Sandy Wood
Brain Game: Here’s the Pitch
by Sandy Wood - September 5, 2008 - 6:30 AM

THE ANSWER:

Calvin threw 10 pitches on the Monday, and 40 on Saturday.

He threw 10 pitches on Monday, then 16 on Tuesday, 22 on Wednesday, 28 on Thursday, 34 on Friday, and 40 on Saturday for a total of 150.

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Comments (7)

  1. Monday- 10 pitches
    Saturday- 40 pitches

    posted by Milena on 9-5-2008 at 8:45 am

  2. Here :) In case anyone’s interested, I’ll ‘show all work’.

    Mon = x
    Tue = x+6
    Wed = x+12
    Thu = x+18
    Fri = x+24
    Sat = x+30

    6x+90 = 150 pitches
    6x = 60
    x = 10

    posted by Josh on 9-5-2008 at 9:28 am

  3. Wow…i read that completely wrong…I came up with him pitching 20 pitches Monday and 26 each day afterwards…which equals 150 at the end of Saturday…I thought it was fishy that you asked how many pitches on saturday, like it mattered from the other days

    posted by Derek the Dumb on 9-5-2008 at 12:32 pm

  4. Nice Josh, just did the same thing myself. Was going to post it, but you beat me to it.

    posted by Will on 9-5-2008 at 5:05 pm

  5. Wow, I feel so smart now…

    posted by Chris on 9-6-2008 at 9:24 am

  6. Hey derek….i did the same thing too!! dunno bout you but i feel that the question should have read “increase the number of pitches by six for the previous day” :)

    posted by Jason on 9-7-2008 at 5:15 am

  7. is it just me or that was too easy this time?

    posted by Mz on 9-7-2008 at 8:18 am

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