Weirdest homework question EVER

[What's his face]

It's not difficult or anything (just basic microeconomics - I do most of it in my head), but this question is just so strange I figure I'd share it with you all:

Whomever wrote this question must've been high on something, I would think.

 

[btflash]

i wonder what
"ming the merciless" think's about this?

 

[RJDiogenes]

If it was me, the guy from Mungo would be named Jerry.

 

[Ashu]

Why couldn't my microeconomics course been like that?

Mine was alll like...boring, and normal.

 

[Misfit Toy]

If it was me, the guy from Mungo would be named Jerry.

You're just Rumpleteasing us, aren't you?

 

[What's his face]

My favourite part is right here:

We refer to all Mungoans by the gender-neutral pronoun. "it". Although Mungo has two sexes, neither of them is remotely like either of ours.

 

[Trekker4747]

Ok, that's one messed up question!

 

[Mallory]

Shit, I just failed economics again.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

My favourite part is right here:

We refer to all Mungoans by the gender-neutral pronoun. "it". Although Mungo has two sexes, neither of them is remotely like either of ours.

Must have a planet full of Michael Jacksons, then...

 

[Kommander]

Just when we thought the United States economy was screwed up...

If I lived on planet Mungo, I'd spend all my money on ambrosia and then trade some of the ambrosia for bubble gum. While not explicitly illegal, it would certainly irritate the monetary police. Then I'd give the police the finger, or whatever the equivalent is in Mungoan culture, which I'm going to assume is waving one's genitals in a mocking fashon.

I'm also going to assume that, instead of who has the largest wang, it's who has the most wangs who wins. If I was Mungoan, I would have seven wangs. (The wang-having gender typically has between two and six wangs. Some have as many as ten, and are worshiped as gods.)

 

[tharpdevenport]

Mungoans are all switching to a one-world currency anyway.

 

[What's his face]

Mungoans are all switching to a one-world currency anyway.

Actually...

 

[tharpdevenport]

It's a secret, from the secret new world order at Mungo.


I have to second: wha the fuck kind of math test question is this? And it's WAY TOO involved with it's own reality too.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

It wasn't a math question, it was a microeconomics question.

Our next lesson: it pays to pay attention.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I skimmed over much of it; was way to convoluted and lengthy.

 

[Tiberius Jim]

It was the eighth word in the OP's post...

 

[TorontoTrekker]

It reminds me of the test questions my grade 11 and 13 physics teacher used to give. Taking tests in those classes was actually fun just to see how he would phrase the questions.

 

[USS Triumphant]

I wish more economics professors were willing to think outside of the box like yours apparently does. When I was in college, I got in a heated argument in class with my macroeconomics professor, having to do with how nations and large corporations should calculate their annual budgets. It was toward the beginning of the semester, so the other students were still used to thinking about their own checkbooks and not a bunch of deep hooey, so they agreed with me, and that really pissed him off.

Turns out, my thinking was right after all. I'd rather not have to watch powerlessly all these years later while our economy tanks and proves it, but I was right.

 

[nx1701g]

I had a question almost exactly like that in my Econ class last summer! It was on the damned final.

 

[B.J.]

So what was part "b" to that question? I think my wife would love to see the rest of this - she's a high school economics teacher!