How smart are you?

[gabosaurus]

I bet Robert get this right. Who else thinks they can?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/379227_356059647842225_1192695649_n.jpg

[jimnyc]

I'm guessing 10. The line has X0 right before that, and anything X0=0, no? Then +10

[Syrenn]

0

[hjmick]

Zero.

[aboutime]

Infinity.

[jimnyc]

0


Zero.

Please 'splain, I feel dumb now!!

[fj1200]

Please 'splain, I feel dumb now!!

My Dear Aunt Sally.

[jimnyc]

My Dear Aunt Sally.

Had to look that up, thought you were picking on me discreetly! :lol:

I read the wiki on this and feel just as stupid, if not more stupid, as it was too difficult to read and reteach myself!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

[Syrenn]

Please 'splain, I feel dumb now!!


the (60x0)

60 ...zeros equal what? 0

:laugh:

[fj1200]

Had to look that up, thought you were picking on me discreetly! :lol:

I read the wiki on this and feel just as stupid, if not more stupid, as it was too difficult to read and reteach myself!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations

The Cliff Notes: Perform multiplication and division first and then do addition and subtraction.

[aboutime]

the (60x0)

60 ...zeros equal what? 0

:laugh:


Actually. That mathematical problem resembles the NATIONAL DEBT Obama has managed to build since taking office.

[Syrenn]

Actually. That mathematical problem resembles the NATIONAL DEBT Obama has managed to build since taking office.


i agree... if you cant dazzle them with brilliance.... baffle them with bullshit.

[aboutime]

i agree... if you cant dazzle them with brilliance.... baffle them with bullshit.


That is the most perfect description of what happens in Washington DC, and also, those who claim to represent WE THE PEOPLE.
There are 535 members of Congress who are adept, proficient, and professional at dazzle, and perfection at bullshit.

And the American people who voted for all of them are the CHARMIN!4578

[hjmick]

Please 'splain, I feel dumb now!!

Do the multiplication first...

50x1=50

60x0=0

0+50=50

50-60= -10

-10+10=0

[aboutime]

Do the multiplication first...

50x1=50

60x0=0

0+50=50

50-60= -10

-10+10=0


hjmick. Everybody is confused enough. Which is why I said Infinity. Your ZERO should help them understand. But then. ZERO says so much more.

[Marcus Aurelius]

I bet Robert get this right. Who else thinks they can?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/379227_356059647842225_1192695649_n.jpg

zero.

I still rememberBODMAS...
brackets
orders
divide
multiply
add
subtract

No brackets... no orders... no division...

leaves the multiplies... 50x1=50 and the 60x0=0
then the adds... 0+50=50 and then the 0+10=10
then the subtractions... 50-60=neg 10, and minus the positive 10, leaves 0

[Thunderknuckles]

Jim, the answer to a great many scary looking math problems is either 0 or 1.
It's like picking "B" on a multiple choice SAT :p

[Robert A Whit]

I bet Robert get this right. Who else thinks they can?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/379227_356059647842225_1192695649_n.jpg


Easily done. Answer = 0 aka zero

[Robert A Whit]

0

Very good. BTW, I just now got to this post and fight off saw it was 0.

[Kathianne]

My Dear Aunt Sally.

That's how I got to 0 too. Now if we're wrong? ...

member the rules, but the rules taught by the use of acronyms can be misleading. In the United States the acronym PEMDAS is common. It stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. PEMDAS is often expanded to "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" with the first letter of each word creating the acronym PEMDAS.

Please (Parenthesis)
Excuse (Exponents)
My (Multiplication)
Dear (Division)
Aunt (Addition)
Sally (Subtraction)

[Robert A Whit]

i agree... if you cant dazzle them with brilliance.... baffle them with bullshit.

Exactly. Yowzer. LMAO

I don't know why people think that 60 times nothing suddenly becomes something.

[gabosaurus]

Wow, I am so impressed by the answer to the question that I decided to change my user title. It is now more appropriate to what the majority here believes. :p

I seriously underestimated those who correctly answered. I saw this question on another forum and was astounded by all the incorrect answers.

[Syrenn]

Wow, I am so impressed by the answer to the question that I decided to change my user title. It is now more appropriate to what the majority here believes. :p

I seriously underestimated those who correctly answered. I saw this question on another forum and was astounded by all the incorrect answers.
:poke:

are you saying you thought we were not all that smart?



:laugh:

[fj1200]

... believes.

Believes has nothing to do with it. :slap:

[logroller]

Aunt Sally...didn't remember that one, and thought FJ was just being a smart ass. I remember gems.
Grouping symbols
Exponents
Mult/div
Subtract/add

That, or use excel. :happy0203: (Recommended for jimnyc)

[logroller]

Believes has nothing to do with it. :slap:
Not the answer per se, but her belief that solving a simple equation is astounding speaks much, or should i say, little of her qualification of smart.

[Voted4Reagan]

Answer: Smarter then the original poster


my eighth grade teacher put that same equation on the board back in about 1978.

BEFORE GABBY WAS BORN

I knew the answer before she asked the question!

[tailfins]

Wow, I am so impressed by the answer to the question that I decided to change my user title. It is now more appropriate to what the majority here believes. :p

I seriously underestimated those who correctly answered. I saw this question on another forum and was astounded by all the incorrect answers.


That's ok, sweetie! You're still useful for mindless tasks such as data entry, documentation, taking notes at meetings, data scrubbing, doing back ups and manual testing. Do you know how to use a recordable DVD honey?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I did it the old way, came up with the addition of a positive 10 and a negative 10 = 0.
If you are really good at math it is boring unless its counting money that you yourself are acquiring.;)--Tyr

[Voted4Reagan]

Tyr... advanced thought escapes the original poster.

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/35479508.jpg

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Tyr... advanced thought escapes the original poster.

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/35479508.jpg

Well, the little sweetie pie has her good points. I just haven't found any yet but know the little darlin' does.

[glockmail]

I bet Robert get this right. Who else thinks they can?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/379227_356059647842225_1192695649_n.jpg

You think this is a difficult math problem, Sweet Cheeks? :laugh:

[glockmail]

Here you go Sweet Cheeks. This is the type of stuff I work with fairly often. But of course, very little of the data is clear-cut, and I'm dealing natural and man-made in-situ materials of multiple thicknesses and depths...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEoQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnersp.nerdc.ufl.edu%2F~millerw%2F Settlement%2520and%2520Consolidation%2C%25201-25-00.doc&ei=3VEuUaz2D47c8wS1ioEY&usg=AFQjCNFEEhnv10AEDEx_baL7NAtFBrrmlw&bvm=bv.42965579,d.eWU

[mundame]

Here you go Sweet Cheeks. This is the type of stuff I work with fairly often. But of course, very little of the data is clear-cut, and I'm dealing natural and man-made in-situ materials of multiple thicknesses and depths...




Who cares. If you aren't smart enough to be civil, you don't matter.

[glockmail]

You said you had me on ignore. Were you lying then?

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

You think this is a difficult math problem, Sweet Cheeks? :laugh:

Apparently sweetiepie thought it would take a raving genius to figure it out.
The little darlin' needs to rephrase her , "smarter than you are" tagline. :laugh:

[Noir]

There is no answer.

[Abbey Marie]

Not sure where he was going with it, but I like Noir's take. A slight change in these man-made rules, and the answer is different. In the words of Chicago, "Does anybody really know what time it is?"

[jimnyc]

Aunt Sally...didn't remember that one, and thought FJ was just being a smart ass. I remember gems.
Grouping symbols
Exponents
Mult/div
Subtract/add

That, or use excel. :happy0203: (Recommended for jimnyc)

You should see the way I remembered the color system, and still do, for resistors. I learned, to an extent, how to repair down to the motherboard/part level. If looking at a resistor on a circuit board, you can determine the resistance just by the colors.

BBROYGBVGW

Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Gray, White

Remembered this way. Don't blame me, I was taught this way!

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly

[aboutime]

You think this is a difficult math problem, Sweet Cheeks? :laugh:


Sweet cheeks? I prefer to use HONEY BUN. The cause of sweet cheeks.

[Kathianne]

Answer: Smarter then the original poster


my eighth grade teacher put that same equation on the board back in about 1978.

BEFORE GABBY WAS BORN

I knew the answer before she asked the question!

I thought I'd seen it before, I think it was used as an example why to use parenthesis in a multiple task equation?

[Noir]

Not sure where he was going with it, but I like Noir's take. A slight change in these man-made rules, and the answer is different. In the words of Chicago, "Does anybody really know what time it is?"

Exactly. The point being that these man made rules of BODMAS, BIDMAS etc are not mathematical truths, and can be changed. The answer itself is unknowable because the question is so badly written as to not make real sense.

This is in stark contrast to actual mathematical truths, which are unalterable.

[jimnyc]

Am I the only one who got it wrong? I feel so special! :thanks:

[aboutime]

Am I the only one who got it wrong? I feel so special! :thanks:


jimnyc. Who said you got it wrong? It's all relative, and THIS IS YOUR FORUM. No big deal.

[tailfins]

jimnyc. Who said you got it wrong? It's all relative, and THIS IS YOUR FORUM. No big deal.

Oh come on! I come to this message board to forget about yes-men and brown-nosers. If I want that I can go stand in front of the drink machine.

[aboutime]

Oh come on! I come to this message board to forget about yes-men and brown-nosers. If I want that I can go stand in front of the drink machine.


tailfins. You accusing me of brown nosing? :) Go stand behind Obama for the full effect.

[KarlMarx]

I bet Robert get this right. Who else thinks they can?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/379227_356059647842225_1192695649_n.jpg

Order of precedence... multiplication is done before additions and subtractions.

0 + (50 x 1) - 60 - (60 x 0) + 10

becomes 0 + 50 - 60 - 0 + 10 = 0

[hjmick]

:poke:

are you saying you thought we were not all that smart?



:laugh:

That is exactly what she's saying. Make no mistake, she thinks we are all a bunch of morons.

[aboutime]

That is exactly what she's saying. Make no mistake, she thinks we are all a bunch of morons.


hjmick. Just take a look at how her patronizing begins...under her avatar.

We all know a lot of really smart people. And we also know. Those smart people have trouble tying their shoes, or mark their hands with tattoo's of "R" and "L".

[Kathianne]

hjmick. Just take a look at how her patronizing begins...under her avatar.

We all know a lot of really smart people. And we also know. Those smart people have trouble tying their shoes, or mark their hands with tattoo's of "R" and "L".

All or some?

[aboutime]

All or some?


Pick a number Kathianne. I prefer to use INFINITY again.