got this in an e-mail...

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Where eva theres Cichla!!!
>>YOUR AGE BY EATING OUT
>>Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood
>>anyway-but your
>>waiter may know!
>>
>>
>>YOUR AGE BY DINER & RESTAURANT MATH
>>
>>
>>This is pretty neat.
>>
>>DON'T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
>>It takes less than a minute .
>>Work this out as you read ..
>>Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!
>>This is not one of those waste of time things, it's fun.
>>
>>1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would
>>like to go
>>out to eat.
>>(more than once but less than 10)
>>
>>2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
>>
>>3. Add 5
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>>
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>>4. Multiply it by 50
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>>5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756 .
>>If you haven't, add 1755.
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>>6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.
>>
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>>You should have a three digit number
>>
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>>The first digit of this was your original number
>>(I.e., how! Many times you want to go out to restaurants in a
>>week.)
>>
>>The next two numbers are
>>
>>YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)
>>
>>THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2006) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND
>>WHILE IT
>>LASTS
 
very weird.. it did work..
 
it worked for me 2.... intresting!
 
tis the 1st time ive seen it, i was just gonna delete it thinking yeah righto, but i gave it a chance and it worked, so i was like woah!!! haha
 
I've seen that several times and it hasn't been just this year. the email is right, this year is the only year that exact equation will work because next year it will have to be add 1757 if you've already had your b-day and 1756 if you haven't and it'll go up by 1 every year. here's why--take all the information you're given and you get an equation that looks like this:

(2x+5)50+1756-1977 (x is the number you chose at the beginning and I put 1756 because I've already had my birthday and 1977 was the year I was born).....multiply the first part of the equation and you get:

100x + 250 +1756-1977 (add 250 + 1756 and guess what you get....2006) so...

100x + 2006 - 1977 which gives you a 3 digit number (I chose 3 to begin with) so...

100(3) + 2006 - 1977

300 + 2006 -1977 (this gives you a 3 digit number...first number multiplied by 100 gives you the first digit in your final 3 digit number and 2006 - your year of birth gives you your age

not voo-doo, just simple math made into a semi complicated and imaginative word problem.

:)
 
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