***As I have stated in the only other post I have composed on this site thus far, mathematical concepts have never been a strong suit of mine; I tend to obsess quite voraciously over math questions that come to mind to the point where I almost feel as if they have the propensity to drive me mad.
As opposed to obsessing over this, I figured I would swallow my pride and publicly display my profound lack of mathematical adeptness for the world to see so that the clarification I so desire on this most simplistic math question that somehow has the ability to confuse me would come to fruition.
Thank you in advance for your time.***
Suppose a company awarded you 10 points into your account every month, yet 10 points were owed each month as well. Ordinarily, you would wind up at 0 points each month, however, if one month a company took 13 points as opposed to 10, that would ultimately leave you with -3 points.
If the following month, that same company awarded you a total of positive 10 points, would it be fair to say that all is equal and that they corrected their initial error? I can understand how one would think so for -3 + 3 =0 +10 = 10. In that scenario, they awarded you the three points necessary to get you out of the hole, plus the additional 10 normally awarded (13 total), but something else came to mind that caused me to question if that was the case or not; if they had really corrected the mistake they made.
In the scenario above, I stated that every month I would have a total of 10 points in my account, and they would remove 10, which would leave me with 0 points, but what if when they removed the 13 points in error, I had some other points in my account when they removed the 13 points mistakenly? Let's say I had 13 points total that month, so that when they removed 13, I was not left with negative 3, but 0 instead.
In that case, since they took away 3 points that were present in addition to another 10, and those extra 3 points were not in the negative after they charged me the extra 3 points, they would owe me 13 points next month, since ordinarily they awarded 10 on a monthly basis and would owe me the three they had taken that were positive 3 points, not negative three points.
I believe that in the first scenario, where I only had 10 to begin with and they removed 13 that awarding me positive 10 points would even things out for when they had me at negative three, three of nothing was taken and three in the negative was restored by giving me positive 10 the next month as opposed to positive 7, but that in the second scenario where I had 13 points, but they removed 13 points, the following month they would owe me the full 13 points as opposed to 10.
Is the methodology I'm employing here correct?
Thank you again most sincerely for your time. It is very much appreciated.
As opposed to obsessing over this, I figured I would swallow my pride and publicly display my profound lack of mathematical adeptness for the world to see so that the clarification I so desire on this most simplistic math question that somehow has the ability to confuse me would come to fruition.
Thank you in advance for your time.***
Suppose a company awarded you 10 points into your account every month, yet 10 points were owed each month as well. Ordinarily, you would wind up at 0 points each month, however, if one month a company took 13 points as opposed to 10, that would ultimately leave you with -3 points.
If the following month, that same company awarded you a total of positive 10 points, would it be fair to say that all is equal and that they corrected their initial error? I can understand how one would think so for -3 + 3 =0 +10 = 10. In that scenario, they awarded you the three points necessary to get you out of the hole, plus the additional 10 normally awarded (13 total), but something else came to mind that caused me to question if that was the case or not; if they had really corrected the mistake they made.
In the scenario above, I stated that every month I would have a total of 10 points in my account, and they would remove 10, which would leave me with 0 points, but what if when they removed the 13 points in error, I had some other points in my account when they removed the 13 points mistakenly? Let's say I had 13 points total that month, so that when they removed 13, I was not left with negative 3, but 0 instead.
In that case, since they took away 3 points that were present in addition to another 10, and those extra 3 points were not in the negative after they charged me the extra 3 points, they would owe me 13 points next month, since ordinarily they awarded 10 on a monthly basis and would owe me the three they had taken that were positive 3 points, not negative three points.
I believe that in the first scenario, where I only had 10 to begin with and they removed 13 that awarding me positive 10 points would even things out for when they had me at negative three, three of nothing was taken and three in the negative was restored by giving me positive 10 the next month as opposed to positive 7, but that in the second scenario where I had 13 points, but they removed 13 points, the following month they would owe me the full 13 points as opposed to 10.
Is the methodology I'm employing here correct?
Thank you again most sincerely for your time. It is very much appreciated.
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