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Is it truly good value to fly with a budget airline?

Matt Parker has devised a set of calculations that he hopes will ease some of the dilemmas of modern life, and save people money into the bargain.

The TDA is using the films to encourage more of the right kinds of people to consider teaching maths.

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[mooseling1]

at 0:59 , instead of ((n-1) + (n x 10) > a -b

you can put n to be number of extra bags and instead of a-b put a-b=c therefore you can put the formula:

12n + 10h > c

[mooseling1]

so you will eat 10 pounds of food an hour? so even at overpriced food that is two meals, so for a 3 hour flight i will eat about 4 meals and have about 6 drinks?

Also your formula (which is overcomplicated, you could just set n to be number of extra bags) is not really that relevant, as a lot of people fly on certain airlines not based on what the hourly food rate is, but rather where the plane leaves and where it lands, and that is a little something called practicality, which is not covered.

[LukeBees]

Food, 10 Pounds an Hour? How about not adding that, because in practice most people actually don't eat on budget airlines or if they do they take something along.