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Mathematics from Tiktok
In social networks they came up with their way to count money - Girl Math. Exam from "cold"
In social networks, alternative laws of mathematics were invented. They can be used to calculate anything, the beauty is that it will always be “beneficial” for the considered. "Cold" studied the theory and prepared five complex practical issues. Go through the test and find out if you will take you.
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Girl Math (Women's Mathematics) - a meme that beats a subjective attitude to expenses. The main law of such mathematics - any purchase can be considered profitable, you just have to look at it from the right angle.
For example, if you do not have enough 200 rubles to free delivery when ordering some goods to “save”, you can add an object for one and a half thousand rubles to the basket. Yes, even if the delivery cost 500 rubles.
The trend was launched by Tikantoka user named Samantha James. In August 2023, she took a comic video that a drink from Starbax for $ 4.90, cost her free of charge, because according to all the well -known rule of “female mathematics” everything that is cheaper than five dollars is worth nothing. Other users quickly picked up the meme - now under the hashtag #girlMath in Tiktock you can find more than 130 thousand videos.
Is this not sexism?
Some believe that Girl Math only enhances sexist stereotypes, depicting women frivolous and financially illiterate, and also note that men are also prone to unreasonable explanations of expenses - in response to Girl Math, Boy Math appeared. For example, they say about men who round their height up to 180 centimeters in dating applications.
However, the Boy Math trend did not cause such a resonance. Historically, women had to often find an excuse or justification for their expenses, even if they are necessary. At the same time, when a man buys expensive tickets for a sports match, clock or sports car, this raises fewer questions from others.
In response to criticism of the girls using the hashtag Girl Math, they say that they do it with self -irony and ridicule sexist stereotypes, bringing them to the point of absurdity.
What mathematical laws work in Girl Math?
- Everything that is cheaper than 500 rubles is free.
- Paper money is not money. If you pay cash, then the goods got free.
- If a discount is valid for the goods, you earn on the difference.
- Money spent during illness or menstruation is not considered. At all.
- If you did not go somewhere where you planned to spend money (for example, in a bar with friends), you earned and can spend this money somewhere else.
- Buying expensive things is more profitable, because then they can be sold.
- Speaks stretched out in time are not counted. IPhone in installments is a gift from the store. Vacation, tickets for which were paid in advance - a free trip.
- The cost of the goods affects how often they will use it.
- It is impossible to pass by the action “1+1”, otherwise we will lose money (after all, the goods are as a gift!).
- The money received for the return of goods is free.
Girl Math laws can be applied not only to money, but to everything that can be counted. For example, time, things - and even ready -made pages in an unfinished diploma or report.
Let's move on to practice! Give the exam by Girl Math and check how you have learned the theory
For warm -up, a quick question for theory. What is more profitable: the action "1+1 = 3" or a 50%discount?
Promotion "1+1 = 3"
50% discount
Backward
Last year you bought a phone for 65,000 rubles. And in this they sold it on Avito for 48,000 to buy a new one. Last year in the store costs 60,000 rubles, but you made a discount for wear. You want to buy the most relevant model - for 75,000 rubles. How much will it cost you?
27000 rubles
15,000 rubles
Backward
You feel bad and went into a bakery for coffee, a bun and another dessert. The payment terminal with a card has broken, and you paid a thousand -ruble bill. Congratulations, you pleased yourself for free. But why?
Payment is not considered in cash - the figures have not changed on the bank account.
You can not save on illness. Exists that will help you feel better are not considered.
Several rules work at once!
Backward
You burned out at work. A trip to a therapist costs 4000 rubles a week. Another decision is to go on vacation at sea in a couple of months to unwind. The trip will cost 60,000 rubles. What is more profitable - vacation or therapy all this time?
The psychotherapist is always more profitable, because caring for mental health multiplies any expenses by zero.
Vacation is more profitable
Backward
The task with an asterisk. These are solved at the Olympiads!
Given: a coat costs 15,600 rubles, and now by summer it is sold at a 20%discount. It turns out 12,480 rubles. How much will it really cost?
12 480 rubles, and 3120 we also earned.
9360 rubles, because out of 12,480 you need to subtract the earned 3120.
So it's almost free
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