• Hawanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You got it wrong on your first try, didn’t you? Lol, it’s not “mean” to write a math problem. The whole point of memorizing the order of operations is so that you can solve it no matter what order the equation is written in. No one wrote this problem on purpose just to make you fail to understand it, that’s dumb.

      • Hawanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I just fail to see how you come to the conclusion that it was written in a “mean” way. It’s math, there is no “nice” way to write an equation.

        • TheKingBee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          it’s mean in that they intentionally wrote it to trip people up so we’d have this very conversion…

          • Hawanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            17 hours ago

            But how do you know they did that? Becuase it’s perfectly legit the way it’s written.