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re: What's the answer to this math problem?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:22 am to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:22 am to NYNolaguy1
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Like I said the problem is written terribly. Theres a reason you dont see the obelus past middle school, it's vague and ambiguous.
Plug it into a calculator the exact way it is written. Does the calculator give you any answer other than 58?
If the writer of the problem wanted you to get 10, they would have written the problem differently.
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Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:25 am to slackster
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Plug it into a calculator the exact way it is written. Does the calculator give you any answer other than 58
I think some earlier TI calculators might give you 10, but these are generally accepted as being wrong.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:32 am to LordSaintly
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I think some earlier TI calculators might give you 10, but these are generally accepted as being wrong
No shite?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:33 am to slackster
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No shite?
So depending on the calculator you might get 10 or 58?
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 9:34 am
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:47 am to NYNolaguy1
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depending on the calculator you might get 10 or 58?
No modern calculator will get 10. Older calculators used to evaluate implied multiplication more strongly than explicitly multiplication. In other words, 1/2x was interpreted as (1/2)x. It is now accepted that implied multiplication is no higher priority than explicit multiplication, hence, 1/2x = 1/(2x).
My point still stands. Under modern accepted rules, the answer is 58.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:47 am to Schmelly
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It's not a question. If there's just a number inside then it's just multiplication
I'm just pointing out the controversy of the problem as it is playing out in this thread. I agree the answer is 58.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:48 am to KosmoCramer
58
36/2 x 3 + 4
18 x 3 + 4
54 + 4
58
36/2 x 3 + 4
18 x 3 + 4
54 + 4
58
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:49 am to KosmoCramer
According to my $150 calculator, it's 58
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:53 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Its 10, no calculator needed
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:53 am to slackster
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No shite?
I vaguely recall this being the case in the 288 thread, but those were for older calculators. Modern TI calculators would give the correct answer.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:57 am to slackster
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It is now accepted that implied multiplication is no higher priority than explicit multiplication, hence, 1/2x = 1/(2x).
Lets do this abstractly.
Youre saying that a/bc was once taken to mean (a/b)c, but now means a/(bc), correct?
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 10:01 am
Posted on 8/3/17 at 9:59 am to KosmoCramer
I'm ashamed of some of you idiots on this thread. I know we have a bunch of them on the OT, but even this is ridiculous. This is simple simple simple math. The fact that a lot grown up adults here can't figure out that it's 58 makes me fricking sick to my stomach considering we have so many morons procreating on this earth.
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 11:19 am
Posted on 8/3/17 at 10:02 am to lsusportsman2
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The fact that a lot grown up adults here can't figure out that it's 58 makes me fricking sick to my stomach considering we have so many morons procreating on this earth.
We fricked up as a species when we started to prevent nature from killing the stupid and their bloodlines.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 10:06 am to loopback
For the love people, with PEMDAS you have to do division & multiplication left to right. So in this case you would do 36 (the result of 6^2) divided by 2 which equals 18. 18 x 3 = 54. Finally, 54+4=58.
Final Answer is 58.
Final Answer is 58.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 10:08 am to oleyeller
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Its 10, no calculator needed
At this point anyone saying 10 has to be trolling right...I mean there is no other reasonable answer to why people still think the answer is anything other than 58.
Posted on 8/3/17 at 11:16 am to LSU316
PE(MorD)(AorS)
Posted on 8/3/17 at 11:25 am to GeorgeTheGreek
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It's 10 and anyone saying otherwise is an ignorant ignoramus.
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GeorgeTheGreek
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ignorant ignoramus
Posted on 8/3/17 at 11:35 am to KosmoCramer
This is the stupidest shite. No mathematician/engineer/any fricking person that uses math for a living would use such retarded notation to denote a problem. This crap is click bait mathematical semantics. And it's just easy enough for everyone to participate in, and just tricky enough so that some people get that nice sense of superiority that comes with solving fricking arithmetic math and talking about how other need not procreate.
This post was edited on 8/3/17 at 11:38 am
Posted on 8/3/17 at 11:39 am to Big_Slim
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Big_Slim
So, you got 10 as the answer?
Posted on 8/3/17 at 11:40 am to KosmoCramer
10
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