What's The Answer? - Most Will Get This WRONG!

[dulux-oz]

This is making the rounds on LinkedIn at the moment; its interesting enough to post here and see what people come up with.



WHAT IS THE ANSWER?

7 + 7 / 7 + 7 * 7 - 7

Unfortunately most will get this WRONG!

Cheers

[AstaSyneri]

Err, 50. Where is the trick?

[Mask_of_winter]

0? Never been good at math lol

[damned]

Err, 50. Where is the trick?

unless they are 1's and then it would be 2?

[Tiqon]

I would say 50 too. If you follow the math rules I know... Which reminds me I read this one today:

"I have many problems, but I don't know how many, because math is one of them."

[Valarian]

It's all about precendence:
the first thing being the multiplication (7x7=49)
and the division (7/7=1)
then the addition and subtraction

so ... 7 + 1 + 49 - 7 = 50

Unfortunately, a lot of these that go around Facebook and LinkedIn are profile farming for later spam.

[JohnD]

https://whatscookingamerica.net/Vegetables/Russet_Potato.jpg

Did I get it?

[damned]

thats a good looking spud John.

[Tiqon]

8915

[Gadreun]

https://whatscookingamerica.net/Vegetables/Russet_Potato.jpg

Did I get it?

John wins! ;)

I will be honest. my first thought was "0" but then i remembered something in my dark dusty recesses about math rules! So i too opt for 50.

[Ikael]

50. Numbers seems to be sevens (unless presented with some strange font) and ops seems clear as well. Unless you are actually asking what is the question? Nobody is really asking outcome of the calculation, just stating it (without context), but in this case this are just annoying interweb spams.

[JohnD]

thats a good looking spud John.

Thanks. That's all I'm going to have left to eat after the wife sees the bill for all the C&C stuff I just bought.

[dulux-oz]

...but in this case this are just annoying interweb spams.

Possibly it is spam, but its also quite enlightening - at least people's answers are.

Over on LinkedIn there have been approximately 800 answers from people from all parts of the world and with all sorts of Job Titles, and about half of them get it wrong!

"So?" you may ask.

So these people are making decisions which effect the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people: they could be your boss or your boss's boss. And yet they can't get a 3rd Grade math problem correct!

I find that appalling!

So this is/was an experiment to see what my fellow FGers come up with - after all, RPGers on average are supposed to have 5-10 IQ points over the general population. I also thought it was interesting in its own right.

Oh, and yes, they are "sevens".

Cheers

[Nickademus]

The only thing I find appalling is that you are just now realizing this. I forget the actual stats, but you should look up the number of US high school kids that can't locate the US on a map.

[JohnD]

I guess potato was the wrong answer after all. :(

[ianmward]

Don't worry John. Potato was the right answer to another, perfectly good question, so maybe it was just the question that was wrong.

[Dakadin]

I guess potato was the wrong answer after all. :(

Hopefully it at least tasted good! ;)

[dulux-oz]

The only thing I find appalling is that you are just now realizing this. I forget the actual stats, but you should look up the number of US high school kids that can't locate the US on a map.

It's about half, I believe.

However, I would expect that to be the bottom half of the workforce, not senior management and C-Suite people.

And for what it's worth, "potato" is at least as correct as 50% of the respondents, or so it seems :p

[Ardem]

I knew straight away you must do, divides and multiplication first. Then again I was always decent with Maths.

English not so much, unless its psuedo code <smile>