Solve this equation
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BTW - modern calculators don't use the "Reverse Polish Notation" of the older TI scientific calculators, which may contribute to confusion with PEMDAS rules. Dunno. Math was a while back. Loved it...until I got to trig. I'm too much of a straightline thinker to handle theoretical math. If you can't solve an equation, you don't invent an imaginary number to fix it.
A mistake plus Keleven gets you home by 7!
Yeah - that's why I aced math classes until I got to Trig. Then the wheels fell of the bus.
The true answer is, why nerds never have dates, too busy arguing about random math problems.
Disagree. As someone who took 20+ higher level math courses at Iowa state; I did not view it as you suggest one with such a background would.
Looks like the jokes on you, if you look closely there actually is an equal sign there.
I think the only thing I learned from this thread is I'll never come to CF with a math question. That and the OP is a ******* monster.
The parentheses portion of PEMDAS applies to operations WITHIN the parentheses. 4(4)=4*4=4(2+2)=4*(2+2)Well, first - I had a typo in the first line.
But I already explained it. You reduce what's in the parentheses, but you don't remove the parenthesis. Per PEMDAS, parentheses and Exponents come before multiplication and division, so you reduce the parentheses by completing the parenthetical operation, giving you 8.
Makes sense. All the folks who put "1" using that 1917 math textbook.
It would be interesting to know ages to see if there is any correspondence with answers. I'm 60 and I answered 1. So that fits your theory.
I got 1 for the first part--still trying to figure out WTF. Must be calculus, I didn't like calculus.
PEMDAS. Each operation carried out completely before starting the next operation. Parentheses. Exponents. Multiplication. Division. Addition. Subtraction.
Answer is 1.