Your Age By Restaurant Math

Fun stuff...now how the heck does that work???? and more importantly, who sat down and took the time to figure it out? (how can you not like math?)

 

...and I thought nobody could find out  

 

Cool !!

 

Sure is, cool.:smile:

 

a=times to eat out
b=year you were born

((a x 2) + 5) x 50 + 1757 - b = (a x 100) + (2007 - b)

multiply the left side out and you'll see that it simply equals the right side. the number of times to go out to eat is just a distraction for the simple math to calculate the difference of your birthdate and 2007, aka your age :smile:

note that it won't work for 2008 or any other year, you'll have to change 1757/6 appropriately.

ricky

 

Ok, I think someone who responded (Ricky!) has memorized all the focal charts too! :wink:

 

This is a variation of one I learned as a kid "pick a number between 1 and 10" it all comes down to a fixed number on one side i.e. year, day of the mo. etc. and a reciprocal on the other, so if the current mo. has 30 days and its the third day of the month have them add 27.
Don't remember it all I guess all the Beers in won me in school killed too many brain cells.
The other one that got me more then a few free drinks was:
Bet some one you can drink six beers before the other person can drink 1 shot. The only rules:
1 You get a 1 beer head start
2 You can't touch the others glass or glasses.
Win every time 8^)
May be old hat by now but it worked 30+ years ago.
Rich

 

Algebra...it's a wonderful thing...

Cool, Mike. I had not seen that one before.

 

geek alert! :biggrin: :wink:  

 

It's the one beer head start. Drink you beer turn your glass upside down and cover his shot glass.
He can't touch your glass so can not get to the shot. Drink the rest of the beers at you leasure  
Of course you have to pick your target and it helped when your 6'4" and 235 lbs.
Rich

 

LOL, the only problem with this is that it assumes that you want to eat out at least 2x per week.

James

 

Pretty cool. All I know is that I'm 357 years old in dog years, and sometimes feel like it.