Chapter 83: Shameless (1/2)
Chapter 83: Shameless
Translator: Pika
One of the students iy? Two people have to share a bowl of rice? How in the world do they eat like that?”
Yang Wei’s face darkened “Why are you picking faults with the question? We’re here to answer the question, not to gossip about whether the fay or not”
Zu An chuckled softly under his breath He couldn’t understand why Yang Wei would think that such a simple question was somehow difficult Could it be that people in this world didn’t understand the concept of algebra?
Zu An did a rough calculation before writing down ‘60’
“Gulp~”
Yang Wei sed in shock How could this be? Did the fellow see the answer key beforehand? No, that’s impossible I came up with these questions on the spot! Are these questions actually that easy?
He started to doubt his sanity, but was comforted by the confused looks on the faces of the students all around Nay, how can that be? That fellow uessed the answer to the question, and happened to get ‘60’ on his first try Yes, that’s definitely the case
Zu An htmoon City’s market, a rooster is worth 5 qian, a chicken is worth 3 qian, and three chicks are worth 1 qian The farmer used a total of 100 qian to buy 100 animals So, how many roosters, chicken, and chicks did she buy in total?’[1]
H There are three unknown variables but we can only formulate two equations here However, since the nuuess and check
Of course, on’t exhaustively guess all of the possibilities to figure out the answer There’s a trick to it Taking the number of roosters, chickens, and chicks to be x, y, and z respectively, we can simplify the equation to y = (100 -7x)/4
Given that the number of roosters, chickens, and chicks have to be whole numbers, the equation (100 - 7x) must be a number that is divisible by 4, which means that x has to be an even number
From there, we can quickly deduce that there are 4 roosters, 18 chickens, and 78 chicks in total![2]
When Yang Wei saw Zu An writing the answer out, his mind blanked out for an instant Three questions! He has already ed to answer three questions correctly!
He couldn’t throw his weight around and insist that Zu An’s ansrong because of the huge croatching While these students ht not be able to solve the questions properly, it was easy enough for the backward On top of all that, Shang Liuyu’s eyes were on hi this? Isn’t he supposed to be trash? How is he able to answer all of these questions so easily? On top of that, the speed at which he’s solving these proble answered three questions correctly, the bet had already been lost Yang Wei couldn’t chase him out of the academy anymore Instead, he had to pray that Zu An wouldn’t be able to solve all of the questions, or else he would find hiht that such a situation would occur, so he agreed to the bet without any hesitation Zu An’s high proficiency in arith inside
No, there’s nothing to fear The questions are getting progressively harder, especially for the last one I found it in an ancient record Putting aside the students, even he couldn’t solve the question himself!
No matter how incredible this fellow is, there must be a limit to his capability There’s no way he can solve such an ancient difficult question too!
To his dise as he solved question after question, eliciting shocked excla students Initially, they’d assuuess the right answer However, the fact that he was able to solve question after question correctly with hardly any pause proved that he was a true arith to see Zu An make a fool out of himself After all, he had married Chu Chuyan, the most beautiful woman in their acade They couldn’t accept how he had a harele Any one of thehtest chance to drive hih, as the challenge progressed, none of the the questions one after another Instead, they were starting to tre that wasexpelled was seeing their own teacher being expelled!
The faintest trace of a s Liuyu’s lips as well Her eyes were locked onto Zu An He really looked quite suave when he was focused on a task
She was reazebo, which further spurred her curiosity about hi?
In contrast to Shang Liuyu’s relaxed de Wei dabbed at his forehead frequently with his handkerchief, which was already drenched in his cold sweat He could sense the eyes of the crowd lingering on hioosebumps rise all over his body Cal to worry about There’s no way he’ll be able to solve the last question!
Finally, Zu An reached the last question
‘Two farhtmoon City’s market to sell, and the two of theoods The first told the second, “If I had as s as you, I would have been able to earn 15 silver qian” The second then replied, “If I had as s as you, I would only have been able to earn 6 and two-third qian” How s do each of the the question fervently ast the chicken eggs, right? Why are their prices different then?”
“Isn’t that perfectly nor than the other People will naturally buy from the farmer’s wife that looks better even if it’sone has no choice but to lower her price to bring in customers”
“What ords!”