Numbers

[carsonshepherd]

I hate numbers. I don't have the patience for solving these long, complex equations. I know how to work the fucking problems, why throw 3 or 4 of each onto the quiz, each one a little more complicated?

Arrrrgh

 

[Ǽltya]

What kinda math are you working on?

 

[carsonshepherd]

What kinda math are you working on?

college algebra
*murders*

 

[Ǽltya]

college algebra
*murders*

Sounds like fun, but then I'm a numbers kind of girl.

Good luck

 

[carsonshepherd]

Sounds like fun, but then I'm a numbers kind of girl.

Good luck

I understand the concepts. I just hate the actual numbers part. I especially really, really hate factoring

6x(x+1)(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x(x+1)
How can you have fun with that? How?

 

[Ǽltya]

I understand the concepts. I just hate the actual numbers part. I especially really, really hate factoring

6x(x+1)(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x(x+1)
How can you have fun with that? How?

I know it sounds really geeky, but yes, that does sound like fun. I always liked factoring. Take out the (x+1) first. I can feel your frustration though if you aren't using paper.

 

[3113]

Ah, yes, I remember those courses well. I used to have no problem with the numbers, but with the concept itself. Once someone showed me how to do the homework problem, I would do all the problems. I got "A's" on all the homework. But the wily professor would then give us a quiz on this problem solving with problems that looked nothing like the homework. And I failed each and every time. Because I just couldn't extrapolate. I couldn't take what I was doing on the homework and apply it to any problem that didn't look like the homework problems.

Hence, proving that I really couldn't do that kind of problem solving. Which is why I ended up an English major instead of a science major. Because once I was shown how to analyze a poem, I was able to extrapolate from there how to analyze any work of writing, be it essay, novel, short-story or even a movie.

Had I been able to do the same with math, I'd probably be on some other forum discussing higher mathematics and science rather than erotica You're lucky that you understand the concept. As for the numbers, don't disparage them. They keep your brain working like exercises in a gym.

 

[carsonshepherd]

I know it sounds really geeky, but yes, that does sound like fun. I always liked factoring. Take out the (x+1) first. I can feel your frustration though if you aren't using paper.

Oh, I can cancel those? Wheeee. (I am using paper, but I haven't done these since last semester)

 

[Ǽltya]

Had I been able to do the same with math, I'd probably be on some other forum discussing higher mathematics and science rather than erotica

But you wouldn't be having nearly as much fun.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Ah, yes, I remember those courses well. What the professor is trying to learn is if you *really* understand the concept. I used to have the same, miserable problem. Once someone showed me how to do the homework problem, I would do all the problems. I got "A's" on all the homework. But the wily professor would then give us a quiz on this problem solving with problems that looked nothing like the homework. And I failed each and every time. Because I just couldn't extrapolate. I couldn't take what I was doing on the homework and apply it to any problem that didn't look like the homework problems.

Hence, proving that I really couldn't do that kind of problem solving. Which is why I ended up an English major instead of a science major. Because once I was shown how to analyze a poem, I was able to extrapolate from there how to analyze any work of writing, be it essay, novel, short-story or even a movie.

Had I been able to do the same with math, I'd probably be on some other forum discussing higher mathematics and science rather than erotica

I'm a human nutrition major and I have no bloody idea what fucking algebra has to do with that.

I have the opposite problem as you. I have no problem with the concepts, I just don't do arithmetic well.

 

[carsonshepherd]

But you wouldn't be having nearly as much fun.

I want to like you...

 

[3113]

6x(x+1)(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x(x+1)
How can you have fun with that? How?

I know it sounds really geeky, but yes, that does sound like fun. I always liked factoring. Take out the (x+1) first.

So we get down to 6x(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x? Because you cancel it out (x+1) on both sides? And then we get rid of the 3x+3 as it's subtracted getting down to 6x-x(5x) = 5x?

I'm probably all wrong here. Long time since I've even tried algebra and I wasn't much good at the time I tried it...

 

[carsonshepherd]

So we get down to 6x(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x? Because you cancel it out (x+1) on both sides? And then we get rid of the 3x+3 as it's subtracted getting down to 6x-x(5x) = 5x?

I'm probably all wrong here. Long time since I've even tried algebra and I wasn't much good at the time I tried it...

lol. Don't worry your pretty head. You can't get rid of 3x+3 because it's not on both sides of the equation.

 

[3113]

So we get down to 6x(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x? Because you cancel it out (x+1) on both sides? And then we get rid of the 3x+3 as it's subtracted getting down to 6x-x(5x) = 5x?

lol. Don't worry your pretty head. You can't get rid of 3x+3 because it's not on both sides of the equation.

pout. Can we cancel out the x from both sides of the equation and leave the 5?

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

So we get down to 6x(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x? Because you cancel it out (x+1) on both sides? And then we get rid of the 3x+3 as it's subtracted getting down to 6x-x(5x) = 5x?

I'm probably all wrong here. Long time since I've even tried algebra and I wasn't much good at the time I tried it...

I don't believe you can cancel the (X+1) expression, 3. If you expand the original expression you come out with:

12X^2+12X-10X^2-10X=5X

Combining, this becomes

2X^2 +2X = 5X

Then Subtracting 5X from each side -

2X^2 -3X = 0

I think that's it's simpilest form and X=0 btw. It all has to do with the silly minus sign in the middle of the left expression.

 

[carsonshepherd]

pout. Can we cancel out the x from both sides of the equation and leave the 5?

The Ten Commandments of Math

1. Thou shalt not divide by zero.

2. Thou shalt not put other textbooks before thee in math class.

3. Thou shalt show thy work; check thy work and confirm that thy results are reasonable.

4. Remember thy test days and prepare for them wholly.

5. Thou shalt honor the correct order of operations.

6. Thou shalt not do thy math homework in ink !

7. Thou shalt commit the facts of arithmetic to memory.

8. Thou shalt do unto one side of an equation what thou doest to the other

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy original problems; thou shalt copy thy problems accurately and legibly.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's paper, not anything that is thy neighbor's

 

[carsonshepherd]

I don't believe you can cancel the (X+1) expression, 3. If you expand the original expression you come out with:

12X^2+12X-10X^2-10X=5X

Combining, this becomes

2X^2 +2X = 5X

Then Subtracting 5X from each side -

2X^2 -3X = 0

I think that's it's simpilest form and X=0 btw. It all has to do with the silly minus sign in the middle of the left expression.

a) -13/15 b)-13/3 c) -13 d) no solution

 

[3113]

I think that's it's simpilest form and X=0 btw.

That's what I thought, too. It's always the way I did math. I guessed, and often guessed right, but couldn't show how I got there because the way I got there never made much sense.

My brain's not working right, is it? Wait...don't answer that....

Damn you, Carson. Why'd you have to ask a math question? Have some trouble with essay writing! I know that shit.

 

[naughtycakes]

a) -13/15 b)-13/3 c) -13 d) no solution

It's D - no solution. You need a y in there to figure it out. I'm pretty sure, but it's been a while since math class, but that's my best guess. You always need at least an x and a y in these type of equations.

 

[carsonshepherd]

That's what I thought, too. It's always the way I did math. I guessed, and often guessed right, but couldn't show how I got there because the way I got there never made much sense.

My brain's not working right, is it? Wait...don't answer that....

Damn you, Carson. Why'd you have to ask a math question? Have some trouble with essay writing! I know that shit.

LOL. So do I! My problem with my English class is I have to actually take my brain down a notch to match the people in my class

 

[carsonshepherd]

It's D - no solution. You need a y in there to figure it out. I'm pretty sure, but it's been a while since math class, but that's my best guess. You always need at least an x and a y in these type of equations.

actually, my answer key says you're wrong. It's B.
When I've not been drinking, I'll work the problem and figure out why it's B...

 

[Ǽltya]

6x(x+1)(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)=5x(x+1)

6x(x+1)(3x+3)-x(5x)(3x+3)-5x(x+1)=0

6x(x+1)(3x+3)-x(5x)(3)(x+1)-5x(x+1)=0

6x(3x+3)-x(5x)(3)-5x=0

18x2+18x-15x2-5x=0

3x2+13x=0

3x+13=0

x=-13/3

I'm such a frickin' geek.

 

[Ǽltya]

Damn, it didn't keep the squared's. You should be able to figure that out though.

ETA: I put them in red for you in the above post.

 

[naughtycakes]

actually, my answer key says you're wrong. It's B.
When I've not been drinking, I'll work the problem and figure out why it's B...

Whoops! Sorry.... I used to be good at math...

 

[carsonshepherd]

Whoops! Sorry.... I used to be good at math...

*pets you* you're one step ahead of me then. I just want to get an A... somehow, someway... to keep my 4.0.