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Who tried to do the equation?


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"...cinema is truth 24 times a second."

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What's the equation?

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I did. Amazing how people lived prior to calculators.

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You start with 520 meters of copper coil. Three-quarters of it is cut off. This leaves 130 meters. Four-fifths of that is cut off. That leaves 26 meters. The final question is, "How many centimeters of wire are left on the roll?" Answer: 2600 since there are 100 cm in a meter (26 X 100).

Antonietta and Domenico both answered 24, which was incorrect. They still were hired, which may have been just another absurd element to the entire bizarre hiring process.

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He also said they had 1 hour to do this question. This is something that should probably take 5 minutes at most.

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They both were hired to jobs that didn't really require math, though. She a typist, him a messenger and one day a clerk

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