All of that said, the number of people who answered this equation with 0 really scares me:
I'm sure this says something profound about politics.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
I'm an English major. You do the math.
I really don't like math. It's not that I am bad at it (except geometry), it just bores me silly. Since I quit taking it in high school just as soon as I could, I actually wound up in remedial math when I started at SAC. Never having used it, I lost it (same thing happened with German & Russian).
All of that said, the number of people who answered this equation with 0 really scares me:
I'm sure this says something profound about politics.
All of that said, the number of people who answered this equation with 0 really scares me:
I'm sure this says something profound about politics.
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Huh? I hate those FB questions! Is "with 14" part of the question?
Anything multiplied by 0 is 0, surely you know that.
Anything multiplied by 0 is 0, surely you know that.
Of course I do. I also know that multiplication is worked before addition & subtraction, so the only thing in that equation that is multiplied by zero is the 1 that is directly in front of it.
... Leaving 16 ones, as I count 'em. My answer would be 16.
what? i don't ever remember learning that. you're supposed to do things in parentheses first, never heard do multiplication first.
Order of operations/PEMDAS goes like this: Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication/Division, Addition/Subtraction.
Leaving 16 ones, as I count 'em.
I did the same thing at first, but there is a single minus sign, making it 14. It's the tenth sign & very easy to miss.
ok, well i am 40 & i hate math.
Order of operations/PEMDAS goes like this:
In middle school I was taught the mnemonic "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally."
And, believe it or not, it has proved useful throughout my life.
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