Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agoA book costs $1 plus half it's price. How much does it cost?message-squaremessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down111
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareA book costs $1 plus half it's price. How much does it cost?Hal-5700X@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 4 months agomessage-square22fedilink
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoSomething plus half the price is the full price. So something is half the price as well. 1 is half the price.
minus-squareINHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoAlright break out the sock puppets and break it down for me
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoLet’s simplify the “riddle”. It states: a number is 1 plus half that number. What is a quantity that added to “half a number” gives the number? What do you add to 0,5 to make 1? The other half. So we go back to the original statement: “a number is 1 plus half that number” and change it to “a number is half that number plus half that number”. If you go back and forth between the two you may notice that one the one side there is “1” and on the other “half that number”. $1 is half the cost, what is the total cost? We leave the last step to the readers.
Something plus half the price is the full price.
So something is half the price as well.
1 is half the price.
I hate this lol
Alright break out the sock puppets and break it down for me
Let’s simplify the “riddle”.
It states: a number is 1 plus half that number.
What is a quantity that added to “half a number” gives the number? What do you add to 0,5 to make 1?
The other half.
So we go back to the original statement: “a number is 1 plus half that number” and change it to “a number is half that number plus half that number”.
If you go back and forth between the two you may notice that one the one side there is “1” and on the other “half that number”.
$1 is half the cost, what is the total cost?
We leave the last step to the readers.