When it comes to spending money, everyone is always looking for the “best bang for your buck.” Sure, we'll splurge on things we truly want, but with food–we want the lowest cost possible. Shoes, on the other hand, we'll pay full price.
Think about all of the times you go out to eat–don't you always try to get the combo to save money? No? Just me? Okay. I'm just the type of person who works hard for her money and wants sales, sales, sales. But, sometimes, it takes me a really long time figure out which option is the best option to save money. Recently, I came across a tweet online that left me with my jaw on the floor.
Sean posted this wing menu from a Chinese restaurant–Danny’s Wok–that breaks down their wing prices by how much you order. While the prices vary based on how many wings are in the order, I can't seem to figure out how they come up with their price/wing correlation.
https://twitter.com/seanposting/status/1054136447362629637
And, because Twitter is Twitter and everyone has a say–people chimed in to share their thoughts on just how this came to be. There were charts, there were graphs, there were mathematical equations I still cannot fully understand because I am a writer and not a numbers person.
Here's a spreadsheet where I extrapolated the prices of 1-3 wings, then tracked the difference by subtracting the price of the last multiple of 25 (in column C). You can see the deviation when it hits 75 compared to 50, then continue tracking the deviations as I laid them out. pic.twitter.com/Se7RrypOym
— CEO of Clone Hero Open Note (@CyclopsDragon) October 23, 2018
https://twitter.com/AlexHlldnAbbrtn/status/1054813957121290246
this formula breaks down at the 24 wing mark, and I can't figure out what on earth went wrong at that point pic.twitter.com/lCmDu7j13b
— Lynn (so is she gone or not??) (@chordbug) October 21, 2018
I'm not seeing the pattern but there's an awesome minimization problem in here somewhere to get the best price for N wings. pic.twitter.com/l4F61VAJin
— Todd Gamblin / @[email protected] (@tgamblin) October 22, 2018
Did some lpSolve in R….you can only save a max of 5 cents…. Full table here: https://t.co/E9U3DZjaV7 pic.twitter.com/O9CaTLkugC
— Sam Sharpe (@SharpeWordz) October 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/btuftin/status/1054504689226661888
4 Chicken wings (4.55+n)
where n is an additional chicken wing and n=$1.15 two out of every third time where n=$1.10— Six (@CicadaSix) October 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/jujuadams/status/1054150105568370688
I am too into chicken wings and don't value my time, so if anyone is interested, this is a graph of the pricing per wing pic.twitter.com/GTmZPQFstt
— sarah 🍟 (@sarahcha_mayo) October 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/VincentAB/status/1055628292135550976
But, the real hero is this person, who broke down the cheapest way to order the amount of wings you truly want.
For anyone that wants the best bang for your buck, here's the cheapest way to buy any amount of wings. pic.twitter.com/vkaC6n1YrB
— Rama Gosula (@MrGosula) October 25, 2018
Sometimes, I am truly thankful for Twitter. Today is that day.