Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 23, 2021

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    Argythree  over 3 years ago

    I was amazed to find a parking meter that took coins the other day. Do kids today even know what dimes and quarters are?

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    greenbird  over 3 years ago

    I used to hate word problems like this. But is the answer 13 dimes and 7 quarters?

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

    if you studied beforehand, Miss Reichardt, you wouldn’t be asking for help

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    Jib99928  over 3 years ago

    13 dimes, 7 quarters

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    monkeysky  over 3 years ago

    So it’s a system of equations:

    d+q=20

    10d+25q+90=25d+10q

    You can substitute every variable d in the second equation with (20-q), to make:

    10(20-q)+25q+90=25(20-q)+10q

    Which becomes

    200-10q+25q+90=500-25q+10q

    Which becomes

    290+15q=500-15q

    Which becomes

    30q=210

    Finally, you can find that q=7, and substitute that into d+q=20 to find that d=13.

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    martingcmf  over 3 years ago

    I can help – 7 quarters and 13 dimes.

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    ronaldspence  over 3 years ago

    Patty is too young to be going through “the change” unless it is puberty…

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    orinoco womble  over 3 years ago

    Oh those awful story problems! Often listed as “extra credit” on tests. I never did them (I have enough trouble with figures, thanks) and I always suspected she took points off for not doing them.

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    jimchronister2016  over 3 years ago

    What happened to Pigpen, I miss him

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    in-dubio-pro-rainbow  over 3 years ago

    PP, I just hope you don’t ask ME for help! Just read the answers above and still too stupid to get it…MATH! EEEWWW! Isn’t there a remedy against it?

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    cracker65  over 3 years ago

    I always hated these torture devices. And I’m good at math.

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    Tog  over 3 years ago

    I felt the same way in arithmetic and maths classes Petty.

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    rickmedley  over 3 years ago

    13 dimes and 7 quarters

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    Qiset  over 3 years ago

    None, after taxes.

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    ranjith_sankar  over 3 years ago

    I can relate to Peppermint Patty’s call for help.

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    dlkrueger33  over 3 years ago

    This seems like advanced math (algebra?) for an elementary school student.

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

    On the Peanuts Wiki site (https://peanuts.fandom.com/wiki/February_1974_comic_strips), if you hover your mouse over the description, it’ll give you the answer to the question…

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    Darryl Heine  over 3 years ago

    My answer: $3.50!

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    zerotvus  over 3 years ago

    don’t look at me……

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    SusieB  over 3 years ago

    I know EXACTLY how you feel PP.

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    Egrayjames  over 3 years ago

    My answer to these type of problems is “Let’s go have a beer.”

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    jrankin1959  over 3 years ago

    Yeah, I always said to myself Move on… at that point, too.

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    bryce.gear  over 3 years ago

    I’m with you Patti!

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    dflak  over 3 years ago

    I am convinced that there is a math gene and some people have it and others don’t.

    I have it and I can solve the problem. I just don’t know why I know how to solve the problem.

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    docachon  over 3 years ago

    I must have lost my mind. I had As calculus when I was in college. I now can’t solve this problem.

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    bookworm0812  over 3 years ago

    I’m with you, Peppermint Patty. That almost made my head explode.

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    CraigTalbot  over 3 years ago

    There is an infinite number of answers that solve this problem. 7 dimes and 1 quarter works. As does 8 dimes and 2 quarters, and 50 dimes and 44 quarters. There just has to be 6 more dimes than quarters.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 3 years ago

    No soap, radio!

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    kpw0285  over 3 years ago

    20 coins of dimes and quarters MUST add up to more than 90 cents!

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    johngregor Premium Member over 3 years ago

    13 dimes, 7 quarters.

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    MichalCzerwonko  over 3 years ago

    The answer is Louis the Millionth

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    dbhoskisson  over 3 years ago

    Any number of dimes and quarters where you have 6 fewer quarters than dimes will work:6 d and 0 q = 60 cents, flipped is 1.50. 90 cents more.10d and 4 q = 2 dollars, flipped is 2.90. 90 cents more. 15 d and 9 q = 3.75, flipped is 4.65. 90 cents more. etc. etc.There is not enough info to determine how may dimes and quarters he has.

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    Ellis97  over 3 years ago

    That doesn’t even make sense.

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    eddie6192  over 3 years ago

    A buck three eighty?!!

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    Watchdog  over 3 years ago

    Yes, Help!

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    rugeirn  over 3 years ago

    The unwillingness many people show to the exercise of rigorous quantitative reasoning is why Las Vegas makes so much money, payday loan sharks are so successful, credit card companies can get away with predatory interest rates, and politicians can pass soak-the-poor tax laws.

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    Amra Leo  over 3 years ago

    PUNT!

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    VICTOR PROULX  over 3 years ago

    God, I hated school

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 3 years ago

    Come again for Big Fudge? Happy Tuesday.

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Be safe my friends.

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    Nougat  over 3 years ago

    I can relate. Currently, I’m having a really tough math unit, and it’s kinda getting on my nerves. I finally understand it now, but I hope that I can raise my grade a wee bit.

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    RussellCastine  over 3 years ago

    He would have 13 dimes and 7 quarters. Thirteen dimes plus seven quarters would equal 3.05 while 13 quarters (3.25) plus 7 dimes would be 3.95 and this concludes the boring math lesson for today.

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    chris.lemarie  over 3 years ago

    I once called my wife in NY from a business convention in France. It was 3am there (9pm here), and I thought it was a good moment to catch her after dinner. I was also in high spirits after a slightly wild party with colleagues. I caught her in the middle of struggling with our son’s homework… She did not think great the fact that I was having fun, and here I found myself, at 3am, tipsy in a street of Cannes, Côte d’Azur, trying to figure out a very similar maths problem (I remember a bath tub was involved).

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    Ken Norris Premium Member over 3 years ago

    The whole point of word problems is to teach you to apply math to real life. Now THAT statement should get a bunch of responses.

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    DCBakerEsq  over 3 years ago

    Life is just one, neverending word problem. With no Answer Key in the back.

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    BigEd  over 3 years ago

    So where in life would a math problem like this be beneficial? If it was important there would probably be a phone app out there for it.

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    TysonJason  over 3 years ago

    I swear the teacher is gonna give her a detention if she does not stop screaming

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    jw35532  over 3 years ago

    13 dimes and 7 quarters

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    Sensei Le Roof  over 3 years ago

    For the curious, 13 quarters and 7 dimes.

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    chimpulis  over 3 years ago

    I do not have a master’s degree in math. But think this problem has four unknowns. It would require a matrix inversion to solve it. Inverting a 4×4 matrix is tedious. I’ll go by trial and error method like Archimedes did when he developed the calculus basics.

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    MFRXIM Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I thought it was a trick question! dimes+ quarters=20.

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    txmystic  over 3 years ago

    There are many fine solutions in the comments. Now all Peppermint Patty has to do is get Snoopy to type it up.

    I’m sure it will work out fine…

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    nomomaniacs  over 3 years ago

    Seven quarters and thirteen dimes

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    corpcasselbury  over 3 years ago

    Interesting. I didn’t know they had Common Core math back when this strip first debuted.

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    ChucklinChuck  over 3 years ago

    I was a whiz at algebra in high school, 55 years ago, and wrote down the equations but couldn’t recall how to work them. So just started guessing, beginning with eight quarters and 12 dimes; second guess was right—it didn’t take any time at all.

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    knight1192a  over 3 years ago

    All I know is he has twenty coins made up of quarters and dimes.

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    Bluejay Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Just had wise-@$$ epiphany; STILL is 20 coins. Problem asked for “how many dimes and quarters does he have”, “not how many dimes and how many quarters”. That would probably be a Sally answer; she just plows through with her own logic!

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    Bluejay Premium Member over 3 years ago

    This was fun! Thanks Everyone for playing nice.

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    Natarose  over 3 years ago

    Help is right.

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    william_bader Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Using big numbers over-complicates it. The differences in value between a dime and a quarter is 15 cents, so 15*(d-q)=90, d-q=6. Add d+q=20, 2d=26, d=13, q=7.

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    Scoutmaster77  over 3 years ago

    That’s a riddle, not a math problem. :-)

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    rstove428 Premium Member over 3 years ago

    42

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    STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Easy: he would still have 20 dimes and quarters, aka coins!

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    John Jorgensen  over 3 years ago

    Thirteen dimes and seven quarters, I think. Took me all day to figure that out.

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    gantech  over 3 years ago

    The answer is ZERO. I would have paid somebody off to figure it out for me.

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    AlanTompkins  over 3 years ago

    I always hated those kind of math queries and still hate such all these years later. Ugh!!

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