I give you your math word problem for the day. Nothing tricky about it. Pretty straight forward. Solution is at the end of the blog.
A bartender has a three pint glass and a five pint glass. A customer walks in and orders four pints of beer. Without a measuring cup but with an unlimited supply of beer how does he get four pints in either glass?
I have a gripe, a pretty big one. The world is getting lazy on math.
I was in the Coach outlet store the other day, and the sales people actually carry calculators around with them so they can give you the absolute correct price on all their sale items. This would be okay with me if the sale was 17% off, or 42% off, or some odd number like that, but NO. Most of the sales in the Coach outlet are 20% or 25% off. Really? You, as a shopper, can’t do 20% off in your head? Just double the price. 20% off $100? $20 bucks. 20% off $200? $40 bucks. At the very least, figure out what 10% is and double it. OR…if it is 20% off, then it is 80% on, but I won’t even go there if you can’t figure out 20% of something, heaven help you if you have to figure out 80% of something. Furthermore, what are you doing spending $200 on anything if you can’t figure out what 20% is?
The only slack I’m giving the salespeople here is that they quote prices in the store and have to be accurate all the time (which I still think is a load of malarkey). Other than that, they should be embarrassed they even use it.
Another thing – measuring cups. When we were little, half the fun was figuring out how to get ¾ of a cup of something in the bowl, when you only have 1 TBSP or something like that. Shocker – using the ¼ cup and ½ cup will get you the ¾ cup you need. Have you been to the store lately? They actually sell measuring cup sets now with 2/3 cup and ¾ cup cups! Honestly, how lazy do you have to be to not be able to stick your 1/3 cup in the flour twice to get the 2/3 you need? I think the world would end if you gave someone a set of teaspoons and Tablespoons and asked them to figure out what ¼ of a cup is.
For the record: (2 TBSP = 1/8 cup and 4 TBSP = ¼ cup). You have to know things like that when the top of your flour container is too small to fit in the big 1 cup cup.
That’s really the big complaint I had today. I have higher expectations than what I’ve seen lately, that’s all. And yes, took down the puppy picture of the day. It was bugging me.
Solution: Fill the 3 pint glass and pour it into the 5 pint glass. Then fill it again and from it top off the 5 pint glass, leaving 1 pint in the 3 pint glass. Then empty the 5 pint glass and move the 1 pint to the 5 pint glass. Then fill the 3 pint glass and pour that into the 5 pint glass.
1 pint + 3 pints = 4 pints
