math sucks

[javald]

help me with this math problem.

p(x)=5x+6
p(x)=2x-x+3x-9

 

[MegaWorks]

Are you serious?

 

[javald]

yes

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

5x+6=2x-x+3x-9

Get all the X's on one side of the equasion and simplify.

 

[javald]

THANK YOU

 

[PingSpike]

Math does not suck. Math is hard. But it doesn't suck.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Math does not suck. Math is hard. But it doesn't suck.

Actually, math is really easy. It's just hard to find a reason to apply yourself to it. You like computers, don't you? I mean, I'm assuming so since you post on this board. Math is WAY more simple than most things about a computer if you really understand what's going on.

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: javald
yes

For a minute, I thought you where joking.

 

[javald]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Math does not suck. Math is hard. But it doesn't suck.

I sort of agree with you.

 

[MrChad]

First, substitute:

5x + 6 = 2x - x + 3x - 9

Combine like terms on each side:

5x + 6 = 4x - 9

Subtract 4x from both sides:

5x + 6 - 4x = 4x - 9 - 4x
x + 6 = -9

Subtract 6 from both sides:

x + 6 - 6 = -9 - 6
x = -15

Check your answer:

p(x) = 5(-15) + 6 = -69
p(x) = 2(-15) - (-15) + 3(-15) - 9 = -69

 

[WhiteKnight]

This isn't math. It's arithmetic.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
This isn't math. It's arithmetic.

Arithmetic is a subset of math.

And actually it's algebra.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: MrChad
First, substitute:

5x + 6 = 2x - x + 3x - 9

Combine like terms on each side:

5x + 6 = 4x - 9

Subtract 4x from both sides:

5x + 6 - 4x = 4x - 9 - 4x
x + 6 = -9

Subtract 6 from both sides:

x + 6 - 6 = -9 - 6
x = -15

Check your answer:

p(x) = 5(-15) + 6 = -69
p(x) = 2(-15) - (-15) + 3(-15) - 9 = -69

BAH. You can't just TELL him the answer. That's why I didn't in the first place, I just pointed him in the right direction.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Math does not suck. Math is hard. But it doesn't suck.

Actually, math is really easy. It's just hard to find a reason to apply yourself to it. You like computers, don't you? I mean, I'm assuming so since you post on this board. Math is WAY more simple than most things about a computer if you really understand what's going on.

I understand you. I used to hate math, then I started to do some programming...then I took algebra and trig...I really started to think math was awesome because it was so useful for solving problems. I'd always liked geometry because I have a very good visual understanding of things, but hated algebra...when I started to see algebra connect with geometry I started to like it.

The last math test I did, I recall handing in with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. And I also realized how huge of a fvcking dork I really was.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: MrChad
First, substitute:

5x + 6 = 2x - x + 3x - 9

Combine like terms on each side:

5x + 6 = 4x - 9

Subtract 4x from both sides:

5x + 6 - 4x = 4x - 9 - 4x
x + 6 = -9

Subtract 6 from both sides:

x + 6 - 6 = -9 - 6
x = -15

Check your answer:

p(x) = 5(-15) + 6 = -69
p(x) = 2(-15) - (-15) + 3(-15) - 9 = -69

BAH. You can't just TELL him the answer. That's why I didn't in the first place, I just pointed him in the right direction.

Where there's one math problem there's usually another. I figured that if I showed him step by step how to do this one, he could do the others himself.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: PingSpike
Math does not suck. Math is hard. But it doesn't suck.

Actually, math is really easy. It's just hard to find a reason to apply yourself to it. You like computers, don't you? I mean, I'm assuming so since you post on this board. Math is WAY more simple than most things about a computer if you really understand what's going on.

I understand you. I used to hate math, then I started to do some programming...then I took algebra and trig...I really started to think math was awesome because it was so useful for solving problems. I'd always liked geometry because I have a very good visual understanding of things, but hated algebra...when I started to see algebra connect with geometry I started to like it.

The last math test I did, I recall handing in with a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment. And I also realized how huge of a fvcking dork I really was.

:thumbsup:

I'm a physics JUNKIE.

If you think math sucks, wait until you get into Physics where your teacher blows up CO2 bombs IN CLASS, breaking ceiling tiles, blows them up outside sending a 2-liter bottle through the lid of a 55-gallon rubbermaid trash can, and takes the physics and chemistry classes together out to a friend's tree nursery where you blow up various mixtures of black powder, shoot off bottle rockets, and inconspicuously mix the two projects together, sending a rocket up 100 feet and watching it explode violently

 

[magomago]

isn't there a minimum age limt for AT? ...here i am mad atmyself that i finally understood line integration and green's theorm only like 2 hours b4 the test, and someone is having trouble solving for X when there is just ONE variable?

Uh................................................

Oh and if you think math sucks, go live in a cave. Because without math nothing is possible

 

[Phoenix86]

I see Nik has taken his happy pills today.

 

[SelArom]

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
This isn't math. It's arithmetic.

Arithmetic is a subset of math.

And actually it's algebra.

linear algebra actually, no?

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: SelArom

Originally posted by: MrChad

Originally posted by: WhiteKnight
This isn't math. It's arithmetic.

Arithmetic is a subset of math.

And actually it's algebra.

linear algebra actually, no?

NM, I guess it can be considered arithmetic from a mathematician's perspective (Text).

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
I see Nik has taken his happy pills today.

ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT!? :|



Yeah, the PMS is subsiding for the moment.

 

[javald]

This math is algebra and i needed help and thank you to all who actually helped me the rest of you are great people just you need to stop inturupting my math.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: MrChad
First, substitute:

5x + 6 = 2x - x + 3x - 9

Combine like terms on each side:

5x + 6 = 4x - 9

Subtract 4x from both sides:

5x + 6 - 4x = 4x - 9 - 4x
x + 6 = -9

Subtract 6 from both sides:

x + 6 - 6 = -9 - 6
x = -15

Check your answer:

p(x) = 5(-15) + 6 = -69
p(x) = 2(-15) - (-15) + 3(-15) - 9 = -69

Hrm... 69? proof that math does not suck.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: javald
This math is algebra and i needed help and thank you to all who actually helped me the rest of you are great people just you need to stop inturupting my math.

You suck at English as much as you do math.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: javald
This math is algebra and i needed help and thank you to all who actually helped me the rest of you are great people just you need to stop inturupting my math.

I'll help you with your math if you promise to stop posting.