Franklin Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 When can a hundred to one be equal to fifty fifty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hw help Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 When man re-invents math and changes the rule so that a hundred to one can equal fifty. Just kidding. I don't know. Hint plz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski_power Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 when a 0 jumps from the hundred to one => 100:1 => 10:10 => 1:1 => 50:50 (multiply both sides by 50) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serg Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 when a 0 jumps from the hundred to one => 100:1 => 10:10 => 1:1 => 50:50 (multiply both sides by 50) when they are odds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franklin Posted January 25, 2006 Author Share Posted January 25, 2006 when a 0 jumps from the hundred to one => 100:1 => 10:10 => 1:1 => 50:50 (multiply both sides by 50) Damn good answer but not what I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustStuit Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 when you add them and multiply the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callipygous Posted January 25, 2006 Share Posted January 25, 2006 when the 100 is drug trafficers and the one is chuck norris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thing Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 When it's wrong. Score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonM Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 when you add them and multiply the others 100x1 = 100 50 + 50 = 100 So is that correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Franklin Posted January 28, 2006 Author Share Posted January 28, 2006 If you add all the numbers from 100 to 1 the sum total is 5050. There is a well known story about Karl Friedrich Gauss when he was in elementary school. His teacher got mad at the class and told them to add the numbers 1 to 100 and give him the answer by the end of the class. About 30 seconds later Gauss gave him the answer. The other kids were adding the numbers like this: 1 + 2 + 3 + . . . . + 99 + 100 = ? But Gauss rearranged the numbers to add them like this: (1 + 100) + (2 + 99) + (3 + 98) + . . . . + (50 + 51) = ? If you notice every pair of numbers adds up to 101. There are 50 pairs of numbers, so the answer is 50x101 = 5050. Of course Gauss came up with the answer about 20 times faster than the other kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
why? Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 How long does that take to do in a calculator? Did they have calculators? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starbug1 Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 How long does that take to do in a calculator?Did they have calculators? Not in the eighteenth century. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski_power Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 oh and I put a ratio sign in between... just great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thing Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 JustStuit got the answer. That was before he edited. Now his answer is just wrong . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jyoticlub Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 when a 0 jumps from the hundred to one => 100:1 => 10:10 => 1:1 => 50:50 (multiply both sides by 50) I cannot understand why 100:1 ==> 10:10 Can someone explain me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustStuit Posted February 7, 2006 Share Posted February 7, 2006 JustStuit got the answer. That was before he edited.Now his answer is just wrong . lol no one responded so I tryed another way oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotcommodity Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 If you add all the numbers from 100 to 1 the sum total is 5050. There is a well known story about Karl Friedrich Gauss when he was in elementary school. His teacher got mad at the class and told them to add the numbers 1 to 100 and give him the answer by the end of the class. About 30 seconds later Gauss gave him the answer. The other kids were adding the numbers like this: 1 + 2 + 3 + . . . . + 99 + 100 = ? But Gauss rearranged the numbers to add them like this: (1 + 100) + (2 + 99) + (3 + 98) + . . . . + (50 + 51) = ? If you notice every pair of numbers adds up to 101. There are 50 pairs of numbers' date=' so the answer is 50x101 = 5050. Of course Gauss came up with the answer about 20 times faster than the other kids. [/quote'] Thanks for posting that. My Calculus professor was telling us the same thing the other day but he did'nt tell how Gauss grouped the numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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