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re: What's the answer to this math problem?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:04 am to TheArrogantCorndog
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:04 am to TheArrogantCorndog
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How in the frick did this make 12 pages???
This is an OT math problem thread where half the dillweeds here got it wrong and have called people idiots. 12 pages is par for the course.
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Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:05 am to NYNolaguy1
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With that said, why are we dividing before multiplying if we are using PEMDAS?
Instead of dividing by 2, change that to multiplying by 1/2... then you can do the problem in any order you see fit and still get 58.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:06 am to TheArrogantCorndog
People are stupid. The answer is 58. Even Google agrees.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:06 am to KosmoCramer
10
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:07 am to NYNolaguy1
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Explain it to me then...
I mean, it's been pointed out probably at least 5 times.
Multiplication and Division are on the same level, you do which ever comes first left to right.
PEMDAS could just as well be called PEDMSA
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:07 am to NYNolaguy1
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Explain it to me then...
It's been explained at length over the past 10 pages.
And we still have people answering 10.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:07 am to OneMoreTime
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I'm still trying to figure out how that dude got 42
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:08 am to TheArrogantCorndog
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How in the frick did this make 12 pages???
Mostly because the majority of this board think a division symbol is used in everyday mathematics.
It makes sense - it was last seen to them at their highest grade level... somewhere between 5th and 7th grade.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:08 am to NYNolaguy1
Because multiplication and division are equal. Division is just multiplication by the reciprocal.
Think of it as:
6^2 * 1/2 * (3) + 4
Think of it as:
6^2 * 1/2 * (3) + 4
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:10 am to NYNolaguy1
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Mostly because the majority of this board think a division symbol is used in everyday mathematics.
It makes sense - it was last seen to them at their highest grade level... somewhere between 5th and 7th grade.
You're seriously gonna insult peoples intelligence in a thread where you're asking why people are dividing before multiplying? Is this real life?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:10 am to NYNolaguy1
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Mostly because the majority of this board think a division symbol is used in everyday mathematics
Don't hide behind the division symbol as the reason you got 10.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:11 am to KosmoCramer
The answer be 10
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:11 am to NYNolaguy1
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Mostly because the majority of this board think a division symbol is used in everyday mathematics.
It makes sense - it was last seen to them at their highest grade level... somewhere between 5th and 7th grade.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:11 am to monkeybutt
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Multiplication and Division are on the same level, you do which ever comes first left to right.
Generally speaking most well written problems are commutative.
Left to right or right to left yields the same answer. a+b=b+a; a*b=b*a ; a/b=(1/b)*a
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:11 am to monkeybutt
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This is an OT math problem thread where half the dillweeds here got it wrong and have called people idiots. 12 pages is par for the course.
The original 288 thread is 56 pages.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:12 am to slackster
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Don't hide behind the division symbol as the reason you got 10.
Link?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:13 am to monkeybutt
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You're seriously gonna insult peoples intelligence in a thread where you're asking why people are dividing before multiplying? Is this real life?
Do you feel like this is real?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:14 am to NYNolaguy1
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Link?
Then what's the confusion? The answer is 58 given the exact way the problem is written.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:18 am to slackster
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Then what's the confusion? The answer is 58 given the exact way the problem is written.
Thats one way it could be construed. Like I said the problem is written terribly. Theres a reason you dont see the obelus past middle school, it's vague and ambiguous.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:18 am to NYNolaguy1
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well written problems
What's a well written problem? Hell, why write 6^2 in the first place? Just put 36 to avoid any confusion.
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