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Work Within The Story Problem

by Paul Taylor on January 31, 2016 at 8:09 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Atsali, Nadette
Location: The Library

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Discussion (30) ¬

  1. The Jabberwonky
    January 31, 2016, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

    I agree with Nadette, grenades are tricky at all but as far as you can heave them. And I never liked that you couldn’t answer from outside the box, either…

  2. maarvarq
    January 31, 2016, 8:33 pm | # | Reply

    Where are they that g = 5 m/s2 rather than Earth-standard 9.8 (round to 10) m/s2? Also “radius”.

    • Cpt. Obvious
      October 28, 2016, 7:05 pm | # | Reply

      Somewhere where they are having a zombie problem.

      Doesn’t seem that strange to me…

  3. themadkansan
    January 31, 2016, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

    Ah, the ‘Mad Max’ solution. 🙂

  4. DarkMyste
    January 31, 2016, 9:37 pm | # | Reply

    damn nadette you have to use the grenade why dont you just shove the grenade in the zombie mouth and kick them in to the zombie crowd, when its blows the shrapnel from the grenade and the bones with act as increased damage modifier

  5. septuagenarian
    January 31, 2016, 10:02 pm | # | Reply

    Most folks in this strip would consider a zombie apocalypse boring. Bud has already topped that by several orders of magnitude.

  6. Brenton Miller
    January 31, 2016, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

    fricking hate these types of questions.its like a giant middle finger to your face.

  7. BarerMender
    January 31, 2016, 10:30 pm | # | Reply

    How strong would Nadette have to be to fire that sawed-off shotgun with one hand?

    • Guesticus
      February 1, 2016, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      As strong as a bear? o_O

      • Bratty Roger
        June 7, 2023, 6:31 pm | #

        😏·🤣·😏 ❗

      • J-Earl
        December 14, 2024, 7:03 pm | #

        You need to bear that in mind when you ask Nadette questions.

  8. septuagenarian
    January 31, 2016, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

    She’s a bear shifter so she may be strong as a grizzly.

  9. Dave Van Domelen
    February 1, 2016, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Um, this equation has the grenade thrown straight up. Might want to run like hell. (Just finished teaching projectile motion for the semester last week.)

    • Calvin
      February 1, 2016, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      HA! I was thinking the same thing. We can’t always assume a 45 degree angle.

    • txmystic
      February 1, 2016, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      I agree. Distance is assumed to be vertical given the way the equation is written. And solving for t as written above gives a mere 1.625 second flight time, so indeed, run like hell!

    • Bruinthor
      December 24, 2016, 11:47 pm | # | Reply

      Correcting the first coefficient to the more correct -5 the maximum distance would be 24.4 meters with a 2.2 second flight time. The angle would be .8262 radians (47.3 degrees) up from the horzontal. Iamamathgeek but I prefer Nadette’s solution.

  10. Centaur71
    February 1, 2016, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    That’s NOT a gun, silly girl; it’s a grenade launcher!

    • BigSwede74
      February 1, 2016, 11:04 am | # | Reply

      Actually, sawed-off shotgun.

  11. BarerMender
    February 1, 2016, 2:36 am | # | Reply

    I say shotgun.

    • DSL
      February 1, 2016, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      No, you’re driving.

  12. Weertangel
    February 1, 2016, 4:06 am | # | Reply

    Ok, now thats how i would love the see the problems presented to me, i might actually be interested in solving them.
    Of course, advanced math is something i never had at school couse of my learning disorder, but still, when stuff is showed like this one gets interested.
    And like Nadette i would also go for the gun, or a sword, that works also.

  13. Bucc-i
    February 1, 2016, 7:28 am | # | Reply

    OMG! This is so me doing math word problems.
    How do I need to know how fast the other plane is going? Why don’t they just take the bus or drive?

  14. Guesticus
    February 1, 2016, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

    Giving credit to Sali for attempting to find a way that appeals enough to Dette to want to learn math, but whoever wrote that question was a complete idiot

    And screw ‘the maximized death radius’: you want to throw it to remove as many of the undead buggers as possible between you and them without getting yourself killed in the process, so toss it down in front of them, and leg it as fast as you can and find somewhere to duck behind when it goes off, hopefully enough of them will have passed the grenade to act as a buffer to the explosion

  15. Rayd1978
    February 1, 2016, 8:06 pm | # | Reply

    Assuming the grenade’s explosion to be spherical, to maximize the kill radius you’d want it off the ground, likely about 1m, to be at a height to inflict the most damage. Of course if you really want to make life interesting, throw it towards a gas main or something.
    Still, A for effort in trying to make math interesting, D for failing to define important vectors.

  16. christopher chung
    February 1, 2016, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

    hunh, all the above and What I got most is: She’s undead enough that all the flesh has rotted off her arms, yet she still has an awesome rack…

    • Cpt. Obvious
      October 28, 2016, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

      Uhm… There is something disturbing about you actually noticing that…

      • Cpt. Obvious
        October 28, 2016, 7:23 pm | #

        Aaaand now I can’t unsee it!

  17. Nathan R.
    February 15, 2018, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    ….I never could solve word problems, I could never tell which numbers fit into which part of the equation when condensed into words not formulas…..

    • Bratty Roger
      October 17, 2021, 6:16 pm | # | Reply

      That’s why the teachers would always insist on us showing the equation we used to get the answer.
      The ^numerical^ answer to the problem was ^less^ important than the ^equation^ you used to ^get^ it🤓

  18. J-Earl
    December 9, 2022, 7:15 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know but I think I’d try to build some type of rudimentary lathe.
    …and don’t forget to tuck and roll when you’re running away.

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