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Meet the Shmooples. They live on Planet Frisbee, where there is a lot of inequality. Of the arm and Starburst variety, mostly.
Transcript
- 00:00
Inequalities, a la Shmoop. Welcome to Planet Frisbee, which happens to
- 00:13
be home to the Shmooples. They're a fun loving bunch...
- 00:18
...always bouncing around town... ... feasting on Starbursts.
- 00:23
Not the Starbursts you know and love. These Starbursts are a delicacy from some...other
- 00:29
planet. The Shmooples have a strict hierarchy.
Full Transcript
- 00:35
The more arms a Shmoople has, the better he is.
- 00:39
So, on Planet Frisbee, having 4 arms is greater than having 3 arms.
- 00:44
And having 20 arms is much greater than having 4 arms.
- 00:48
Mathematically, it would look something like: "20 arms is greater than 4 arms is greater
- 00:53
than 3 arms" Right when you think you've got a handle on
- 00:58
the variables, on the equations, on algebra in general...
- 01:01
... they go and do something to confuse you. They throw an inequality into the mix.
- 01:07
Don't worry; we've got you covered. Imagine that instead of talking about arms...
- 01:13
...we're talking about Starbursts. It's a well-known fact that Shmooples would
- 01:19
rather eat 20 Starbursts than 4 of them. Pretty much the same story with our Earthly
- 01:24
Starbursts. So the inequality "mouth" is open towards
- 01:30
the number 20. Here we would say:
- 01:34
"4 starbursts is less than 20 starbursts." May not be proper English, but we're in Mathland
- 01:39
now, so... sue us. Oh, and one more thing. The whole thing can
- 01:44
be flipped around and still be correct. We can do the same with "number of arms."
- 01:59
Or we can just use numbers. Although we don't necessarily agree with classifying
- 02:06
Shmoople by arm number... ... we do agree with their belief that the
- 02:11
red Starbursts are greater than all other colors.
- 02:14
Some things simply transcend culture.
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