Random thoughts.......................

[shogun32]

What MTV did to music is pretty much what ESPN is doing to sports.

I'm waiting for ESPN to transition to cribs, and not carry sports at all. A few more years perhaps?

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[shogun32]

(2x+N) / 2 - x = x + N/2 - x = N/2
Works for any value of X or N, even numbers not required.

 

[dpAtlanta]

N/2=N/2=N/2

Clever...!!!

 

[shogun32]

N/2=N/2=N/2

you only get half credit for failure to show your work.

 

[dpAtlanta]

It’s O.B.I. my friend.

 

[shogun32]

It’s O.B.I. my friend.

could you perhaps elaborate? None of these seem apropos.
https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/OBI

 

[dpAtlanta]

O.B.I: Obvious By Inspection.
That equation can be simplified in your head... showing “work” for the intuitive is superfluous.

 

[shogun32]

O.B.I: Obvious By Inspection.
That equation can be simplified in your head... showing “work” for the intuitive is superfluous.

to a 8 yr old? Who would be doing the math in their head in narrative fashion?

 

[dpAtlanta]

Confused... are you saying that simplifying that equation in your head is difficult or easy?

 

[shogun32]

Confused... are you saying that simplifying that equation in your head is difficult or easy?

it would not occur to the target audience (2-4th graders) to listen to the entire narrative, construct an equation and reduce it, to realize the answer would always be N/2. I'll bet you plenty of people on this forum reading that post would have worked the narrative out one step at a time, and would take a few moments to realize the equation always reduced to N/2.

Impromptu vote:
up-vote = it was bloody obvious you twit

wow = oh, so THAT's how it works / kids wouldn't/unlikely have figured it out

sad-face = maff be hard, I'm an English/History/Arts major damn it. I use a graphing calculator for a reason.

 

[lacanteen]

Is the S or the C silent in scent?

 

[Interceptor]

Today I was at the grocery. Leaving my food buggy to find an item. I found my item and placed into the buggy, proceeded two aisle over.

Then I notice the buggy was not my buggy.

Random thought: should I tell the person who has my food buggy I want it back, or slowly walk away and start over?

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