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On 09/02/2023 at 03:14, CaaC (John) said:

Edit: It don't add up, it says his last post was on January 25th 

 

 

 

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The last time he posted was during the world cup. The 25th Jan is when he last logged in, so that could have been the person who made the comment on his account saying that he had died.

This was his last post according to his profile:-

6th December.

 

 

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12 minutes ago, Viva la FCB said:

This was posted as 'a question on my 5th grade brothers exam'. 

This took me way longer then Id like to admit to figure out...now I understand why the show "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader" exists....

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15 minutes ago, Viva la FCB said:

This was posted as 'a question on my 5th grade brothers exam'. 

This took me way longer then Id like to admit to figure out...now I understand why the show "Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader" exists....

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I've got a bad head 😂

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Yeah, I think part of it is most of us are too far removed from solving simple problems.

Once you see it its actually fairly straight forward, hence I felt dumb xD

My first thought was theres information missing here xD... no, no there is not.

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Ok heres how I got it:

When I finally figured out what the information we're given is it works out fairly easily. 

30 Pages + 1/8 + 1/4 is what we know the total number of pages is because thats what you're given and you know the book was finished.

Basically working backwards it means the 30 pages has to make up 5/8. because 1/8 + 1/4 is 3/8's. From that you figure out the basic math and the remainder is 18 pages for a total of 48 pages in the book.

Im sure theres a way to work this as an equation but im dumb so this is what I got :twothumbsup: 

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9 minutes ago, Viva la FCB said:

Ok heres how I got it:

 

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When I finally figured out what the information we're given is it works out fairly easily. 

30 Pages + 1/8 + 1/4 is what we know the total number of pages is because thats what you're given and you know the book was finished.

Basically working backwards it means the 30 pages has to make up 5/8. because 1/8 + 1/4 is 3/8's. From that you figure out the basic math and the remainder is 18 pages for a total of 48 pages in the book.

Im sure theres a way to work this as an equation but im dumb so this is what I got :twothumbsup: 

 

 

My mental process was essentially the same, converting it into an equation just makes it faster...

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if x is total pages, then:

x = 30 + 1/8x + 1/4x
x = 30 + 3/8x
x - 3/8x = 30
5/8x = 30
x = 48

 

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4 minutes ago, nudge said:

My mental process was essentially the same, converting it into an equation just makes it faster...

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My brain doesnt put things into an equation like that but as you lay it out that definitely makes more sense. 

Funny enough my mom gave me my highschool transcript the other day... was a blast from the past but the one glaring thing was a reminder that I took grade 11 math twice and settled for what we called math "essentials" - dumbed down math but gives you a passing grade. We did stuff like tax forms instead of quadratic equations for example xD

Math was definitely not my forte. 

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1 minute ago, Viva la FCB said:

My brain doesnt put things into an equation like that but as you lay it out that definitely makes more sense. 

Funny enough my mom gave me my highschool transcript the other day... was a blast from the past but the one glaring thing was a reminder that I took grade 11 math twice and settled for what we called math "essentials" - dumbed down math but gives you a passing grade. We did stuff like tax forms instead of quadratic equations for example xD

Math was definitely not my forte. 

Well, you could definitely say that doing tax forms is by far more useful for the general population compared to quadratic equations, so the joke's on them! xD 

Personally, I like and also prefer using equations in problem solving. I absolutely adored the logic course at the uni with the truth tables etc. for that reason alone :D I like the efficiency and clearly defined parameters.

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