>simple math problem. >24000 comments and not a single one got the right anwsear

>simple math problem
>24000 comments and not a single one got the right anwsear
>everyone is using laughing emojis

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I fear for americas future. I am not even saying one has to know basic calculus (though anyone who doesn't is a brainlet) but the most basic arithmetic is essential, but this is nothing really, these days american highschool students struggle to read

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    comments and not a single one got the right anwsear
    YouTube is literal bottom of the barrel in terms of intellect. The average YouTube commenter is between 14 and 16
    is using laughing emojis
    Nothing wrong with this you dumb redditor
    >I dont want to live in this societity anymore
    >I want to go full on otaku trash and never ever have to come in contact even remotly with normies
    have a nice day, subhuman

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >nothing wrong with this dumb redditor
      You are the dumb redditor

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      is using laughing emojis
      >Nothing wrong with this you dumb redditor
      Wrong. It's what morons do when they hope that being snarky and aggressively mocking someone will distract everyone else from their own stupidity.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    how do you get 14?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      8+2=10
      10+4=14

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Just do the math?
      8÷2(2+2) = 8+2(2+2) = 8+2*2+2 = 8+4+2 = 14

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >8÷2(2+2) = 8+2(2+2)
        What the frick are you trying to do there?

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1
    8/8
    8 / (4 + 4)
    8 / 2(2 + 2)

    Show which step is incorrect or shut up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >8/(4+4)

      That was a common factor you dumb frick

      Its
      8 / 4 + 4
      2+4
      6

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      16
      4*4
      8/4*4
      8/4*(2+2)

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      The division. Not in your case, but in that image. How do you know which case is the image supposed to be:
      8
      --- * (2+2)
      2

      or

      8
      -----
      2*(2+2)

      Answer is different based on case.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You got 8/(2(2+2)) which isn’t equal to the original expression

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [eqn] frac{8}{4}(2+2) = frac{8}{4}4 = frac{8}{16} = 0.5[/eqn]

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Brainet

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Why 8/4?

      t. Mathlet

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [math]dfrac{8}{2*dfrac{2}{2}}[/math]

    99% of people with down's syndrome can't solve this...

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wtf what did i do wrong. i hate this stupid website

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Brainlet

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Everyone taking this problem seriously is just as stupid as the people they are making fun of. It is a deliberately bad problem with ambiguous interpretation.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >It is a deliberately bad problem with ambiguous interpretation.
      ^^^This.
      Stop missing the point and saying moronic shit like "lost all faith in this generation" / "it's obviously X if you just use [my preferred arbitrary order of operation rules]."
      If you're halfway non-moronic you'll catch on that these are always notation ambiguity exploit baits and insisting your one of the two conflicting parse options is right is the stupidest response you can have.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >simple math problem
    not a math problem. syntax error.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's incredible how stupid the average person is. Yet they make more money than me and seem to be much happier.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's just the average person, remember that half the population is dumber than them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You just gotta get off your ass and do shit

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I think the major issue is the division symbol. Nowhere have I seen it in academia, you either multiply 8 by 1/2 or 2^(-1) which is the same. Once given the symbol, you can only assume 2(2+2) is one term and thus the outcome is 1.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      QED

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Someone forgot brackets first.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why are people ITT acting like there isn't an order of operations that leads to an objectively correct answer?
    I'm a smol brain moron so why wouldn't BODMAS apply?
    (2+2) = 4
    8/2 = 4
    4*4 = 16

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >OoO
      >objective
      It is not objective whether implicit multiplication takes precedence over division or vice versa. Anyone interpreting 1/2pi as pi/2 is a brainlet, for example. Other situations are more ambiguous. The only objectively correct solution here is to mark the student's work as incorrect.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's 16 either way. The ambiguity is from whether parentheses adjacent operations take precedence or not. But in both cases it's (8 / 2) * (2 + 2) = 8 / (2/ (2 + 2)) = 16. Get this brainlet shit out of here.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      weak bait

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's one bros. That's the answer following basic math rules. Anyone that says otherwise has moronic math rules that just complocate things for autistic reason, come on.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    >OP is a dumb homosexual complaining about a fake math "controversy" for literal teenagers on YouTube that nobody cares about and using it as an excuse to cry about muh society and muh normies
    Yes, I'm the contrarian.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    1 is the only correct answer.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    it is 16 you are all morons. It is (8/2)x(2+2) which equals 4x4=16

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    8/2 * (2+2) = fraction(8,2) * (4) = 4 * 4 = 16

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    16, any other answer is wrong.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    8 divided by 2(2+2)
    the answer is Black person

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >heh I'm so smart for being able to figure out this basic problem

    When did this board become flooded with midwits?

    Fact: Knowing how to solve this problem is useless information to 99% of people, hence why they don't retain it. Most people who can't solve it are probably skilled at something else. Were you taught French and Spanish in school? Can you remember basic verb conjugation? No you fricking can't. And they can't remember this either. Because it's useless.

    You are not smart.

    Answer is 1

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >answer is 1
      >smuggie.jpg
      This is some meta-shitposting.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        [math]
        frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = left(frac{8}{2}right)(4) = (4)(4) = 18
        [math]

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          [math]
          frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = left(frac{8}{2}right)(4) = (4)(4) = 8

          [/math]

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            [math]
            frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = left(frac{8}{2}right)(4) = (4)(4) = 18
            [math]

            [math]
            frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = frac{2^3}{2^1}(2^2) = 2^{3 + 2 - 1}
            [math]

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            [math]
            frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = left(frac{8}{2}right)(4) = (4)(4) = 8

            [/math]

            [math]
            frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = left(frac{8}{2}right)(4) = (4)(4) = 18
            [math]

            [math]
            frac{8}{2}(2 + 2) = frac{2^3}{2^1}(2^2) = 2^{3 + 2 - 1} = 2^{2^2}
            [/math]

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The answer is 1 you fricking moron. Also soijak represents you.

        brackets first
        indices
        divide

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >nobody posted it
    Guess it's my turn

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Not only is this a funny read, it is also correct and explains the 'division symbol mystery' I mentioned in

      I think the major issue is the division symbol. Nowhere have I seen it in academia, you either multiply 8 by 1/2 or 2^(-1) which is the same. Once given the symbol, you can only assume 2(2+2) is one term and thus the outcome is 1.

      Basically, /thread

    • 2 years ago
      bodhi

      the answer is 9 though moron, if you have a division before a multiplication you do the division first. it is 6 divided by 3 times 3 which is 9

      • 2 years ago
        bodhi

        *6 divided by 2 times 3 which is 9

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I haven't used the division symbol in 15 years. Parentheses exist for a reason. When was the last time you had done so?
    I don't care about your homosexual soi mutt acronyms, parentheses trivialize the problem while fractions eliminate it.

  24. 2 years ago
    bodhi

    am I the only person in this thread that knows what the order of operations is? jfc

    PEMDAS

    Add and subtract and multiply and divide depend on which operation comes first from left to right

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >am I the only person in this thread that knows what the order of operations is?
      No, you're the most common midwit poster this bait was designed for who's too low IQ to realize this is notation trolling and who's too low IQ to identify the specific aspect of notation that's ambiguous depending on which order of operation scheme you use.
      Hint: Go look up what implied multiplication by juxtaposition is and how it isn't always treated like explicit multiplication. Or what solidus division is.

      • 2 years ago
        bodhi

        >reeeeeeeeee
        moronic frick

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          K, continue falling for these notation baitposts forever like the midwit you are.

          • 2 years ago
            bodhi
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      the number next to the bracket makes it an indices tard

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    PLEASE EAT MY DICK AND SHIT

    PEMDAS

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >idiots giving "÷" magical powers it doesn't have
    Correct answer is 16
    8÷2(2+2)
    8/2*(2+2)
    8/2*4
    4*4
    16

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Ambiguity isn't a "power" you stupid shit.
      Anyway, picking one ordering rule over another is the stupidest thing you can do here and exactly what the bullshit problem was designed to bait you into doing.
      A smart answer would be identifying the notation ambiguity that results in a consistent split of midwits arguing with each other about their preferred rule.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >picking one ordering rule over another
        there is only one

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Wrong, which is exactly the problem. Implied multiplication by juxtaposition and division by solidus operator are not consistently defined behaviors all publications and caluclation systems use the same ordering rulen for.
          That's why these threads continue to work at baiting contradictory replies from anons insisting their own preferred ruleset is the one true ruleset. And why you can pull out two different calculators or calculating programs and get the two different answers depending on which ruleset it was programmed to use.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            there is only one, moron

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >If I pretend my arbitrary priority assign scheme of choice is the only one then there's no more ambiguity
            Great strategy, you dip.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >i have no argument
            cope

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Argument's been explained to you fifty times already, brainlet.
            I M P L I E D
            M U L T I P L I C A T I ON
            B Y
            J U X T A P O S I T I O N
            S O L I D U S
            D I V I S I O N
            M O R E
            T H A N
            O N E
            P R I O R I T Y
            D E P E N D I N G
            O N
            W H I C H
            S Y S T E M
            O R
            P U B L I C A T I O N
            R U L E S
            Y O U
            U S E

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >source: my ass

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    8/2(2+2)
    8/(4+4)
    2+4
    2+4+10-10
    2(2+5)-10
    2(2+5) = 10
    4+10 = 10
    14 = 10
    4 = 0

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I'm going to post this here because there are no question threads on this board and I've failed to be able to look it up. I can't quite remember the details, so I might be wrong on some things.

    I think there's some sort of mathematical function f(x), or a series of functions, that returns whole numbers or at least rational numbers without many decimal places, but this is true only up to something like x=12 or x=14, at which point the function returns a number with a huge number of decimals. When the code to do the calculations was first written and they saw this result, they initally thought it was a mistake and tried to figure out how to fix the bug, but eventually realised that it was actually real. I think it might have been a series, and it contained trigonometric functions like sin. I think the series also might have been named after someone. I originally thought it might be Wilkinson's polynomial, but that's a different thing.

    Does anyone recognise this story?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Anon on /misc/ found it. It was the Borwein integral.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if you forget PEMDAS you can always use the fact that if you integrate and then differentiate a number its the same number

    little trick from calculus, answer is 1/2 🙂

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    if it was 8 / 2 * (2+2) then it would be 16
    when you write it like that, it's 1
    the division is noted with a symbol but the multiplication is not. if it was written as "8 / 2x where x=(2+2)" there would be no debate but for some reason actual numbers makes people dumb

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >>when you write it like that, it's 1
      >source: my ass

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        a = 8 / 2x
        x = 4+4
        what's the answer homosexual

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          8/2x
          8/2(4+4)
          8/2*(4+4)
          8/2*8
          4*8
          32

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    the answer isn't an integer, it's a vector... they all are.

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >arguing about operator precedence
    moron tier. Kys.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    2+2 = 4
    8/2 = 4
    4 * 4 = 16

    Kys

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you have to distribute first
    [math]
    8 div 2(2 + 2) = ?\
    8 div 4 + 4 = ?\
    2 + 4 = ?\
    2 + 4 = 6 square
    [/math]

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