It’s Halloween night…you’ve been bombarded with little ghost, princesses and monsters…and you’ve just run out of candy!
Talk about scary!
No worries…Popular Mechanics has a formula to determine just how much candy you’ll need for your trick or treaters!
It’s T times K times G plus D times F times S divided by 75.
Here’s what all that means:
- “T” stands for the amount of “time” in hours that you plan to hand out candy
- “K” is the estimated number of “kids” per hour you expect to show up
- “G” stands for “generosity factor” . . . or how many pieces you’ll give each kid
- “D” is the number of “days” you’ll have it in your house before Halloween
- “F” is the number of “family” members in your home who’ll steal some
- “S” stands for “sneakiness level” or the number of pieces your family will eat
For example…Three hours (T) times 70 kids an hour (K) times three pieces of candy per kid (G) equals 630 pieces of candy.
But with three days left until Halloween add those (D) and multiply it by say, four people in your household (F) times two pieces of candy per person a day (S)…that’s another 24!
Add that to the first number and you actually need 654 pieces of candy.
Then divide it by 75 (the amount of fun-size bars in the average bag) and you’d need about NINE bags of candy to get through Halloween.
You’ll need less with rain in our forecast, though…divide your final number by1.5, because you’ll need about a third less candy.
Got it?
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