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Old 11-07-2005, 01:59 PM
BruceZ BruceZ is offline
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Default Re: Can someone write this out for me?

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Holy cow! How did you arrive at something so simple? Alas, I don't understand it. I'll bet if you just take today, you'll forget more about math than I ever knew. If you have the patience to deal with a nitwit like me...

<font color="blue"> 500M + 100W + C = 50,000 </font>

I don't understand how you start out arriving at this.

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It's just 500 cents or $5 times the number of men, plus 100 cents or $1 times the number of women, plus 1 cent times the number of children equals 50,000 cents or 500 dollars. It's the same as 5M + 1W + 0.01C = 500, I just thought it was easier to work in integers.
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