• Hawanja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 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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        1 day 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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          8 hours ago

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