valerie vomit
Reason #4,386 I shouldn't be allowed to shop alone at Target...
Garbage Pail Kids! I loved these when I was a kid. (I am Valerie Vomit). Who knew they still had them!?!?!
Funniest thing about it: On the back of the package there is a contest thing where you can send in your name in hopes of winning a magnet or something. At the end of the directions, it says "Potential Canadian winners will be required to first correctly answer a mathematical skill-testing question: 20 + 4 X 2 - 10 = ?"
HAHAHA, silly canadians :)
(sorry jason!)
Comments
It's 38 :P
Posted by: Jason | April 16, 2007 4:17 AM
Actually it's 18.
Posted by: Rob | April 16, 2007 7:07 AM
hmm, i always thought you just worked from left to right, so i got 38 too...but then i just looked up order of operations and apparently you are supposed to do multiplication before addition. when did they change math??? should i move north?
Posted by: val | April 16, 2007 7:42 AM
Order of operations in math since the beginning of time:
1) Parenthesis
2) Multiplication/Division
3) Addition/Subtraction
So we get 20 + (4x2=8) = 28 - 10 = 18.
Posted by: Rob | April 16, 2007 8:06 AM
As an aside, the answer would have been 38 if it was written as
(20+4) x 2 - 10 = ?
Posted by: Rob | April 16, 2007 8:08 AM
So, I looked it up...and that damned "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" mnemonic sounds so familiar. So why the heck have I been going left to right all these years? Maybe that's why I flunked the AP calc exam (that, or the fact that I spent the entire night I was supposed to be studying making out with my study buddy instead...)
I think it's stupid to go any other way than straight across. On my authority, Canada wins! (See, I was even nice and said Canada instead of Canadia!)
Posted by: val | April 16, 2007 2:57 PM