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2% or 98%

2%		160 (your vote)
98%		97
	Total Votes:	257

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Trickster1992

Posts: 14515

Posted: 10:04PM Jun 14, 2007

phrebh wrote:

That just means he's in the 2% that got the math wrong.

lol.. I coulda sworn it said 4 =/

either way, if it said D, I dont have to think of Denmark. I can think of Dallas (Texas). A snake in Dallas eating an elephant ear.

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LeafFan4life

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Posted: 10:06PM Jun 14, 2007

.......you need to pick a country

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tedger

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Posted: 10:09PM Jun 14, 2007

Yes you seem to be the 2% that can't understand this quiz at all.

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 10:10PM Jun 14, 2007

Well, there's Denmark, Djibouti, Dominicana, Dominican Republic...

Djibouti. I wonder how you pronounce that. Let's go with an inchworm in Djibouti eating a melon.

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 10:10PM Jun 14, 2007

tedger wrote:

Yes you seem to be the 2% that can't understand this quiz at all.

You're a really nice person, tedger. *sarcasm*

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tedger

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Posted: 10:16PM Jun 14, 2007

I'm sorry but you're getting off-topic

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 10:21PM Jun 14, 2007

This test isn't fair. The only way a person can get into the 2% is if they either do the math wrong, like I did, or they think of a country besides Denmark..

hopefully I am doing this right...

1 * 9 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. 4th letter of the alphabet is D.

2 * 9 = 18, then 1 + 8 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

3 * 9 = 27, then 2 + 7 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

4 * 9 = 36, then 3 + 6 = 9, then 9 - 4 = 4. D.

5 * 9 = 45, then 4 + 5 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

6 * 9 = 54, then 5 + 4 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

7 * 9 = 63, then 6 + 3 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

8 * 9 = 72, then 7 + 2 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

9 * 9 = 81, then 8 + 1 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

10 * 9 = 90, then 9 + 0 = 9, then 9 - 5 = 4. D.

No matter what number you pick between 1 and 10, you will wind up with D.

in fact...

354 * 9 = 3186, then 3 + 1 + 8 + 6 = 18, then 1 + 8 = 9.

No matter what number you multiply 9 by, if you add the digits up until it results in a one-digit number again, it's probably going to come back around to 9.

There's something that's missing if we can't recognize that our own existence is the miracle before our eyes. --Michael Tait

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 10:51PM Jun 14, 2007

Haha, that gave y'all pause for a moment.

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LeafFan4life

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Posted: 11:33PM Jun 14, 2007

ya that is the point which is why I posted that link earlier.

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 11:34PM Jun 14, 2007

LeafFan4life wrote:

well it is designed for you to always get a multiple of nine to get D its similar to this, o ya and i am part of the 98% who sed that but i never sed kangaroo i said king crab.

oops, didnt see that. sorreh. at least with my post nobody has to click the link... i hardly ever click links. lol

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Anupriya9

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Posted: 01:57AM Jun 15, 2007

The point of this isn't actually the math. We know that every one ends up with a D. The point is, 98% of people think of Denmark as a country, then Kangaroo, then Orange.

I'm in the 2% though. Dominican Republic, Cat, Tomato (I wasn't actually sure if tomatoes are fruits or vegetables though

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tedger

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Posted: 09:27AM Jun 15, 2007

Yes math is not the point of the quiz it's just to make it a little more interesting than saying "pick a country starting with D, then think of the name of an animal that starts with the last letter of that country"...etc.,etc.

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 10:16AM Jun 15, 2007

oh... I probably would've thought of dominican republic... after I thought of denmark and then decided it's too obvious.

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HarryPutter

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Posted: 04:30PM Jun 15, 2007

denmark is cool

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 06:58PM Jun 15, 2007

never been there.. never been to any other country except Canada... but I has a tarantula from Dominican Republic

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rehtaeh

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Posted: 07:19PM Jun 15, 2007

Dominican Republic, coneshell, lemon definatly 2%

SAVE THE NARWHALS!!!

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Trickster1992

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Posted: 09:06PM Jun 15, 2007

lol are ya now? you couldve read through before you took the test.

hmm.. you could also do Denmark, Kitten, Nectarine.. its still using denmark but not kangaroo and orange

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achin4clay

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Posted: 10:37AM Jun 21, 2007

omg! i loved that! guess i'm not to original ay?

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FutureMD

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Posted: 11:16AM Jun 27, 2007

Well, I'm very frustrated. I did this and I fell into the 98% category. Since I thought it was pretty cool, I did it to a few people at my school. About half of the people did the math wrong!! How ridiculous is that. So when I asked them if they were thinking of a Kangaroo eating an orange in Denmark, most people just looked at me like I was crazy.
Also, one of my friends did Darfur, which I think was a good idea. I'm surprised most people don't think of Darfur since it's been publicised so much lately.

~Future MD~

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