[WarriorDiplomat]

Originally Posted by Penn

All, thank you! WD, I now thoroughly understand the process and my error. An artist brain attempting to cross over to the other hemisphere.
X and Y Cost $13.90
X is $13.00 more than Y
How much does Y cost
Y = .45C

Or as Wook

X + Y = 13.90
bat = ball + 13.00

Substituting the bottom line into the first line you get
Y+ 13.00 + X = 13.90

Solving this
(2)y = .90
X = .45

Substituting the X info into the first line
Y + .45 = 13.45
bat = .45

LOL No issue I get it my wives family is split down the science/math side with advanced degrees and the other half more the artistic side....I am lucky that I am fairly centered in understanding both without completely being overpowered one direction or the other but leaned toward math and science

Being a math oriented centrist is why I know the Wuhan Virus media crap is exactly that crap....math logic is why I know the media is lying through their teeth purposely by giving out numbers and percentages when I know that without exact data to begin with the rest is impossible to know...this is also why when Fauci and other scientists who should be good at math since MD's are more science than anything I know they are giving false data....how can you suggest logically that the death rate is 10x that of the flu when you do not know the actual basic number of infected to begin with....the entire problem relies on the exact number of infected to extrapolate from then the next logical question is how can they know who is dying from the flu turned pneumonia and who is dying from Covid19? again it cannot be determined without testing and they are barely getting tests of which the accuracy is questionable....they are using the math they use legally when it comes to surveys the 1000 cross section of people whom they claim represents the city of New York....we have no idea where they are getting these numbers unless the scientist are lying or the media is lying about their lies and everyone is pointing fingers at each other....the next step in logic is motivations for giving false information and as someone pointed out....funding??? perhaps or perhaps mass hysteria has taken over thanks to the media and every trusted member of elected government and there educated experts pushing the narrative. I have seen predictive models used that is completely false without baseline data and the fallacy of it is there are no intangibles involved in the equations...essentially predictive modeling is like calculating minutes of angle of a sniper round except snipers use terrain and conditions to extract relative factors....predictive modelling is useful but not without a baseline. The fear and panic created by this is why this is dangerous because the logic is not there in mass hysteria and the willing agents of mass hysteria is the media and leftist officials.