Metacritic

Sadly, Metacritic has not assigned a rating to Metacritic. Now that would be meta.

Recently Metacritic has expanded its mission to calculate aggregate ratings for TV, movies, music, and video games; now they also rate misplaced web pages.

For example, each of the following websites:

• A for-profit site focused on extreme bicycle racing (the for-profit site)
• A non-profit site about the active cough suppressant in Nyquil (the non-profit site)
• A political site run by the powers overseeing a New York borough (the political site)
• A school site in the Chinese district once known as The Grape Town (the school site)
• An informational site about the disappearance of species from the earth (the informational site)
• A network site based on Jon Chu's online dance series (the network site)
• An official site for a television show about the process of reversing demon possession (the television site)

improbably hosts one of the pages below:

• A page about a chemical used to bleach hair (the chemical page)
• A page about a horse given as a gift along with Balius (the horse page)
• A page about a plant used to make digoxin (the plant page)
• A page about a resin used in adhesives and coatings (the resin page)
• A page about a sitcom featuring Tony Danza (the sitcom page)
• A page about a soccer team based in Los Angeles (the soccer page)
• A page about a tool used by miners with pointed and flat ends (the tool page)

The new ratings (integer scores from 0 to 100) are still in closed beta, but the information below should be enough for you to determine how these pages fared.

1. The tool page, which is hosted by either the non-profit site or the network site, received a rating that is 4 less than three times the for-profit site page rating.
2. The school site page rating is 1 less than double the chemical page rating, which is exactly three times the network site page rating.
3. The non-profit site page rating is 1 less than the sum of the ratings for the plant page and the political site page.
4. The page on the informational site (which is not the resin page) has a rating that is 1 more than double the soccer page rating.
5. If the digits in the school site page rating were reversed, the resulting number would be less than half of the television site page rating, which is equal to exactly two-thirds of the horse page rating, which is in turn 11 less than the non-profit site page rating.
6. The only three pages that received even-numbered ratings are the network site page, the political site page, and the chemical page.

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