hmm i can agre wit this, i only accounted for the $21 portion of his neighbor's money and not the enitre $50. its the act of going over to his neighbor which is the trap.
The $29 the owner pays the scammer is coming out of the neighbor's $50, so essentially, the neighbor is paying the scammer at this point. Then later, the owner has to repay the neighbor for the $50, which the owner has to by adding his own $29 to the remaining $21. So you can say that the neighbor's money paid the scammer $29, and then the owner paid the neighbor $29. Another words, the owner only pays $29 once - to the neighbor. I think that clarifies it. NOT.
That's cheating.. the Chinese pretty much invented math. Someone should've asked Yao "how much wood would a wood chuck, chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?"
shopkeeper trades shoes(-15) and money (-29) for magic bean. nighbor wants to buy magic bean from shopkeeper.... neighbor then decides magic bean isn't just a normal bean. so asks for money back. nothing gained/loss with neighbor. shopkeeper: -44 (but he has a magic bean!)
Forget the fake $50. Pretend it's a brick ... it's worth $0. All the store owner did was swap a real $50 bill for 50 $1 bills with his neighbor, let's say. No loss or gain there for either party. The store owner only lost money to the scammer. He gave him a free pair of shoes (cost $15) and $29 out of his register. Basially he got held up. $44 is your answer... $50 if you consider that he could have sold those shoes for $21. Trust me... this isn't the first time I've seen this math problem when it relates to the Rockets. Les is the owner of a basketball team. Each player contract is at a cost of $60,000/game. So one day, a Rafer came in to take one of those contracts, and handed Les his services. Les just went out of change, and had to go over to his neighbor to change the contract into contracts of different players. So after giving the Rafer his money, and the Rafer left, the neighbor came and claimed that the services were fake. So Les had to give the neighbor another player to settle the dispute. How much is Les screwed?
Hopefully no one is being a racial supremacist. There was a study in which they gave Korean and US students math tests followed by a survey. The Korean students did better in math. However, when asked about how they felt they did in the survey, the US kids felt that they had done really well and the Korean kids that they had done badly. What does this mean? US kids are raised to believe in themselves and have confidence. I think that is why US athletes do so well. That is why it takes so long for Yao to adapt to NBA style and seemed to the soft. More importantly, if this is a test that according to Yao is given to Chinese kids, then it points to the problems with US schools. These tests teach Chinese students to think and not memorize. It is not a matter of race. It is a matter of education.
No I got a 800 on SAT math and 800 on SAT II math and this problem makes my brain hurt...but I got it: -50+21-15=-44 The 6 dollars can't count as money he would have lost because it is just profit.
Well, Fixed. Before the scam, the owner has a pair of shoes that cost him $15, and $50 cash. After the scam, the owner does not have the pair of shoes, nor the $29 cash (he only give that change amount to the customer).
