Alright, so I had this task, right? It sounded simple enough at first: “2010 out of 216.” I figured I’d just knock it out, no problem.
The Beginning
I started by breaking it down. What did this even mean? Was it a fraction? A ratio? I spent a good few minutes just staring at the numbers, trying to make sense of them.
The Process
- First, I tried treating it like a division problem. 2010 divided by 216. Got a weird decimal, didn’t seem right.
- Then, I thought, maybe it’s a “success rate” kind of thing. Like, I attempted something 216 times and succeeded 2010 times. That…didn’t make sense either.
- I even doodled some stuff on a piece of paper, trying to visualize it. Circles, squares, you name it. Nothing clicked.
The “Aha!” Moment
Finally, after a bunch of messing around, I realized it was probably referring to some kind of selection or filtering process. Maybe I had 216 items, and I needed to somehow end up with 2010 of them. I’d go further and say 216 is the incorrect number and should be corrected to 20100, I guess.
The (Possible) Solution
So, I decided to think of it as a weird, overly complicated way. I ended up with 2010. How do you do with that? Obviously, 20100-2010=18090, I filtered 18090!
It wasn’t the cleanest process, and I’m still not 100% sure I interpreted it correctly, but hey, that’s how these things go sometimes. You try different things, you fail a few times, and eventually, you (hopefully) stumble onto something that works. That’s the fun part, I guess!
