The marriage number conundrum

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

Option A:
Jane marries Joe in January; 2 People got married.
Jane divorces Joe in March; 0 People got married.
Jane marries Tyrone in May; 2 people got married.
---
4 People married in total

Option B:
Marry in January == 2 people
Divorce in March == Still 2 people
One of them gets remarried in May
--
3 people in total

This excludes the mentally ill who marry paint buckets or train stations.

Explain your answer.

Pat Mustard

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41413297

GLaDOS

I just assume the original number is probably fake in order the facilitate the joke

Maybe it's because of people marrying their dogs or their pillows.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334993/Joseph-Guiso-marries-dog-Honey-sunset-ceremony.html

cml387

...and the Mormons. You're forgetting about the Mormons.

Kimbot

http://www.dailyedge.ie/woman-marries-pirate-ghost-3801206-Jan2018/

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pxdf9i5cmoavkz

Noel Late Video wrote: »

This excludes the mentally ill who marry paint buckets or train stations.

Since some of ye applied tl;dr

biko

Noel Late Video wrote: »

Option B:
Marry in January == 2 people
Divorce in March == Still 2 people
One of them gets remarried in May
--
3 people in total

To another person, so 2 people got married then too.

Each marriage always includes 2 people, unless it's one of those "modern" marriages with all kinds of weird stuff going on.

jack presley

biko wrote: »

To another person, so 2 people got married then too.

Each marriage always includes 2 people, unless it's one of those "modern" marriages with all kinds of weird stuff going on.

But if you were to line up the participants in these 2 weddings in front of you, how many people are there?

Bob Harris

biko wrote: »

To another person, so 2 people got married then too.

Each marriage always includes 2 people, unless it's one of those "modern" marriages with all kinds of weird stuff going on.

I think he means only 3 different people as one person got married twice.

PandaPoo

biko wrote: »

To another person, so 2 people got married then too.

Each marriage always includes 2 people, unless it's one of those "modern" marriages with all kinds of weird stuff going on.

There was a woman on tv the other day who was married to the ghost of a 300 year old pirate!

Case closed.

Boom_Bap

PandaPoo wrote: »

There was a woman on tv the other day who was married to the ghost of a 300 year old pirate!

Case closed.

Ghosts are people too

Hector Savage

Poor Joe, divorced after two months of marriage and sneaky Tyrone stealing his missus the next month !!

diomed

one gets married once.
One gets married twice.
One gets married once.
Four.

Worst problem ever.

Irish Guitarist

Noel Late Video wrote: »

Jane marries Joe in January; 2 People got married.
Jane divorces Joe in March; 0 People got married.
Jane marries Tyrone in May; 2 people got married.

If a couple gets divorced it doesn't mean the wedding didn't happen. They might not be married anymore but they still got married. If you exchange 'got' for 'are' then it would be different.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

As that figure has come up regularly, since 2008, in online discussions, it's not a real statistic at all. It's just made up to force a discussion on a conundrum that isn't true.

kneemos

Bound to be a few poligamists.

TPD

Option b. If two couples married in a year, both divorced, swapped partners and married again, you wouldn't say 8 people got married.

pleas advice

Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States...

Capt'n Midnight

If someone dies and their spouse marries again within a year...

jaxxx

But you're forgetting about those who get married to goats Single numbers there!

Odhinn

Deleted User wrote: »

Maybe it's because of people marrying their dogs or their pillows.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334993/Joseph-Guiso-marries-dog-Honey-sunset-ceremony.html

There's all that now, because of teh ghey. Even the maths is broke.

kneemos

Odhinn wrote: »

There's all that now, because of teh ghey. Even the maths is broke.

In the next flood they'll be going in two by one.

Donald Trump

Simple example
In Jan 2018 Donald marries Melania
In Feb 2018 Melania finds out Donald was banging pornstar named Stormy
In July 2018 Melania and Donald Divorce
In Dec 2018 Donald marries Katie Price aka Jordan
Profit!! (For big boobed "ladies")

(Plus three people registered as getting married in 2018 - Donald, Melania and Katie)

Ficheall

This was way more effort than it was worth to make a holy union pun..

biko

Tbh, that Twitter dude just made it all up and have trolled everyone so hard

Volthar

Sure read somewhere that a girl married herself