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re: Solve this math problem
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:14 pm to lsupride87
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:14 pm to lsupride87
Your problem is transgender and on a spectrum
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Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:15 pm to Placebeaux
i figured as much. syntax and whatnot. 1/3.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:15 pm to Korkstand
quote:
Adding () "ruins" the "difficulty" of the problem, which is why I assume OP didn't add them.
OP came up with 7, he's an idiot, I wouldn't bother assuming much of anything.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:16 pm to lsupride87
Fair
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:17 pm to Korkstand
quote:The OP got an answer of 7. Why are we assuming the omission of parentheses was intended to increase the difficulty (i.e., unnecessary confusing) to get an answer to a problem he incorrectly solved in the first place? I think it's more likely he didn't know how to write the problem correctly, but we don't know what the OP is doing.
Adding () "ruins" the "difficulty" of the problem, which is why I assume OP didn't add them.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:18 pm to lsupride87
quote:
Once again, please solve this problem for me 4-2*3=
Negative four
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:19 pm to ShortyRob
quote:Unless you ask the question.
Then you're stupid because there's no way to always get intent right.
quote:I didn't guess, I answered after the actual problem was known.
You are GUESSING that it is poorly transcribed and not merely a case of a person adding math at different times, or, INTENDING to use the same division symbol across but accidentally using the wrong one.
quote:Am I the only one that cares about the actual correctness of the solution, regardless of whether the question was posed correctly? I mean, god damn, if a question is not totally clear to me, I get it clarified before providing an answer.
You solve what is before you. If it is wrong, it is wrong because of the composer.
There were extremely obvious hints in OPs original and edited version of the problem that there was a syntax issue. Sorry for noticing that, and sorry for arriving at the desired solution.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:20 pm to ShortyRob
quote:
If I recall, Kork also pretended for page after page to rewrite the Monte Hall problem.
This is a shtick of his.
what? No shtick, I understand the Monte Hall problem. In that thread, the problem was also poorly worded.Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:21 pm to ShortyRob
quote:Sorry, but my only assumption was that something was wrong with OPs syntax, and I needed clarification before solving.
Your "assumption" is just as good as his!(reference parenthesis vs changed division symbol and adding brackets)
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:22 pm to lsupride87
quote:What actually happened here was by not adding (), OP changed the problem. 1/3 was supposed to be a fraction, in which case transcribing here would require adding () around it.
No. Adding() completing changes the equation actually
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:22 pm to Placebeaux
quote:
Here is the original
So you need the write the problem like this:
9-3÷(1/3)+1=?
This is not the same as (how you have it written):
9-3÷1/3+1=?
You updated the OP and still wrote it incorrectly.
This post was edited on 9/5/17 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:23 pm to ShortyRob
quote:Since when is pointing out an issue with a problem before solving it considered a troll? I am supplying the correct answers to both the problem as intended and the transcription problem.
You're trolling.
Just like you did in the Monte Hall thread.
Enjoy your troll.
Troll? Hah.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:25 pm to Placebeaux
I find it rather amusing that these kinds of threads always go 10+ pages
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:25 pm to Placebeaux
The answer is still 9
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:25 pm to lsupride87
quote:Did you not see me call this out before you said it?
Nope, the answer is 6. Because I intended for it to be (4-2)*3
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:27 pm to buckeye_vol
It's 1
The 1/3 is not an operation. It's a value = .33333333
The 1/3 is not an operation. It's a value = .33333333
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:27 pm to buckeye_vol
quote:
So you need the write the problem like this:
9-3÷(1/3)+1=?
This is not the same as (how you have it written):
9-3÷1/3+1=?
You updated the OP and still wrote it incorrectly.
It's pretty clear that transcribing it correctly, with parentheses, removes any "trickiness" the problem may have had.
But, in order to transcribe it correctly, you have to understand the original problem, in which case you wouldn't need to ask a message board anyway.
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:27 pm to Placebeaux
my monthly basic order of operations math argument thread
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:27 pm to Rhames
quote:100% incorrect
It's 1
The 1/3 is not an operation. It's a value = .33333333
Posted on 9/5/17 at 12:29 pm to Korkstand
quote:Sure. But given that the OP's original answer was 7, then we couldn't even infer that it was a syntax issue.
It's pretty clear that transcribing it correctly, with parentheses, removes any "trickiness" the problem may have had.
But, in order to transcribe it correctly, you have to understand the original problem, in which case you wouldn't need to ask a message board anyway.
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