If two students leave Chicago at noon...

Math isn’t really my thing.

Especially word problems. Even the simple ones that only loosely resemble word problems – like when one of my friends asked me, “Are you excited to leave your job in a month?”

And I said, “A month?! Take out the weekends and it’s like, 30 days!”

Maybe Anheuser-Busch is having a similar mental lapse in their recent press release, “Getting More Than a Tan Out of Spring Break.”

“College students on spring break are more apt to spend quality time with their parents or siblings than on a trip to the beach… According to the poll, 70 percent of respondents spent their last spring break with family, compared to 33 percent who headed to the beach or other spring break destination.”

I seriously just pulled out a calculator and checked: 70+33 is definitely 103.

That’s not a valid %. At least I don’t think so – I’m like 99% sure about it.

I guess it’s possible that 3% of people go to spring break destinations with their family and they’re counted twice – but the team at Anheuser-Busch should say that.

Otherwise, they just have a different kind of word problem on their hands.