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The Internet finally catches up to the OT, about 10 years late
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:28 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:28 am
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Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:37 am to East Coast Band
Soooo glad I spent time solving retarded math questions in school. I’ve used this particular one many times.
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 5:38 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:37 am to East Coast Band
288
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:43 am to East Coast Band
350
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:53 am to white perch
Yep 288
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:55 am to LSUtiger89
2
Posted on 5/31/25 at 5:56 am to East Coast Band
As someone who teaches math, this captures why people hate it. The only interesting thing here is unclear notation, which undermines the point of learning math at all
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:18 am to East Coast Band
How is the answer not 2?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:22 am to speedybaw
It’s 2
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:24 am to speedybaw
quote:
How is the answer not 2?
Because once you solve the addition problem inside the parenthesis the 2(12) becomes a multiplication step, which is equal to the division step. Since the division step comes first when reading left to right you divide 48 by 2 to get 24. You then multiply 24 by 12 to get 288.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:25 am to speedybaw
In the way it is written, that is not the order of operation.
48/2 * 12
48/2 * 12
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:34 am to East Coast Band
The doctor is the boy’s mother.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:40 am to speedybaw
quote:
How is the answer not 2?
Holy don’t know math
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:57 am to East Coast Band
288
Posted on 5/31/25 at 6:58 am to Riggle
quote:
As someone who teaches math, this captures why people hate it. The only interesting thing here is unclear notation, which undermines the point of learning math at all
I don’t really see what’s not clear in it?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:13 am to DavidTheGnome
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I don’t really see what’s not clear in it?
I feel like the classical division symbol makes these type of expressions harder to parce (recalling PEMDAS), versus using fractions to denote division
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:15 am to Riggle
Pemdas
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:15 am to East Coast Band
Holy shite people it is 288.
Even ChatGPT will tell you it is 288
Even ChatGPT will tell you it is 288
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 7:19 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:17 am to Gaston
Yall need to learn order of operations.
Mathematician explains this exact equation.
Mathematician explains this exact equation.
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 7:21 am
Posted on 5/31/25 at 7:20 am to East Coast Band
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