People on facebook are dumbforgets

[SeventhSandwich]

Some guy asks a question:

"What's 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1x0"

1,300,000 something people answered

Everybody who passed 4th grade math knows that due to order of operations, you do 1x0 first, and then the addition, which means the answer's 16. Here's the answers:

637,333 people answered 0
545,000 people answered 14 (I don't even know how loving crazy your process must be to reach this answer. 545,000 people are handicapped)
153,000 people answered 16 (AKA. Moderately intelligent people)
29,448 people answered 17 (These people BETTER have just miscounted the 1's.)

I don't know how horrible our generation's math teachers must be for people to be this stupid.

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[Comatose]

Thing is, why would math teachers even teach a problem like this.

[SeventhSandwich]

Thing is, why would math teachers even teach a problem like this. Along with that, was this topic COMPLETELY necessary?

You're the problem.

[Chefkokkie]

Thing is, why would math teachers even teach a problem like this.

Math isn't about learning how to solve ONE specific problem every time. It's about learning rules that apply globally or in a lot of different problems.

[mrlolop]

Thing is, why would math teachers even teach a problem like this.

that doesn't make any sense

[Nom|Aplem|Nom]

Math isn't about learning how to solve ONE specific problem every time. It's about learning rules that apply globally or in a lot of different problems.

All you need to know:

How to add for shopping/gasoline/food.
How to use fractions for cooking.
How to add.

I tell you. Adding is magical.

[SeventhSandwich]

All you need to know:

How to add for shopping/gasoline/food.
How to use fractions for cooking.
How to add.

I tell you. Adding is magical.

If that's all you know, good luck surviving in the technological age buddy.

[fred da kiko]

if they wrote it (1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1)0 then the answer would be 0...

[Gambsy]

if they wrote it (1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1)0 then the answer would be 0...

but they didn't

[Coolio]

I never learned this in 4th grade.

[SeventhSandwich]

I never learned this in 4th grade.

Exactly.

You didn't

[SlayerZ99]

I knew when I first started multiplication 0 times any number is 0 :I

[Coolio]

I didn't, because it wasn't taught.

[Miga]

One of my friends answered 14...

...uh.

[mrlolop]

One of my friends answered 14...

...uh.

Miscount?