's known me for years now, he had the feeling I was just slacking off and was probably having some fun somewhere. So I told him he's right. With the nice weather and all, I've been hanging around The Beaches area (shopping), and hanging out at my friend's house (shooting pool), and going to the Woodbine Casino. He asks me how I did there. I told him, "Terrible... lost my jeans, my tube top, and my bra and underwear too!!! No luck at all!!!" He then asks me if I want to make a quick extra $100 on top of what he usually gives me. I'm like, "Sure!!!.... What exactly do you have in mind though? I could use the money but you know I don't offer BJs or FS." He's like, "Oh no!!! Nothing like that! If you can solve this one math riddle, no calculator, I'll give you a $100." I'm like, "Really? But that's not really fair... you know I suck in math." He smiles. So I'm like, "O.K. Let me try anyways." So he asks me:

"If you have a humongous piggy bank and the first day you put in 1 cent, and the next day you double the amount of the previous day, and the next day, you double the amount of the previous day again, How much money would you have in the piggy bank at the end of 28 days?

Example:

day one = one cent
day two = two cents
day three = four cents
day four = eight cents

"Well...", I thought to myself. "Can't be that hard..." So I got myself a pen and a paper and worked it out...

day five = 16 cents
day six = 32 cents
day seven = 64 cents

there's 4 weeks in a month so

64 times 4 = 256 cents which is $2.56

He's like..."Nope... the correct answer is 'one milllion, something something dollars."

I'm like, " No it's not. That's impossible." He's like, "Yes it is. No $100 for you!"

O.K. now... I know my math is not the greatest... but he's a friggin' idiot!!!!! Grrrr... One million and something dollars?!!! Yeah right!!!.... After 28 days? What a friggin' idiot! So I go downstairs... all mad... what an idiot... wasted my brain cells for nothing... so I ask my 2 whacker friends the same question. After a minute or two, one girl says, "Got it! It's 3 thousand something something dollars." The other girl goes, "No it's not. It's 50,000 something something dollars." Me and the other girl starts laughing at her. How can it be 50,000 something something dollars? The other 2 girls were busy so we decide to ask them the same question when they finished their sessions. Anyways, to make the long story short, we asked the other 2 girls PLUS our whacker boss and guess what???!!! We ALL got different answers! Like honestly... WTF!!!!!!!!!!! So we're all laughing at each other's wrong answers, calling each other idiots, everybody claiming that their answer is the right one, and next thing you know... we're all fighting. All because some stupid idiot guy (oh oops.... I forgot.... I mean my nice client) gave me this dumb penny-counting riddle. So anyways... just wondering if anyone has the right answer to this. I want you guys to work it out on your own... no calculators.... and posts your answers here. And no peeping at other people's calculations either until after you post!!

 

[lllover]

what does this have to do with sex

 

[SpaClient]

Over a million dollars

$1,342,177.28 to be exact, if I did the math right. Your mistake was to multipy 64 cents by 4 weeks.

 

[PHNINE]

As long as you are doing all of this math in your fuzzy boots Leah, I am ok with it.

 

[lllover]

Hey spa i think you need to get laid..

 

[KBear]

$1,342,177.28 to be exact

That would be the deposit on the 28th day, but not the total. Total in the bank would be $2,684,354.55

 

[SpaClient]

Agreed

Hey spa i think you need to get laid..

I think so too.

 

[Svend]

Hi fellow terbites!!!... lost my jeans, my tube top, and my bra and underwear too!!!

I'm sorry leah, I didn't get any further than this.

 

[yoniluvrca]

This is an example of exponential (or geometrical) growth. It starts out small but then it suddenly grows very fast.

Another surprising example

Rice on a chessboard

A courtier presented the Persian king with a beautiful, hand-made chessboard. The king asked what he would like in return for his gift and the courtier surprised the king by asking for one grain of rice on the first square, two grains on the second, four grains on the third etc. The king readily agreed and asked for the rice to be brought. All went well at first, but the requirement for 2n − 1 grains on the nth square demanded over a million grains on the 21st square, more than a million million on the 41st and there simply was not enough rice in the whole world for the final squares.

It is also the principal behind compound interest and population explosions among other things.

If you are interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_growth#Examples_of_exponential_growth

 

[frankcastle]

Not to nit pick but usually people use the terms exponential growth or geometric series but I've never heard the term geometric growth.

I agree that in terms of calculations it's pretty much the same.

 

[Spode]

Hi fellow terbites!!! Any mathmeticians around here? Whackers and Whacker-Boss here needs help ASAP with penny-counting riddle before we all kill each other!!!

Here's what happened...

I haven't really felt like working these days... with the nice weather and all... so after pretending to be sick for the past week, I finally decided it's time I showed up for work. Gotta be responsible you know.... (that, and because I ran out of money.)

So I go into work, and what do you know?... One of my favourite clients was already waiting for me. He's always a big tipper so... YIPPEE!!! Money!!! I go in and start massaging him, when he asks me what I've been doing with myself for the past week because he's been trying to book me but was told I was sick. And of course, since he's known me for years now, he had the feeling I was just slacking off and was probably having some fun somewhere. So I told him he's right. With the nice weather and all, I've been hanging around The Beaches area (shopping), and hanging out at my friend's house (shooting pool), and going to the Woodbine Casino. He asks me how I did there. I told him, "Terrible... lost my jeans, my tube top, and my bra and underwear too!!! No luck at all!!!" He then asks me if I want to make a quick extra $100 on top of what he usually gives me. I'm like, "Sure!!!.... What exactly do you have in mind though? I could use the money but you know I don't offer BJs or FS." He's like, "Oh no!!! Nothing like that! If you can solve this one math riddle, no calculator, I'll give you a $100." I'm like, "Really? But that's not really fair... you know I suck in math." He smiles. So I'm like, "O.K. Let me try anyways." So he asks me:

"If you have a humongous piggy bank and the first day you put in 1 cent, and the next day you double the amount of the previous day, and the next day, you double the amount of the previous day again, How much money would you have in the piggy bank at the end of 28 days?

Example:

day one = one cent
day two = two cents
day three = four cents
day four = eight cents

"Well...", I thought to myself. "Can't be that hard..." So I got myself a pen and a paper and worked it out...

day five = 16 cents
day six = 32 cents
day seven = 64 cents

there's 4 weeks in a month so

64 times 4 = 256 cents which is $2.56

He's like..."Nope... the correct answer is 'one milllion, something something dollars."

I'm like, " No it's not. That's impossible." He's like, "Yes it is. No $100 for you!"

O.K. now... I know my math is not the greatest... but he's a friggin' idiot!!!!! Grrrr... One million and something dollars?!!! Yeah right!!!.... After 28 days? What a friggin' idiot! So I go downstairs... all mad... what an idiot... wasted my brain cells for nothing... so I ask my 2 whacker friends the same question. After a minute or two, one girl says, "Got it! It's 3 thousand something something dollars." The other girl goes, "No it's not. It's 50,000 something something dollars." Me and the other girl starts laughing at her. How can it be 50,000 something something dollars? The other 2 girls were busy so we decide to ask them the same question when they finished their sessions. Anyways, to make the long story short, we asked the other 2 girls PLUS our whacker boss and guess what???!!! We ALL got different answers! Like honestly... WTF!!!!!!!!!!! So we're all laughing at each other's wrong answers, calling each other idiots, everybody claiming that their answer is the right one, and next thing you know... we're all fighting. All because some stupid idiot guy (oh oops.... I forgot.... I mean my nice client) gave me this dumb penny-counting riddle. So anyways... just wondering if anyone has the right answer to this. I want you guys to work it out on your own... no calculators.... and posts your answers here. And no peeping at other people's calculations either until after you post!!

Aren't you a little old to be in grade 6?

 

[leah_mpa]

$1,342,177.28 to be exact, if I did the math right. Your mistake was to multipy 64 cents by 4 weeks.

That would be the deposit on the 28th day, but not the total. Total in the bank would be $2,684,354.55

So my client was right?!!! Holy crap!!!!!!! Over 2 million dollars worth of pennies!!!!! Gee.... that's a whole lot of pennies there!!!.... I'm gonna buy myself a humongous 8 foot tall Pooh Bear piggy bank tomorrow and start putting all my pennies in there!!! I've got 17 in my little purse right now. Maybe a few more lying around somewhere..... Hmmm.... I might have a fortune someday!!! This certainly makes me look at pennies in a whole new light! Kinda reminds me of this article I read one time where a guy bought into his bank over $10,000 worth of pennies. The bank charged him $1000 service charge for counting them. Hmmm.... I wonder how long it would take to COUNT $10,000 worth of pennies...... That would be a million pennies.... No?...

 

[Rocket Man]

.... I wonder how long it would take to COUNT $10,000 worth of pennies...... That would be a million pennies.... No?...

It depends if it is a one sided penny or a two sided penny. If it is a two sided penny, you should double the count and add 32. If you are facing north you must subtract 48.

 

[Shorty]

It depends if it is a one sided penny or a two sided penny. If it is a two sided penny, you should double the count and add 32. If you are facing north you must subtract 48.

What about subtracting 24 if you are facing south?

 

[newbler]

reminds me of oac finite math class had the best teacher ever

 

[civic82]

I shoulda known....

Aren't you a little old to be in grade 6?

the second I saw that 'start with a penny' thing.

 

[ducttape]

Two and two are four
Four and four are eight
Eight and eight are sixteen
Sixteen and sixteen are thirty-two

Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far

Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
Seems to me you'd stop and see
How beautiful they are

- The Muppet Show

 

[oldjones]

Giving credit where due: the Inchworm lyrics are by Danny Kaye.

 

[frankcastle]

Now it all makes sense Leah is actually a kid posing as a MPA to get us to do her homework. And the fact that she's asking a math question proves she's not asian.

I am kidding of course I know kids of all ethnicities that struggle with math.

She better not start asking for book reports.

 

[someone]

You guys should not make fun of her. The only way to learn is to ask questions. Those who don't, never learn. She has my respect for that.