Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 22, 1978
September 21, 1978
September 23, 1978
Transcript:
Peppermint Patty sits at her desk in school and looks at a piece of paper. She says, "Problem number six . . ."<BR><BR> Peppermint Patty continues, "How many gallons of cream containing 25% butter fat and milk containing 3 1/2% butter fat must be mixed to . ."<BR><BR> Peppermint Patty reads, ". . Obtain 50 gallons of cream containing 12 1/2% butter fat?"<BR><BR> Peppermint Patty asks, "Ma'am, would you settle for twenty push-ups?"<BR><BR>
That really is kind of a rough problem. To mix those two liquids together and get a final amount of exactly 12.5% butter fat, one would need 20.930232558139534883720(repeating) gallons of cream and 29.069767441860465116279(repeating) gallons of milk. These amounts are, of course, impossible to measure out. One can just simplify to 21 gallons of cream and 29 gallons of milk to get 50 gallons with 12.53% butter fat, though. The closest you could get percentage-wise using known standard measurements would be something like 20 gallons+3 quarts+1 pint+8 ounces+1 tablespoon+1 teaspoon of cream added to 29 gallons+1 cup+1 ounce of milk, but doing it like this would mean you aren’t getting exactly 50 gallons (just 49.998958 gallons) and you still aren’t getting the exact percentage (about 12.500177%). Perhaps the teacher didn’t think that one through.