who's good at math?

[CkChRIzZ]

ok well here's a problem:

clock looses 4 minutes every day. how many seconds does the clock lose in 1 minute

I know how to solve it, or what to do rather, but i can't get the final answer.
I know you gotta figure out how many minutes there are in a day, which is 1440, and then somehow figure out how many seconds each minute looses when that 1440 looses 4 minutes.

[Ahriman]

10

I haven't done stuff like this in a long time, but the way I did it...

1440(seconds in a day)/240(seconds in four minutes) 60(seconds in a minute)/x(seconds lost during a minute)
Multiply 240 x 60, then divide by 1440 to get x.

Someone should verify it...I'm half asleep.

Edit: Reverse Verification...
10(Seconds Lost) x 24(Hours in a day) = 240
240 / 60(Minutes in an hour) = 4

[Ahriman]

Originally Posted by AlmightyJeebus

Post was deleted.

No offense, but you just killed my intelligent post.


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Please and thank you.

Edit: Dang, I didn't mean to cause you to delete your post...Now I feel like a spammer with my double post -_-.

[NarutoKun]

your teacher is stupid.. i don't get it.. the question is how many seconds are losing in 1 minute.. which is 60

[polarbabes]

Nah Narutokun, it's an actual question

The clock is 4 minutes slow, so every 24 hours it gets 4 more minutes behind (AKA loses 4 minutes), you just gotta find out how much is lost in 1 minute

If it loses 4 minutes in 24 hours, then you just convert the minutes into seconds: 4 minutes x 60 = 240
So it loses 240 seconds in 24 hours, time to figure out how much it loses in just 1 hour: 240 / 24 = 10
Now it loses 10 seconds in 1 hour, but now you have to go further to find out how much is lost in 1/60 of that hour, or 1 minute: 10 / 60 = 1/6, or .1666 repeated

Ahriman's method is just changing the order of things, but he messed the math up
There are 86400 seconds in a day, not 1440
You do his method with the correct numbers, you still get 1/6 of a second

[FUBAR]

^yeah that's the answer i got, i kinda did it that way too.

though my head hurts now : (

[polarbabes]

lol, it took me a lot longer to write it than to work it out

[Raconteur]

Originally Posted by Ahriman

10

I haven't done stuff like this in a long time, but the way I did it...

1440(seconds in a day)/240(seconds in four minutes) 60(seconds in a minute)/x(seconds lost during a minute)
Multiply 240 x 60, then divide by 1440 to get x.

Someone should verify it...I'm half asleep.

Edit: Reverse Verification...
10(Seconds Lost) x 24(Hours in a day) = 240
240 / 60(Minutes in an hour) = 4

My brain hurts Just in case no one realized... I hate math lol

[TheGummy]

yea polar is correct, but i did it slightly differently

it loses 4mins every 1day.

you need to convert these times into seconds.

4 minutes in seconds is 4 x 60 = 240
1 day in seconds is 60 x 60 x 24 = 86400
(this is because you have 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day)

so we get this:

it loses 240 seconds every 86400 seconds

so we need to find out how many seconds it loses in 1 minute (60 seconds)

to do that you need to find out how much to divide 86400 to make it equal 60.

to find that you, divide is by 60.

86400/60 = 1440

so to find out how many seconds it loses every minute, you have to divide both numbers by 1440, which leaves you with this:

it loses .01666 recurring every 60 seconds (every minute)



just trying to explain that as clearly as possible, polar got it right before i even looked at this thread and his method is slightly quicker, i just thought i would write it out in clear steps.

[Ahriman]

Originally Posted by polarbabes

Nah Narutokun, it's an actual question

The clock is 4 minutes slow, so every 24 hours it gets 4 more minutes behind (AKA loses 4 minutes), you just gotta find out how much is lost in 1 minute

If it loses 4 minutes in 24 hours, then you just convert the minutes into seconds: 4 minutes x 60 = 240
So it loses 240 seconds in 24 hours, time to figure out how much it loses in just 1 hour: 240 / 24 = 10
Now it loses 10 seconds in 1 hour, but now you have to go further to find out how much is lost in 1/60 of that hour, or 1 minute: 10 / 60 = 1/6, or .1666 repeated

Ahriman's method is just changing the order of things, but he messed the math up
There are 86400 seconds in a day, not 1440
You do his method with the correct numbers, you still get 1/6 of a second

That is what I got when I did it at first, but I was just guessing when I did that. When I did the math, I got 10. I just forgot the last step, basically.

[CkChRIzZ]

zomg I love all of you!
I shall make all you people giftehs as soon as the UD battles are done

[Plural]

isnt this like 5th grade math.

[Ahriman]

Originally Posted by Plural

isnt this like 5th grade math.

If your ability to type meets your math skills, then that's about where you are. It's not fifth grade mathematics; that's for sure. It's basic algebra; in a lot of places, that's ninth grade material. You could have just as easily said that it was easy.

[CkChRIzZ]

well the actual math involved like multiplying and stuff is pretty basic math. just the problem itself isn't.

[Plural]

I guess word problems can screw with you.

its not algebra either, look at what gummy did, 0 variables.

just conversion of units i believe.