Ok, my maths teacher gave me a simple question to answer and then asked us to make this simple question into a long mathematical sentence question. So here’s what I came up with. Oh, and the answer is at the end!

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Once upon a time, there was a young boy, who was three in fact, called Edgar.

Today Edgar was flying his kite. Y’know the usual typical stuff three year olds do. And a sudden thought stuck his mind! He asked himself;

“How long is the string of my kite?”

Now Edgar was a typical three year old. He was very bright. He could already count to ten when he was a week old. He was doing advanced algebra at the age of one. For example: 1 x 2, what is x? Yes I know, it’s hard! And you don’t have to answer, after all it is advanced! So y’know the typical three year old intelligence.

So anyway, he asked his dad his very intellectual question. but this question wasn’t the usual questions he had asked his father. Questions which included ‘ Where do babies come from and how are they made.’ or ‘How are cars made’ even ‘Why is the sky blue’ finally ‘Why are you watching a video where there are two nakie women on top of each other. Are they fighting?’

But back to the story. He went up to his father and asked his question.

“How do I work out how long my string is?”

But his father replied in a drunken manner (not that he was drunk anyway...)

“Rrrrgh! Shut up and go away! I’m trying to drink my beer!”

So Edgar did go away. After being rejected by his father, he went to his mother.

“Mummy, how long is my rope?”

“Edgar, mummy’s on the phone! Mummy’s trying to chat up this operator guy, so he can say some grownup thing to mummy, so I can press charges for sexual harassment, so we can get some money, and I can divorce your father!” She smiled.

From a very young age, Edgar was used to being rejected. Despite Edgar is only three. You could just say that his parents should be locked up somewhere ... but no-ones perfect!

But what I couldn’t understand is why Edgar couldn’t work it out for himself. He was all in the special clubs that taught him to resolve quizzical puzzles such as this. And no, it’s not Cubs or Scouts. Edgar was a member of the Pi club, and he was a member or Mensa (Impressive eh?).

But anyway, back to Edgar’s problem.

After about three minutes, Edgar flew his kite again, and somehow, worked out that the distance the kite was from the ground was 7 metres. And he miraculously worked out that the distance that point was from he was standing was 3 metres. All he had to work out was the hypotenuse ... erm I mean his kite string!!!

Could you help Edgar out? Give your answer in 2 decimal places.

ANSWER:

a² b² c²

7² 3²c²

499 √58

7.62

So what happened to Edgar?

Edgar became suicidal. He hanged himself in his room. His parents found him there three days later. Police discovered that he hanged himself because he had a remainder when dividing 10 into 3. Edgar was 5.

Well, that was the problem. Hope you enjoyed that. Maybe I’ll write another maths problem about Edgar. But that’s only if you review and like my story on Edgar and his Kite.

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- I got the idea of the lesianic porn from 8 Simple Rules. Made me laugh.