Percentage Increase/Decrease (1 of 2: The Potato Paradox)

[adityaprabhala]

One of the best maths teacher I've ever seen.
I wish I had a teacher like him

[trenoles]

I would move to Sydney to have you as my math teacher lol

[wixom]

Simply write it out algebraically, like this:
.98(Total Weight) + 1kg = Total Weight
=>.02(Total Weight) = 1kg
Therefore, Total Weight = 50kg.
Easy, yet surprising.

[lizvz]

Dear Eddie, you made this problem way more complicated than it is !

[drgorkin]

Has anyone in the class watched vsauce's potato paradox video and new the answer?

[martinquigg]

Hey Eddie great lessons, although this one is difficult to grasp. At the start you say 1% = 1kg, and the water content is 99%, it drops to 98%, .By subtracting 1% from 99 ( 99-0.99) = 98.01. Therefore 98.01 + 1 kg of solids =99.01 kg. The potatoes total weight is now 99.01, which seems right, as a 1% change is not much. Another way to look at it is if you had a big bucket of water (100 L =100kgs) and you lose 1% to evaporation, there's going to be 99L left which is 99 kg. The calculation in class....the 1% loss = 50kg doesn't seem right.

[apiyopao]

Why is it that most of Eddie 's video seems incomplete
I mean it's too interesting to be this short just 7-8 mins, it's like there's a part 2 so I naturally press the next button but then it's not the same topic anymore.When I wanna go deeper into things and reach the god damn roots of the topic, it just ends just like that
Why why 🤷‍♀️🤷

[mohammedkadhem]

Is it possible to add an Arabic translation

[timothyslau]

Put the link to the next video in a series in the video description please.