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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world -2 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

it's

a badly

written

math

problem

Seriously, every time this comes up and everyone makes a huge deal out of it, I keep thinking, "none of the people writing these better be teachers." You have to be more clear than this.

[–] BetterDev@programming.dev 7 points 27 minutes ago

no

it's

fucking

not

This is just basic algebra, this is actually how the problems in algebra I are written. What the fuck?

[–] BehindTheBarrier@programming.dev 4 points 21 minutes ago

Not this one, there is no ambiguity here. Order of operations are all good.

[–] VoterFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 24 minutes ago

I think it's reasonable if you consider the kind of physical situation it might represent.

You visit a farm and there are 2 unpackaged apples. There are also 5 packages that hold 8 apples but 5 have been removed from each. How many apples are there?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 minute ago

how should it have been written?