Basic math.. Who knows it?

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Lol.

And for starters, you have to add your calories ... YOURSELF!

Imagine: "blah blah" burned (5+9)/2*74 calories doing 25*(42-12) minutes of "jogging".

Imagine: "blah blah" burned (5+9)/2*74 calories doing 25*(42-12) minutes of "jogging".

Hahaha -- and then we could combine the 'exercise calories' debate with the people who miscalculated their calories because they accidentally did 5 + 9/2*74 ... oh, this would be bad.

7. Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally.

parenthesis, exponents, multiplication/division (in the order they appear), addition/subtraction (in the order they appear).


Last year, my daughter needed help with math. I taught her the "is over of=% over 100" way of doing her problems to find an unknown #. She got the problems all correct. Her teacher said, "tell your mom to stop trying to teach you math. That method may have worked for these problems, but it won't for the next set of percentage problems." Uh. Yes they did. Dumb@$$. It's the freaking formula used. Math is a science. It is consistent. And this person gets a paycheck for this?? Really?

In defense of the school system... she was a substitute, so maybe she had only graduated high school. Who knows? Although, if that's the case, then I'm more qualified to teach than she is; I do have a degree, even if it's only an AS, I did get a 4.0!

If you use simple math like you learn in elementary school, there is no negative numbers. it would go 9 - 5 = 4 + 5 = 9 X 0 = 0 + 3 = 3. This is why my first anwser was 3. Hmmm

The other problem (and not to be mean, just picking on your quote because this is a common error) is that you are writing equals between things that are not equal. 9-4 is not equal to 4+5. This causes no end of problems in more advanced math classes -- where people actually need to work with strings of equalities.

So a shout-out to the elementary teachers out there -- please don't teach your students to write this. We have to spend so much time un-teaching it at university.

It says this is why my first anwser was 3. I just looked at it and added it as simple as I could. I know the anwser is 7. But thanks.

7.

My Dear Aunt Sally!!! <--- that's showing my work.

hahah I thought of Sally too! :noway:

my husband just looked at this and said "who jogs for 12.5 hours?" ...

in my house, math happens.

And mine just came by and asked if I needed assistance breathing b/c I'm laughing so hard! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

How many calories do I burn if I laugh for 12 minutes straight?

7, if I did my order of operations correctly.

Ditto, but that's as far as my math skills go. -laughs-

I'm paid to look good and pose with cute girls, not do math.

Porkrind that.

The answer is 1, right? I dunno it's late here. Did I do it right?