Thursday, January 10, 2013

Creative Mathematics...

For today's adventure in freelance writing, we conduct a math experiment.

The assignment: A blog post. "10 Tips for Designing a Restaurant Menu."

The dilemma: After spending a very long time, painstakingly researching and choosing 10 separate tips that involve designing a restaurant menu, it comes to your attention that tip number 5 and tip number 6 are pretty much exactly the same tip. There's slightly different information in each, but it's fairly obvious that this is essentially the same tip told two different ways. More importantly, you feel confident this will be fairly obvious to your editors.

The problem: Is it possible to combine tips 5 and 6 into one, without sacrificing any of the tips in the post and still coming out with an even 10 at the end?

The solution: Yes. Apparently it is possible. Specific details as to how this was accomplished remain a mystery. I'm confident I have the write answer, but... Please don't ask me to show my work.

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