DANGER! REPORTER DOING MATH
I was completely wrong when I posted this. Giddy, but wrong. --Horne
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Ladies and Gentlemen! Would you like to make your parking meter dollars stretch? You bet you would, and if you follow milwaukeeworld's advice you can save big on your downtown parking meter expenses! We're talking double-digit savings!
How is this possible? Simply nickel-and-dime your way to parking prosperity the milwaukeeworld way.
Here's how it works:
Your typical downtown parking meter offers fifteen minutes time per quarter inserted -- that's sixty minutes for a dollar. A deal? Sure, but Milwaukeeworld can make it sweeter, if you just make a simple -- change!
Here's the secret: That very same meter offers three minutes time per nickel inserted, and six minutes time per dime inserted. Use those two coins in any combination, and you get sixty-eight minutes for a dollar. That's better than a 13 per cent gain in time for exactly the same expenditure made in quarters.
Sure, it pays to watch your pennies -- but it pays even more to spend your nickels and dimes!
But, what to do with all of those quarters? Set them aside for important things like laundry or pool.
-- Michael Horne
posted by Michael Horne @ 11:35 AM
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I'm scratching my head on this one. 1 nickel = 3 minutes. 1 dime = 6. 1 quarter = 15. All of those are equal in ratio.
5 nickels = 25 cents = 3*5 = 15 minutes.
5 dimes = 30 minutes = 2 quarters = 30 minutes.
Where are you getting this 68 minutes stuff?
Did You take that "new" math in school? 20 nickels is 60 minutes, ten dimes is 60 minutes and any combination I can think of comes out to 60 minutes. Were there eight minutes left on the meter when you started?
Impossible. No combo of 6 and 3 ends in 68.
Dear Mr. Horne,
Am I missing something here? Or is there something hidden in your story or math skills?
You state that a nickel will buy you three minutes of time. There are twenty nickels in a dollar, therefore twenty multiplied by three minutes equals sixty minutes. In your dime example you state that the dime will buy you six minutes of time. There are ten dimes in a dollar, therefore ten multiplied by six minues equals sixty muntes. In either case, it should work out the same as putting in the four quarters, and getting sixty minutes.
I did not read in your article how you can achieve the sixty-eight minutes combination that you claim.
Maybe that part of the story was just edited out.
That eight minutes comes in handy when the meter maid tickets you a nanosecond after the meter expires.
Whew, I thought I was to stupid to figure it out.
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