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Gingerbread Man

April 4, 2018

A graph shows a gingerbread man's edibility dropping as he runs farther, with a cliff where the five-second rule kicks in.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-04-04-gingerbread-man/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

[Graph: edibility (y) vs. distance (x), with a sharp drop labeled "five-second rule kicks in"]

Gingerbread man (running): "RUUUUUN"

Topics
Functions › GraphsFunctions › Piecewise FunctionsFunctions › Decreasing FunctionsStatistics › Data Displays
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
Literature & MythFood