Mr. Feeny Not Always One Right Answer - Boy Meets World S1E12

Mr. Feeny explains to the class how not every question always has one exact answer.

[@DukeDarkshadow]

The answer is zero. They've both already washed the car once each. It doesn't need to be washed again for a third time.

[@598superchris]

DukeDarkshadow why do you have an 👿:evil,scary profile pic?

[@dusankosovic9306]

@@598superchris right?

[@josethmoreno854]

CT Dawg are you five?

[@George-Cancel]

DukeDarkshadow boys meet world is really something special .

[@3579mrjohn]

And ln a alternate universe it didn't happen!!

[@ambercrosland6472]

Cory gave the same lesson on Girl meets world 😉 guess he did pay attention to Mr. Fenny 's Lesson

[@3579mrjohn]

Yeah but it ended up being that Farkle got the eye from Riley and Lucas got a bucket of water dumped overr his head!!

[@muhammada5207]

Or maybe it means they have great writers who maybe are still the same?

[@bullshark3771]

Amber Crosland girl meets world is trash it’s practically a remake but worse the writing isn’t as strong sans with character development

[@kiwiangeldust6912]

@@bullshark3771 you’re completely delusional

[@lexi_qw]

*mr. Mathews* used this same question when he Teached Riley and them

[@smg3250]

No! Really?! Where??!!😒

[@lexi_qw]

@@smg3250 Bro no need to act all rude I just commented it because I wanted too you don't have too be all rude

[@maevewalker9477]

šhèép gãçhã she wasn’t being rude tho

[@lexi_qw]

@@maevewalker9477 Yes she was she was being sarcastic and it was rude The way she said it

[@anthonyalba1238]

And Farkle was wrong too.

[@ihavethegaydust.poofyourga9046]

"The answer is that there isnt one." So it was okay for cory to punch that "teacher" through a door

[@Talongirl333]

Would have been beyond genius if in the Girl Meets World episode, they could have clipped kid Minkus into a scene at the end credits - showing he did creat time travel

[@alexh8613]

They already did that at the end of the Boy Meets World episode

[@theshrimp1657]

I love how the Episode doesn’t explain the riddle. leaving it up to the viewer to truly find the answer for themselves.

[@mrfeenysfence]

It's still a mystery!

[@thefighter5182]

It's not a mystery because I know the answer and it's 3.43 minutes.

[@maddy_gacha94]

Anyone come from girl meets world and look at the people and are suprised

[@stupoomichu]

Me

[@lolelyamour8527]

Yep.

[@janaejagrup3323]

Lol how high Minkus’s voice is sounds like my brother who is 15 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bonbonthebonsai5524]

Same question that cory gave to rily and her friends

[@stupoomichu]

Ikr

[@WatchLearnSee]

They divide the car in half. Fred washes his half in 4 minutes. Al finishes his half in 3 minutes and then goes buy an ice cream and poke fun at Fred for the remaining one minute

[@nathanieljefferies5491]

I honestly wish they chose something more philosophical rather than an Algebra work problem cause those only have one answer or in the way they complicatedly explained it, a quadratic or even cubic equation since those actually have more than one answer.

[@johnnybravado7141]

It's the theory of everything. The results are determined by the choices you make and because there are so many choices the results are not necessarily predictable because they're not always the same.

[@TimpossibleOne]

Approximately 3-1/2 minutes If one can wash it in 8 minutes and the other in 6 minutes then the average per car is 7 minutes but with 2 of them together that time is halved.

[@notmakingcontent]

Wrong. The correct answer is that there isn't one.

[@opiet8081]

Correct. And even more specifically it's about 3 minutes and 26 seconds.

[@presidentskroob]

@@opiet8081 not necessarily. The problem just said they wash the car together. How they split the work up will cause the time to vary. This problem has no solution because there’s not enough information to derive an answer.

[@manifestman132]

In the real world 6 min guy will pick up the pace because he is working with 8 minutes guy and 8 may or may not slow down might even speed up to prove himself.

[@awc512]

If it's a math problem, there is one and only one right answer. 3 and 3/7 min as others have pointed out. The only way to have multiple answers is to make it a social or behavioral question instead of a math one.

[@Claire-tz8yl]

The way its phrased makes it more of a social question in my opinion. There's no details to get a correct mathematic answer. It's just easy to assume work is split evenly. The maths answer can change depending on if they split the work evenly or if one did more work than the other. If we assume work split evenly then it would take 4 minutes. Since one person cleans half in 3 minutes but it takes 4 for the other person. So 4 minutes total. It would take less than 4 minutes though if the Al helps Fred after completing his half.

[@mrfeenysfence]

@@Claire-tz8yl Maybe they drive through a car wash?

[@thefighter5182]

Maybe they both were washing the car and the correct answer is 3.43 minutes.

[@hydrelisk]

The truth is the way the problem is stated there is not enough information to give one definitive answer. It is not stated that their speed for cleaning the car is homogeneus or, as a weaker hypothesis, that their relative speed ratio is the same across all parts of the car cleaning.

[@godson30032]

Cory actually said something right I know that turned Topanga on

[@davidhughes4689]

you still don't get the point of what he was trying to teach them Corey was right based on the law of averages (8+6) /2 =7 2 being the number of people assuming that they washed the car together? But what the teacher wanted them to understand was that there is not always one right answer there is always another way to see a situation in the world of education they teach you to find an answer to what ever question your asked but in the real world there can be more than one way to do things or no way to do that thing at all.

[@miw14programmer11]

Assuming both wash the same car and start at the time. Al washes 1/6 of the car is washed per minute. Fred washes 1/8 of the car is washed per minute. So it would be 1/6(x)+1/8(x) = 1 car. Where we would find x which equals time. x = 24/7 or about 3.43 minutes. I think this is it.

[@vfs148]

Yep, that's the answer I got.

[@graigcollins6699]

can we just appreciate that this could be used as an allegory for the political climate in the us

[@dream6562]

No

[@davidkenway4862]

Graig Collins nah

[@edwardgill1882]

I'm reminded of Mr. Data and the Zakdorn playing their game of Strategema.

[@wfow1448]

When Data went for the stalemate instead of the win? That was a great learning experience for the Lt. Cmdr.!

[@istoletheuwus4205]

14 minutes. Al washed the car in six minutes, Fred washed the ‘same’ car in eight, that’s fourteen minutes total. They were already washing it ‘together’. He never said how much of the car they each washed in those minutes. It may have not been at the same time, but they were already working together. This isn’t just a math story problem, it’s a math riddle with the wordplay. The words come before the numbers.

[@mrfeenysfence]

In life, many times, the right answer is that there isn't one.

[@thefighter5182]

If you're into analytics then the numbers always matters. Because in life when you have mathematics and advanced algebra then there is always an answer. Because in College you got to know these things because if you don't then you don't know anything at all.

[@piprose7652]

Tried to solve a middle school question= discovering the secret of time travel. Sounds about right😂

[@mrfeenysfence]

Oops!

[@mrfeenysfence]

Go into the future to get the answer! Smart kid!

[@richiem5112]

Yes

[@anthonyalba1238]

"Really differently." Lol

[@minniemouse6460]

Hi

[@LORD-kg4sl]

Lmao they look like midgets after watching the last video

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

And is all that math on the board real or just a bunch of made up gibberish?

[@Kruppt808]

Look at her hair, wow

[@Underyourbedeyes]

that was the point. Her hair was supposed to be weird

[@jessicabrack2846]

@@Underyourbedeyes It is beatiful, not weird

[@Underyourbedeyes]

@@jessicabrack2846 ok but it was supposed to be hippie-ish.

[@jessicabrack2846]

@@Underyourbedeyes That might be, but it is not weird. I would have my hair like that

[@Underyourbedeyes]

@@BillHicks420 um no. Do you see the rest of the girls in the class? Im the same age as them. And this definitely was not popular. Maybe in the 80s but not 1997.

[@codyyoung4236]

I've always found it odd how Mr..Fenny would.always call him Mr. Matthews through the show and not Cory. Mutal respect I guess. Great show

[@lifeisbitvlover171]

He called all of them by their surnames, Ms Lawrence, Mr Matthews, Mr Hunter, Mr Minkus... Even in Girl meets world

[@chesleywasson9565]

Minkus wrong finally

[@patrickmccutcheon8860]

It fucked him up, that's for sure.

[@RadialEnergy]

YES TIME TRAVEL!! CROSSOVER TIME!!!!

[@ChaosPod]

You mean the one where Salem eats Sabrina's time ball and then goes across different TGIF shows creating different time periods? Boy meets world was the 1940s.

[@acreativeprincess9334]

RadialEnergy He didn’t discover time travel I Paused on the board and it’s just some algebra and geometry and some of it is even done wrong

[@nrkgalt]

Minkus went forward in time and say that in high school he was announcing basketball games.

[@mrfeenysfence]

@@ChaosPod Is Minkus responsible for all the time travel episodes?

[@alexarobinson2455]

Yoooo this question is also in girl meets world

[@joshuadesautels]

"You two have completely ruined this experiment!"

[@celesteknox6928]

Mr. Feeny wasn't even surprised when minkus said that he may have discovered the secret to time travel😂

[@F5_cena]

And how to create iPhone Terminators Etc

[@zipzappower8544]

Lol farkle dad

[@billybryon23]

Al washes the car at 1/6th of the car per minute. Fred washes the car at 1/8th of the car per minute. Al and Fred working together must take the same amount of time to wash the car. Let's denote this time as t. So t times Al's time plus t times Fred's time = 1 whole car washed. So t(1/6) + t(1/8) = t(1/6 +1/8) = t(8/48 + 6/48) = t(14/48) = t(7/24) = 1. Therefore t = 24/7 or little under 3.5 minutes. I think that's the actual answer.

[@TheThreeHeadedDragon]

What if Al and Fred are really good friends and denote more time to goofing around than working? This wasn't actually supposed to be a math problem.

[@poppy87]

TheThreeHeadedDragon that’s the point. It’s one of many unknown possible variables.

[@HeadToSoles]

The answer is 3 min 25 5/7 seconds

[@thesaturnsound]

Y’all MFers totally failed Feenys class.

[@zoeno8307]

Billy Bryon wow you’re stupid

[@stupoomichu]

I came here from girl meets world and wow cory cant doesnt have that much original lessons

[@needles1987]

That's because Feeny's the best.

[@emilyw530]

May not even be an answer at all. Welcome to adulthood cory matthews.

[@ThrewRedButter]

Trick Question: THERE IS NO CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ella6784]

Shawn 😂

[@annepauline9222]

Secret of life

[@wfow1448]

People change people.

[@leeand2790]

I think I casually found time travel. #BoyMeetsWorld #LOL

[@Richard_AKL]

There is a right answer, and the easiest way to work it out is to let each of them wash half the car and go with the time it takes for the one who takes longer so 4minutes and the other one can sit around for 30 seconds. Also 8min to wash a car is ridiculously quick and either of these guys could with the olympics or car washing. They're faster than a robotic car was and at the going average rate here in NZ of $15 per robotic wash could be earning $112.50/hr washing cars.

[@itsjohnny3016]

Lol there is an answer to this question

[@itsjohnny3016]

We do this question in secondary school

[@hillyplays29]

10 minutes