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Mathegocart

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Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Hello my fellow beneficiaries... I'd like to confirm my solution to this problem
The best estimate for the age of the Earth put it at 4.54 billion years. Modern humans have been here for 100,000 years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has 784 pages, and each page has 19 sentences. If the Earth's existence, all 4.54 billion years of it, were on a 784 page book with 19 sentences per page, on what sentence and page would humans appear on?
Through a proportion:

we obtain that humans appeared on the 14,895th sentence and the 783rd page.
Correct?

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bumpkin

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Each sentence is worth 304780 years. How do you answer now?

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Mathegocart

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Humans appear on year 4,539,900,000, so (4,539,900,000)/(304,780) = 14895.662445    i.e, the 14,895th sentence

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bumpkin

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Hi;

Just asking, why would you not round up and say they appear in the 14,896 sentence?

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Mathegocart

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

nvm, I see why

Last edited by Mathegocart (2017-02-26 09:50:16)

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bumpkin

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Supposing your answer was .6754 sentences? Would you say it was in the first sentence?

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Mathegocart

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

I would, I've seen the mistake committed in here.

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He will be sorely missed.

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bumpkin

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Okay, so what do you like as an answer now to the original problem?

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Mathegocart

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

Humans are within 67% in sentence 14,896.

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He will be sorely missed.

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bumpkin

From: Bumpkinland

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Re: Harry Potter and the Age of Man

That is what I would go with, the last sentence. But I always get these type wrong.

I would say humans are in the last 1 / 3 (roughly) part of the last sentence.

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In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.