Reality Check by Dave Whamond for March 27, 2024

I reckon not.

Something doesn’t add up.

Looks like it might be 10

But then why else would there be a whiteboard at the bar?

I wonder if Ralph knows the answer?

10

Don’t worry. He’s a bar tender.

Any time I have a problem Pi is always the answer. I always prove my work…sometimes with an 80 proof coffee.

I gave up on math once it started involving the alphabet and parentheses.

too late…

Bar 10 der is the solution eh.

The answer is, of course…..42

That figures.

Boy, Dave’s cheap! Ralph only gets a tiny little mug of Jägermeister

Ralph’s having a drink, so we should all have to do a shot. I’m still trying to figure out a drinking game for Ralph.

58

I think the answer is 10.

6 squared = 36, divide by 2 = 18, times 3 = 54, plus 4 = 58Not sure why () is around the 3 when it should be around the 6^2/2

i found waldo!!

FOIL (first, outer, inner, last)

We’re visiting our 6 yo grandson, and my teacher wife thinks she’s the fun grandma, because she brought math worksheets for him to work on.

The answer is 10. The notation 2(3) is acceptable as the product 2 and 3. If the 6 squared were intended to be multiplied by 2 then that product must be written in parentheses.

Looks like he can never leave his work behind….numbers game.

He never got to Base 3.

Blowin’ in the wind.

If he was Trump, it would add up to 454 million.

10

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I’m not a math person at all but in class, I remember being taught, “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” as the order of operations. Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction, left-to-right. Reducing the parentheses to their lowest form is already done, 3 = 3. 6 * 6 = 36. Multiply 2 * 3 = 6. Divide 36 / 6 = 6. Addition 6 + 4 = 10. Or you can use the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and just say “42” no matter what. Although I think in the second book (spoiler alert, if that’s still possible) when Arthur and Ford are pulling the Scrabble tiles from the knotted towel they came up with “What do you get if you multiply 6 by 9?” “You mean that’s it?” said Ford. “That’s it.” “Six by nine. Forty-two.” “That’s it. That’s all there is.”

Math and booze don’t mix.

“Functioning” alcoholic

How much chaos can a cartoonist cause, if a cartoonist can’t solve the calculation …? Stay tooned …!

Sorry 10ers, the 58s have it.

Great toon. Great comments!

10. Now play Bolero.

I’ll have what Ralph is having

6 squared =36, 2(3)=6, 6+4=10 36./.10 =3.6

Check!!!! And two aspirin, please!!!!!! :)

Far from being bored, Ralph seems interested.

I’ll stand by the answer being 58. While I understand the argument that operations inside parentheses are to be done first, in this case, there is no operation to be done — all that’s inside the parentheses is a 3. All that means is that what precedes it (6 squared = 36 divided by 2 = 18) is then to be multiplied by 3 to get 54. Add 4 and you get 58.

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