Math question for an 11 yr old

In reply to Cheeks

OK...it's not groups.

In reply to HumbleCalf


Poor guy might be beyond help. When he's fixated on something, no matter how clearly erroneous it is or how misguided his conclusions are, he will defend it to the bitter end. Then continue to defend it even when proven wrong. All the while insulting and attacking the very persons trying to nudge him in the right direction.

Here, half the backroom is gently trying to explain the very basic premise of this math problem aimed at kids, yet he persists with the pedantic hubris.

It’s kind of sad. I suppose age can affect people like that. Just be kind to him and hope for the best.

Confirmation bias is a helluva drug!!

In reply to VIX

Let's continue this the ambiguity is clear as daylight.

In reply to VIX

What we have here is a classic case of one candidate being over qualified due to his superior intellect!

In reply to StumpCam

Abysmally so!!!

In reply to VIX

How many markers were removed from the stock?

Are you selling the markers in packets of four or are the 4 sold individually and 2 is given free?

The markers are not sold in groups of fours.

In reply to Courtesy

160 sold in packs of 4
50 sold in less than pack of 4
80 given away

Total amount decremented from inventory 160+50+80 = ?

Note, the amount removed from inventory was not a part of the question.

In reply to HumbleCalf

I ask the question earlier and Vix said:

In reply to Courtesy

He meant that the full question is in his initial post and there is no further information.

In reply to HumbleCalf

Ahhh!!!...ok. I tort he was responding to my question.

I came up with 50 and then started wondering why the word individual was inclded in the question. And then I began thinking of whether purchases of between 1 and 3 markers were to be considered as individual purchases or purchases of 1, 2 or 3 individual units. Since there was no further info provided I assumed the latter

In reply to Maispwi

The "four markers" were individual markers.

you know in my lead post I asked: Because I knew our LOW-VALUE poster would copy and paste a solution straight out of an AI generator while sitting on his mythical deck or operating his mining equipment.
And without even bothering to change the wording.
And so he did. What a shocker.
Pitiful.

Ask a silly question, get three pages of silly answers.

I was focused on the word individual and paid no further attention to the 160 bought as part of the promotion.

It reminded me of those times when students were given a certain number of problems to complete in a certain time and you wasted time agonizing over the meaning of one word in a one of the problems

....VIX

...I see why the teacher asked the question

must have met your dumb rass and knew you couldn't solve it for your 11 year old?...

Even Jah Jah caught your uneducated stupid idiotic rass plagerizing....

Wahhahahahaha

In reply to Maispwi

Yeah, the wording was deliberately tricky.

All the markers were sold individually.

Hehehehehehe!!!

In reply to VIX

Seems like there is more than one Self Proclaimed Stable Genius in our midst!

In reply to StumpCam

I cannot speak for any sarge but me know meself. I am just a subsistence peanut farmer.



Btw, the peanut farmer asked all the pertinent questions regarding this dumbass question.

In reply to StumpCam

It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect ....

In reply to Kay

Many, many years ago on this same MB there were opposing views on the value of 4 x 0.

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Arawak classified me as a low-value poster.

My opinion is of no value , even the idiot who started the thread claimed I copied it off somewhere.

Yet he was caught plagerizing, claiming the phrase was his?...

In reply to Courtesy

If only we were allowed to grill examination authors during exams. Tests would have been so much easier.

In reply to VIX

I was taught from early be prepared to turn mathematical problems upside down.