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You are only half right:
x = beer + bacon
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(x+1)(x+2)(x+6) =
x^3+9x^2+20x+12 = x^3+9x^2+4(7x-1)
20x+12=4(7x-1)
5x+3=7x-1
4=2x
x = 2
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Congratulations! I'm sure you get an A in GSCE maths for that, or possibly even an A at A-level these days.
Not that they've dumbed down or anything...
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I lost an x somewhere doing it in my befuddled brain.
speramus in juniperus
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x=2
(3)(4)(8) = 8 + 36 + 52
96 = 96
Will Rogers never met me.
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(x+1)(x+2)(x+6) = x^3+9x^2+4(7x-1)
x³ + 9x² + 20x + 12 = x³ + 9x² + 28x - 4 |-x³
9x² + 20x + 12 = 9x² + 28x -4 |-9x²
20x + 12 = 28x -4 |-20x |+4
16 = 8x
x = 2
if not i would say 42 too 
"WAKE UP, NEO."
"THE MATRIX HAS YOU..."
"FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT".
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What's the point?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I like this answer 
I still don't understand how they got it though
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Ok now my head does hurt.
What kind of math is this ?
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Looking at my forecast for later this week I see no snow on Thursday[^] or Saturday[^], 1-2" of snow during the day on Friday[^] with an additional 1-3" Friday night with a storm total of 3-6".
There's nothing wrong with the minimum total snowfall being listed as 3" since that can be explained by timing uncertainty in when it hits; but if the most I can get during the day is 2" with 3" overnight how can the storm total reach 6"?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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All those numbers are rounded, maybe the raw prediction was 1-2.4" and 1-3.4" (or something sufficiently close).
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It's all those fractals they use in weather predicting, one butterfly can make 1+1=3.
speramus in juniperus
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You really are a special snowflake.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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He's in fact a really big hailstone.
Veni, vidi, caecus
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Hey, 1 + 1 does equal 3, for very large values of 1!
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Interesting that the Weather Channel forecast[^] calls for a 50% chance of rain on Friday, with no mention of snow. And here's[^] a 'orribly shameless plug.
/ravi
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Not overly surprising; the precipitation is associated with a cold front coming through and dropping temps below freezing; a few degrees either way will flip it. Weather Underground[^] has a forecast between those two. Closer to the date the National Weather Service will issue a warning with a fourth set of predictions. To make things more interesting, it's within the realm of possibility that it will be snow/ice on the ridge tops and rain in the valleys a mile away and a thousand feet lower.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We're on a Hard Freeze watch this week, and not a cloud in sight. What do I have to do to get some snow around here? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: What do I have to do to get some snow around here?
My friend Rob[^] can help. 
/ravi
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I said snow, not blow. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Word problems. Immediately stopped.
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