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May 9th, 2008

McSweeney’s: “Word problems for future hedge-fund managers”

Posted by: Adam Pasick
Tags: DealZone,

Online humor site McSweeney’s has compiled a tongue-in-cheek list of math and logic problems:

Your middle-class parents have a combined household income of $115,000. You receive an allowance of $20 per week. If you save all your allowance for two years, how much debt will you have to finance to hostilely take over your family? How will you structure the debt?

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