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Half of you will get this wrong: 48÷2(9+3) = 288 or 2?
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From one Scot to another, then.
Heh - a battle between Scots. Wasn't that how copper wire was invented - two Scots, fighting over a penny?
My grandfather Murry Neal, supposedly holds partial rights to the copper wire patent.
He worked for Nasa in the 60's and 70's.
Too bad he's became a religious nutter, and doesn't give me any dough.
IN all seriousness though, I'm considering switching my major to Math.
Thoughts? I want to go to grad school when i finish my undergrad.
I wouldn't mind a phD either.
I'm 4 years deep, having classes in Computer Science, business, and Psychology.
But I don't want to pursue any of those degree plans anymore.
I have a decent chunk of school debt. but honestly, I couldn't give a fuck.
The system is fucked anyway. Resistance is futile.
Might as well just keep using the free aid.
Thoughts? I want to go to grad school when i finish my undergrad.
I wouldn't mind a phD either.
I'm 4 years deep, having classes in Computer Science, business, and Psychology.
But I don't want to pursue any of those degree plans anymore.
I have a decent chunk of school debt. but honestly, I couldn't give a fuck.
The system is fucked anyway. Resistance is futile.
Might as well just keep using the free aid.
As far as my schooling goes ^ usually mean exponent so ....huh? Wow dude....
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why're you confused?? The exponents were all done correctly.
First he Did Parentheses. then he did exponents. PEMDAS
Because he is saying they did the multiplication first which I was like he can't be thinking he has some victory because the multiplication is by 1 so he must be confusing the exponents for multiplication....
It doesn't matter if the multiplication is by one or not. True, it doesn't affect the outcome of the equation but the fact is they did the 5(1) multiplication first. Had it been a different number than 1, it would have made a difference.
Yes, that means exponent... and there is no debate that that part was done correctly.
The debate is at this point:
Does 8 + 25 / 5(1) simplify to
8 + 5(1)
or
8 + 25/5
jagbender
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Someone unplug the Eveready Bunny PLEASE
It keeps going and going and AWW crap you get the idea
It keeps going and going and AWW crap you get the idea
8 + 5(1) ?
independent
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My 11 year old got it correct.
....which answer are you saying is right lol
jagbender
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Teacher arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport
A teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule, and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
'"Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values." They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes." White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that the Nobel Prize for Physics will follow.
A teacher was arrested today at John F. Kennedy International Airport as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a compass, a slide-rule, and a calculator.
At a morning press conference, the Attorney General said he believes the man is a member of the notorious Al-Gebra movement. He did not identify the man, who has been charged by the FBI with carrying weapons of math instruction.
'"Al-Gebra is a problem for us," the Attorney General said. "They derive solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute values." They use secret code names like 'X' and 'Y' and refer to themselves as "unknowns", but we have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with coordinates in every country.
As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, 'There are 3 sides to every triangle'.
When asked to comment on the arrest, President Obama said, "If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes." White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President. It is believed that the Nobel Prize for Physics will follow.
lol, very funny
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If you plan to go to graduate school to get a degree in mathematics, plan on having no life outside of graduate school for at least 4, but more likely 5-6 years. Be prepared to eat, live and breath mathematics. Be prepared for your girlfriend to complain that all you do is math, that she never sees you, and that you've become boring because it's all you ever talk about any more. You'll wake up in the morning thinking about math, fall asleep in the evening think about math, and then you will dream math and have to wake up and do it all over again. If you want a PhD in math, you better really like it, because it is not a degree for the feint of heart. Most of the math PhD's I know (just a few) would say they got their degrees out of an irrational stubbornness and refusal to give up.
I had my gf submit this question to here math professor at UNLV, he said the answer is 2
I highly doubt that...
Obviously NO ONE is about to admit they are wrong, someone with a doctor in math said it's 288 and apparently now a math teacher at UNLV says it's 2. Even calculators are giving both answers. I'm sure one is technically right, but no one is ever going to change the side they picked from the start.
No instructor of any repute would write a question that way, to be sure.
On what basis? That a math teacher in Las Vegas said so to your girlfriend? You've heard directly from a published, tenure-track professor of Mathematics that the converse is true. I mean Vegas? Mathematicians regard gambling as a tax for being bad at math!
The only issue is the order of operations with regard to a number written beside an expression inside parenthesis.
The question" Is 48÷2(9+3) = 288 or 2?" really boils down to this:
"is 48/2(12) the same as 48/2x12 or even 48/2x(12)?"
Some see them as interchangeable, and some do not.
Among posters who see them as interchangeable, there are at least three individuals who have worked, or who currently work, in in the field of mathematics.
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I thought is was 2, but Google thinks otherwise. 
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Then I looked up Order of Operations (emphasis mine).
Next: 48÷2(12)
Next: 24(12)
Final: 288
I think the key point is when the operators are at the same level, as they are with multiplication and division, you work from left to right.
- [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]First do all operations that lie inside parentheses.[/SIZE][/FONT]
- [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Next, do any work with exponents or radicals.[/SIZE][/FONT]
- [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Working from left to right, do all multiplication and division.[/SIZE][/FONT]
- [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=-1]Finally, working from left to right, do all addition and subtraction.[/SIZE][/FONT]
Next: 48÷2(12)
Next: 24(12)
Final: 288
I think the key point is when the operators are at the same level, as they are with multiplication and division, you work from left to right.
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