JSA wrote:
Greg66 wrote:
JSA wrote:
Kay Serrar wrote:
Your whole argument seems to rest on the fact that because there is a "divided by" sign and not a "/" then that means it's a "SAT-like" test, and that means you divide by 2 first, while the rest of the world thinks there is no difference between a divided by sign and a slash. It's a weak argument that you've begun to unravel yourself. You just deal with the brackets (of which the 2 is attached) first, and the answer is 1.
And to answer your earlier question, yes, I did fine on my math tests. Thanks for asking.
The article in the OP points out this very fact. Did you even bother to read it? Or did you fail the verbal portion of the SAT as bad as you failed the math?
The article says it is deliberately ambiguous. You're taking it as being completely unambiguous.
As you're keen on throwing around disparagements about people's education and abilities, perhaps you'd like to disclose your academic and career achievements and allow yourself to be judged.
And BTW, are you claiming 1/2x = x/2?
Sure. I've mentioned this before. I was in the honors engineering program and received my engineering degree from Purdue University. That experience taught I was far too stupid to be an engineer, so I went to law school and graduated summa. Possibly second only to Duffy, I'm likely one of the dumbest guys in the LR. Because of this, I took review classes before taking the SAT, ACT, LSAT, and bar exam. The one thing I did learn, however, is how to take standardized tests and, in turn, how to answer equations like this. I'm not very bright and I get this equation. What's your excuse?
Had places to read maths at Imperial London or law at Cambridge. Chose the latter. I had an engineer living opposite me for my first year. I had to help him with his maths for the first term. At a reunion he turned up and announced he is an engineering fellow at Cambridge. I laughed like a drain and asked him who did his maths these days. He had the good grace to look abashed. I'm a commercial litigator of the sort that (used to - we don't have ot any more) wear wigs.
If SAT questions are intended to be ambiguous (which most people aside from you accept this is) they're not very good questions. I can see it is ambiguous, but a bit of thought resolves the ambiguity convincingly. And until Dr Tigerchik tells me that's wrong, I'm happy holding on that.
Back to my question. Do you think 1/2x = x/2. I guess not, because there's no division sign in play. So we're on the right track.
Do you think 1 ÷ 2x = x/2 though? A simple yes or no will suffice.