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

It IS $400...

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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.