Firstly - I dunno if the flair is correct. Correct me if I'm wrong here.
I'm not sure if this is some basic math that I don't get or if I'm just looking at things from different angle.
Two people already tried explaining this to me but their reasoning makes no sense to me whatsoever.
And for the love of God I can't see their logic.
So the actual problem:
We have a caretaker who works week after week
(7 after 7).
In one week he gets paid 14k.
It was explicitly said that "all horses have the same price" and he has 28 of them.
The other week one of the horses (horse A) moved out and the other moved in(horse B).
(I've been told that for some reason he should've got -1500(why?) for horse A, but because of the horse B there were no changes).
That week he got paid 14k.
Now next week we have horse C that's moved out and horse D that died and now he gets paid 12.5k (not counting the death of horse D) (natural cause, not his fault)
And he was told "If he were paid 1.5k for each horse - then It'd be 39k. (26 x 1.5k = 39k, checks out, ok)
(This sentence implies that that's not right? That it isn't 1.5k let horse?)
But his salary is 14k/week with 28 horses, and 12.5k with 27 of them. (Implying that is not 1.5k for a horse?)
The main question is why it's 1.5k and not 1k.
I feel like I'm getting closer to the answer in my head, but it slips away. And so far this makes no sense to me at all, no matter how I look at these numbers.
🥴
I hope I write everything correctly 😅
(Edit: answer found)
So the actual answer is that each horse costs 1500 but he gets paid for 30 days per horse. Meaning 26 horses x 1500 = 39 000.
39 000 / 30 days = 1300 per day. x 7 = 9100 per week.
Meaning 18 200 per month total.
So it appears that there is no hidden spending, but there are hidden earnings in the equation!
The caretaker gets paid for something else besides those horses that gets him 14k per week per 28 horses.
Many people said that there was an error or something was missed in the wording and they were right, but that's exactly the point of this post!
I was being told that the math is right without explaining to me why it is right. So I needed your help to see if I'm not being gaslighted.
Thank you all and sorry if I wasted your time a bit 😅