At biology class...

Far: Okay, you do this one. Subject A's heart beats 50 times in 38 seconds. How many times does it beat in one minute?
Student: [works it out laboriously on paper because she's not allowed a calculator] Uh... 2,180...?
 I couldn't help laughing. Although I shouldn't, because it really isn't funny at all. All I kept thinking was, ( Read more... )