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+puts "Let's practice everything."
+puts "You\'d need to know \'bout escapes with \\ that do \n newlines and \t tabs."
+
+poem = <<MULTI_LINE_STRING
+
+\tThe lovely world
+with logic so firmly planted
+cannot discern \n the needs of love
+nor comprehend passion from intuition
+and requires an explanation
+\n\t\twhere there is none.
+
+MULTI_LINE_STRING
+
+puts "--------------"
+puts poem
+puts "--------------"
+
+five = 10 - 2 + 3 - 6
+puts "This should be five: #{five}"
+
+def secret_formula(started)
+  jelly_beans = started * 500
+  jars = jelly_beans / 1000
+  crates = jars / 100
+  return jelly_beans, jars, crates
+end
+
+start_point = 10000
+beans, jars, crates = secret_formula(start_point)
+
+puts "With a starting point of: #{start_point}"
+puts "We'd have #{beans} beans, #{jars} jars, and #{crates} crates."
+
+start_point = start_point / 10
+
+puts "We can also do that this way:"
+puts "We'd have %s beans, %s jars, and %s crates." % secret_formula(start_point)