It’s not a bad analogy for american democracy. None of the options are correct, so you either pick the wrong answer that makes some amount of sense or write in the correct answer and be completely ignored in the tally of results.
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This is why I write it as 2+(2x4). The parentheses aren't techniclly necessary, but they do make it clearer to people who haven't been in a school for 35 years.
2+8x
just get rid of the x. 2+(24) = 26
Why write more than necessary? Surely 26 = 26 is enough.
@Mog_Spawn @humour 2 2x4's are not as strong as a 4x4. But you have to remember to take of 1/4" from every width.
This isn’t even math, just convention on rules for order of operations.
The one response you got was just like, "But there's just ONE rule." totally missing your point.
Order of operations only has one rule: Bedmas (or pemdas if you're not from north america)
Huh it was always pemdas in both highschool and college in new England for me.... they were also always parentheses. 'Brackets' only reffered to '[ ]' which were reserved for matrices or number sets, eg 2*[2,5,8]+2= [6,12,18]
I love this so much because on the ballot, the right answer is also often missing
Should really allow people to answer how they want.
Who's Big Math in charge of the multiple choice?
Who's denying a voice to those who want to answer that question with "10"? [Edit: or "F"? ~ or an essay on being "off by 1"]
Null.
Wait, which numeral system are we using
A multiple choice question where all the answers are wrong, says nothing about math or the mathematical understanding of the general population.
This is engagementbait and its hooked you too.
That’s normal for multiple choice, and sometimes all the answers are correct. You’re supposed to pick the most correct based on the viewpoint of the course.
We can assume it’s 16 because the audience weren’t taught order of operations. (2+2)*4
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2+2*4=16~4~ ☝️🤓
People who are responsible for the Wayland protocol: "This seems like a good idea, but also give veto rights to weirdos."
wrong sub should be a shitpost
I know this is a PEMDAS joke, one of many for the PEMDAS throne.
But yeah, we need to really, really worry about the coming day when "math becomes a democracy" and that is already happening for a wide array of other facts and knowledge about the world.
Whatever "civility politics" liberals infested our collective minds with have to be abandoned. We have to get a lot harder and a lot less tolerant of other people's "beliefs" even if you think "Well they're only harming themselves by thinking 1x1=4" but they're not, we need to start viewing these people as threats to our future. We no longer live in isolation, whatever bullshit your parents drove into you about "nothing on the internet being real and shouldn't matter" was utter hogwash and even less relevant in 2025/2026. We get everything from the internet, including a sense of community and connection, which is why nutsoids find each other and turn something like a joke about earth being flat into an entire anti-science movement.
If you've ever seen those dumb sci-fi shows or movies where science if forbidden and people caught learning science are punished, and thought "that's so unrealistic" well I have some real bad news for you.
Yeah. It's definitely "the liberals" responsible for poor math skills.
But if enough people are doing it wrong, that means it’s common usage, and therefore it’s right!
-The English Language
Which is perfectly fine for languages:)
I mean, obviously ten.
But I at least understand 16.
I deeply worry about the percentage just next to the other three numbers.
13 is probably the next most chosen because it’s closest to 10.
Not including the correct answer is also a form of engagement bait to get additional comments and such saying “wait the real answer is 10, wtf?”
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Solve for x
Here you go. By the commutative property of multiplication:
2 + 2x4 = 2 + 24x
Rearranging this leads to:
x = -1/12
which means that x is the limit of the diverging series:
x = 1 + 2 + 3 + ...
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x=4/7
Was this multiple choice? Because if 10 isn't an option, people are just going to answer whatever.
It was engagement bait. It's always engagement bait.
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