Little Kids Math Problem help ++++ KARMA

[Albrecht.]

sue and rich went fishing on monday

they caught 20 fish

they went back on tuesday and caught 30 more

when they went back on wednesday how many did they catch. Why?

 

[skithesprings]

45 fishies,

20 x 1.5 = 30

30 x 1.5 = 45

they catch 1.5 times as many fish each day

try to get my karma back to 6969

 

[gordie.]

none.all the fish died of pollution because of
GLOBAL WARMING!and THE CORPORATIONS!

 

[spliff.Life]

closest i could get it is 62, or 71

 

[860]

i got you to 64

 

[Albrecht.]

my little cousins cunt of a teacher marked him wrong for that in the third grade. hes a pretty smart kid and had basically the same explanation as you but the teacher said the answer was 40. my whole family is debating over this right now.

 

[fillup]

It could be 40, as in 20-30-40 pattern.

 

[TechnoPotamus]

yeah i don't get how she could say one thing is wrong and the other isn't if there basically were no guidelines or further explanation to the problem than what the threat creator typed out up there

 

[Peach.]

yeah its in patterns of x1.5

 

[chicken.]

damn this is hard, i got u to 6968 karma

 

[JockinJLoads]

got it!

 

[Pippin]

Realistically at a 3rd grade level it more appropriate for a teacher to be looking for a +10 pattern as the answer, that being said i think your cousin's teacher should give him some credit for finding a pattern of 1.5x which takes a certain amount of skill

 

[wunderskier]

he's right...bump.

wait no, i guess i wont so you can have 6969

 

[Bepo]

who said it follows a pattern? Catching fish is all random. Either way, to determine a correct pattern you need more than 2 values.

 

[powderhound100]

ya your little cousin is smart. he should get more credit for seeing the 1.5 pattern. fuck that teacher. if there were no more guidelines, both are correct. with only 2 values its kind of stupid anyway

 

[[MEGAMO]]

i hate elementary school teachers, they are all retarded.

 

[THEDICKBUTCHER]

gave you 2 more and now its at 6967... almost there.

 

[TeamJones]

Well technically the teacher is wrong by even saying that 40 is correct. The amount of fish you can catch on any given day is not at all related to how many fish you caught the day before.
And I thought all pattern problems had to have at least 3 givens? If it went from 2 to 4, what would it be on the third day? 6, 8, and 16 are all legit answers.

 

[Grove_Street]

i got you there now return the favor, if you want to

 

[Microcosm]

thats fucking bull dude. No matter what way you look at it, theres not enough information to solve the problem. Are we looking for an expotential pattern? a linear pattern? what...? that teacher sucks.

 

[caucasian_chad]

My brother had a problem similar to this in his math book and I told him to skip it because there wasn't enough info to solve the problem. Math book writers are retarded.

 

[killa_cam]

40 if it's an arithmatic series, 45 if it's geometric

 

[ontwosticks]

Considering the age of the people in quesiton, I'm gonna have to say that 40 is the correct answer being that 20+10=30 and 30+10=40...so 40 would be correct considering we're talking 3rd grade. Older than that it could very well be the x*1.5 thing.

 

[Piste.Off]

you cant determine it to be a 10-20-30 pattern or a 1.5 pattern with just two numbers, this problem is bull

 

[blaiser]

what a stupid question. the answer should be ~25. because it is the mean number of of fish caught in two days is 25, it is likely that 25 fish will be caught on the third day. you can't have a statistically significant linear trend with just two values

 

[Malcolm]

i wouldve said 40. just to be on the safe side

 

[mellifluous]

i did it! 6969

 

[marc_sncl]

hit your karma is going crazy

 

[twix_182]

there isnt sufficient information for you to know. boom

 

[ONTerriible]

this could be it too, i mean they all work, the kid should put down all of then

 

[Skibumsmith]

This is the most reasonable answer. It is rediculous to think that the kid will catch 1.5 times as many fish each day or 10 more each day. You can't catch fish at an exponential rate.

 

[twix_182]

i think another thing that hasnt been put into consideration is the fact that the probability of catching fish will be much less since there are now 50 less fish then there were in the water.

 

[Happy.]

got it!

 

[comeatmebro]

this is bs.

obviously you need to know the location of said fishing area, and the month you are fishing. then you need to know the stocking report numbers. and since you caught a higher number of fish, the probability of catching more fish the next day is less likely. so fuck that teacher.

there are so many answers, fucking stupid ass teacher. you should personally go down there and own her ass. fucking not even giving enough info to solve the problem. cunt.

 

[B.Aussie]

Woah your little cousin is really smart.

The third grade answer would be 40. But for your little cousin to find the more complex answer is really smart she should be praising him instead of punishing him for such intelligencee in year 3.

 

[AptosFreeskier]

You are forgetting that it doesn't matter what grades you get in elementary school. It is so stupid how people get angry at teachers because they got a problem wrong. Seriously, live up to your mistakes.

 

[C.R.E.A.M]

bingo

or if its trignometric it could go back down to like 20.

 

[huge-go]

Props to your cousin for finding the x1.5 pattern. But I think the rest if you need to be more realistic. I don't think I was learning about geometric patterns in gr.3, let alone ones that are multiplied by decimals. But I concur, there should have been a third value.