A few days ago
Da Absta

Okay, i read this question online, and i really want an answer.?

If it is zero degrees outside, and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?

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A few days ago
Mike G

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There’s really no such thing as an objective measurement of “twice as cold.” The temperature scale can go below zero and well into the hundreds, so there’s no start or end point that you can base your math upon. “Twice as cold” as zero degrees could be zero degrees or -27 degrees or -50 degrees or whatever.

The same is true for “twice as warm.” 80 degrees isn’t “twice as warm” as 40 degrees, because temperatures don’t start at zero.

“Twice as cold tomorrow” is really just a way of saying, colloquially, that it’s gonna feel a hell of a lot colder tomorrow.

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A few days ago
MathGoddess
Twice as cold as what?

You can’t answer the question because you have no baseline. Zero is just an arbitrary point on the temperature scale. If yesterday the temperature was 10, then tomorrow it will be -10. If you’re going against the average (say, 52 in Utah) then tomorrow it will be -52.

You’re getting hung up on it being zero degrees. The real problem is that you have no baseline to establish what, exactly, tomorrow will be twice as cold as.

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A few days ago
Sandy G
The question has no meaning as the temperature scale is arbitrary and the zero is arbitrary. Zero in Celsius is the freezing point of water. Zero in Fahrenheit is -18 Celsius which is way below the freezing point of water.
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A few days ago
mhchicetawn
It’s not the degrees but the wind chill factor that they’re talking about. Unless you know what the wind chill factor was on the first day you can’t answer this. It’s a trick question.
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A few days ago
johngalt4273
too cold. suggest moving to warmer climate 🙂

seriously, “twice as cold” is a multiplier… however, anything multiplied by 0 is 0.

so, literally, the mathmatical answer is 0.

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A few days ago
♥*
well 0 deg. F is like -18 deg. C so i think if you add -18 it would be like -36 deg. C which is like -32 deg. F. unless its a trick question??
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A few days ago
Diane K
zero degrees
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A few days ago
Anonymous
tomorrow it will be 0 degrees because 0x2=0
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A few days ago
bethy wants to go fishing
Negative one
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A few days ago
Patty_08
Umm…. negative 2?
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