FoxTrot by Bill Amend for June 12, 2022

poor Steve

A 9.38" diameter pizza sounds about right for my dinner.

They’re assuming that the price is linear AND that there’s no constant offset (the price of dealing with the order).

Not that I’ve never had a similar complaint…

The math is correct but it wasn’t a math problem – stupid kids.

Lesson: What do you get when pizza pies are squared?

Not sure why they immediately assumed that the relationship between price and surface area is a linear function

Very astute.

and you need a smack of reality on the head

In northern Canada the circumference is exactly three times the diameter (Eskimo Pi).

I’m probably poisoning the well by posting this publicly, but it’s cheaper to buy three egg rolls at Jack in the Box than two.

Today’s classic FoxTrot Sunday strip:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/06/10

That would be an approximately 10.583-inch pizza.

Jason and Marcus are essentially just asking for two slices of pizza for 3 bucks. The pizza place said no.

Go for the 10" pizza. (D)(D)(π/4) will get you 78.54 square inches of pizza pie.

(I can’t get GoComics to do a superscript to make a D squared.)

Steve is a funny guy and he is not the only one who needs a math tutor.

Pizza is round, put in a square box, then cut into triangles

So, they would wind up with a 4 in strip of pizza dough, formed into a circle, with a 12" hold in the center? Sort of like a flat-ish doughnut. with pizza toppings? Humm. That might just become popular!

How many years has it been since we saw Steve? Maybe Denise, or Roger’s co-workers, may return from the Great Limbo of Unused Characters some day?

My friends figured the areas of two larges vs. three mediums on the back of a napkin at Pizza Hut to determine which was more pizza. It was two larges.

For $3.00 these days, they could share a thin slice of plain cheese pizza.

Don’t go be anyone else’s tutor, you’re already tutoring have the town

That means the 12-inch pizza costs 13¢ per square inch and the 16-inch pizza costs 7.5¢ per square inch. You’d think two intelligent math nerds would be able to figure out that the pizza isn’t being priced by the square inch. Or do they study math independent of logic?

Did Steve also say you and Marcus were banned from there as well? I also think a custom order like that would cost more than three bucks.

Did they take into consideration that the crust that no one eats is equal on both pizzas…. and that sometimes when you buy one amount, you can get extra for a proportionally cheaper amount?

On the upside, they just earned themselves some fame as one of those “you would not believe what these customers were trying to ask for” stories that are so often exchanged among employees in the retail world.

I did the math, this is the equivalent of a pizza that’s about 10 and a half inches across, that is a relatively small pie that I can see a couple of kids splitting, but I can’t think of any restaurants that would sell a pie that size for only $3

Now I’ll feel even more full when I stuff my face with pizza, thanks!

You can’t blame Jason for trying…

So, a little pizza with a radius slightly larger than five inches…which would be a ten inch pizza. Well played, Jason and Marcus! (But there’s no way they’re actually going to make it for you…)

What they SHOULD do, is wait for the next person to come alaong and order a 12 inch, then offer them the $3, and when the 14" comes, cut a 12 inch circle out of the middle, and PRESTO!

If it is not on the menu, it is not available.

I like pizza.

And they said we’d never need math after school was over.

so what is the equivalent of two slices of pizza?

Would that be a 14-inch diameter pizza? I dunno. I kind of suck with When using π.

10 inch pizza for $3, not bad.

Question: what is the volume of a cylinder with radius z and height a?

“Pizza prices are discrete, not continuous.”

Would be a cool hook though, for a pizza shop. Selling the difference.

Pi * ZZ*A !!

Steve may need a Math tutor, but you still don’t have your pizza.

They went home singing,“Bye-bye to my piece o’the pie…”

You get a Sicilian pizza.

they got what they pay at for minimum wage

They need to compare all sizes of pizza in order to figure out how much of the cost is labor and how much is materials. They are trying to pay for materials and forget about labor.

An important lesson has been learned: there is no obligation to price or sell pizzas (or anything else) in the units or quantities you desire. ;-) Corollary: they aren’t actually obliged to sell you anything at all, and if you’re not a customer, you’re possibly trespassing on private property. Hence, I suppose, the brevity of their visit.

Also, the people working at the pizza shop don’t get to make the rules

The shop should take them up on the offer: Make a 16" pie, cut the 12" diameter piece out of the middle and sell them what’s left, which would almost entirely be crust. What the shop loses financially in the transaction will more than be made up by the knowledge that the boys will never make that offer again.

Presuming the lads calculated the areas properly, the 88 square inches of ingredients should allow them a personal-sized pizza of about 10+1/2 inches in diameter.

Did him dirty is he really that bad

woah!