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Constraint (Boldfish Brackers)

September 3, 2024From the book Math for English Majors

Parents explain that their toddler will eat any food, with one constraint: it must rhyme with "boldfish brackers." The toddler eyes a slice of pizza with suspicion.

Transcript

"Our toddler will eat any food, with the one constraint that it has to rhyme with 'boldfish brackers.'" [Toddler to a pizza slice:] "you aren't shaped like a fish…"

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2024-09-03-constraint/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Applied Math › Optimization
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
Themes
FoodFamily & Relationships