“I’ll never use maths in the real world”

Posted August 24, 2006

I always used to laugh at the dumb kids at school who used this arguement to justify them not paying attention. Today I used some maths from primary school.

7x + y = 4720
5x + y = 3620
.:  2x = 1100
.:   x = 550

7(550) + y = 4720
.:       y = 4720 - 7(550)
.:       y = 870

Here x is the charge per page, and y is the base rate that Webfirm have quoted a client of ours for a new web site. Yes, $550 per page and $870 just to start a project.

AuroraCMS has no limitations on the number of pages you can have within a site, and we sell it for about half what they're selling a static 8-page site for. Webfirm, thanks for making this so easy.

7 Comments so far

  1. Adam on August 24th, 2006

    I wonder if those “dumb” kids can spell argument….

    ;)

  2. mlambie on August 24th, 2006

    I bet they could.

  3. emma on August 24th, 2006

    You did algebra in primary school? I don’t remember touching that until year 8. I guess you are a genius though :)

  4. Hale on August 24th, 2006

    I don’t think I did algebra until high school either.

    $550/page is insane though.

  5. Maggie on August 25th, 2006

    I didn’t use that argument as an excuse for not paying attention in maths, but it was the reason why maths was of very little interest to me. However, I would change the ‘never’ in that statement to ’seldom’. I stopped doing maths in Year 10 and it hasn’t made my life harder in any way. Algebrise THAT!

  6. Aaron on August 26th, 2006

    I think the word you are looking for is Algebradise that or for the Americans Algebradize.

    :)

  7. Dea on August 26th, 2006

    Maths is hard!
    *Girly laugh*

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