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The Last Straw

September 18, 2018From the book Math with Bad Drawings

The straw that broke the camel's back, graphed: the pain barely rises with each straw, then suddenly spikes.

Transcript

[Graph: Camel's Back Pain vs. Number of Straws, flat then shooting up]

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-09-18-the-last-straw/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
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