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CITIZEN GETS IT ALL WRONG!!!
essyk
#51 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 5:57:41 PM
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woi Lord have mercy.
Those who applied BODMAS got it right.
Got a feeling that citizen told students not to use brackets if they don't appear in an equation.
But it's the order.
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
kenmac
#52 Posted: : Saturday, October 27, 2012 5:58:38 PM
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faa wrote:
The answer is 13. Confirmed and certified by a KNEC examiner

If you think its 17, just know you are an Idiot

Laughing out loudly

washana nayo,

hata calculator says 17 but it's chinese.
......Ecclesiastes
annsal
#53 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:49:48 PM
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its 13
God loves a Trier!
tycho
#54 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 6:50:20 PM
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kenmac wrote:
faa wrote:
The answer is 13. Confirmed and certified by a KNEC examiner

If you think its 17, just know you are an Idiot

Laughing out loudly

washana nayo,

hata calculator says 17 but it's chinese.


So what is truth? Mathematics is a language like any other. Who owns it? The calculator? The Man God?

Imagine how much confusion this thread is causing? But I love it. What a lesson!
kenmac
#55 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 7:56:37 PM
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tycho wrote:
kenmac wrote:
faa wrote:
The answer is 13. Confirmed and certified by a KNEC examiner

If you think its 17, just know you are an Idiot

Laughing out loudly

washana nayo,

hata calculator says 17 but it's chinese.


So what is truth? Mathematics is a language like any other. Who owns it? The calculator? The Man God?

Imagine how much confusion this thread is causing? But I love it. What a lesson!


well this thread is fun.

lakini kwa wale wanasaidia watoto na homework, answer ni 17.

Try with a standard 3 pupil who doesn't bodmas.

Tuendelee na hesabuLaughing out loudly
......Ecclesiastes
radio
#56 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 8:56:52 PM
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13
kenmac
#57 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:05:10 PM
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radio wrote:
13


what is the difference between ;

21 - 6 + 2
and
21 + 2 - 6 ???


Laughing out loudly
......Ecclesiastes
murchr
#58 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:25:02 PM
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Tebes wrote:
The Know Zone program, Mathematics section, gets it all wrong and the presenters need to go to school first before they mislead children.

sample this,

21-3×2+4÷2=

These idiots are giving the answer as 20.

Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you




If I recall my mathematics tisha said that numbers go with the sign before them so in this case

{+21}{-3}*{+4}/{+2}
then apply BODMAS/BEDMAS/PEDMAS:
from the left division comes first
4/2 = 2
so
{+21}{-3}*{+2}
then multiplication

{-3}*+{2}={-6}

so +21-6

=13

if you opt to multiply before dividing(in the rules of mathematics, they can be interchanged)

the solutions is
{+21}{-3}*{+4}/{+2}

{+21}-12/{+2} then divide
={+21-6}

=13

smile




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tycho
#59 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:39:52 PM
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murchr wrote:
Tebes wrote:
The Know Zone program, Mathematics section, gets it all wrong and the presenters need to go to school first before they mislead children.

sample this,

21-3×2+4÷2=

These idiots are giving the answer as 20.

Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you




If I recall my mathematics tisha said that numbers go with the sign before them so in this case

{+21}{-3}*{+4}/{+2}
then apply BODMAS/BEDMAS/PEDMAS:
from the left division comes first
4/2 = 2
so
{+21}{-3}*{+2}
then multiplication

{-3}*+{2}={-6}

so +21-6

=13

if you opt to multiply before dividing(in the rules of mathematics, they can be interchanged)

the solutions is
{+21}{-3}*{+4}/{+2}

{+21}-12/{+2} then divide
={+21-6}

=13

smile



This one wins the gold medal for creativity. 21-6 = 13!
Sufficiently Philanga....thropic
#60 Posted : Saturday, October 27, 2012 10:58:33 PM
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Im soo with @mwenza on this.
Pls lets use our akili!
17 it is!
Evn Bodmas is used with akili!
@SufficientlyP
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