Don't feel bad, you just reminded me why I hated all my math tests in college. Three of the four answers were the top 3 mistakes people would make on that question. So even if you actually knew how to do the problem, if you accidentally looked over a negative sign you automatically got a zero for the question.aDuck said:Well, I am glad I have been proven an idiot. For a second I was going insane, but now I feel better about societyBearjing said:
I find the lack of intelligence depressing
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Hahahah totally agree with the third one. I am pretty good at maths in school (averaging in the 90s in methods 3,4) and I would have got that question wrong because I don't care enough to read it properly haha.Outright Villainy said:
Your college marked like that? That's just bad marking criteria. Over here, if you can show that you understand the concept, you've got at least half marks. Even if you screw up a sign, number or operation, and continue the equation how your supposed to, then you will generally get 4/5 or 3/5, because it was a small error. Which is how it should be. Get the general solution right, then focus on the specifics. True in any case.Bearjing said:
Now, I am off to study for maths, preparing myself for a fail mark and preparing some entertaining quotes to write when I run out of answers I can get to entertain the markers. Like how trees are being used for slave labor to make paper, how they're getting paid 20c an hour, and how the ents will find out and enslave the human race for the atrocities the humans made the trees suffer, and how they will eventually hook us up to giant structures and feed off our life force while we undergo simulations of everyday life.
Thats right. The forests are the machines!!!
THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD POSSIBLY GET THIS WRONG IS IF YOU IMAGINE A HUGE SET OF BRACKETS AROUND THE ENTIRE SET OF 1's.
Nothing to do with PEDMAS, the only thing that is multiplied by zero is the digit it is directly attached to.
If you had any doubts about the answer to this question then you need to relearn maths from the ground up.
Nothing to do with PEDMAS, the only thing that is multiplied by zero is the digit it is directly attached to.
If you had any doubts about the answer to this question then you need to relearn maths from the ground up.
In my calc classes I think it was 40 multiple choice questions which only take like 20sec to solve and then 10 short answer questions. Calc one and two were basically treated as gen ed math so multiple choice was to make it easier to grade (and so they wouldn't have to hire enough people to grade a few hundred or thousand test in a few days).aDuck said:
It has everything to do with order of operations. The people who got it wrong was because they simply did the problem from left to right completely ignoring the order of operations. (also i wish people would stop refering it to pedmas, seems like people love to say they are right because they use bedmas like as if they are different).thtool said:
That's actually a troll meme. It deliberately uses a symbol that can be taken in two ways.Jordi said:In the last couple of months we have had two topics here with hundreds of replies discussing the outcome of a simple calculation problem. I think it was 48/2*(9+3) or something. So yeah, lots of people cannot do basic calculation...
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Ah, fair enough. I'm going to Uni in AUS (yay...) and for my Uni, all questions are short(/looooooooooooong) answer questions. What I would give to do multiple choice/20sec questions. It's marked by our tutors (one tutor gets 30ish and there's 8 tutors), so its spread out quite nicely. Unfortunately, I'm not good at maths, but very good at procrastinating, so the mix of General Maths to 4-unit isn't easy.Bearjing said:
I'd much rather hang around with some people you consider unintelligent (based off of one math question) than someone who is arrogant or self-righteous.
Why anyone feels they have nothing better to do than insult others is beyond me.
Why anyone feels they have nothing better to do than insult others is beyond me.
You invite Jim,John,Sara, Tim, and Candy to a party. Sara thinks Candy is a slut who is trying to hit on her boyfriend Tim so not only does she not want to go, but she doesn't want Tim to go either. How many people are going to the party, oh yeah Jim is dead. (Yeah, i'm not going to write out 17 names)Cheesezorz said:
I think facebook should put a limit on how many responses can be put on there, or at least fix the broken mechanics behind it - when you have like 40-90 responses, you try voting and your browser crashes. Just goes to show how dumb people get when they expose themselves on the internet. Let's not deny it either - even I did at several points in my early internet life.
I really, really hate math, I can do it, but the way ALL my teachers graded me wasn't if I understood or was proficient in the current subject [I was] but if I could beat my class mates on who could impress the teacher more. Also the minus in there is meant to throw you off, but is pointless since you could just as well skim to the end and understand the answer is 0.
Add me to list of stupid people. While i did know the answer was 16, I Spent a whole minute trying to click the "16" option on the poll, wondering "why isn't this working!!!".