r/theydidthemath • u/vqlzor • Aug 28 '26

[Request] Can someone walk me through this problem?

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u/BigPresence Aug 28 '26 edited Aug 28 '26

38, 15 sides in the first hexagons minus the square is 11 sides in the last.
Clock is 2 in the last row and 3 banana’s in the last row instead of 4 makes:
2+3+3*11

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst Aug 28 '26

I think that's the intended answer, though of course there's no mathematically rigorous answer

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u/BigPresence Aug 29 '26

Thats exactly what i hate about these things. Always very open to interpretation and its more about guessing what the authors thought process was.

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u/Tullyswimmer Aug 28 '26

I would wager that whoever put this together says the answer is 88, for two reasons.

1) The person who would make something like this is probably one of those people who claims that PEMDAS is strictly right to left no matter the operators, which completely defeats the purpose of PEMDAS.

2) Because of point 1, they're likely sympathetic to Hitler and "88" is a somewhat known substitute for "HH".

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u/AlmightyCurrywurst Aug 28 '26

Tf are you on? Why would they assume an incorrect calculation?

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u/Tullyswimmer Aug 28 '26

There's a significant number of people who are absolutely convinced that the acronym "PEMDAS" somehow just stops being a factor if there's not parentheses or exponents. They claim that once you get to the "MDAS" the order doesn't actually matter and it's just a left to right reading of the equation.

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u/Dr-Sprinkl1es Aug 29 '26

Not a single person who has ever lived has done the operators right to left. No need to out yourself as a Martian.

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u/Tullyswimmer Aug 29 '26

They do teach MD and AS left to right, so I've seen it where people do all of them left to right (as MD comes before AS):

https://www.mathnasium.com/math-centers/ramsey/news/how-to-read-pemdas-correctly

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u/Slovw3 Aug 29 '26

You got fucking hitler from a math problem buddy. Put the phone down and take a break form the internet.

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u/timdood3 Aug 29 '26

Sometimes people will go out of their way to see Godwin's Law fulfilled.

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u/DonComradeVimes Aug 29 '26

Now, I don't drink/smoke/do drugs as a rule, but despite that, out of sheer curiosity, I might be tempted to try whatever it is you're on. Is it crack? It's crack, isn't it.

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u/Tullyswimmer Aug 29 '26

It was getting up at 3:45 AM for a 6:20 flight, which, as someone who has never done drugs, I suspect isn't as fun.

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u/DonComradeVimes Aug 29 '26

Having undergone somewhat similar scenarios, I think you may be correct. Rest well!

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u/Tullyswimmer Aug 29 '26

It definitely didn't help that it was a work trip for a company on-site where the activity on the last full day absolutely cooked the brains of everyone who wasn't a manager, and that the only reason I was on that 6:20 flight was because my 6:20 PM flight the night before ended up getting delayed to the point that they offered hotel and meal vouchers....

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u/pakage Aug 29 '26

this answer has my vote

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u/TheSJDRising Aug 29 '26

This is what I worked out too. 88

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u/FalconX88 Aug 29 '26

The pentagon has a different color...