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re: What's the answer to this math problem?
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:41 pm to KosmoCramer
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:41 pm to KosmoCramer
10
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Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:41 pm to LSUBoo
quote:
Poorly written question, because they don't explain what exactly to the right of the division sign is in the denominator. It could be just the 2, the 2(3), or possibly all of the 2(3) + 4. Since they didn't both to clarify, I'm not going to bother to answer.
If they weren't poorly written they wouldn't be so debatable.
I'm equal parts impressed by those who remember PEMDAS and disappointed by those who think multiplication is a higher order than division.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:41 pm to slackster
I got a C in College Algebra, as evidenced by this thread.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:42 pm to slackster
quote:
disappointed by those who think multiplication is a higher order than division.
I thought people were trolling at first.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:43 pm to slackster
Since this problem has gotten everyone riled up, Lets talk about the Monty Hall Theory!!
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:43 pm to Vood
quote:always take the goat
Since this problem has gotten everyone riled up, Lets talk about the Monty Hall Theory
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:44 pm to Vood
The fact that so many people are saying 10 here tells you everything you need to know about this board.
It's a bunch of idiots that think they are intelligent.
It's a bunch of idiots that think they are intelligent.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:44 pm to KosmoCramer
The answer is 58. Are you people college educated? My goodness.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:44 pm to OweO
quote:
I am pretty sure I am not, but if I am not missing something.. Some of you really suck at math.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:45 pm to OneMoreTime
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:45 pm to Clyde Tipton
The real answer is plug that shite into wolfram alpha.
frickin amateurs
frickin amateurs
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:46 pm to LSU316
quote:
It's a bunch of idiots that think they are intelligent.
I agree. I've always said that giving one of two answers to an intentionally poorly written math question aimed at creating those two answers is the perfect measure of intellegence.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:47 pm to ell_13
quote:
Pemdas is fake news when taken literally since parenthesis here isn't supposed to be synonymous with multiplication. The answer is 58. - a former math teacher with a physics degree
Thank you, signed:
A history teacher who explained the answer on page two to an OT full of engineers and engineering students. We stupid teachers who couldn't do anything else in life.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:47 pm to Breesus
quote:
I've always said that giving one of two answers to an intentionally poorly written math question aimed at creating those two answers is the perfect measure of intellegence.
I think we got a 42 somewhere in the thread. Does that say anything about that guy's intelligence?
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:48 pm to Breesus
Shows us who the idiots really are.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:48 pm to Breesus
Except this isn't one of those.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:48 pm to KosmoCramer
the horse's name is friday
This post was edited on 8/2/17 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:49 pm to Breesus
quote:
I've always said that giving one of two answers to an intentionally poorly written math question aimed at creating those two answers is the perfect measure of intellegence.
Misspelling intelligence is a pretty good measure.
Also, it isn't poorly written if you're testing the understanding of PEMDAS.
Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:49 pm to KosmoCramer
at all those defending their answer of 10. Posted on 8/2/17 at 3:49 pm to Paddyshack
quote:
I think we got a 42 somewhere in the thread. Does that say anything about that guy's intelligence?
I like his creativity. I'd party with that guy.
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