Saturday, 9 July 2011

Schoolboy Arithmetic Error

QUESTION:  If David and Annette leave Calgary on July 4th and drive to Nova Scotia over ten days, stopping in hotels overnight, what date will they arrive?

ANSWER:  July 13th

WHY:  Work it out for yourself.  The no thought answer would be to say July 4th plus 10 days  = July 14th! That's not how it works though.  What this means to us in practice is that on the current schedule, we'll arrive in Halifax a day earlier than we expected.  We are discussing whether to hang out somewhere in Maine for an extra day or crack on and stay in the Lunenburg area for a couple of nights and start getting things together that we need to do before our furniture arrives.

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