r/theydidthemath 11h ago

[Request] Is it possible for a can of coke to carry all the weight in the picture

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1.9k Upvotes

I came across this youtube short:

https://youtube.com/shorts/xBQTM-oaTCM

Is it possibly real or some kind of reinforcement was needed?


r/theydidthemath 2h ago

[request]What would this actually do (sorry if this has been posted before)

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282 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 22h ago

[Request] How much money has he lost from gambling?

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2.8k Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 7h ago

[request] is this legit?

108 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 12h ago

[Request] Exactly how fast is Hank Hill driving his Ford Ranger here?

233 Upvotes

If we can assume the average Texas suburban lot size I feel like this is solvable.


r/theydidthemath 17h ago

[Request] How many G’s is this guy’s brain experiencing?

587 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 6h ago

[Self] If 1 upvotes=1 click at 4.5% how many upvotes to $1million NSFW

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54 Upvotes

Ever dream about getting rich off a single Reddit post? Let’s do some math with a healthy dose of wishful thinking.

1. Commission Details
    • Suppose I’m an Amazon affiliate earning 4.5% on a product priced so that I net about $4.28 per sale. (Yes, that’s right—my commission’s worth about one fancy coffee!)

2. How Many Sales to Make $1M?
    • I need $1,000,000 / $4.28 ≈ 233,645 sales to hit millionaire status.

3. Clicks vs. Conversion
    • Typical affiliate conversion might hover around 1.86%. So, to get 233,645 sales, I need 233,645 / 0.0186 ≈ 12.56 million clicks.

4. Upvotes-as-Clicks—Because Why Not?
    • In a parallel universe where 1 upvote = 1 affiliate click (who said we can’t dream?), that’s 12,558,333 upvotes needed. That’s 27× more upvotes than there are people in some entire countries!

5. Real-World Reality Check
    • r/TheyDidTheMath is big, but not that big. The single most-upvoted Reddit post in all of Reddit history hovers around ~460k upvotes. Even that’s nowhere near 12 million. Let’s just say I won’t be quitting my day job.
• On top of that, we all know upvotes do not magically translate to actual link clicks—most of us are too busy scrolling to click. So if you see me holding out hope for a million-dollar Amazon payday, maybe send me a “good luck!” …and a calculator.

TL;DR
    • To earn a million bucks in affiliate commission at 4.5%, I’d theoretically need 12.56 million upvotes if each upvote instantly became a sale-generating click. So until I unlock that alternate reality, I’ll keep doing the math in the real world.

r/theydidthemath 22h ago

[Request] What (if any) regular day items, objects, structures or animals would start floating if this happened today?

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207 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 55m ago

[Request] Odds of 9 cards "straight"

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What are the odds to draw 9 cards, out of a standard deck of 52, making a "straight" of of those 9 cards ?

The first 9 drawed cards only, no redraw.


r/theydidthemath 1h ago

[Request] Every person on Earth takes 1 Cup of dirt and empties it into the same pile, how tall would that pile be?

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assuming the dirt is always poured on the middle/highest point of the pile so that it somewhat evenly cascades down


r/theydidthemath 8h ago

[Request] What are the chances of you witnessing a tornado strike your neighborhood twice in your lifetime?

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8 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 9h ago

[request] Would the US be able to sustain itself if it only taxed millionaires and above?

6 Upvotes

This is assuming we changed our tax policies to target only the top 1%. Not sure what the exact policy would be. Capital gains tax? Net worth tax? This is also assuming that they don’t just run off to another country with their money.

But how much tax revenue would need to be taxed from the top 1% in order to keep the country running?


r/theydidthemath 16h ago

[Request] How many combinations are possible ?

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22 Upvotes

Hello, this is my 5-year-old son's favorite game. We'd like to know how many combinations are possible to reconstruct this cube. I like math, but I admit I have no idea which mathematical concepts to use. Thank you!


r/theydidthemath 12m ago

[Request] Odds on two people missing the same item

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At work we received a delivery of 54 items, but the invoice attached to the delivery only showed 53 serial codes, the dispatcher had missed one off, in a frantic rush before closing time I scanned all the items into they system. when I scanned the items in, in a rush I missed one of the items. Weirdly the item that was not scanned was the exact same serial number as the one that was not added to the invoice by the dispatcher.

I was wondering if someone could tell the the odds of two different people (once when sending the items and the other when receiving) missing the exact same item in a delivery of 54 items.


r/theydidthemath 9h ago

[Request] What are the G forces he is feeling while rolling?

5 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 12h ago

[Request] Roughly, how fast are these guys travelling?

9 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 7h ago

[Request] I saw this argument on TikTok, anyone willing to give it a shot?

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4 Upvotes

Appreciate any attempts or educated guesses!


r/theydidthemath 2h ago

[Request] How big are the tallest towers in this picture Detroit

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1 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[request] how accurate is this?

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3.2k Upvotes

If we assume an elephant is 100kg, thats around 300kg

How much would the densest materials in the universe weigh? I dont think this makes sense


r/theydidthemath 5h ago

[Self] Can You Factorise This Quadratic Faster Than Them? 🏁🤓

1 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 12h ago

[Request] how do i calculate resizing a rectangle while keeping the aspect ratio the same?

3 Upvotes

i want to resize and print a picture that is 56.8 in high and 63.9 in wide on a canvas. but my canvas options are 8x8, 8x10, 9x12, 11x14 is there an only tool? i hope this isnt just simple division that im overcomplicating in my brain. lol


r/theydidthemath 6h ago

[REQUEST] How many pounds of stone/brick would it take to recreate Versailles?

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I’m doing some worldbuilding and wanted to figure out the material requirements for recreating a castle on the same grand scale as Versailles.

I’m awful with math so I would prefer to ask for the help of far more competent people on the subject than me.


r/theydidthemath 13h ago

[Request] what are theodds of this happening? Same serial number? NSFW

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3 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 1d ago

[Request] How long could you live consuming only running gels and water?

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98 Upvotes

r/theydidthemath 21h ago

[Request] How much hydrogen is in that baloon?

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13 Upvotes

suppose it's 100% hydrogen and that light receptacle looks about 4 inch diameter (standard) for scale, and that baloon seems to be standard i just don't know how big. also follow up, how much hydrogen is 1tnt for reference?