is that spelled with an em-dash?

[sev]

If half my guests will be drinking twice as much white wine as red wine, but the other half of my guests will drink 50% more wine total than the first half and will drink three times as much red wine as white wine, what ratio of red wine to white wine should I purchase?

(thirteen bottles of red for each eleven bottles of white, by my math.)






(I did that in pen.)

Comments

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

I've never had a party yet where I didn't end up with more wine than I started with.

[bevsob.livejournal.com]

True for house parties - but the lovely ms sevoo is referring to a more formal event. (coming up soon! whee!)

The nice reception-planning people say 1/3 white, 1/3 lighter red, 1/3 darker red. I think that seems pretty close, though possibly a little high on the white wine end given our friends.

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

Oh, I beg your pardon -- I either didn't read carefully or didn't make the obvious connection.

[sev]

or I was just vague. :)

[aynjel.livejournal.com]

Nope, an en-dash. ;)

(And I wonder where I fit into that equation since I prefer red, and I suppose would drink three times as much red as white, where the quantity of white specified might be .5 glasses... huh. I think I just answered my own question.)

[sev]

editor fight! editor fight!

(you're one of the weirdoes in the second group who neither drinks a lot nor drinks red. people like you (and me) keep the second group from drinking five times as much as the first!)

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Huh. I got 7 red to 5 white. Okay, let's try that again... (2/3)w + (1/3)r + 3/2*((1/4)w + (3/4)r) = (2/3)w + (3/8)w + (1/3)r + (9/8)r = ((16+9)/24)w + ((8+27)/24)r = (25/24)w + (35/24)r ∝ 25w + 35r ∝ 5w + 7r

Or, disposing of the fractions: assume the first set of guests drinks 16 bottles of white and 8 bottles of red. That's 24 total, so the second set will have to drink a total 36 bottles, being 9 white and 27 red. So, 25 bottles of white and 35 of red, which reduces to 5 resp. 7.

[sev]

I probably incurred a rounding error somewhere; our answers are close. It's common for that to happen to me when I'm working things out by hand.

[somebunny.livejournal.com]

@barbie: Math is hard! Let's go shopping!

[firecat]

nothing is spelled with an em-dash! an em-dash is punctuation. ;-)

[sev]

editor fight! editor fight!

wedding wine

[goldfish42.livejournal.com]

My only good piece of advice is: buy the best. My mother planned most of my wedding, (our personal ceremony was held at a nature trail, with about three witnesses,) and decided to buy cheeper wine so we could get more of it. I think more would have been consumed if it was a higher quality. Instead, we had lots of wine that no one had more than one glass of.