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5 + 5 + 5 - 5 + 5 + 5 - 5 + 5 x 0 = ?
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Quote ( Alan Milligan @ April 4th 2012,01:38:36 )
o, he means multiplication and division have equal value, then after that, addition and subtration have equal value. It's really not complicated man, you should probably go back to school if you honestly can't wrap your head around this very simple concept.
hehe! As I said above! I am probably just over thinking it!
I completely understand what he is saying but just a little part of me thinks it can't be that easy!
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Quote ( Michael Monaco @ April 4th 2012,01:40:47 )
This kinda of maths?!?!?!?! This is basic arithmetic!!!
You would be shocked to know what my job is then!
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Quote ( Adrian Summers @ April 4th 2012,01:40:33 )
Tried to guess which one hadn't been picked. Success! :D you don't fool anybody! :)
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#34 posted Apr 4th 2012, 01:43:23 (last edited Apr 4th 2012, 01:43:47 by Luke Frost)
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5 x 0 is 0. The whole thing is expected to be passed with flying colours by grade school kids..........
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Quote ( Rich Cox @ April 4th 2012,01:41:27 )
You would be shocked to know what my job is then!
I hope that its flipping burgers and that you arent responsible for doing someones taxes! :P
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I'm really wondering about those 31 so far that picked 0, none of them dares to share their "theory"
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Quote ( Michael Monaco @ April 4th 2012,01:45:22 )
I hope that its flipping burgers and that you arent responsible for doing someones taxes! :P
It's not flipping burgers but I have got an accounting degree! Not that I am an accountant now though :p
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Clearly the answer is E) One of the above.
;)
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Quote ( Jeff Pumphrey @ April 4th 2012,01:50:10 )
Clearly the answer is E) One of the above. I think that answer was always missing when i had to take tests at university :P
Quote ( Rich Cox @ April 4th 2012,01:47:00 )
It's not flipping burgers but I have got an accounting degree! Not that I am an accountant now though :p
I think you are specializing in Master Trolling XD
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Quote ( Marcelo Michelini @ April 4th 2012,01:42:55 )
you don't fool anybody! :) Seriously, after careful consideration and deliberation, I came to the conclusion that no one had picked 40. I clicked 40, and BOOM! 1 vote. ;p
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Quote ( Franco Dei Cas @ April 4th 2012,01:53:56 )
I think that answer was always missing when i had to take tests at university :P
Maybe you could have gone with the closest one Franco, it's just a matter of N you know. ;)
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Oh, well not it's too late anyway to try new "techniques" :)
We didn't have many multiple choices anyway, not sure how it is in other countries :)
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Quote ( Jonathan MacLean @ April 4th 2012,01:22:36 )
So far, a surprising amount of (last count; 37) people are retarded.
Every society needs burger flippers Jonathan (aka, people with liberal arts degrees).
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4x4 = 44 :O
hahahahha
4x4 = 16 :O
what is the false? hahahahja
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Don't be dense. Multiply anything by zero, the answer is zero.
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Quote ( Kevin Faber @ April 4th 2012,02:48:39 )
Don't be dense. Multiply anything by zero, the answer is zero.
Think again ... you're not multiplying all those 5s with zero. :)
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First goes 5x0 = 0
than rest , so 15+0 =? ;P
If you don't believe simple put this to excel ....
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Quote ( Andrei Ciuchi @ April 4th 2012,02:50:00 )
Think again ... you're not multiplying all those 5s with zero. :) Quote ( Piotr Tarnawski @ April 4th 2012,02:52:25 )
If you don't believe simple put this to excel .... Nonsense. And if Excel thinks otherwise, it was written by an idiot. Operations work left to right. You end up with 20 x 0. Multiply by zero, you get zero.
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Agreed they work left to right, but you've got to keep in mind the BODMAS rule. And according to it, it's like this:
Quote ( Jonathan MacLean @ April 4th 2012,01:28:45 )
5 + 5 =10+ 5 = 15- 5 = 10+ 5 = 15+ 5 = 20- 5 = 15+ (5 x 0 = 0)= 15
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Quote ( Kevin Faber @ April 4th 2012,03:03:03 )
Nonsense. And if Excel thinks otherwise, it was written by an idiot. Operations work left to right. You end up with 20 x 0. Multiply by zero, you get zero.
Are you taught by an orangutan? If you did not read the thread through, there is a rule in Maths called BIDMAS, BODMAS etc.....
It does not work left to right, but Brackets, then Indices, then Multiplication/Division, then Addition/Subtraction.
So work that out using this rule, then come back and start talking.
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Quote ( Nikhil Vohra @ April 4th 2012,03:09:27 )
you've got to keep in mind the BODMAS rule
Precisely. Hence why you do the multiplication first.
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Quote ( Jonathan MacLean @ November 24th 2011,17:45:54 )
Clashing Convention.
BODMAS or BIDMAS seems commonly accepted here and in most parts of the world. If you follow that system the answer is clearly 15. That however can not limit all the different ways an expression can be interpreted or what a certain notation really means.
Quote ( Marcelo Michelini @ November 24th 2011,13:51:09 )
maths and notations are two different things maths is something universal, but we, human beings, need to give it a notation to work it out
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Without all of the answers here, I literally would have no idea what the answer was to this, because I would rather watch a movie of adult nature.
Edited in case I get smacked.
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Quote ( Kevin Faber @ April 4th 2012,03:03:03 )
Nonsense. And if Excel thinks otherwise, it was written by an idiot. Operations work left to right. You end up with 20 x 0. Multiply by zero, you get zero.
You sir. Are made of fail beyond proportions i cannot begin to fathom.
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Ouch my head hurts!
So please tell me what the answer is?
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