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Caporegime
OP's stupid mate's brother spotted. Sound the alarm.
No. From the OP:
Divide 200 by half and add 30? What do you get?
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OP's stupid mate's brother spotted. Sound the alarm.
No. From the OP:
Divide 200 by half and add 30? What do you get?
Soldato
These questions are deliberately worded to cause ambiguity or argument.
Soldato
Yep, poor grammar is the issue, taken literally it's obviously 430, however, it could be also divide in half and add 30 = 130 as much as it could be 32..
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Caporegime
It's not "poor grammar" or "interpretation". You don't get to answer the question that you'd prefer was asked.
Divide 200 by half and add 30? What do you get?
Divide 200 by half and add 30? What do you get?
Soldato
'Divide by half' is the same as multiply by 2.
Your mate is dividing in half.
The real answer is 42 though, obviously.
Your mate is dividing in half.
The real answer is 42 though, obviously.
Soldato
OK, if not poor grammar, it's a poor choice of phrasing at the very least.
If you google "Divide by half" AI will tell you this:
My brain immediately jumps to the (technically correct) interpretation as we all agree on, but since I live with someone with Dyslexia I am perhaps more aware of how grammar/phrasing is essential to ensure clarity with the widest audience. Ironically I am a terrible communicator myself much to the ire of said dyslexic individual..
Caporegime
There's a reason Mathematicians use clearly expressed symbolic formulae rather than writing stuff out in words.
130. 430. 32. They're all justifiable. The first is the most natural English interpretation. The second is the pedants pick. And the third is for those who like to partake in homegrown drugs.
130. 430. 32. They're all justifiable. The first is the most natural English interpretation. The second is the pedants pick. And the third is for those who like to partake in homegrown drugs.
Soldato
That's not BODMAS
Weird how the terminology is different in different countries. For us it was BEDMAS, where E = exponents.
Anyway, this one isn't solvable without definition, depending on how you interpret it, you'll get different answers and nobody will agree.
Soldato
Soldato
Get better mates.
Soldato
I'm sure Americans use BIDMAS where I is indices.
So are we expected to just blindly assume that 200 and 30 are in decimal base 10, and not hexadecimal or literally any other base notation you care to use?
Also, if the person asking the question was Finnish, then it would definitely be said divide by hal-f, as in not harf. Not that it would alter the end result(once the base quotient had been clarified and agreed by all parties), but it would be how they say it. I watch two Finnish streamers and they both say it, so I am obviously extrapolating this to the entire population.
Edit: Or, if it was Baldrick being asked the question. "Some beans"
Also, if the person asking the question was Finnish, then it would definitely be said divide by hal-f, as in not harf. Not that it would alter the end result(once the base quotient had been clarified and agreed by all parties), but it would be how they say it. I watch two Finnish streamers and they both say it, so I am obviously extrapolating this to the entire population.
Edit: Or, if it was Baldrick being asked the question. "Some beans"
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Soldato
130
430
32
It's ambiguous enough to be any of the above (probably more possible combinations...)
Edit: to answer the question literally:
Q: "Divide 200 by half and add 30? What do you get?"
A: "A headache"
430
32
It's ambiguous enough to be any of the above (probably more possible combinations...)
Edit: to answer the question literally:
Q: "Divide 200 by half and add 30? What do you get?"
A: "A headache"
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Soldato
I don't think it's that ambiguous
Soldato
Associate
It suggest that people need to go back to school to learn mathThe 4(?) different answers just in this thread suggest otherwise
Soldato
It suggest that people need to go back to school to learn mathS
Clearly (British) English as well
The correct (to me) answer is 430, but I can see the justification for the the other answers as well, depending which missing information you subconsciously fill in so that it actually makes sense.
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Soldato
The 4(?) different answers just in this thread suggest otherwise
People are throwing up lots of options to confuse things, but really you've either said divide by half or times by half. Everything else is semantic
Edit: I feel that for the layman, the above is true. If you happen to be a mathematician or an engineer or a pedant, it may not be. But I'm guessing that this question is aimed at the layman.
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Associate
Nothing wrong in version without SClearly (British) English as well
The correct (to me) answer is 430, but I can see the justification for the the other answers as well, depending which missing information you subconsciously fill in so that it actually makes sense.