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re: What's the answer to this math problem?
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:36 pm to KosmoCramer
Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:36 pm to KosmoCramer
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Posted on 8/2/17 at 8:59 pm to OweO
quote:
How does this go 9 pages?
It is pretty bad that people are struggling to solve this problem.
And after 9 pages of the right answer being explained you're still too stupid to realize that you got it wrong
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:04 pm to ctiger69
It's 58.
The 2(3) is read as 2x3 bc there's no activity inside the parenthesis. So this just works left to right.
The 2(3) is read as 2x3 bc there's no activity inside the parenthesis. So this just works left to right.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:17 pm to KosmoCramer
How the hell is this still a thread?
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:19 pm to KosmoCramer
58
My 6th graders would laugh at this problem. BTW, PEMDAS is useless unless you explain that multiplication/division and the addition/subtraction occur by whichever appear first in the problem.
For the responses on the first few pages(all I read), 2(3) is not parenthetical, it just means 2 x 3.
My 6th graders would laugh at this problem. BTW, PEMDAS is useless unless you explain that multiplication/division and the addition/subtraction occur by whichever appear first in the problem.
For the responses on the first few pages(all I read), 2(3) is not parenthetical, it just means 2 x 3.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:26 pm to OneFifty
Our school is moving away from PEMDAS and teaching GEMS instead. Kids get less confused.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:31 pm to Jcorye1
quote:
How the hell is this still a thread?
I only posted in it after I read a few pages...then read the last few pages.
I guess it is still going because dozens of people are still answering 10 and then saying BOOM and doing touchdown dances, even when it is explained that the division comes before the multiplication.
It does not need any other context as some have suggested, only a 6th grade understanding of the order of operations.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:34 pm to Boss
quote:
Our school is moving away from PEMDAS and teaching GEMS instead. Kids get less confused.
I do not even use an acronym for it.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:47 pm to OneFifty
10 pages. This is an indictment on the intelligence level of the OT. The correct answer is 58 u tards. There's no meaningful parenthesis in this problem. Exponents, then work left to right
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:48 pm to OneFifty
OneFifty, you are correct!
We were all taught incorrectly growing up.
58 is the correct answer
We were all taught incorrectly growing up.
58 is the correct answer
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:49 pm to Boss
WTF is GEMS? And how is PEMDAS confusing?
It's
PE
MD
AS
It's
PE
MD
AS
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:50 pm to KosmoCramer
It's a question of does 2(3) constitute parentheses or a multiplication in pemdas. Because the parentheses isn't really performing a visibly parentheses role
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:53 pm to Swoopin
quote:
It's a question of does 2(3) constitute parentheses or a multiplication in pemdas
It's not a question. If there's just a number inside then it's just multiplication
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:55 pm to Schmelly
6^2/(2(3))+4=10
6^2/2(3)+4=58
6^2/2(3)+4=58
Posted on 8/2/17 at 9:59 pm to DawgGONIT
quote:
Exactly.
Now how do we know that PEMDAS is the correct way to solve shite? Why can't another order be more correct? During school we learned this, but not sure if we learned why it is so. Maybe some math guru can explain, as I am asking for a friend.
Because (I assume) exponents are just repeated multiplication, and multiplication is repeated addition.
Reduce exponents to multiplication/division, then reduce all multiplication/division to addition/subtraction.
3+ 3^2 x3 would break down to 3+ (3x3) x3
3+ (3x3) x3 would break down to 3+ (3+3+3) x3 or
3+ 9 x3
3+ (3+3+3) x3 would break down to
3 + (3+3+3) + (3+3+3) + (3+3+3)
Which is just 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3.
PEMDAS just reduces everything to addition/subtraction then works left to right.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:03 pm to KosmoCramer
How is the answer not being 288 a hint?
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:06 pm to civiltiger07
Did you text me yesterday?
/Hijack
ETA: #Team10
/Hijack
ETA: #Team10
This post was edited on 8/2/17 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:07 pm to KosmoCramer
10
Posted on 8/2/17 at 10:09 pm to Muice
quote:
Did you text me yesterday? Was I waiting to hear back on an email?
Uh?
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