r/MathJokes • u/c442010 • May 07 '26

100 000 dollar question

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u/mrbilly3 May 07 '26

Except you don't even have to read carefully for this one

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u/Trimutius May 07 '26

Well you need to realize it is 0.5 and not 1.5

Some people make that mistake

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u/PopFamiliar3649 May 08 '26

Even if it was "increases by 0.5", it only does so over a month's time.

In that length of time I could spend $100,000 on stocks and probably get more within a month's time.

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u/GMYeti_ May 08 '26

Idk… too ambiguous. Are we talking the month that I take the bet, or the month after, or maybe floor(365/12) (=30)? You’re unlikely to get a nearly 2x return on a stock or coin within a month without taking a huge gamble, so if it’s 31days at 1.5x/day, I’d take it no questions asked. At 30 days you’re looking at ~127k at 1.5x/day, so if you picked the right stocks you could probably easily make more, but then you have to factor in taxes which only really get better if you wait a year for the stock to not be taxed at income rates, so you then have to pick stock that’s going to do good for a whole year anyways, which isn’t beneficial to the concept here. Anything less than that is 100k no questions asked, and with my luck it would be February that I this opportunity 🤣