A Lady with Real Problems
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
August 11, 2016 11:00am CST
A Lady with Real Problems
I will make this "discussion" a really short one.
It is about Ms Seesal. She had problems that you simply would not believe. Not in 100 years would you believe her problems- not even in five minutes would you believe them.
The time I was told about her first problem, I could not believe it. I thought, "No one could possibly ever have a problem as bad as that one. I wonder how she came to get it?"
Then I was told to go into Ms. Seesal's room and check out those problems - to see if I could maybe find some solutions.
I went into Ms. Seesal's room.
There, right before my eyes, were just SOME of her problems. I quickly determined that there was slight chance of my ever being able to come up with solutions for them.
I may not be too much of a dummy, but those problems were way over my head - way too much for me.
Here is just the first of them:
17 divided by 32.683 multiplied by the square root of 1/896 is equal to WHAT?
Ms. Seesal loved to teach mathematics to us Fifth Graders.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Aug 16
@jaboUK - Ms Janet - It seemed like there were one or two of them around every corner when I was a kid. They literally infested the corridors, even the hallowed corridors. Summed up, that made things mighty tough on us ignorant little warts.
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@marguicha (215189)
• Chile
11 Aug 16
My mom was fond of having us solve those problems when we were in second grade. I prefered to read. I did not care about how much money the farmer had received for his apples. Princes were better.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Aug 16
@marguicha - I concur with your attitude. Princes know better than to have problems.
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@marguicha (215189)
• Chile
12 Aug 16
@Ceerios THey donĀ“t even have to tend for the horse they drive.
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@ModernDayWriter (3319)
• New Delhi, India
11 Aug 16
Does the answer is 0.0005805224?
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
12 Aug 16
@ModernDayWriter - Friend Yogesh - you are almost correct in your estimation of the answer to that arithmetic nonsense. If you were to stick one more zero (another naught) before the very first zero (the beginning naught), I believe that you would have the whole thing solved exactly correctly (not naughtily).