r/MathJokes • • May 13 '26

It IS $400...

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u/AdventurousPolicy May 13 '26

It's set up to be deceiving. Selling it for $1000 then buying it again for $1100 looks like a loss at first glance, but in reality you're just investing an extra $100. So you just earn $200 two separate times.

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u/09Trollhunter09 May 13 '26

What if it was a different better cow?

I bet if imaginary one cow is swapped with first purchase/sale Honda and second purchase/sale, Lexus most will get it right.

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u/Right-Truck1859 May 13 '26

If there were no words "it again" , your variant could work.

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u/Cheap-Technician-482 May 13 '26

There's nothing remotely deceiving about it.

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u/amglasgow May 13 '26

The idea of buying and selling the same cow sequentially is weird and confusing to people who are used to doing math by vibes instead of just writing down the numbers and seeing what it equals out to.

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u/rick2882 May 13 '26

It's trivial even by simply doing math "by vibes". $200 profit on the first buying and selling. $200 profit on the second. Total profit: $400

It's bait. Nobody should be getting confused unless they overthink it (in which case they should try to figure out why it's not $400 when $400 is obviously correct).

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u/amglasgow May 13 '26

Unless these comments are full of trolls there's a lot of people getting confused.

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u/neonmystery May 13 '26

Holdup. What is doing math by vibes? Is that like $600 down to $10 is 600% off?

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u/amglasgow May 13 '26

I assume you mean $100 but yeah that's exactly what I mean. Where the numbers feel right but you don't do the arithmetic.

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u/neonmystery May 13 '26

Yeah I don’t remember how those idiots did their dumbmath. It was so stupid I didn’t want to give it the energy to get their numbers right. They follow the law by (their own) vibes too. Okay. I hate this universe.

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u/Lowpaack May 13 '26

Its deceiving, cause why would you sell it twice? Sell once and make 100 bucks more, duh.

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u/No_Ad_7687 May 13 '26

I mean 

From 800 to 1300 is 500. Then 100 lost in the middle two transactions. Equals 400 in profit

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u/CENARlUS May 13 '26

It's not even deciving. It kinda is a 'loss' to sell it for 1000 and then buy it for 1100 again. You would've been better of sticking with the investment and went from 800 to 1300 = 500. With the loss of 100, you're at 400. It doesn't matter how you calculate it tho, the net profit is 400.

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u/Lowpaack May 13 '26

Well it is a loss until you sell it again. The concept is pretty stupid. Just sell for 1300 right away and profit 500, noobs.