Quick question

[Greeny]

What is a third plus a quarter?

[8Ace]

7/12

[captainzep]

Seven twelfths.

Dammit. Beaten.

Edited by captainzep on Tuesday 28th October 16:14

[tallbloke]

Just over a half.

[Greeny]

Thank you!!!

[V6]

I'll do it for £80.

[Mandat]

7/12

[sleep envy]

Greeny said:

What is a third plus a quarter?

about £55

[Office_Monkey]

Intent to supply is the legalese

[Badmutha]

1027 yards

[ipwn]

1001 bhp

Edited by ipwn on Tuesday 28th October 16:43

[stumpage]

Greeny said:

What is a third plus a quarter?

What program was that on? Remember it being asked but it's now bugging me what I was watching.

[TonyHetherington]

Hang on hang on. Does it mean 1/3 plus 1/4 OF 1/3 (because I read it wrongly to begin with?)

[ipwn]

TonyHetherington said:

Hang on hang on. Does it mean 1/3 plus 1/4 OF 1/3 (because I read it wrongly to begin with?)

Greeny said:

What is a third plus a quarter?

What is a ( 1 ) third (/3) plus ( + ) a ( 1 ) quarter ( /4) ?

1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12

[ewenm]

Seeing as I'm bored, for any values of a, b, x, y

(a/x) + (b/y) = ((a*y) + (b*x)) / (x*y)

In this question we have a=1, b=1, x=3, y=4 giving ((1*4) + (1*3)) / (4*3) = 7/12

There endeth the (boring) lesson.

Edited by ewenm on Tuesday 28th October 16:50

[TonyHetherington]

ipwn said:

TonyHetherington said:

Hang on hang on. Does it mean 1/3 plus 1/4 OF 1/3 (because I read it wrongly to begin with?)

Greeny said:

What is a third plus a quarter?

What is a ( 1 ) third (/3) plus ( + ) a ( 1 ) quarter ( /4) ?

1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12

Yeah I realise that bit, and how it works of course, but in my head the way it was worded was like you were saying "what's 100 plus 1/4", in which you would find 1/4 of the former and add it (if you see what I mean).

Everybody's reply was 7/12, so I can see I must have been wrong in my first thought, but it's just the way I read it that's all - the answer was 5/12 (i.e. 1/3 = 4/12 plus 1/4 of that which is 1/12 = 5/12).

[R39S1]

stumpage said:

Greeny said:

What is a third plus a quarter?

What program was that on? Remember it being asked but it's now bugging me what I was watching.

it was on Al Murry's show. and it is still 7/12ths

[Fer]

Office_Monkey said:

Intent to supply is the Lebanese

EFA.

[funkyol]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&i...

Google's calculator can answer loads of things

[Wado-Ryu]

Greeny said:

What is a third plus a quarter?

Did you go to school ?

Its 7/12