Sunday, March 8, 2009

People are Stupid

On Friday, I was looking at some bagels in a swanky Manhattan grocery. See I this sign:
$0.39 each
3/$1.19

OK folks, do the math. 3*$0.39 is $1.17. So you lose two cents if you buy your bagels in groups of three. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nu, not everyone has taken Calculus in college.

Some are misadvantaged. Or disadvantaged. Or both.

le7 said...

You don't need to take Calculus to learn basic arithmetic.

In, fact, you need to know basic arithmetic to take Calculus.