• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    I mean, obviously ten.

    But I at least understand 16.

    I deeply worry about the percentage just next to the other three numbers.

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      13 is probably the next most chosen because it’s closest to 10.

      Not including the correct answer is also a form of engagement bait to get additional comments and such saying “wait the real answer is 10, wtf?”

  • AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    It’s not a bad analogy for american democracy. None of the options are correct, so you either pick the wrong answer that makes some amount of sense or write in the correct answer and be completely ignored in the tally of results.

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      9 months ago

      Order of operations only has one rule: Bedmas (or pemdas if you’re not from north america)

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        9 months ago

        Huh it was always pemdas in both highschool and college in new England for me… they were also always parentheses. ‘Brackets’ only reffered to ‘[ ]’ which were reserved for matrices or number sets, eg 2*[2,5,8]+2= [6,12,18]

  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    PEMDAS isn’t even real. It’s something we made up to make stupid people feel better about being poor communicators. I challenge someone to create a word problem that actually requires the use of pemdas where you couldn’t just reword the problem to actually make sense.

    Creating fake problems by inserting ambiguity is ridiculous.