Another Test YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH This is pretty neat. DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST! It takes less than a minute .... Work this out as you read ... Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun. 1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10) 2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold) 3. Add 5 4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator ..... 5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1755 .... If you haven't, add 1754. 6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born. You should have a three digit number . The first digit of this was your original number (i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week). The next two numbers are .... YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!) THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2005) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.
Yay! Mine was 914! I'm a chocoholic as well! *Hugs 123* If I woke up tomorrow and chocolate was gone, I'm probably have a nervous breakdown. . And I couldn't get more happy endorphines easily from the chocolate, because it wouldn't be there. So we're just gonna go round in circles. Chocolate is the answer to everything! In my book, anyway. I'm one of the lucky so-n-so's who never ever put on weight. Cool test!
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So, being a number nut, I had to take a closer look at this one. Turns out, the most important number is the 1754/1755. If you set the number of times you want to have chocolate per week to 0 (yes, zero), then you find that 0 x 2 = 0, +5 = 5, x 50 = 250. 250 + 1755 = 2005. Of course, when you subtract your birth year from 2005 you get your age. What the x2 +5 x50 does is take whatever number you've chosen between 1 and 10 and shifts it over a couple of places in the final result. Real cool. Anyway, in 2006 we'd have to change the 1755 to 1756. In 2007 it needs to be changed to 1757. You get the drift. Great things, numbers. Gotta lov'em.
I got a year below my age ... Edit i see whre i messed up i used a school year instead of a regular year oops .
You're right about that, but this problem took 5 minutes on a spread sheet since the calculations are all the same. Only the first number changes, right? I really didn't want to spoil anyone's fun but I think that finding the reason problems like this work is vastly more interesting than just plugging in numbers to see what happens.
Lynet, You're absolutely right--gotta live the numbers. Of course, that's coming from a person who loves math -John
