Here is my phone. If you need me

[Mrs Behavin]

Get your calculator and do the following.

1. Grab a calculator (you won't be able to do this one in your head)
2. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT YOUR AREA CODE)
3. Multiply by 80
4. Add 1
5. Multiply by 250
6. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number.
7. Add the last 4 digits of your phone number again
8. Subtract 250
9. Divide number by 2.

Do you recognize the answer ?

 

[TheOriginalJames]

It was off by 5 on the last digit... unless my math sucks. Let me do it again.

Edit: nevermind. I forgot to carry a certain number over in division. lol

 

[Sim]

Uh, James...

You're sitting at a computer. Use the calculator.

I don't even know my number of the phone beside me...so yeah.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

bah. I had a pen and paper more handier.

I liked writing shit out in Algebra... made my teacher happier too... good thing I had to learn all of that, it really helps me out in the real world.

 

[hhayes]

cool it worked for me

 

[artisan00]

i love picking these things apart algebraically...

here we go...
take a phone numberr (as a seven digit #). if the first 3 digits are 'x' and the last 4 are 'y', then the phone number can be expressed as (10,000x + y).
so like, 5551234 would be 555*10000 + 1234.

k?
ok keep that on the back burner for a few...

so now, take the steps she outlined and apply them in the standard way:

after you build the expression, you have :

(250(80x + 1) + 2y -250) / 2

sooo simplifying, first kill that divide by 2 off, giving
125(80x+1) + y -125

expanding that out,
(125*80*x) +125 +y -125
---> 10000x + y

look familar?
yay for math
i assume most of you knew this already but for some reason i like algebra....

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Dude, you just totally confused the shit outta me! Of course, I always hated algebra. :yuk

 

[UncleBacon]

crazy...thats dead on

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Re: RE: Here is my phone. If you need me

i love picking these things apart algebraically...

here we go...
take a phone numberr (as a seven digit #). if the first 3 digits are 'x' and the last 4 are 'y', then the phone number can be expressed as (10,000x + y).
so like, 5551234 would be 555*10000 + 1234.

k?
ok keep that on the back burner for a few...

so now, take the steps she outlined and apply them in the standard way:

after you build the expression, you have :

(250(80x + 1) + 2y -250) / 2

sooo simplifying, first kill that divide by 2 off, giving
125(80x+1) + y -125

expanding that out,
(125*80*x) +125 +y -125
---> 10000x + y

look familar?
yay for math
i assume most of you knew this already but for some reason i like algebra....

I just worked it apart with the 20000 (80*250)

 

[BooFetus]

Re: RE: Here is my phone. If you need me

Dude, you just totally confused the shit outta me! Of course, I always hated algebra. :yuk

As for what happened.
As for algebra, I already hate it. I can do it dead on if I remember all the steps, but they make you show all of your work, and I really never feel like writing all of that.

 

[artisan00]

what steps. every problem is different...

 

[lemon]

step one: get the variable on one side
step two: sovle for variable


simple :booze

 

[04ShakinSteed]

Nice, Mrs!

 

[Haus]

haha thats pretty cool.

 

[Tazzy]

:dunno :dunno I was going to say BR 549

 

[Ryum]

how did I know after reading the equation artisan00 would post the spoiler??

 

[artisan00]

Re: RE: Here is my phone. If you need me

how did I know after reading the equation artisan00 would post the spoiler??

:dunno

:fu

hope i didnt ruin it for ya

 

[Haus]

this would be a good thing to have a girl do. but do it for her if she doesnt want to give you her number.

 

[TheRook]

I got another one:
Enter your phone number in your calculater
times it by 2
divide it by 2
and viola its your phone number

I always hated math, never understood why people do it on purpose. but I can pitch pretty mean horseshoe!!!!!!!

 

[Ryum]

psstt

you can always times it by one
always been one of my favorites


but no artisan you'd be hard pressed to find one of these i hadn't seen

I wish i could remember the details but with a certain number/equation I could find the page, the line, and then the word of any number in any book you picked out..
it was a good one