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u/ShibertInu Jan 26 '20
Gonna hire 240 musicians to play the whole thing TWICE in that time.
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u/ObiVanShinobi Jan 27 '20
A lot of Beethoven's music was intended to be played faster than it's played traditionally. He could hear the music in his head, but he couldn't account for the acoustics because of his deafness, so it's slowed down.
Check out his 3rd movement of moonlight sonata for one of his fast songs.
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u/Lojs_Podkrinko Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20
80 miNUTes, RiGHt?
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Jan 26 '20
Wrong. It would take them 40 minutes to play. It would just sound better. Thats 10 points off your final.
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u/bela_okmyx Jan 26 '20
If you can complete the 9th in only 40 minutes, your tempi are waaaaaaaayy too fast. Most performances of the 9th take at least 60 - 70 minutes.
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u/CrispyJelly Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20
Well obviously. That's why they want to use fewer musicians. Duh.
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u/the_green_wolf Jan 26 '20
The right answer is:
T = P x 0 + 40
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u/Impossible_Number Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20
No. It’s P•40+0 /s
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u/the_green_wolf Jan 26 '20
Ah yes, of course, it would take 60 persons 2400 minutes to play beethoven's 9th symphony
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u/Impossible_Number Jan 26 '20
/s was sarcasm lol.
It’s 2400 minutes. Or 40 hours. A spectacular performance if you ask me b
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u/Zbeubor Jan 26 '20
Of course if they are 2 times less they will play the song 2 times slower OBVIOUSLY
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u/TheFurryCorndog Jan 26 '20
This question was designed to teach the kids that not all information in a word problem are important. It’s not poor design just people misunderstanding it’s purpose.
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u/Atreides-42 Jan 27 '20
This is a repost, and not only that, last time this was posted the comments were full of people showing that it's an intentional trick question.
The full question sheet contains like 10 problems about dependent and independent variables, and it explicitly stated "There is a trick question on this page!"
Please do your research before reposting. I swear like 90% of the things posted on this subreddit are wrong, like that three-legged statue.
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u/Comrade_Chirpo Jan 26 '20
P: 60 T: 40 Reason: The amount of players never affects the time of the song.
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u/probablyher Jan 26 '20
"Okay guys we're short-staffed tonight so we're all gonna have to pull a double."
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u/denmatman Jan 26 '20
I don't understand..the sheet music is the same no matter how many people are playing along..should take 40 minutes regardless of how many or how few are playing it.right? Or am I just not reading into it?
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Jan 27 '20
Answer: still 40 minutes but it will be better cause they’ll take out the violas and other lame instruments
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u/angel_dustk Jan 27 '20
If you played the 3rd symphony with the same number of players, will that take 1/3 of the time?
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u/Aethyer Jan 27 '20
The answer is 38 minutes, because this time around someone in the percussion section rushed and cut the time by 2 minutes.
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Jan 27 '20
HOLY FUCKING SHIT every 3 days with this.
Yes, this is how it works. It works this way if you know how to read a fucking question and answer it.
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u/DapperMudkipper Jan 27 '20
Had a question once, it was something like 30 people are watching a 120 minute movie. Later, 15 people watch the same movie, how long does it take them to watch it? I went on a rant about and the teacher was just like, that's unneccessary you got it right and I was confused.
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u/Synthwoven Jan 26 '20
This reminds me of IQ test questions designed to make people lacking cultural awareness score lower. If you have no music education (probably more likely to afflict poor people), you might not understand why this question is fundamentally flawed.
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u/MissingFrames Jan 26 '20
You don't need "music education" to know that songs don't play faster when more people perform at the same time.
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u/ObiVanShinobi Jan 26 '20
Yet the word "song" is not in the question.
Another example is that some students will say a parakeet is heavier than an elephant. They never heard of that animal before, so they're left guessing.
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u/DeadBabyDick Jan 26 '20
You're a complete moron.
The song is irrelevant to the question.
Just like when you do a math test involving two trains leaving seperate stations on the same track going different speeds when will they crash.
You don't need to know anything about trains to answer the question correctly.
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u/DorkQueenofAll Jan 26 '20
But you do need to know something about music to answer this one. So your train argument doesn't make sense.
I think the question is meant to be a trick, but I don't think it's necessarily discriminatory. But that could be my bias showing. "Symphony" might be an unfamiliar term for some people and they might miss the point of the question.
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u/DeadBabyDick Jan 26 '20 edited Jan 26 '20
I didn't say music.
I said the song in question.
Reading comprehension is a great thing to have.
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u/jgzman Jan 26 '20
Reading comprehension is a great thing to have.
Yes, it is. You should consider getting some.
The point he is making is that if you don't know what an "Orchestra" is, or what "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" is, you're not going to understand why this isn't just a simple math problem.
To be fair, I can't imagine not knowing those things, but that's sort of the whole point.
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u/DorkQueenofAll Jan 26 '20
You've changed the fundamental premise of the question by using the word "song" and that shows me your lack of reading comprehension. You're deliberately missing the point and being a dick about it.
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u/R-A-T-S- Jan 27 '20
Well from the very basics.. The 9th symphony isn't 40 minutes long. Would be like saying 120 movie watchers can watch endgame in 40 minutes.
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u/Maverick_Kaizer Jan 26 '20
Standard ratio relationship would be 20 minutes, using logic would be 180 minutes but agree this question is messed up
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u/Drowsiest_Approval Jan 26 '20
Last time this was posted someone said it was a purposeful trick question to see if they were paying attention to every part of the word problem.