EPTA Simple Math Problem? - Page 9
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Gatsbi
United States1134 Posts
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Retgery
Canada1229 Posts
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Magic_Mike
United States542 Posts
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yawnoC
United States3704 Posts
'Tricky' questions are the bane of math. | ||
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OneThreeOne
Norway86 Posts
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MGHova
Canada274 Posts
 Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but if you remember from grade 6! its BEDMAS - B-brackets E-exponents DM-multiply or divide (left to right) AS-add subtract (left to right) | ||
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Purind
Canada3562 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:02 goldemerald wrote: ROFL wtf, you site PEMDAS, but then you use it wrong? You best be trolling. 48/2 is not first because it is D(ivision). You have to do the M(ultiplication) first, thus getting 2. I feel like this is a 4chan thread where everyone is just getting trolled by OP. This is why PEMDAS/BEDMAS is stupid. D and M have the same priority, S and A have the same priority, but B and E have different priorities. These things that people come up with to teach kids math just confused the hell out of me and I always turned my brain off when people tried to teach this to me | ||
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:04 GizmoPT wrote: 48/2(9+3) i dunno about you guys but this is 48 ------- 2(9+3) so first we make 2*9 + 2*3 = 18+6 = 24 then 48 / 24 = 2 thanks... this is right wtv people say so wtv im engineer ;( im engineer and its 2 no more discussion kk ;x Chill Edit: I'm also an engineer and you're an embarassment! | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22208 Posts
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McFortran
United States79 Posts
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kerpal
United Kingdom2695 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:05 billyX333 wrote: LMFAO i read through that thread, absolutely certain that it reached over 60 pages solely because of trolls but there are definitely people who seriously think its 2 (read hilariously stupid posts by frank112) hahahaha | ||
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wilsonreis
Brazil97 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:04 Ecael wrote: Except none of this is math knowledge, it is just an equation written really ambiguously. no, actually not ! thing is, the way people "learn" math leaves room for ambiguity, but when it comes to typing out equations, there is no such thing as ambiguosly writing. one can misread an equation when it´s handwritten and things like a^(b*c) really "look like" a^b^c , but when you type it out, there shouldn´t be any sort of ambiguity. | ||
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404.Delirium
United States1190 Posts
I always took pride in it, too. I'm so confused. If only we had a Harvey Mudd Math Major around here? | ||
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Hugoboss21
France346 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i56.tinypic.com/ae4mwx.png) 288 logic. | ||
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MajorityofOne
Canada2506 Posts
WHATEVER. Imma go read some Turgenev. JERKS | ||
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Rinrun
Canada3509 Posts
Good post. Weeeee BEDMAS. 288. | ||
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n00b3rt
Bulgaria890 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:09 GizmoPT wrote: im engineer and its 2 no more discussion kk ;x You are engineering brakes for Toyota cars. Right ? | ||
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MGHova
Canada274 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:09 Purind wrote: This is why PEMDAS/BEDMAS is stupid. D and M have the same priority, S and A have the same priority, but B and E have different priorities. These things that people come up with to teach kids math just confused the hell out of me and I always turned my brain off when people tried to teach this to me LOL it helps to remember priority, all you have to memember is that addition and subtraction as well as multiplication and division has the same priority.... if you can't remember that then you are not smarter then a body builder | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
On April 08 2011 06:02 goldemerald wrote: ROFL wtf, you site PEMDAS, but then you use it wrong? You best be trolling. 48/2 is not first because it is D(ivision). You have to do the M(ultiplication) first, thus getting 2. I feel like this is a 4chan thread where everyone is just getting trolled by OP. Division and Multiplication have the same priority, same goes for Addition and Subtraction. The acronym could just as easily be PEMDAS, PEMDSA, PEDMSA... | ||
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Baby_Seal
United States360 Posts
My mistake was assuming that 48 / 2(9+3) was somehow different from 48 / 2 * (9+3). | ||
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