your drinking age, trippy........

[atomic charvel guy]

Don't tell me your age; the Alcohol Man will know!

YOUR AGE BY ALCOHOL MATHS


DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute.
Work this out as you read.
Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.
1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have alcohol (more than once but less than 10)
2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
3. Add 5
4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator (ha ha!)

5. If you have al ready had your birthday this year add 1759 ..
If you haven't, add 1758.

6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have alcohol each week).

The next two numbers are
YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
THIS IS THE O NLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK

[toxikdeth]

Impressive

[Grahf]

Awesome. did this while drinkin a beer too.

[Soap]

That is cool.

[toejam]

Neato!

[RacerX]

Couldn't find the explanation; I'm sure it's simple math or algebra. But I did find a more useful tool: Blood Alcohol Level Calculator: http://www.coolmath.com/calculators/...calculator.htm

[RacerX]

Found the game all over the net with different subjects (play golf, eat chocolate)....found this formula

(n = 2 to 9):
50(2n + 5) + 1758 = 100n + 2008
50(2n + 5) + 1759 = 100n + 2009

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OK, here's something I found:

My answers as I worked through were
1) 3
2) 6 (multiplied by 2)
3)11 (added 5)
4) 550 (multiplied by 50)
5) 2309 (added 1759)
6) 342 (subtracted 1967)
Hersey Man, how do you do it!
Let's let the number of times I eat chocolate a week be c. Here's what Hershey Man does with my number.
1) c
2) 2c
3) 2c+5
4) 50(2c+5)
5) 50(2c+5)+1759
6) 50(2c+5)+1759-birth year

Now let's rewrite this expression using the distributive property and then combine some like terms:
50(2c+5)+1759-birth year = 100c+250+1759-birth year = 100c+2009-birth year
Look at the first part of 100c+2009-birth year. Multiplying any single digit number by 100 moves the digit from the ones to hundreds place. That is why the number of times you eat chocolate a week ends up in the 100's place.
The second part of the expression, 2009-birth year, simply calculates your age.

A couple of things. Chocolate math only claims to work in the year 2009, but can be easily updated next year by having people add 1760 or 1759, instead of 1759 or 1758. Also, if you are over one hundred years old, you'll break chocolate math. A woman that is 105 and eats chocolate 4 times a week will be told by chocolate math that she eats chocolate 5 times a week and is 5 years old.

[Alvin_Wilson]

That was cool, Tommy!

[Spivonious]

Nice work, Ron. These magic formula things are always simple algebra like that. But if you said multiply by 100 and add your age noone would believe it was magic.

[atomic charvel guy]

this formula does not apply to me though, it's not foolproof.
I'm 79 years old after the way I have defiled myself over the years.