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Did anybody understand Mrs. Applebaum's math problem?

posted 8 years ago by eoilersfan1
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During the math class scene which came immediately after the scene where a drunken Gary sang to Mrs. Roswell, Mrs. Applebaum asked Gary to stand up and explain the relationship between two squares bisected by lines both horizontal and vertical. Did anybody understand this problem? For the life of me I can't figure out what this math problem means. Since I didn't understand the problem, I also didn't understand what Victor meant when he was whispering parts of the answer to Gary. Presumably Victor was telling Gary the truth with the exception of "then you shove it up your ass," because Mrs. Applebaum never said that Gary was wrong.

[–] snagswolf 8 years ago

Yeah, it made no sense. What she was drawing on the board was geometry, but the question seemed more like calculus, when you graph a square and then bisect it with horizontal and vertical lines. And then his answer had more to do with geometry again, and the teacher seemed to be accepting it. And the other writings on the chalkboard were a mixture of algebra and calculus.

I can only conclude that the writers went into screenwriting because they didn't do well in math class.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

I have no idea I was terrible at math, but I did have the exact same Geometry book my Sophmore year (1985-86).

[–] Xcalat3 (3748) 4 years ago

nope that was complete BS.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Heck no.