Today's latest internet argument.
People are torn on if the answer is 12 or 18. Others keep saying "not enough information". Most of the people, including in this article, keep making it a series problem.
When in reality this simple equation solves it and fits the "missing" 10, 5, and 4.
12 or 18
12 or 18
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
12 or 18
Usually it's PEMDAS that confuses people.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
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12 or 18
None of those "equalities" are true, so an idiot wrote this problem anyway.
The correct way to write the problem is:
The correct way to write the problem is:
Further there should be some constraint on f(x), like "f(x) is a polynomial" or something.find f(x) such that
f(9) = 90
f(8) = 72
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what is f(3)?
12 or 18
I wonder why your posts never go viral.thibodeaux wrote: ↑Thu Oct 20, 2022 4:28 pm None of those "equalities" are true, so an idiot wrote this problem anyway.
The correct way to write the problem is:
It's not me, it's someone else.
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I only post here, nobody else is smart enough to understand.