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Originally Posted by WarChild
How can you be arrogant? There's only one possible solution.
Here's page after page of results from University websites that show you exactly how to do the equation. When following the rules, there's nothing ambigious about it, period.
https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-...w=1688&bih=759
Go ahead, let us know where you got your Engineering degree. Should be pretty simple to find their math department's order of operations online. We'll follow it and see if we end up with more than one possible solution. |
If it appears I am being arrogant about a simple math problem it would be because I have done this, in the real world my entire career. Literally I have worked with hundreds of engineers with many fortune 500 companies. So, what you see as arrogance is only life experience. If you go to Martin Marietta for a job and answer the question posed any other way than the way I answered it,you will not get the job. I worked for them right out of school as a data tech and I know that in those years that equation would be considered sloppy and ambiguous. If things have changed in other fields requiring math in 2011 I wouldn't know.