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daleks
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This thread is just what the title says it is. It is all about Math. You can post math jokes(the jokes don't have to be good), math questions, what you like about Math, or even why you hate Math.

My math joke: Resistance is not futile. It is voltage divided by amps.

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nichodemus
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mattduggan13 wrote:
4x-3y=12
I have trouble doing this! lol

That's because you need another equation to solve it.


Unless it was a differential equations question. Or implicit differentiation.
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math is my top grade in all my classes cuz its just too easy for me

invalid777
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Hello all I'm probably dumber than most of you. But anyway our class got stumped when trying to work on this problem:

http://j.mp/wF00MQ

There was an answer key. It said that X = 13. But we still didn't know how to solve it. Any ideas?

Zorvex
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people say life is a word problem. in that case, I hate life.

Zorvex
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Hello all I'm probably dumber than most of you. But anyway our class got stumped when trying to work on this problem:


I did the problem and i got -4.25, but im no math genius.
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I'm almost positive you need more information to solve this. Sometimes math books are poorly written, and something relevant to the problem appears earlier in the book.

For instance, you could have x equal six, and then have the angle on the right be rather small. We need something like area, or one of the angles, or relations between the angles, or perimeter...

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I can't find any way to solve it... I tried going through different properties of kites again but nothing came up on how I could solve the problem. Either I'm too dumb or there's some missing information.

Zorvex
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i did it by adding the like sides... x + x = 2x and 3x-17 + 3x-17 = 6x -34

6x+ 2x = 8x -34 -34/8 = -4.25 BUT IM IN ALGEBRA 1 so I probably did it worng or u guys are right something is missing

invalid777
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Hum ok thanks guys. Our class came to the conclusion that the question had insufficient information.

master565
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I just finished a 25 page math paper, funny thing is, the hardest part was probably citing :b

42maelstrom
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Hey guys. I love math. I'm in Algebra II right now and I love it. Anyway, I'm requesting a really tough math problem! Please give me one that's not stupid as well, because I don't like stupidly impossible problems. But make it hard!

42maelstrom
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Er, maybe a better term would be a math puzzle, not a problem. Like, more of a complicated math semi-intuitive word problem-puzzle, not a problem. Sorry for the double-post.

daleks
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Er, maybe a better term would be a math puzzle, not a problem.

What is the highest math class you have been in? That way I don't give you a puzzle/question that seems really hard to you but easy to me.

In other news I cut myself with an IC chip on accident. It was really painful. Who new that electronics in a classroom setting could hurt you?
42maelstrom
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I'm in Algebra II right now but I'm smart enough (I'm three years ahead in math...) to do harder puzzles as long as it doesn't use un-intuitive math that I haven't learned yet. Anyway... wow. Are there bandaids in the electronics classroom? :P

mattduggan13
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Oh, and how many digits of pi do you know?

All of them.
That's impossible cuz pi has more than a million digits.
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