--- title: Funny cartoon - Find x date: "2006-05-09T12:00:00Z" categories: - funny wp_id: 325 --- [![Find X: Often, the simplest answer is the best answer](/blog/assets/flickr-find-x-often-the-simplest-answer-is-the-best-answer_143275911_o-gif.webp)](/blog/assets/flickr-find-x-often-the-simplest-answer-is-the-best-answer_143275911_o-gif.webp) --- ## Comments - **D** _9 May 2006 11:45 am_: Is x = 5 or am I being naive? - **S Anand** _9 May 2006 4:25 pm_: It's just a funny "cartoon" I saw. The black scrawl is what a student wrote in respone to "Find x" - **Arun** _10 May 2006 4:33 am_: :-) lol! that is funny. - **D** _10 May 2006 7:16 am_: Thank God! Good one :) - **dc** _22 Sep 2006 3:19 am_: ha!!! is the red XO an Elliot Smith reference? who else actually solved for x? - **S Anand** _22 Sep 2006 6:17 am_: Uh, who's Elliot Smith? - **Nattharat Suaysompol** _27 Oct 2008 10:08 pm_: MATH HUMOR!! - **vadivelan** _14 Feb 2009 4:21 am_: hi, i lough about 30 mts after seeing this. very funny. - **[mr x](http://www.orkut.com)** _25 Sep 2010 5:18 pm_: yeah thats wat i did in my maths exam.....haha.. - **[Anamika](http://thenmozhi.yolasite.com)** _1 Mar 2012 5:31 pm_: Elliott Smith is an American singer & songwriter. 'XO' refers to one of his lyrics (XO, Mom It's ok, it's all right, nothing's wrong) from the song Waltz #2 Here you go & get the meaning of it: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/17346