Editing 2019: An Apple for a Dollar

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| number    = 2019
| date      = July 13, 2018
| title     = An Apple for a Dollar
| image     = an_apple_for_a_dollar.png
| titletext = I'd like 0.4608 apples, please.
}}

==Explanation==
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[[Megan]] is about to buy an apple at a grocery store when she is surprised that the price is exactly one dollar. In most cases in the US, {{w|Sales taxes in the United States|sales tax}} must be taken into account but most states exempt food sold in grocery stores, so the price comes out to a round value. Megan begins overthinking the whole situation, so the cashier raises the price to an arbitrary non-rounded value, which seems to calm her down.

Megan's "overthinking" refers to common parameters used in solving science or math questions. A {{w|Frictionless plane}} is a scenario from the writings of Galileo to calculate the movement of an object down an {{w|inclined plane}}. However, his equations did not account for {{w|friction}}.

"A train leaving Chicago at 40mph" refers to common math questions, involving trains and solving for the distance required to overtake said train, although this problem involves the rather unrealistic assumption that the train speed keeps constant. Like the frictionless plane, this is a common simplification that allows the problem to be solved with quite simple techniques, just like having round quantities (e.g. 1 dollar/apple) eases arithmetic problems. 

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Apparently Megan only has a dollar, so she would not be able to buy a whole apple at the new price. (0.4608 * $2.17 = $1 (almost)) Stores usually sell whole apples{{Citation needed}}, so asking for a fraction of one is not likely to work out.

==Transcript==
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