Should dumb people be allowed to vote?

this

we should implement basic algebra tests to prevent newfags from shitting up our boards

No they're fucking not. You are quite clearly a googe and should fuck off kindly.

P = $1.00 + 0.5P
P - 0.5P = $1.00
0.5P = $1.00
P = $1.00 / 0.5
P = $2.00

$2.50

it's price?

what is it?

bad question, illogical

Infinite.

Half it's price raises each time you add "half it's price", the problem is worded poorly.

I kick the cashier's ass for making me do math when I want to buy a ticket. Fuck math.

$8 because the world is run by jews.

...

I don't think there should be an intelligence requirement to vote. Elected officials are representative of everyone in the county/city/country/whatever, not just the smart ones, not just the white ones, not just the male ones. Everyone.

To deny them the vote is to deny them representation, and that's the entire reason we left you limey bastards to begin with.

Poorly worded question. It could be 1.50 to infinity based on how vague it is.

man do I feel happy I know this
now I just have to meet the Sphinx in the labyrinth and my efforts in basic algebra won't go to waste

$1+.5x=y
x=price
y=final amount paid

1.50

OP, what you're suggesting is extremely racist.

Check your privilege.

Cost and price are not synonyms

C = 1 + 0.5P

C - 0.5P = 1

C - P = 1 / 0.5

C - P = 2

Its $1.50 and im right
Come at me you retarded $2 cunts

the answer is 1.6 euros

YEP!
"It costs $1" + "half it's price".
It costs $1.
Half $1 is $0.5.
$1 + $0.5 = $1.50.
The price you pay is $1.50.
EASY

p = 1 + 0.5p
0.5p = 1
p = 2

it's 2 dollars

no u retard latin nigger it's price refers to the total price

1+0.5x=x
x=2

go back to your third world shithole

Too much because the fucking kikes are jacking up prices and China is ripping us off in trade

No, look at it this way:

the cost is 1/2 of the ticket's price plus a dollar.

1/2x + 1 dollar = x
subtract 1/2x
1 dollar = 1/2x
2 dollars = x

To prove that the cost of the ticket is infinite, we must prove that the set of all possible value iterations is infinite.
Each successive iteration of possible ticket values is given by A_(n+1) = (A_n)/2+1, where n is the reference point for the successive value of a possible ticket.
Idk OP, I think it approaches infinite cost as iterations increase, but I can't prove it

IT'S A POORLY WORDED QUESTION THAT CAN BE INTERPRETED TWO WAYS
FUCK

1.50 and 2 are both potential answers.

only by morons

It's renders the question beyond answerable. Assuming its is the correct form, z+.5z= a mandelbrot dollar.

1.5 is not a potential answer...

No one can prove the exact price because it could be any other integer +1

I'm sorry that should be 1.5z=z

so z=0? good job retard

but now the price is $1.50
so its 1.50 + (1.5/2) = 2.25
and so on

"half price" increases each time you add half the price with no limit so you would pay infinite dollars or you could $1.50 if you only add half the price once.

Yes it is. So is infinity depending on how you look at it. In fact infinity is probably the most logical answer.

>Be Black guy on a board full of racists.
>Relish in how only I and this poster seem to know anything about anything

To those claiming it's a poorly worded question, you're wrong.
It's a basic algebraic question that doesn't need to tell you what the price is to be answered correctly.

no
just no

You pay $2
The ticket costs $1 because its half price.
But because the half price offer has ended, it is now +$1

So the answer is $2.

Except you keep adding half the price due to the wording, thus its infinite.

This user is right. If ticket price starts at zero, the value approaches 2.

/thread

>it's

Also it is a paradox. If its price is $1 plus 50%. But then the price is actually $1.50, making 50% of it $0.75. So then the price would be $1.75 and on and on.

this

this should be obvious

no its not
there is no infinite regression here the question is here.

ticket costs 2 bucks
you paid 1 dollar plus half of 2 dollars =2 bucks

same equation doesnt fucking hold for any other number

dont vote in ovember unless u voting for trump
im out

there is a captcha that forces users to solve calculus problems before they can post, zerohedge used to use that
>the quality of discourse was a lot higher back then, too

Ticketmaster says Bulls tickets are $450
but based on your bullshit logic picture, im supposed to pay $676?

>there are mongoloids who didn't get 2 as the answer
Drumpf supporters...

yea but it dun sey do it 1 tiem sew yew nead moar bedur maths. is liek 1.50 than ish liek 2.25 an before yew noe it yew dun hab monies fo it

$2 is the only answer, american education...

it's okay that you don't understand algebra past the elementary school level. i hope you're underage.

>T. Cuck

Except now the price is 2, so you pay half that price as well. Sorry you dont get it.

Approaches 2$, but will never reach 2$.

Its*

Hitler, is that you?

There should be a test you take before being able to vote.

The questions would be:
>Who is the current president
>What is taxation
>What i capitalism
>What is socialism
>What are tariffs
>Who are [insert your countries name here] beggiest allies and enemies
>Who are presidents or PM of UK, France, USA, China and Russia

I can bet tha less than 50% of people would pass this.

I don't recall equating a simple math problem to determining if a person is stupid and or if they should be able to vote. What a fucking waste of time thread ya got here ya fucking shill

for real...
its just public schools though, run by democrats, in our defense

1.7533333333$

sorry i dont tip

2.72

Run by Democrats yes, Barack Obama even comes to my school to make sure everyone's shilling for Hillary too.

It's federally funded, not controlled lol.

x=1+x/2
expanding
x=1+(1+x/2)/2
... = 1+1/2+1/4+1/8+... + x
= 2 + x
x= +/- infinity, depends what algebraic structure you're working in

>works it out
Now I feel validated!

>implying the jews won't round that ~$2 up to $2.00 plus tax

then what is the right way to interpret it?

People who pay the bills have the most influence in the operations, you should know this by now, your whole country is built on lobbying

>I dont understand feedback loops

Winrar

Price is an infinite sum.

1*1.5^x as x - > +inf

This is why your country is a shithole.
You can't even do basic math.

the price is $750 because Martin Shkreli bought the ticket seller.

look its price refers to the ticket price mmkay?

so you pay one dollar plus a half of the ticket price, meaning that 1 dollar is another half of the ticket.

since 1 dollar is a half of the ticket price, the entire ticket price is 2 dollars

in math form
1+0.5x=x

>Cred Forums mathematics
Kek, fucking jews

It's a fucking troll question, you idiots

its*

stop overthinking things you fucking retarded autist

1 + 0.5X = X

1 = X - 0.5X

1 = 0.5X

1*2 = X

X = 2

very simple algebra, literally 7th grade level

TO be fair the question is extremely ambiguous.

Land owners only.
To own land in the first place, you need to not be a worthless google.
Intelligence tests can so easily be hijacked by cucks and traitors to excluse whites.

Meanwhile, land is an objective metric for propensity to save, look to the future, to value the nation you're in...
Land-owner only.

The question says you pay half the tickets price as extra. Now you pay an extra 1 since the price is 2.

>admits the problem is simple
>doesnt admit that you are stupid if you cant solve something simple

?

I'ts not an infinite sum if you are going to think it that way

It's either $1.50
or
1+(1/2)x

The sentence is poorly worded.

>I dont understand basic English
There was no feedback loop implied

>doesn't understand what an infinite sum is
You're literally paying for the entire fucking universe to have a ticket.

If the remaining balance is half of the price then the initial $1 is also one half, being one of two halves of the whole, explicitly implied by the usage of the word "half", meaning one part of a total of two parts. So $2.

The wording clearly says 1 = X +.5X

depends on if "it's" is referring to the 1 or the full price of the ticket
if "it's" is referring to the 1 then it's 1.5
if "it's" is referring to the full price then it's 2

>Buy a ticket that costs 1 dollar
>1 dollar is the ticket price
>plus 1/2 the ticket price
1.50

That's the point of troll questions. Everybody can do basic algebra, but the question is worded in such a way that people will be split in how they interpret it. Guaranteed replies.

This is the fucking politics board and this shit should have been deleted immediately, thanks mods

Why can't it stick to English and say more than?

sorry, it should be
x= 1+1/2+1/4+...+lim x/n as n->inf
x=2+0

no its not 1.5, the question doesnt say "you pay $1 plus half of $1" it clearly says "you pay $1 plus half of it's price (meaning the ticket price)"

its not poorly worded this is 5th grade level maths

It says x = 1 + .5x

I majored in mathematics and did some marking of first years, I guarantee that with that wording the only acceptable answer would be 2

>You want to buy a ticket that costs 1 dollar
The price of the ticket is 1 dollar

>half of it's price (meaning the ticket price)
a definite answer
And it says the ticket price is $1.

You want to but a ticket that costs $1 + 50% tax. How much do you pay?

it's cant refer to $1 because of basic english

No comma after the $1

"The ticket is $1"
That's where the confusion lies.

It's more like 1+ 1/2 + 3/2 + 3 + ....

It is an infinite sum with no asymptotic solution.

Everyone else is wrong.

The question says 1 dollar plus half the price.

Algebraically that is 1 + 0.5(X) = X; X is the price.

There is literally no other viable way to interpret the language of the question.

you guys are doing it wrong
x(ticket)= $1 + $.50
price= $1 + .5x
price= $2.25

you stop living in canada

Honestly I thought this was a sales tax question.
Its strange as fuck to a britbong when in America, after buying something that costs $1, it actually cost more than $1.

The way this is written, the answer is $1.50.

You can tell the person who wrote it is bad at writing in English because of that awful use of "it's," but I can see why people would say $2 if they're asshole knoblords who have previously solved a word problem with the same theme.

Ticket cost = $1+Half of $1=$1.50

Sorry, people who fucking suck at grammar.

That is not what it says. It uses no mathematical notation at all.

It never says that

>being this stupid

.5X changes with X
The only answer is infinity

x = $1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * (... repeat to infinity

x - $1 = 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * (... repeat to infinity

(x - $1) * 2 = ($1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * ($1 + 0.5 * (... repeat to infinity

(x - $1) * 2 = x

2x - $2 = x

x - $2 = 0

x = $2

>That costs 1$ + half it's price
>that costs 1$ + half it is price
So only half of the 1$ is price, so the other half must not be a part of the price.
So you pay $0.50

$1.50

1.00 plus half of that is .50.

+ implies it's being added after the fact

Honest question:

If I had to write that down, solving for x, instead of doing it in my head within 5 seconds, I'm retarded right?

Not sure right now if it's just because it's 3am or whether I should legit kill myself.

I think you need to take remedial algebra my lad. You move half of X to the other side by subtraction and you get half of X equals one.

this
the question means nothing
you're paying (y) = 1 + x/2

tax payers only
dumb and paying taxes = you're useful
150 IQ NEETS can die in a fire

The correct answer is to try and pay $1.50 and hope that the cashier isn't an idiot edge lord who interprets everything as an algebra problem

"A ticket that costs $1"
There we go. Nearly the same thing with no punctuation or clarification.

you literal imbecile
how do you even breathe?

Use your brain to decode it in order

>you want to buy a ticket that costs

x =

>$1

1

>+ half it's ticket price

+ 0.5x

put them all together, x = 1 + .5x

Im surprised honestly you graduated. The problem feeds back onto itself

But being heavily taxed is all I've ever known

You shouldn't have spent so much time and effort embarrassing yourself.

their should be testing or something to weed out retards

there is.
THERE IS

no it doesn't

Youre not reading the question fully. You pay half of the price on top of the price

so its refers to some random variable, not the same x???

freudian slip faggot, fuck off back to 9gag

>The problem feeds back onto itself

Yes it does. That's why I submitted my answer that shows how to solve it when it feeds back onto itself:

You can't just ignore the rest of the sentence when there hasnt been a comma or full stop yet, there is more to the cost than that.

what?
x = 2
don't you know basic algebra?

Go do some word problems from tonight's homework, retard.

this is an infinite loop and there is no answer to this question

Are you stupid?

I was first in my class of 200 in algebra

That's not what a Freudian slip is either..

Maybe you're meta-trolling, it's so hard to tell these days.

yes it does
>You want to buy a ticket that costs one dollar plus half it's price...
How could someone conclude that the initial cost of the ticket is more than one dollar?

that's pretty unneccessary
x = 1 + .5x
x - .5x = 1
.5x = 1
x = 2

x=1+x
x=1+1/2+x/2
x=1+1/2+1/4+x/4
x=sum 0->inf 1/2^n + lim n-> x/2^n

notice 00 (pf: for any epsilon pick delta greater than 1/epsilon iirc) as n ->inf, hence x/2^n->0 as n-> inf, hence lim x/2^n n->inf = 0
for the first identity see pic related
QED

try to calculate the equation with x = 5 and x = 2
report what happens

Do you disagree with
x= .5x + 1
where x is price?

he is
my faith in Cred Forums's intelligence is gone

> this is an infinite loop and there is no answer to this question

Even though it has an infinite loop, it's still solvable:

>you want to buy a ticket that costs (one dollar plus half it's price)

1$+(1/2x$)=
1$+(1/2×1$)=
1$+0.5$=
=1.5$

you fuckers are some autistic googles

answers
>obama
>theft
>crushing the proletariat
>liberation of the proletariat
>theft
>the jews
>sarkozy, obama, putin

The question is dumb and I refuse to answer it until it is written more clearly.

$2.

x + 50% = 100%

Fucking morons.

Surely 1.5fags are merely pretending
You don't need calculus, the question flat-out states, "$1 plus half the price"

good bait

Trick question.
If you add half of 1$ you get 1.50$
Now the price is 1.50$ and you need to add half again.
Goes on forever.

I mean, I guess you can say that if you've probably never really learned to read or write English clearly.

This is a poorly worded question. On the first read I interpreted "that costs $1" as in $1 is the price of the ticket.

The question should read

You wish to buy a ticket with a total price equal to half the total price plus $1. What is the ticket's total price?

>half it's

it cannot be read that way
This is the only way

it doesn't go on forever, the answer is $2

Glad you two got it, don't care if you are black user (no one does) just as long as you don't at like a dumb nigger. Cred Forums can easily be destroyed by a math question, I'm not surprised, seen it too many times to be, just disappointed

*for all n>0. thought it doesnt really matter

No Hans, the equation would be
x=.5x+1 where x is price an the answer is two.

This isn't a clever math question.

Just poor English skills.

>that's pretty unneccessary

Yes, it's unnecessary, but it shows that you get the same answer even if you define the cost of the ticket based on itself using infinite recursion.

Some people are confused by the self-referential infinite recursion of the problem. So I just wanted to show that the infinite recursion is not an obstacle to solving it.

>a nigger
you mean a google?

>costs 1$ + half its' price
cost = x
x = 1 + .5x
x-.5x = 1 + .5x - .5x
.5x = 1
2(.5x) = 2(1)
x = 2

Also, it's 2$.

>it cannot be read that way

Why not? the + is connecting two values so you can put brackets around the two closest things, there is no comma or fullstop after the $1

oh right, gotcha

>I TRIED SO HAAARRRD

There's so much autism in this thread it hurts. Especially the two or three people who just keep responding.

Please seek help and stop spreading your cancer.

The ticket costs one dollar it literally says in verbatim "You want to buy a ticket that costs one dollar." Assuming that the "plus half it's price" is part of the initial price is fallacious, it could be a sales tax for all you know.

$6 million

the ticket price is 5.99 million

Pay = 1+(Price/2)

see
/thread

The problem is that Cred Forums talks about the IQ distributions of other races a lot, yet there are people ITT with double digit IQ's that cannot into 7th grade algebra.

The price of the ticket isnt given, $1 is added to the price of the ticket

Yes yes, a nigger or a google same thing no? I will choose my preference thank you very much.

>continued fractions
It's just a laugh senpai, I don't think anyone here actually cares, or at least I hope not

>its an xD le math is so fun and quriky and i was a nerd who loved math in school topic

fuck off

type of people trump bullied in high school

see

>Obama
>A Taking a portion of ones earnings or savings to put toward government projects
>Being free to be ruled by whatever private entities you choose
>being ruled by your government
>a charge on goods coming from foreign lands to assure local goods are put first
>Israel, the UK, France... I guess Candida too
>Who the fuck cares I don't take orders from them.

If the price is 1 dollar then the price cannot be more than 1 dollar.

Trump went to a top 3 school of finance and business and was excellent at math you fucking mouth breathing faggot.

>a man that deals with numbers every day bullies people for knowing math

It's obvious this isn't going anywhere. The whole image itself is designed purposefully ambiguous. We're at the point in the argument where both of us will repeat ourselves and neither of us will be right or wrong

where the fuck are all these niggers coming up with the price of the ticket being $1 and what the fuck at the infinite loop shit.

y=.5x+1
x=[0,∞)
y=[1,∞)

you can plot it on a fucking graph. The total you pay(y) depends on what the price of the ticket(x) is. which is not given.

It's an iterative process you retards. There is no correct answer.

It's only ambiguous to stupid people. I'm sorry to tell you user but you are stupid.

The price of something and how much you pay are two different things.

So you are treating the + as an or

In that case the answer would be $1 not $1.50 because you pay its cost. And the price would be $0.66

You didn't divide your C by .5 when you divided your P by .5. Are you kidding me?

>implying cost = price

No. There is no correct answer to this. anyone who participates is stupid, including you and I

you pay 80 bucks or more because anybody selling tickets that cheap is blasting you in the ass over rides, games, sessions, concessions whatever the fuck.

this thread is peopleon Cred Forums who can't be arsed to go to Cred Forums for pointless shitposting of the absolute worst kind

Trump has nerds who are paid MUCH less than him crunch the numbers.

Alphas don't care about this shit.

I already have a mental image of the really enthusiastic math nerds in this thread. Asian males are the most beta of all races and they're the best at math, no surprise.

its $1.50, anyone who says otherwise is retarded

This is tantamount to claiming that numbers don't exist.

Get the fuck off my board.

It's always infinity you dumb shit

Considering the question is in Engrish ((sic) ...a ticket that costs 1$ + half it's (it is) price), I can deduce that the price is the statement "One Dollar plus Half is its price" as the original "One dollar plus half it is price" can be taken as the former. In this scenario, considering the grammar, the price would be $1.50.

If it is to be concluded that "It's" is actually "Its", then we can deduce that the price is "One dollar plus half of its price". We now have to define the ticket's price: Is it the original $1 price, or is it $1.50 considering $1 plus half is $1.50? Considering for a moment that the only sound price we can currently see is the $1 amount, the simplest most likely answer will be $1.50.

Though, as "Half its price" is very vague, we can never truly know the correct answer in this scenario. Occam's Razor says it's $1.50, objective logic says it's $1.00+X.

So you're saying you're stupid? Thanks for proving your side is wrong

Yes, it's obviously designed to confuse retards but there is still a most correct interpretation of it based on English rules

No, only in the real world where there's sales tax. When you deal with a question in math, physics, chemistry, etc. you can only deal with variables that the question gives you and you can't provide more than it gives you. You can't assume there's sales tax here, so the price is the price, period. Thus 1 dollar cannot be the price because the question clearly states that what you pay (ie. it's price) for the ticket is NOT 1 dollar.

I have always been in favor of an IQ requirement.
> Keeps dumb nigs and spics from voting
> Stupid libs who think they are intelligent for their arts degree get btfo
> Stupid fucking rednecks that can't think past muh god can't vote

The whole system would work much better.

>ITT: Autism

So you admit you're stupid, why should I trust a stupid persons evaluation of my intelligence?

>numbers exist
>not being a fictionalist
t. plato

I know technically it is not but from the way the question is and how it's designed to cause confusion, it is meant to be he same thing in this case.

Look, I know that you're prideful and you will be embarrassed about being incapable of understanding 7th grade level algebra, but you've already embarrassed yourself and there's nothing you can do about it, you should just leave the thread.

The question states
>The ticket is 1$ + half it's price.
So you're not paying 2$ or 1$ or 1.50
You're paying 1$ and then you pay 50 cents separately.
Get fucked

>it's

I don't understand the question. ;_;

Why should I listen to you dumbasses?

Holy shit. Your second paragrah made me realize there a whole 'nother side to this question.

Numbers dont exist, they are merely a mental quantification of our natural world

To clarify on the question from OP: An IQ requirement should not be necessary, but rather an understanding of the political process, the ideologies of the world, basic economics, and objective logic.

the price is how much you pay for something

That makes sense. The wording confused me.

>Fuck math.

This. There's literally no point to learn that complicated shit when we have calculators.

Because you're stupid, you even admitted it

"Plus half it is price".

You must pay $1 and a piece of paper which says "Half it's price."

Nope
Price=1$+(Price/2)

>So you are treating the + as an or
I'm not, I'm saying that the "plus half its price" is separate from the $1 cost. A real life example would be a sales tax where something may cost one dollar and I have to pay more.

>complicated shit
>literally x = 1 + .5x
pedro...

Math is not a fair assessor of IQ. Some people despise math but they are some of the most gifted people on the planet. I hate math but started a successful programming company that employs 10 people.

I really hope you guys don't go to walmart and make the cashiers deal with your shit.

You literally called yourself stupid. I mean honestly how stupid are you?

no they arent, there are loads of number systems that don't correlate to """"the natural world""""

x = 1 + x/2
x= 1/2
2x = 2 + x
x = 2

You're just as stupid as I am.
your participation in this thread is evidence enough

So you are treating the + as an and?

In that case it's $2 then

No, that's just YOUR opinion. In YOUR opinion YOU are stupid.

In MY opinion ONLY YOU are stupid.

How hard is this to understand you fucking moron?

The price of an object is fixed.

When you go into a shop and the deal says "This costs 50% of its price" you can't apply this recursively.

Item has price X, the cost is Y, Y=1+1/2 X

Why should anybody believe the logic of a self-acclaimed idiot?

I didn't assume there was a sales tax, I said it could possibly be one. It doesn't matter if it is a sales tax or not, the fact is that the plus half its price is entirely separate from the initial price.

>Ticket that costs one dollar plus half its price
>$1 + $0.50
>How much do you pay?
>$1.50

that problems unsolvable. Half of 1 dollar is 50 cents so the price is 1.50 wait but that means the ticket is 1.50 so that means the ticket is 2.25 wait now the ticket is 2.25 so that means it will be 3.375 wait that means etc.

Why would I care about the opinion of idiots like you guys?

This fucker got you good

Cost = monetary effort to produce something
Price = monetary value of a product

Price can be used as a synonym to cost, but it depends on given information. Op hasn't provided any, so a parameter is missing, which could be any number from 0.01$ to 0.99$.

Oh boy! I can't wait to debate my friends and family to show who can convolute a poorly written math question the most!

but now the price is $1.50

We're smarter than you are for a start.

Or at least, we don't go around announcing our own stupidity.

Again, why should I trust a stupid persons interpretation on what counts as evidence of being stupid?

Calling someone stupid doesn't inherently make you stupid yourself, it just means you are wasting your time.

I guess you could call that stupid but i'm just waiting for my shift to start, cant really do anything productive.

You pay an infinite amount of money.

numbers in their original form
the concept of the number "1" is an elaborate logical underpinning, the brain has its own language to test the structure and consistency of the world

price
prīs/Submit
noun
1.
the amount of money expected, required, or given in payment for something.

price
Definition
Related Terms
A value that will purchase a finite quantity, weight, or other measure of a good or service.

Read more: businessdictionary.com/definition/price.html

let's not just ignore basic definitions my lad

>x = 1 + x/2

just wow.

x = 1 + 1(1/2)

A dollar is the price. What is half of a dollar? 50 cents. What do you get when you add half a dollar to a dollar? One dollar and fifty cents. Stop with your jew math.

247th post best post. Every nigger in this thread fuck off with your babbies first /sci/ problem.

Whoops, read it wrong, one dollar is not the price, nevermind

Price = 2
Half of Price = 1
You pay $1+ Half of Price = 2

1+x/2=x
1=x-1/2x
1=x/2
2=x

>don't try to comprehend infinty

what if one of us gets it? you'd look pretty silly then

Because you are stupid (self admitted), which means that most people have more correct opinions than you. You can assume we are part of the majority.

>taking Cred Forums seriously
you must be a blast at parties

if the problem said the price of the ticket is 1 dollar you'd be right but it doesn't say that. It says 1 dollar plus half it's price.

x = 1 + x/2
x-1=x/2
(x-1)/2=x
x/2-1/2=x
x-1=2x
-1=2x/x
-1=x

The ticket costs $-1
seriously, you people are fucking morons

So then the price is actually $2.00, making 50% of it $1.00. So then the price would be $2.00.
Some paradox.

wew, this thread really showed me that highly intelligent math types and intellectuals do post on pol!!!!!!

Good afternoon new friends lurking this thread.

Here is a good example of the level of retardation you can expect from this board.

Enjoy your stay and remember not to take anything these autistic fools say seriously.

Are you paying the full price of the item, or are you getting a discount?

If you are paying full price of the item, then the answer would be $2. Otherwise it's impossible to solve.

Ticket = 1$, half of 1$ = 50C
So it'd be $1.50

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So it doesn't cost anything. Nigga. Now gimmedat dollar, nigga

Thing is though, if you're using logic to say the price adding end at that point (which there is no proof of, you're taking it on faith), you have to also admit it's not a practical problem in the first place, and nobody would ever really use it.

$3.00

Considering votes mean literally nothing and are just a way to make the masses feel like the actually matter...

>making a serious post about not taking this board seriously
autism at its finest

solve it if you're so smart

Pay for what?

Disgusting

>not knowing representatives of permanent coucil members at the UN

>2016
>Sarkozy

You failed. Also you forgot the UK and China.

For step three, you divided the left side by two and multiplied the right side by two. It should be (x-1)/2 = x/4.
Then x/2 - 1/2 = x/4
2x - 2 = x
x - 2 = 0
x=2

If we're talking about conceptual infinity it's surprisingly *easy* to comprehend.

It's the idea that there is no biggest number and you can keep on adding to it. There will always be a number twice as big as any you name. Very simple, and not much more to it than that.

As for the analysis, with that you just need to be careful and very rigorous with how you do the Maths.

oops, i mean $2

suck my dick nigel

I would turn it around and say we use the natural world to get an intuition about numbers, like how pairs of things can be abstracted to help understand what 'twoness' is and then we can use the abstracted ideas of numbers and operations to make accurate predictions, what a lot of people seem to deduce is that numbers must be some necessary, inherent part of the world, or that one number system best describes the world, this is pretty much a post hoc ergo proctor hoc fallacy though.

Fucking love how Cred Forums gets extremely dogmatic and angry over math questions that are purposely designed to be vague and controversial. If you google the problem you can find people arguing over it on various math/science forums until it's revealed that the wording is a trick with two interpretations, everyone has a chuckle and then leaves. But here, we're way too determined to accept some gay pussy stalemate shit.

1.50$
Otherwise it becomes a nonsensical problem, because the x value will always be changing

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>Otherwise it becomes a nonsensical problem, because the x value will always be changing
That's the point

Both you googles are morons.
x = 1 + x/2
x-1 = x/2
2x-2 = x
x-2 = 0
x = 2

It is nonsensicle that's the point. The answer is infinity because it will just keep going up.

I was showing how calculations should proceed according to his method, not trying to show a quick way of solving the equation.

Good job, leaf. You can skip steps 2 and 4 though, no one's that retarded.

I hire an accountant to take care of it for me because I can afford to do so.

1+1/2+1/4+1/8+..... to infinity = 2
Even with your way of interpreting the problem, which is valid, the answer is still 2. Can't believe that Cred Forums is literally this stupid.

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Is this statement nonsensical?: "The ticket will cost half of its price plus half of its price."
Of course not. The price of any ticket will be half its price plus half its price.
So in fact, if $1.00 *is* half its price, it's making the same statement as above, and makes perfect sense.

that's not infinity that's just double

likewise when you say rigourous you're talking about filling in the blanks, there are no blanks nigger it's all right there

It's Simon actually

The series you're describing converges to 2.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2_+_1/4_+_1/8_+_1/16_+_⋯

Add 1 to the front of that and you get 2. This is literally high school math.

You can interpret the problem as involving an infinite series but the series converges to 2 so the answer is the same.

reread the problem. 1 dollar isn't the price.

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if you don't know how to solve these literally kys

Niggers will riot because they won't be able to vote.

>1.5+0.75=2

It's literally not ambiguous. If you understand English you realize that "it's", while written with the wrong punctuation, unambiguously refers to the ticket.

>You want to buy a ticket that costs $1 + half its cost. How much do you pay?

ftfy

saying cost with price creates a two dimensional equation:
C = 1 + .5P
or
y = 1 + 0.5x

Algebraically we can say that:
x and y are two different definitions.
cost and price are two different definitions.

Anyone that says $2 to OP's pic is wrong because there is an infinite definition of what the cost could be

Anyone that says $2 with the scenario I made above is correct because we have a one dimensional equation that can only have one definition.

i pay the price + $1

.5x = x+1

This is some infinite recursion shit. I'm not paying $n for a ticket.

reread my comment. I didn't say 1 dollar was the price, I said it was half the price.

Voting should be restricted to average intelligence and above.
Restricting it to above-average intelligence causes the problem of trusting the elite few to make choices that benefit the majority, rather than just themselves. However restricting it to average intelligence still makes it a majority vote, but keeps the really dumb-as-rocks citizens from skewing the results.

x=.5x+1
ftfy