# GingerAle

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### Happy Birthday Hectictar

GingerAle  Oct 14, 2018
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### Hectictar! A Year of Excellence!

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### That’s one way to get a new user name, Miranda.

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GingerAle  Aug 6, 2017
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The two solutions presented above are wrong.

Apologies:  I’m so use to seeing wrong answers, and the large drop in the x value (weight) are common for these types of questions;

I failed to check and verify my own work.

These types of questions require careful reading to understand what it is asking for.

Such questions are common in science and statistics, both in academics and in the real-world.

$${\text { Deleted Equation }}$$

$$\text { Here’s the correct equation. }\\ x=8+\dfrac{90}{100}x\\ x=80.0 \;Lbs\\ \text { The weight of the grapefruit is 80.0 Lbs }$$

This now agrees with Badada’s and EP’s solutions above, and Dragan’s solution below.

Related question, with an expanded solution method.

https://web2.0calc.com/questions/help-asap-thanks_2#r5

GA

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Happy New Year, JB. My biggest fan

I originally wrote that post with three scenes. I deleted the funniest scene because the Shanghai’d Post Production Supervisor or Shanghai’d Technical Consultant would have factored it to invisibility.

I’ll send you a copy of the deleted scene.

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Creation date and time: 2019-01-10 @10:14:51UTC

In its lifetime of 346 days, the post collected 388 views with 13 views in the 15 days prior to its hiding by the Administrator on 12/21/19 @ ~ 14:12:52 UTC.

Posted question is class category (1) –informal, simple question.

Subjective Question classes:

*Category (0) –Mr. BB Interest Rate questions or arcane questions optimally answered with Monty Carlo style or tabulated, logical resolution computer code.

*Category (1) – Informal, simple non-homework, or curiosity based math question.

*Category (2) – Formal, simple homework.

*Category (3) – Formal, intermediate homework.

*Category (4) – Formal, advanced homework.

*Category (5) – Formal, AoPS (or related) homework.

*Category (6) – Formal, basic and intermediate physics, engineering, or chemistry.

*Category (7) – Formal, advanced physics, engineering, or chemistry.

*Category (8) – Formal, advanced collegiate mathematics or specialized math. (These are very rare on this forum.)

*Category (9) – Social or non-math, Off Topic posts (includes posts with random characters).

View count statistics for all visible questions (posts) dated 1/10/2019:

Mean: 205.88

Median: 175

Mode(s): 317, 138, 141, 182, 191, 328, 152

Minimum: 105

Maximum: 461

Range: 356

Count: 50 (Number of visible posted threads)

At least (10) posts were hidden by one or more moderators (including the auto-moderator). Several of the hidden posts were by a (now banned) member named Synth.

Comparative analysis:

The view counts for the post are 85.2% higher than average for all visible questions posted on 01/10/19. This post is about 366% higher than the sample mean for all (Cat 1) non-homework, informally asked questions.  This post has 3.8% of all views for all visible posts made on 1/10/2019.

Other interesting stats, contrast the reasons for this.

GA

Dec 31, 2019