False advertising?
Posted in Math is Everywhere, Mathematics on February 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
“Canadians eat enough Smarties each year to circle the Earth 350 times.”
So says the company Nestlé. They have also claimed that Canadians eat about 4 billion Smarties each year.
Now, if both those statements are true then, we have a problem. Considering that Earth is 24,901.55 miles about the equator, then for these [...]