OT: Sparty No - I can't believe this is what we are up against
This thread is full of fail:
http://michiganstate.247sports.com/Board/93/48293--1787217/1
I hope they didn't major in FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS!!!
That said, it goes a long ways towards explaining:
And, by the way, the answer to 48/2(9+3) = 288.
Simply...wow.
like why sparty often thinks a football game is over after 3 quarters.
*Braylon nods approvingly*
Usually is when they play you guys.
Thats basic math you learn in 3rd or 4th grade. But, you don't need to have completed those grades to get in to state.
North Dakota fan believes the answer to be 2! Scooter and Louie disagree.
about the color green.
It looks to me as if the North Dakota fan is signalling the answer to be 1.
That's a silly way to write a denominator.
It's not a fraction. The division symbol is dividing the 48 by 2.
Those are equivalent expressions. What I found odd was that it used the distributive property to denote the multiplication of the fraction 48/2 and the quantity (9+3). Although it's been a while since grade school and I don't work with spread sheets so I don't really see expressions all on the same line. Just felt weird reading it.
Yeah but you don't use that divisor to divide 48 by the entire expression. It divides the 48 by the 2 only.
Will you stop pointing out rules that are not being violated. Really my post is just pointing out that I don't like omitting the multiplication character in this case; although that's the joke I suppose.
Yeah the joke..
But not 17-pages-of-posts hard... know what I'm saying?
Just promise me we aren't going to get in a 17 page argument over a simple arithmetic problem that wouldn't challenge most 5th grade children.
How many of them thought the first step was to distribute the 2?
Honestly this isn't that bad. If the question were 48/(2(9+3))=
they'd be right.
But that wasn't the question, and they have gone back and forth over an 18 pg thread discussing it. Ridiculous.
but it isn't.
It's "tricky," in that there is a natural inclination to mentally group the second part of the equation together.
But once someone points out "that isn't a grouping, so stop being a dumbshit," that should be the end of the fricking thread. It shouldn't turn into the most heated RCMB discussion since "Better body spray: Axe or Tag."
lolz. I'd be interested in knowing what the point distribution would have been if they could pos/neg each other.
Too much math.
Now we know the answer to the question "How do you confuse a large group of spartys?"
so..........
48
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2(9+3)
is 288? no it isnt, its 2
Divide the 48 by the 2 first. It goes left to right.
well sure, if you're assuming the expression reads 48/2 x (9+3) yes - that is definitely 24 x 12 which equals 288. but it's a trick question because of how it's typed out. i assume the expression reads 48/(2(9+3)) in which you calculate the bottom first, and then simplify, which is 48/24... obviously 2.
here is a question: how many douchey mgoblog users does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
the answer is: nobody knows because mgoblog users would start arguing and negbanging each other
also, when is the last time anybody used a division sign?
Math isn't about assumptions. There is a correct way to do this problem and an incorrect way. You have chosen the incorrect way. Might I suggest a different path next time.
Nah I think white pony has stumbled onto some new deeper math truth and there are actually 2 correct answers to this question.
Sounds like Schrodinger's Cat is now doing math:
if you don't like the answer, change the facts.
You assume wrong, you can't just insert parentheses there and say "see? It's 2."
In honor of you being continually wrong, here's Dr. Cox:
You didn't attend michigan did you?
this thread is going to end up exactly like the RCMB thread.
The fraction symbol only applies to the next object, which in this case is the two.
Cmon man. PEMDAS. Except when there's multiplication or division in the problem you just do the one that comes first in the problem. Same goes with adding and subtracting, you do whichever operation comes first in the problem.
48÷2(9+3) You have do parentheses first, so 48÷2(12). Then the division comes first, so you do 48÷2 so 24(12)= 288
We have our new Shibboleth!!!
Yeah if it was written that way. Which it isn't.
48/2(9+3) is the same as 48/2*12 which is 24*12 or 288
the best part is that DMB Sparty guy who has a signature that says walmart wolverines.... in the mean time he keeps saying its 2. what a joke this person is
Sparty lulz aside, this is an embarrassment to Big Ten academics
The common talk radio meme is that only about a third of the posters on this board went to UM (and the rest went to Walmart) while 99% of the Spartan posters went to MSU. I wonder how they would fare with this math marvel?
BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Please = parenthesis
Remember = Raise to power
My = Multiply
Dear = Divide
Aunt = Add
Sally = Subtract
Multiply comes before divide & the answer is 2.
What a maroon...
I remember that.
"Can we please delete this thread, we don't need to give rival schools any more cannon fodder?"
Too late.
We've got 30+ comments in a thread, 90% of which are making fun of Sparty. We've had one guy get the wrong answer.
The RCMB thread is approaching 500 comments, and they're STILL DEBATING THE ANSWER.
but that one guy is a sparty, i think.
Mathway dot com solved it this way....
http://www.mathway.com/answer.aspx?p=calg?p=48SMB142%289+3%29?p=2?p=?p=…