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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on April 29, 2011, 07:23:26 AM
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-28-11 09:03 PM
Original message
Poll question: Math poll
Edited on Thu Apr-28-11 09:04 PM by lumberjack_jeff
48 ÷ 2(9+3)=?
Poll result (209 votes)
I am 40 or over and the answer is 2 (111 votes, 53%) Vote
I am 40 or over and the answer is 288 (35 votes, 17%) Vote
I am under 40 and the answer is 2 (31 votes, 15%) Vote
I am under 40 and the answer is 288 (20 votes, 10%) Vote
I hate my dear aunt Sally. (12 votes, 6%) Vote
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x982937
Obviously this poll was meant to confuse the DUmmies. There is no option for "2+2 = potato".
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It's an enormous bonfire! It's a simple matter of order of operation, but they're squabbling and trying to impress each other like no tomorrow! Jeez.
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My answer was 2.
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My answer was 2.
Same here.
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The "I hate my dear aunt Sally" option doesn't say if aunt Sally is a fundie repuke. If it did the poll would be much easier for them.
I notice that 12 of them didn't care. They realized that as DUmmies the correct answer always includes hate.
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It's an enormous bonfire! It's a simple matter of order of operation, but they're squabbling and trying to impress each other like no tomorrow! Jeez.
Granted, I haven't done much math since I was raised to count how many ptarmigan beaks were in the bag but even I came away with 2 for the same reason.
I doubt CC will have as much of a squabble about as firm a science as this and we're suppose to be the stupid ones.
I wonder how the DUmbasses would view that?
I can't help but think it's because we accept rules that have proven themselves over time but progressives want progress away from the old ways simply because they are old and the individual interpretation matters more than functionality.
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Where's the correct DUmmie answer?....a sack of potatoes.
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What? No optional answer for, "TEH JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSS!!!!"?
And for the record, yeah. 2.
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Of course it's 2. Math is not a grey area. I can't believe they have 150+ posts about this! WTF? Isn't this elementary school math?
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Proof that DUmmies and liberals can't follow simple instructions despite being the smartestest people in the room.
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Of course it's 2. Math is not a grey area. I can't believe they have 150+ posts about this! WTF? Isn't this elementary school math?
Yes, but remember that it's folks like the DUmmies that do the national budget.
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Of course it's 2. Math is not a grey area. I can't believe they have 150+ posts about this! WTF? Isn't this elementary school math?
But how do you "feel" about the answer being 2? :-)
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But how do you "feel" about the answer being 2? :-)
I tried to think of some liberal BS as to why they are no incorrect answers or why "two" is just relative....but I couldn't.
It hurts to much.
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Apparently only 2/3 of the smarterest people in Amerikkka can correctly solve a simple arithmetic problem.
:rotf:
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Sort of explains why lefties think they can tax and spend their way to prosperity. :mental:
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Apparently only 2/3 of the smarterest people in Amerikkka can correctly solve a simple arithmetic problem.
:rotf:
...and one of that 2/3's is in the White Mosque....or somewhere near The Oprah Show.
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Um... My Google search bar says differently:
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2iaa0s7.jpg)
:lol:
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Um... My Google search bar says differently:
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2iaa0s7.jpg)
:lol:
Possibly because you used an asterisk between the 9 and 3, instead of a plus sign...?
:whistling:
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Um... My Google search bar says differently:
(http://i51.tinypic.com/2iaa0s7.jpg)
:lol:
My google bar says.......48/2(9+3)=
(48 / 2) * (9 + 3) = 288
More about calculator.
But then we all knew google was liberal.
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Possibly because you used an asterisk between the 9 and 3, instead of a plus sign...?
:whistling:
See. This is why I use the Google bar for math. I suck at it. (Gave you a high-five for that, btw.)
Okay, now it says 288.
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Possibly because you used an asterisk between the 9 and 3, instead of a plus sign...?
:whistling:
I put in a +....google changed it to a *
See, I told you google was liberal.
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My google bar says.......48/2(9+3)=
(48 / 2) * (9 + 3) = 288
More about calculator.
But then we all knew google was liberal.
Apparently whoever wrote the algorithm that changed it to that failed 7th grade math. In that notation, the original problem would be 48 / (2 * (9 + 3)). The algorithm is in effect moving the (9+3) from the denominator into the numerator.
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The DUmp has no chance answering questions since nutcase nadin went away.
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I put.... 48/2(9+3)= ....into the yahoo search bar and boy there sure are a lot of sites trying to solve this most important, earth shattering problem....The fate of the whole world seems to hinge on the solution to this problem.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwpWw-iVKHc[/youtube]
:lol:
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What? No optional answer for, "TEH JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSS!!!!"?
And for the record, yeah. 2.
D'OH:
48 / 2(9+3)
also expressed as 48 / 2 * (9+3)
which becomes 48 / 2 * 12
=> 24 * 12
=> 288
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Basically, if they expressed it as a single line versus double line, which this doesn't specify, either COULD be correct.
48 / 2 * (9+3) versus 48
_____
2(9+3)
IOW, DUmmies don't know how to ask questions.
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48/2(9+3)
48/2(12)
48/24
=2
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Basically, if they expressed it as a single line versus double line, which this doesn't specify, either COULD be correct.
48 / 2 * (9+3) versus 48
_____
2(9+3)
IOW, DUmmies don't know how to ask questions.
I'm thinking that this was deliberately written as to cause ambiguity and thus foster arguments. (not by a DUmmie though, it's too clever for them to come up with)
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48/2(9+3)
48/2(12)
48/24
=2
Correct, the way Jeffie's orignal problem was written.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwpWw-iVKHc[/youtube]
:lol:
:lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf:
The "Spinal Tap Stonehenge" reference was a riot!
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Oh my God, it's like Fermat's last theorem.
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Oh my God, it's like Fermat's last theorem.
Yeah, except that someone actually solved that one.
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All of you all wrong.
The answer isn't even Potato.
The real answer to that is 42
Hi 5's to anyone who get's the reference. :-)
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That joke is :old:
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That joke is :old:
Here's another nerd joke then,
There are 10 types of people, those who understand Binary, and those who don't.
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All of you all wrong.
The answer isn't even Potato.
The real answer to that is 42
Hi 5's to anyone who get's the reference. :-)
Only because 42 is the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
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Nerd jokes? Okay...
What do engineers use for birth control? Their personalities.
A neutron walks into a bar and orders a drink. Upon being asked the price, the bartender responded, "For you? No charge."
Nerd pickup line: If I could be your integral, I'd be indefinite, so I can be the area under ALL your curves.
Some people say the glass is half full. Others say it is half empty. Engineers say the glass is twice as large as it needs to be.
Your Mom is such a slut, she asked all the math majors to figure out g(f(your mom)) just so they could "f" her first.
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I got 2
48/2(9+3)=2
All work inside of parenthesis is done first, then multiplication/division, then addition/subtraction.
48/2(12)=2
48/24=2
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My dear aunt Sally may be a ball-breaking bitch, but God forbid you don't follow her rules to the letter. You'll end up with two tanks and the entire Allied army breathing down your neck.