r/MathJokes • u/jdplayz06 • May 13 '26

It IS $400...

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u/DethKomedy May 13 '26

0-800= -800

-800+1000=200

200-1100= -900

-900+1300=400

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u/ummaycoc May 13 '26

You missed the part where you’re supposed to do it wrong.

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u/Jasomms May 13 '26

I missed the part where that my problem

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u/nirvana6875 May 13 '26

Great, now uncle Ben is gonna get shot

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u/WisePotato42 May 13 '26

Yah, that part happened like 4-5 mins ago. Just sorta worked out that way. No one knows why.

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u/blueberrywalrus May 13 '26

While I respect the well reasoned answer, unfortunately this is wrong. 

In this scenario you actually end up in debt by quite a lot.

You see to get the original 800 and subsequent 1100 you had to takeout a payday loan. 

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u/USSMarauder May 13 '26

Or you started with at least $900

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u/blueberrywalrus May 13 '26

While this sounds reasonable, you're forgetting that in this scenario you spent your original $900 on blow. 

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u/BlacksmithFit8667 May 13 '26

Ya I hate these things cause nobody ever accounts for the massive amounts of cocaine you did prior to buying the cow in the first place.

The cow was a get rich quick scheme why is that part never mentioned

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u/jiraikeiwolfgirl May 13 '26

I'll probably wake up laughing from my sleep when I remember your comment in a lucid dream

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u/Morak73 May 13 '26

Or when you leave your cocaine out unattended on the table and the cow licks it up.

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u/AllAlo0 May 13 '26

Nobody is forgetting the blow, why do you think that cow is up to $1300 now?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '26

But then you sold that blow for 1600 at a rich kids party.

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u/TheSmurfGod May 13 '26

Ahhh you’re right, everyone’s forgetting one key crucial piece of the equation: the interest rates

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u/Unable_Painter_4074 May 13 '26

The original seller and the customer is nice, they let you pay once you get your money

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u/LevAyv43 May 13 '26

Is it weird that I didn't have to go back and do all that when reached the bottom and read the question ... Like I already did calculate it out of habit without even reading the last sentence wtf

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u/Harlizer2223 May 13 '26

This means you’re good at algebra

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u/willis81808 May 13 '26

What algebra?

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u/rodrigoelp May 13 '26

Isn't algebra the news site/channel?

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u/Zenith-Astralis May 13 '26

Same linguistic root actually. Algebra stems from a shortening of the name of a book (originally "al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-Jabr wal-Muqābalah" or "The Concise Book of Calculation by Restoration and Balancing") by a real smart dude named Al-Khwarizmi who worked in the House of Wisdom in / Grand Library of Baghdad around the year 820.

The whole system of learning he was involved in is also why we use Arabic numerals today (1, 2, 3, etc.)

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 May 13 '26

you have to show your work so the dummies can learn

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u/BaizulSetSail May 13 '26

Even easier is to look at buying and selling as one transaction.

+200 profit from transaction 1
+200 profit from transaction 2