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Homework Statement:: Bob has 36 candy bars. He eats 29. What does he have now?
Relevant Equations:: 36

29

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First attempt: Bob has dental cavities.
 
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The US record for moderation in eating? Having beaten the previous record of only 30 bars by "Abe the abstainer", from Slimsville, Mississippi!
 
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docnet said:
Homework Statement:: Bob has 36 candy bars. He eats 29. What does he have now?
First attempt: Bob has dental cavities.
Only variations on the same theme. E.g.
  • diabetes
  • indigestion
  • obesity
 
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A beating waiting for him, because kids don't have the money to buy so many candy bars.
 
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PC/"Woke" bullseye on his/her back for sharing/not sharing/overeating/undereating...
 
docnet said:
Homework Statement:: Bob has 36 candy bars. He eats 29. What does he have now?
Relevant Equations:: 36

29

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First attempt: Bob has dental cavities.
Should the question be "What does have now"? or "How many candy bars does he have now"? If how many, then simply the difference, 7. The two questions do not mean the same thing.
 
Diarrhea.
 
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An overwhelming feeling of disgust with himself that can only be resolved by eating the last seven.
 
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Bob now has the realization that he has to go shopping sometime in the next week (7 days).

Bob likes to eat 1 candy bar a day. Bob buys 36 candy bars and eats 29.
 
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Enough bait for seven more yummy children?
 
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haruspex said:
36 candy bars, mostly internal.
conservation of candy-bars
[what is the corresponding symmetry?... does anyone Noe.. ...ther? ]
 
robphy said:
conservation of candy-bars
[what is the corresponding symmetry?... does anyone Noe.. ...ther? ]
It would have units of action per candy bar.
 
robphy said:
conservation of candy-bars
[what is the corresponding symmetry?... does anyone Noe.. ...ther? ]
I always thought that SR should be based on the No-ether theorem.
 
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haruspex said:
It would have units of action per candy bar.
The appropriate units for the action for the candy bar is second*calories.