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Alex has 99 pies.

Bob has the square root of the number of pies Alex has.

So how many pies does Bob have?

10 pies although the crust is missing off one them ?

Still don't see what is so special about these questions...it's not important if it's pies or anything else in the first place, you just take the square root from 99 and that's the result.

After then, you can make an interpretation on what it means to have about 9.95 pies. Usually, that would mean some small fraction of one of the pies is missing, just like SaveFerris wrote.

Am I not getting the point?

Edit: Or is the point of your post to make fun of these kind of questions by choosing an example that is absolutely useless in the real world?

Correct.

If it were children, or employees, or pets, or cars. The correct answer would be "ten".

But since its pies the answer is something like 9.99998.

So the last pie would have to have a tiny piece of crust removed (strictly speaking).

I think the point of this question is that, to any of us, the answer can't possibly be 10 because that's not exactly right.

To anyone who has never posted on this forum, the answer is just "about 10". Or maybe they would question why we're bothering to ask the question at all.

Bob is the best!

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The answer is probably like "pi." A number that can never be a definite quantity.

Alex: So, how many pies do you have?

Bob: The square root to the number you have.

Alex: Did you order it that way?

Bob: Yes, the guy on the till sure seemed confused.

Alex: Why do you overcomplicate everything?

Bob: Why do you question everything I do?

Alex: That's it, I'm kicking you out. You can find a new roommate, and I'm using your old room to store my 99 pies.

I really think Bob & Alex should address their pie fetish , it's not that healthy unless of course they are clowns

According to https://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/sto ... al-numbers, "Only perfect squares have rational square roots. Since there is no integer that can be multiplied by itself to make 99, the square root of 99 is irrational. "

That's hard to believe. There really are no cases the square root of a number is a non-integer but rational? The square root of 6.25 is 2.5, which is rational.

Do perfect squares have to be integers? I guess it makes sense that if a number is an integer and has no integer square root, its square root would have to be irrational because all decimals get smaller when squared...