Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Fox and the Grapes

March 30, 2018

A downward-sloping line graphs Aesop's sour-grapes fox: the less reachable the grapes, the more desirable.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-03-30-fox-and-the-grapes/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Graph: desirability of grapes (y) vs. accessibility of grapes (x), decreasing line]

Fox: "Stupid fruit-marbles. Probably poison anyway."

Topics
Functions › Linear FunctionsAlgebra › SlopeFunctions › GraphsStatistics › Data Displays
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
Literature & MythAnimalsFood
People
Aesop (fable)