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Have you seen this? Fun with figures. ;)

iapetus_rocks — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 14:19:53 GMT

New South Wales reimagined: resize the state by the statistics that matter

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2015/mar/12/new-south-wales-reimagined-resize-the-state-by-the-statistics-that-matter

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:33:55 GMT

That is SO cool... love graphs and maps and all that stuff..thanks for posting it

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the_great_she_elephant — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 04:46:57 GMT

Speaking of 'fun with figures' this is doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment and it brought back a few memories.

7+7÷7+7x7-7 = ?

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 05:07:59 GMT

I will take a stab- is the answer 50 ?

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iapetus_rocks — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:16:24 GMT

56 🙂

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imastawka — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:28:57 GMT

Ummm 0 ? changed my mind 1

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:31:42 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Speaking of 'fun with figures' this is doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment and it brought back a few memories.

7+7÷7+7x7-7 = ?

So is the answer

a) 50

b) 56

c) 1

d)....

????????????????????????

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opmania — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:36:35 GMT

B 56

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the_great_she_elephant — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:42:04 GMT

The answer is 50. You do the division and multiplication first.

So the equation reads 7+1 (7/7) +49 (7x7) -7 = 50

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imastawka — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:30:37 GMT

Darnit .........missed it by this much

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:41:35 GMT

lol stawka

like your new avi, by the way...

( it is new, right?- or am I not very observant? )

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imastawka — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:55:34 GMT

It's 'new' - well, it's me 50 years ago.

Don't know if I like it yet though - might go back

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iapetus_rocks — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:01:19 GMT

No, I think you are wrong.

The original equation was stated without using brackets, so the equation is solved by doing everything in a strictly linear fashion.

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iapetus_rocks — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:06:00 GMT

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:
Speaking of 'fun with figures' this is doing the rounds on Facebook at the moment and it brought back a few memories.

7+7÷7+7x7-7 = ?

7+7=14÷7=2+7=9x7=63-7= 56

See?

(you can't add the brackets in later, that's not fair as it changes the outcome) 😉

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iapetus_rocks — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:12:18 GMT

Hey, I can select my own post as a "solution" . . . cool. 😉

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gkam2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:48:47 GMT

The answer is 50 according to the mathmatical order of operations known as B.O.D.M.A.S. which operates irrespective of brackets.

www.uea.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.141672!BODMAS.pdf

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j*oono — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:19:21 GMT

Thanks Gkam. I finally get it! I am hopeless at maths and didn't understand the BODMAS thing properly before but now I see how it's done.

Thank goodness my boys were good at maths and didn't need help with homework.

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youcandoityoucandoityoucandoit — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:31:26 GMT

@j*oono wrote:
Thanks Gkam. I finally get it! I am hopeless at maths and didn't understand the BODMAS thing properly before but now I see how it's done.

Thank goodness my boys were good at maths and didn't need help with homework.

Im with you J*oono..

When I was at school, it used to do my head in trying to work it out, but once you see the rule laid out, its like a fog lifted..my son is a wiz with maths and physics- way way above my head, but he sees relationships and remembers rules with ease..and he explained the BODMAS rule to me.

Very humbling when your young son explains a mystery to you in a simple way which blows your mind...

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baybizz — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:42:46 GMT

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baybizz — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:59:27 GMT