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| TNT | Sep 17 2013, 06:09 PM Post #1 |
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literally the greatest answer to any word problem ever: The problem is: you are throwing a party where 200 people are coming, your house is 200 square feet and your back yard is 30 square feet with a 12 square foot pool. if each person took up 1 square foot how much room would be left in your house? The answer given was: Well, judging by the natural habits I’ve observed of people while standing in elevators and choosing seats in fast-food restaurants, people generally want to stand as far from other people (or at least other parties) as they possibly can. In this sense, a sufficient number of people will, much like matter in the gaseous state, fill its container. Before continuing this problem, some commentary about this poor sod’s life is in order. This man has a house—not apartment, not condominium, not studio, but house—of 200 square feet. This is less than a third of the space that exists in my one-bedroom flat. This means that the location where he sleeps, craps, and makes food has to exist in the size of a slightly larger-than-normal college dorm room. And this is a “house.” He must be pretty proud of this little shack because about the only way this would have ever been built is that he built it himself. Which would make him pretty poor indeed. And yet he has 200 friends coming over for a single party. I personally do not have 200 friends that I would consider inviting to a party (and if I did invite everyone on my Facebook page, which does number over 9000 200), most of them live else-state or else-country and wouldn’t be able to come. So either this guy is really popular… or he really just went out and found all the homeless people in town and offered them free food and beer or something. These two facts come to a shocking tale that, considering that there is 200 square feet of standing space less furniture, whatever “friends” he must be inviting are probably so similarly poor that whatever furniture he now has will be gone at the end of the night after our host, me, gets spiked with Ecstasy or some other drug and lay helpless on the floor, unable to prevent my newly acquired “friends” from stealing everything. Suffice to say, this is the rationale that I’m going to provide to assume that ALL 200 square feet in this custom-built dwelling is available for standing space. Now we must consider the backyard. The backyard actually doesn’t seem outlandishly small by Seattle (where I live) norms as most “yards,” for lack of a better term, are about the size of the postage stamp and are barely big enough for large dogs to stand in while also finding room to do their business. Thirty square feet is less than even a modest bedroom, but if this were the construct of a standard flat with a small, caged in fence to keep ne’er-do-wells from actually reaching the premises to, perhaps, throw bricks through the window in an attempt to steal by stuff, it would be wholly fitting. Besides, if I’m stupid enough to invite thieves and vandals to my party, I might as well forgo the safeties that this caged-in backyard had to offer me. Somewhere on the other side of the planet, a puppy cries. Now typically, unless I have invited a flock of Jesuses over to my party, which the odds of this are about 20% since I did invite a bunch of vagrants and otherwise downtrodden, last I checked no one has attained the ability to stand on water. They would just sink right to the bottom. Given that our 12-square-foot pool — which incidentally is just large enough to fit two people floating on their back side-by-side; it would be much more fair to call this an unheated jacuzzi — is presumably full of water, partially for the need of showing off how cool my place of residence is — I only have 200 square feet maybe, but I’ve got a goddamned pool; you got one of those? — thus giving me a 20% chance of not being able to fit anyone there. And given the nature of the clientele at my party, I am assuming most of them (a) don’t own a swimsuit and (b) given that this is Seattle, are already sick and tired of being wet from the rain and therefore (c) would not enjoy just standing in water getting soaked from the chest or waist down. So I am going to assume that the pool is uninhabitable space and will be treated like some World-War-I no man’s land. SO THEREFORE… With all of these assumptions in play, let us do some math! The ratio of inside space to the total space is = 200 square feet / (200 square feet + 30 square feet - 12 square feet) = 200 / 218 = 91.74%. This means that approximately 91.74% of my party will be inside my generous dwelling at a given point (presuming firstmost that Brownian motion will dictate sufficient chaos that anyone entering will soon be followed by someone exiting and secondmost that people will actually stay in my dwelling for the entire duration of the party and are not in fact doing such things as ganking my furniture, as we mentioned is almost certain to happen; let’s just hope it happens at the party’s end for the purposes of this theoretical calculation!). SO… 91.74% * 200 people = 183.48 people will be in the house at any given point. Of course, since having 0.48 people in this house would justify murder, this is generally not smiled upon. But again, considering that this is the nature of the people I invited, it is wholly possible that someone is in fact a murderer here. So we will let this calculation stand sans rounding. Since each person occupies 1 square foot of area space, that equates to 183.48 square feet of my 200-square-foot house taken. A simple subtraction of these two terms yields… 16.52 square feet remaining in my domicile. At least until morning. At which point some hobo will have dragged me onto a train looking at me very funny, and since this is presumably a train car, there will actually be a lot more space. |
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| RockmanDash12 | Sep 17 2013, 07:15 PM Post #2 |
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| SCScanlan | Sep 17 2013, 07:52 PM Post #3 |
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| Nathan | Sep 18 2013, 03:15 PM Post #4 |
 
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